All the information on those conferences are on my wesbite
(usually under their respective country sections). The site is
still in progress amd still hard to navigate, but most of
those things are on it. The EFEO/Antho. Center conference is
not announced yet or at least not as far as I know.
The Burmese Studies conference is the big Burmese Studies
conference that is held every year.
I praise people who are kind and well-deserving. Prof. Dr. Dr.
Hundius deserves all the praise he can get, without him Lao
Studies would not be what it is today. He started long before
any of us and still does more than any of us do. David Wharton
has a long list of interesting experiences and talents. What
is not to praise? Kate Crosby does, what I think, is the most
original work in the history of magic and meditation today.
She has helped me a lot over the past two years. She has also
taught some excellent students. Again, what not to praise? We
little scholars stand on the shoulders of giants. No reason to
hate people or to criticize them undeservingly to make
ourselves feel smart. We're all in this together.
The IABS is too big to classify as one thing. The last conf.
in London was very useful (at least to my work). The next one
is in Atlanta I think. The one after that in Shanghai (but not
confirmed). When anything gets big, the quality in it becomes
dilluted.
I will be at the AAS on April 6th in San Francisco. Good for
political science, gender studies, and history. Not so good
for language.
I like Jakarta.
Good for you with the U.N. job. UNESCO has done some positive
things with preserving and recording Lao rituals lately. They
also work well with some monks that I know there. I am not
that familiar with their programs though. I only know through
a consultant for them here in Los Angeles.
It srtikes me now though that done of this is about Pali
grammar, so I will shut up.
Best,
jm
---- Original message ----
>Date: Fri, 24 Mar 2006 16:44:58 +0700
>From: "Eisel Mazard" <Parajanaka@...>
>Subject: Re: [palistudy] The peculiar and the profound
>To: palistudy@yahoogroups.com
>
>Hi Justin,
>
> Do any of these conferences you mention (in BKK & Chiang
Mai) keep websites?
>
> I am genuinely unaware of the conferences you seem to describe
>--although the propaganda surrounding the Thai Princess's annual
>linguistics conference does reach me in my distant/dismal garret.
>
> Neither David nor Harald knew of the MPI Linguistics conference
>coming up in Jakarta; I am not interested for the simple
reason THAT
>IT IS IN JAKARTA --but it is a true S.E.A. language
conference. More
>interesting than the AAS conferences, to be sure.
>
> I regard the IABS with unease; it will surely be another
four years
>(at least) before it's in this neighborhood.
>
>> I will be at the Burmese Studies conference
>> this year for example...
>
> Uh... which conference is that, exactly?
>
>> David Wharton, Kate Crosby, and Harald Hundius are all very
>> smart and wonderfully gracious people.
>
> You really have to watch yourself with all this effusive
praise; you
>praise *EVERYBODY* to the sky, Justin. Sooner or later the
laws of
>supply and demand with catch up with you and your praises
will be of a
>diminishing value.
>
>> As for the National Anthem lyrics, I think I have that
>> somewhere. I will look through my files tonight and try to
>> find something. That's a good idea.
>
>Great --please pass them on to me if you can. Maybe I'll
translate
>them into Pali (that would be popular with the local
authorities!).
>
>P.S., I just applied for a UN position (that I was
"encouraged" to
>apply for from someone on the inside) --if I land one of
these jobs it
>will change my pace of work considerably. Probably bad news
for my
>would-be contributions to Pali studies, but a relatively massive
>salary that I could use to (e.g.) order some of these books
you keep
>telling me about.
>
>E.M.
>
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>
>Yahoo! Groups Links
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Dr. Justin McDaniel
Dept. of Religious Studies
2617 Humanities Building
University of California, Riverside
Riverside, CA 92521
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