Zeno, Aristotle, Weyl and Shuard: Two-and-a-Half Millenia of Worries over Number: Presidential Address to the Mathematical Association at the Annual Conference, April 1980

1980 ◽  
Vol 64 (429) ◽  
pp. 149 ◽  
Author(s):  
C. W. Kilmister
Keyword(s):  
Presidential Address ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Mathematical Association

Conference Report: IAWE14, Hong Kong, 1–5 December 2008

English Today ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
pp. 63-64
Author(s):  
Bertus van Rooy
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
International Association ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Conference Report ◽  
World Englishes ◽  
Classroom Teaching ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Open Forum ◽  
Conference Theme ◽  
The City

ABSTRACTA report on the Fourteenth Annual Conference of the International Association for World Englishes was held from 1–5 December 2008 at the City University of Hong Kong. The Conference Theme was ‘World Englishes and World's Languages: Convergence, Enrichment or Death?’ On the first two days, three pre-conference workshops and an open forum discussion were held, addressing theory and methodology in the world Englishes classroom, creativity in world Englishes and the implications of language variation for classroom teaching. This was followed by three packed days of presentations, including a keynote, plenary and presidential address, four focus lectures, and eight streams of parallel paper presentations or special panels/thematic sessions. In total, more than 150 presentations were made, and the conference was attended by well over 200 delegates.

scholarly journals Age as a Category of Gender Analysis: Servant Girls, Modern Girls, and Gender in Southeast Asia

2012 ◽  
Vol 71 (4) ◽  
pp. 975-990 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Leow
Keyword(s):  
Political Change ◽  
Chinese Women ◽  
Presidential Address ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
Chinese History ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
Gender History ◽  
Single Well ◽  
Complex Landscape ◽  
And Gender

Gail Hershatter's presidential addressat the March 2012 Annual Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS) encouraged historians to regard gender as a tool with which one navigates a messy, fragmented historical terrain, rather than an enclosed house in which one can “sit back and enjoy the view from a single well-appointed location.” The paper that follows can be regarded as an enthusiastic endorsement. Gender history has made enormous inroads into mainstream academia; “gender is everywhere in the scholarship.” But, as Hershatter observes, “it is not the self-same thing wherever it is to be found.” Each of the stories she told illustrated a complex landscape of political change that was only partially visible or legible from inside the “house of gender,” hard-won though it has been. “Perhaps,” she commented wryly, “we need to get out of the house.” For Chinese historians, “disquiet in the house of gender” promises to be immensely productive, offering fresh views of the junctures in Chinese history in which large political projects affect changes in the smaller projects of everyday life, to arrive at an expanded notion of political change and a more complex understanding of what the revolution meant for Chinese women.

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