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Funding: CCWH/Berks Graduate Student Fellowship 2014
CCWH/Berks Graduate Student Fellowship 2014 The Coordinating Council for Women in History and the Berkshire Conference of Women’s History Graduate Student Fellowship is a $1000 award to a graduate student completing a dissertation in a history department. The award is … Continue reading
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Tagged Coordinating Council for Women in History and the Berkshire Conference of Women’s History, Coordinating Council for Women in History and the Berkshire Conference of Women’s History Graduate Student Fellowship, dissertation, dissertation fellowship, fellowship, graduate school, history, women
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Book Announcement: Critical Issues in Contemporary Japan
Jeff Kingston, Director of Asian Studies at Temple University Japan Campus (TUJ), recently published an edited volume, Critical Issues in Contemporary Japan (Routledge, 2013) This book provides undergraduate and graduate students with an interdisciplinary compendium written by a number of … Continue reading
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Tagged books, contemporary, contemporary Japan, energy, ethnicity, international relations, social sciences
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Call for Papers: Innovative Research in Japanese Studies (IRJS)
On behalf of the graduate students’ journal Innovative Research In Japanese Studies, we would like to extend a warm invitation to students to submit their work to the second issue of our journal (please see our first issue here: http://www.irjs.org/#!irjs-volume-1-2014—table-of-contents/clii) Innovative Research in Japanese Studies … Continue reading
Job Opening: Lectureship in Japanese Studies
Department/Location: Department of East Asian Studies, The University of Cambridge Salary: £37,756-£47,787 Reference: GX03463 Closing date: 15 August 2014 Fixed-term: The funds for this post are available for 3 years in the first instance. The University of Cambridge is seeking to appoint a Lecturer … Continue reading
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Tagged East Asian Studies, japanese studies, job opening, lecturer, University of Cambridge
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Book Announcement: The Company and the Shogun: The Dutch Encounter with Tokugawa Japan
Adam Clulow Columbia Studies in International and Global History Cloth, 352 pages, Color Illus.: 9, , Maps: 2, ISBN: 978-0-231-16428-3 $55.00 / $B# (B38.00 Published by Columbia University Press http://cup.columbia.edu/book/978-0-231-16428-3/the-company-and-the-shogun The Company and the Shogun examines the encounter between the … Continue reading
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Tagged books, diplomacy, Dutch East India Company, history, sovereignty, Tokugawa, Tokugawa Japan
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Japanese Studies: 5-10-20 – A Year Out and a Long Way to Go
For the third article in our Japanese Studies: 5-10-20 series, today we will hear from Kathy Rice, a recent college graduate and current JET Coordinator for International Relations, who will talk about how she cultivated skills and resources throughout her college years and … Continue reading
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Tagged CIR, Coordinator for International Relations, internship, Japanese, Japanese language, Japanese Studies: 5-10-20, JET, JET Program, JET programme, study abroad, undergraduate
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Call for Papers: International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia
14th ICHSEA PARIS, 6-10 JULY 2015 The 14th International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia (14th ICHSEA) will take place in Paris, 6-10 July 2015. It is organised under the auspices of the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences … Continue reading
Call for Papers: The European Union and Asia. Perspectives, Challenges and Opportunities
International Academic Conference September 16th, 2014 Call for Papers Kozminski University Asia Research Centre (KU ARC) is pleased to announce the call for papers for the The European Union and Asia. Perspectives, Challenges and Opportunities, a conference organized jointly by … Continue reading
Job Opening: East Asian History, Emmanuel College, Boston
Institution: Emmanuel College, History Location: Massachusetts, United States Position: Visiting Assistant Professor of History Founded in 1919 by the Sisters of Notre Dame de Namur as the first Catholic college for women in New England, Emmanuel today … Continue reading
Book Announcement: Hell-bent on Heaven in Tateyama mandara: Painting and Religious Practice at a Japanese Mountain
Hell-bent on Heaven in Tateyama mandara: Painting and Religious Practice at a Japanese Mountain by Caroline Hirasawa The book is a highly interdisciplinary examination of the Tateyama cult and its material culture, and will be of interest to art historians … Continue reading
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Tagged art, books, Buddhism, cult, Japan, Japanese art, Japanese religion, religion, Tateyama cult
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What can I do with a B.A. in Japanese Studies? 