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Job Opening: Assistant Professor, Asian Studies
Assistant Professor Interdisciplinary Humanities, Asian Studies Department of Humanities, History and Social Sciences Columbia College Chicago Columbia College Chicago is an urban institution of over 10,000 undergraduate and graduate students emphasizing arts, media, and communications in a liberal arts setting. … Continue reading
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Tagged Asian Studies, assistant professor, Columbia College, culture, history, job opening, tenure track
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Funding: Japan-United States Friendship Commission Creative Arts Program
http://www.jusfc.gov/creative-artists-programs/ The Japan U.S. Friendship Commission offers leading contemporary and traditional artists from the United States the opportunity to spend three months in Japan through the U.S./Japan Creative Artists Program. Cultural understanding is at the heart of this program. Artists … Continue reading
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Tagged artists, Creative Artists Program, fellowship, grant, Japan, Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission, US
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Book Announcement: Idols and Celebrity in Japanese Media Culture
Edited by Patrick W. Galbraith and Jason G. Karlin Palgrave Macmillan | 256 pages | 2012 ISBN-10: 0230298303 ISBN-13: 978-0230298309 This volume is masterful in treating Japanese idol culture with the seriousness it deserves. Scholarly and astute, the essays massage … Continue reading
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Tagged books, celebrity, contemporary, culture, idols, Japan, Japanese culture, Johnny's, modern, modern Japan
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Call for Papers: STS Forum on the 2011 Fukushima / East Japan Disaster
STS Forum on the 2011 Fukushima / East Japan Disaster Building a Transnational Research Agenda and Strategy for Engagement through a Social Scientific Understanding of Disasters and the Disaster Sciences INAUGURAL MEETING University of California Berkeley 12-14 May 2013 This … Continue reading
Symposium: Interpreting Parades and Processions of Edo Japan: History, Culture, and Foreign Relations
An exciting joint international symposium, ” Interpreting Parades and Processions of Edo Japan: History, Culture, and Foreign Relations,” will be held at the University of Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii, on February 11, 2013. The online registration is now open. … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, Edo, Edo period, foreign relations, history, Japan, symposium, Tokugawa, Tokugawa period, University of Hawai'i
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Funding: Travel Grant – Harvard-Yenching Library
The Harvard-Yenching Library is pleased to announce its Travel Grant Program for the 2012-2013 academic year. The purpose of the grant is to assist scholars from outside the metropolitan Boston area in their use of the Harvard-Yenching Library’s collections for … Continue reading
Book Announcement: The Concept of Danzō ‘Sandalwood Images’ in Japanese Buddhist Sculpture of the 8th to 14th Centuries
Christian Boehm The Concept of Danzō: ‘Sandalwood Images’ in Japanese Buddhist Sculpture of the 8th to 14th Centuries London: Saffron Books, 2012 264pp, hard cover, 287mm x 210mm, 165 colour and black and white illustrations Saffron Asian Art & Society … Continue reading
Postdoctoral Fellowships (Research Associate): modern Japanese/East Asian History “The Dissolution of the Japanese Empire and the Struggle for Legitimacy in Postwar East Asia, 1945-1965”
Institution: University of Cambridge, Department of East Asian Studies/Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Location: United Kingdom Position: Two Postdoctoral Fellowships (Research Associate) in modern Japanese/East Asian History for three year contract Two Postdoctoral Fellowships (Research Associate) … Continue reading
Program: Japanese Language Program for Specialists (in Cultural and Academic Field)
Japanese Language Program for Specialists (in Cultural and Academic Field) Location: Japan Japanese Language Program for Specialists(in Cultural and Academic Field) This is an intensive language training program for researchers and postgraduate students in the field of Japan-related social sciences … Continue reading
Job Opening: East Asian Art History, Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
Institution: Denison University, Art History Location: Ohio, United States Position: Assistant Professor, East Asian Art History The Art History Program at Denison University announces an Assistant Professor, tenure-track position in East Asian Art History, starting Fall 2013. Full-time … Continue reading
What can I do with a B.A. in Japanese Studies? 