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Book Announcement: Voices of Early Modern Japan. Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life during the Age of the Shoguns
Constantine Nomikos Vaporis. Greenwood Press,2012. 254 pages. ISBN 978-0-313-39200-9 eISBN 978-0-313-39201-6. Voices of Early Modern Japan: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life during the Age of the Shoguns spans an extraordinary period of Japanese history, ranging from the unification of the … Continue reading
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Tagged books, culture, early modern, early modern Japan, economics, history, Japan, politics, religion, research, Tokugawa
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Call for Papers: Workshop – The American University Meets the Pacific Century
Workshop: The American University Meets the Pacific Century (AUPC) Date: March 9-10, 2012 Location: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) Deadline: December 1, 2011 Notification: December 15, 2011 Award: Limited funds to support room and board at Workshop and partial … Continue reading
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Tagged asia, Illinois, Pacific, social science, students, university, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, US, workshop
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Job Opening: Japanese Studies Librarian
The Asia Library of the University of Michigan seeks the Japanese Studies Librarian who will assume direct responsibility for the development and maintenance of the Japanese Collection, evaluation and selection of information sources related to Japanese Studies, reference and research … Continue reading
Job Opening: East Asian History, Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
Institution: Rutgers University–Camden Location: New Jersey, United States Position: Assistant Professor, East Asian history The History Department at Rutgers-Camden seeks a full-time tenure-track faculty member beginning September 2012 at the rank of Assistant Professor with research interest in … Continue reading
Call for Papers: The Lessons of Fukushima
The Lessons of Fukushima Willamette University February 24-25, 2012 The disastrous earthquake and tsunami that hit northern Japan on March 11, 2011 drew the immediate attention and sympathy of the international community. Successive meltdowns and malfunctions at the Fukushima nuclear … Continue reading
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Tagged call for papers, disaster response, earthquake, Fukushima, government, Japan, Oregon, politics, tsunami, Willamette University
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Job Opening: East Asia History, (Japan, or Korea or pre-modern China), Southeast Asia Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
Institution: University of Cincinnati, History Location: Ohio, United States Position: Assistant Professor, East Asia The Department of History at the University of Cincinnati invites application for a historian trained in either the history of East Asia (preferably Japan, … Continue reading
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Tagged east asia, East Asian History, history, job opening, Ohio, University of Cincinnati
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Job Opening: Japanese-American Studies, “UCLA Alumni and Friends of Japanese American Ancestry Endowed Chair”
Institution: University of California – Los Angeles Location: California, United States Position: Tenure Track Faculty, Asian American Studies Center The UCLA Asian American Studies Center invites applications for a tenured full-time faculty position beginning July 1, 2012. … Continue reading
Call for Papers: Deception: 12th EASGSC
University of Toronto, 10 March 2012 The 12th Annual East Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference, University of Toronto, 10 March 2012 We are currently seeking original academic papers on the theme of “deception”. Establishing as our starting point the distinction … Continue reading
Job Opening: Various fields of history including China, India, Asia’s relations with world, Assistant Professor
Institution: Nanyang Technological University, School of Humanities and Social Sciences Location: Singapore Position: Assistant Professor in Modern and Contemporary History Faculty Positions in Modern and Contemporary History The School of Humanities and Social Sciences at Nanyang Technological University, … Continue reading
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Tagged asia, assistant professor, job opening, modern, modern history, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore
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Call for Papers: Mechademia 8 (1/9/12) “Tezuka Osamu: Manga Life”
CFP: Mechademia 8. Tezuka Osamu: Manga Life We seek submissions for the eighth volume of Mechademia, an annual, peer-reviewed forum for critical work on Japanese manga, anime, and related arts. The theme of volume 8 is “Tezuka Osamu: Manga Life” … Continue reading
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Tagged anime, culture, Japanese culture, manga, Mechademia, Minnesota, pop culture, popular culture, Tezuka Osamu
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What can I do with a B.A. in Japanese Studies? 