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Author Archives: Paula
Job Opening: Japanese and Chinese/East Asian History, Assistant professor
Institution: University of Colorado – Colorado Springs, History Location: Colorado, United States Position: Assistant Professor, Asian/Japanese History Assistant Professor – History (East Asian) (tenure-track) The Department of History at the University of Colorado Colorado Springs (UCCS) invites applications … Continue reading
Job Opening: Assistant Professor in Early Modern and/or Modern Japanese Literature
The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures in the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California (Taper Hall of Humanities 356, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0357) is … Continue reading
Conference: Writing the East: History and New Technologies in the Study of Asian Manuscript Traditions
4th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age: Writing the East: History and New Technologies in the Study of Asian Manuscript Traditions Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, October 21-22, 2011 See the link here: http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium4.html There … Continue reading
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Tagged asia, conference, history, manuscripts, Pennsylvania, symposium, technology, University of Pennsylvania
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Symposium: Cultural Transmission in Medieval East Asia: A Workshop on East Asian Medievality
The Program in Medieval Studies at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) would like to announce the following workshop, which will be held Saturday, October 22. 10/22 (Saturday) Symposium: Cultural Transmission in Medieval East Asia: A Workshop on East Asian Medievality Co-sponsored by the Department … Continue reading
Resource: Networking with Japan Societies
As our previous article on maintaining relationships in Japanese Studies emphasized, networking and getting to know the field is very important. Whether you decide to go on to an academic career or stick with other types of employment, like any … Continue reading
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Tagged career, employment, Japan, Japan society, networking, social networking, US
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Call For Papers: Architectures of Mobility: Structures, Circuits, Deformations”: Third Annual Transnational Asia Graduate Student Conference
Call for Papers 3rd Annual Transnational Asia Graduate Student Conference February 10-11, 2012 Rice University Chao Center for Asian Studies Architectures of Mobility: Structures, Circuits, Deformations Keynote: Dr. Nayan Shah, Department of History, UC San Diego Deadline: Please send abstracts … Continue reading
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Tagged asia, call for papers, graduate student conference, mobility, Rice University, Texas, transnational
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Book Announcement: Dealing With Disaster in Japan: Responses to the Flight JL123 Crash
Just as the sinking of the Titanic is embedded in the public consciousness in the English-speaking world, so the crash of JAL flight JL123 is part of the Japanese collective memory. The 1985 crash involved the largest loss of life … Continue reading
Call for Papers: Kentucky Foreign Language Conference
April 19-21, 2012 University of Kentucky Lexington, Kentucky CALL FOR PAPERS East Asian (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) Studies Deadline for submission of abstracts: November 15 The 65th annual Kentucky Foreign Language Conference (KFLC) will feature sessions devoted to the presentations … Continue reading
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Tagged call for papers, Chinese, conference, foreign language, Japanese, Kentucky, Korean, language, University of Kentucky
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Call for papers: 51st Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies
Call for Papers, SEC-AAS Location: Furman University, South Carolina, United States Deadline: October 31, 2011 SEC/AAS Conference Jan. 13-15, 2012 The 51st annual meeting of the Southeast Conference of the Association for Asian Studies (SEC/AAS) will be hosted by Furman … Continue reading
No Fun Link Friday today
Sadly, there are no fun links today, as I’m currently occupied at the University of Michigan’s conference The Early Modern “Medieval”: Reconstructing Japanese Pasts (http://japanesepasts.lsa.umich.edu/). Regular posts will resume tomorrow, though! Have a great weekend!
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What can I do with a B.A. in Japanese Studies? 