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Author Archives: Paula
Call for Papers: Women in East Asian Religions
CALL FOR AUTHORS: Scholars are needed for articles on women in Buddhism, Confucianism, Daoism, and Shinto, to cover a range of topics, including: women’s religious art, women’s worship, women’s rituals, women’s leadership and organization in religion, women’s social and environmental issues in religion, the feminine divine, … Continue reading
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Tagged call for papers, east asia, East Asian Studies, religion, women, womens studies
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Fun Link Friday: Hatching eggs outside of shells
A quickie fun link this week– recently Japanese high schoolers demonstrated a fascinating technique of hatching chickens from eggs without the shells. This special kind of incubation allows students (and scientists!) the ability to watch the progression of the embryonic … Continue reading
Call for Papers: Japan in the World and the World in Japan: A Methodological Approach
Call for Papers: “Japan in the World and the World in Japan: A Methodological Approach” International Symposium We are pleased to announce that the second annual symposium, “Japan in the World and the World in Japan: A Methodological Approach” will … Continue reading
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Tagged conferences, global studies, Japan, methodology, methods, Otemae University
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Call for Papers: Evolving through Context: The Transformation of Buddhism(s) and their Legitimation(s)
The Doctoral Program in Buddhist Studies at Munich University is pleased to announce a call for papers for the international workshop “Evolving through Context: The Transformation of Buddhism(s) and their Legitimation(s),” to be held on March 24-25, 2017 in Munich, Germany with … Continue reading
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Tagged Buddhism, call for papers, Germany, Japanese religion, Munich University, religion
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Job Opening: Postdoc, modern Japanese history, University of Zurich
Institution: University of Zurich, Department of History Location: Switzerland Position: 3-year Postdoc (80% position) in Modern Japanese History Starting Date: 1 September 2016 Applicants are invited to join an international team in the Humanities in … Continue reading
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Tagged history, Japanese history, job opening, jobs, post-doctoral fellow, postdoc, University of Zurich, Zurich
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Book Announcement: Science, Technology and Medicine in the Modern Japanese Empire
David G. Wittner and Philip C. Brown, eds., Science, Technology, and Medicine in the Modern Japanese Empire (Routledge Studies in the Modern History of Asia) has just been released by Routledge Press. Science, technology, and medicine all contributed to the emerging modern … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Japan, medicine, modern history, modern Japan, science, technology
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An introduction to the MEXT scholarship
Originally posted on What can I do with a B.A. in Japanese Studies?:
Today’s feature article is a written by Chris Kern, a Ph.D. student of The Ohio State University who will be traveling to Japan this month as…
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Fun Link Friday: Japan’s Plushies Tormented in the Wash
Sorry for the lack of Fun Link Fridays lately, research/travel insanity has taken over! In the spirit of my tormented state of academic mind, this week we bring you a quickie fun link from Rocket News 24, which wrote earlier this … Continue reading
Job Opening: Pre-modern Japanese Literature and Culture
Institution: University of Illinois – Urbana-Champaign, EALC Location: Illinois, United States Position: Lecturer The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign invites applications for a one-academic year Lecturer/Instructor in pre-modern Japanese literature and culture. … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, Illinois, job opening, jobs, lecturer, literature, premodern Japan, University of Illinois - Urbana-Champaign
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Resource: Learning classical Japanese through Taketori Monogatari
The scholars of the East Asian Languages and Literatures Department at Ohio State University have produced a wonderful website for studying and practicing classical Japanese: Taketori Monogatari. The website dissects passages from this classic tenth-century tale (known in English as … Continue reading
What can I do with a B.A. in Japanese Studies? 