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Category Archives: announcements
Call for Papers: Buddhism and the Political Process
The Department of Humanities, University of Toronto Scarborough is pleased to present A Call for Papers The Tung Lin Kok Yuen Conference: BUDDHISM AND THE POLITICAL PROCESS April 13-15, 2012 University of Toronto Scarborough For more information, please visit our … Continue reading
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Tagged asia, Buddhism, call for papers, Canada, Japan, politics, University of Toronto Scarborough
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Symposium: Eloquence of the Text Images in Dialoque. The Shuhanron emaki: Literary genres and representations in medieval Japan
To be held in Paris (Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Cernuschi Museum) from Thursday, November 3 to Saturday, November 15. The symposium is organized by Veronique Beranger (Bibliothèque nationale de France), Claire-Akiko Brisset (Paris Diderot University) and Estelle Leggeri-Bauer … Continue reading
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Tagged France, images, literature, medieval, medieval history, medieval Japan, Paris, symposium, text
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Drawing Contest for K-12 Students in the Atlanta Area
Attention high school Japanese students and teachers! The Consulate-General of Japan in Atlanta is holding a drawing contest for students K-12 who live in Alabama, Georgia, North Caroline, South Carolina and Virginia. The drawings should hold a message to school … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Consulate-General, contest, drawing, Japan, painting
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Junior Japanese Studies Librarians Training at Toronto
The University of Toronto Libraries will offer a 2-day workshop on March 12-13, 2012 for Junior Japanese Studies Librarian Training. Application is open to librarians who handle Japanese resources, faculty in the field, and current library students, with priority given … Continue reading
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Tagged application, Canada, japanese studies, librarian, libraries, training, University of Toronto, workshop
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Post-doctoral Mellon Fellowships (2) Japanese History; East Asian Humanities, East Asian Studies
Postdoctoral Fellowships in East Asian Studies Institution: Johns Hopkins University – Homewood, East Asian Studies Location: Maryland, United States Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow The Johns Hopkins University Program in East Asian Studies invites applications for the Andrew W. Mellon … Continue reading
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Tagged East Asian Studies, fellowships, humanities, Johns Hopkins University, Maryland, post doc
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Book announcement: Nowaki
Nowaki Natsume Soseki Translated and with an Afterword and Chronology By William N. Ridgeway vii + 120 pp., Copyright 2011 ISBN 978-1-929280-68-1. Paper only. $15.00 Michigan Monograph Series in Japanese Studies, Number 72 Publication Date: 6/13/2011 Published by the Center … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Center for Japanese Studies, Natsume Soseki, Nowaki, translations, University of Michigan
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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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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
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