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Workshop: Kambun Workshop at USC, July 10-Aug. 4, 2017

Posted on February 23, 2017 by Paula

The University of Southern California Project for Premodern Japan Studies is pleased to announce that there will be a Kambun Workshop at USC this summer.  We will focus on Kamakura materials—Professor Takahashi Shinichirô will join us from the University of Tokyo … Continue reading →

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Call for Applicants: Saitama University’s MA program in Japanese & Asian Culture

Posted on February 21, 2017 by Paula

Saitama University’s Graduate School of Humanities and Social Sciences is excited to announce that we are now accepting applications for admission to our MA program in Japanese & Asian Culture, for the Fall 2017 semester.  The deadline for receipt of … Continue reading →

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Funding: AFRASO Fellowship

Posted on February 20, 2017 by Paula

Announcement of a Fellowship of the project “Africa’s Asian Options – AFRASO” at Goethe University Frankfurt Since 2013 AFRASO has been an interdisciplinary and transregional research project at Goethe University Frankfurt funded by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) … Continue reading →

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Workshop: Noh Training Project 2017 (Tokyo)

Posted on February 20, 2017 by Paula

The Kita School of Noh and Theatre Nohgaku are pleased to announce the Noh Training Project Tokyo 2017–an intensive three-week workshop focusing on the performance elements of Japanese classical noh theatre. The workshop will include five hours daily of instruction … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Honored and Dishonored Guests: Westerners in Wartime Japan

Posted on February 19, 2017 by Paula

Honored and Dishonored Guests: Westerners in Wartime Japan  W. Puck Brecher About the book: The brutality and racial hatred exhibited by Japan’s military during the Pacific War piqued outrage in the West and fanned resentments throughout Asia. Public understanding of … Continue reading →

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Funding: Fellowships at Center for French-Japanese Advanced Studies in Paris

Posted on February 18, 2017 by Paula

The Fondation France-Japon de l’EHESS is presently recruiting Senior and Junior levels researchers in the framework of the Centre for French-Japanese Advanced Studies in Paris (Centre d’Etudes Avancées Franco-Japonais de Paris, CEAFJP; http://ffj.ehess.fr/ceafjp.html). The CEAFJP is a research and exchange platform coordinated … Continue reading →

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Job Opening: Asia Program Research Associate, Committee to Protect Journalists

Posted on February 7, 2017 by LM

Via JETWit mailing list. Employer: Committee to Protect Journalists Location: New York, New York POSTED JANUARY 27, 2017 Education: Bachelor’s degree Background About CPJ Founded in 1981, the Committee to Protect Journalists is an independent, non-profit organization defending journalists worldwide … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: Zapruder World, “Performing Race”

Posted on February 6, 2017 by Travis

Zapruder World is an online, open-access and peer-reviewed History journal coordinated by an international network of activists and scholars, both academic and independent. The journal’s parent organization, Storie in movimento (SIM), has been active since 2002 and continues to publish … Continue reading →

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Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference

Posted on February 6, 2017 by LM

Saturday, June 3 – Friday, June 9, 2017 Applications are rolling admission and due on Feb. 15, 2017. The 3rd annual Bread Loaf Translators’ Conference is a week-long program based on the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference model that is designed … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Japanese Modern Architecture 1920-2015

Posted on February 5, 2017 by Paula

Japanese Modern Architecture 1920-2015: Developments and Dialogues Ari Seligmann Japanese Modern Architecture 1920-2015 uses a series of thematic lenses to explain the rich history of Japanese architectural developments from the 1920s foundation of modern architecture to contemporary permutations of modern … Continue reading →

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