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Call for Papers: Workshop – Reproductive Labor and Gynocentric Technologies in East Asia, 1800s-2000s

CALL FOR PAPERS – EARLY CAREER SCHOLAR WORKSHOP “Reproductive Labor and Gynocentric Technologies in East Asia, 1800s-2000s” ORGANIZERS: Jacob Eyferth (Chicago), Suzanne Gottschang (Smith), Gonçalo Santos (HKU) Date: October 12-14, 2018 Venue: Smith College INTRODUCTION TO GYNOCENTRIC TECHNOLOGY WORKING GROUP The … Continue reading

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Summer program: Buddhist East Asia: The Interplay of Religion, the Arts and Politics

NEH Summer Institute ~ May 28 to June 22, 2018 This multidisciplinary program, funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities, will offer four weeks of context-rich engagement with Buddhist teachings, practices and primary texts (in translation), examining how they have … Continue reading

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Workshop: 2018 Jangseogak Hanmun (Classical Chinese) Summer Workshop

Call for Applications: 2018 Jangseogak Hanmun Summer Workshop (Intensive Literary/Classical Chinese Training Course for Students and Junior Scholars) The Jangseogak Archives at the Academy of Korean Studies is accepting applications for 2018 Jangseogak Hanmun (Classical Chinese) Summer Workshop, a three-week … Continue reading

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Call for Papers: Exploring Resistance through Medieval and Early Modern Culture

Event: Interdisciplinary graduate student conference Where: University of Michigan (Ann Arbor, MI) When: March 16-17, 2018 Call for Papers Deadline: Dec 31, 2017 The Early Modern Colloquium at the University of Michigan invites abstracts for papers for their interdisciplinary graduate … Continue reading

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Call for Papers: Japan on the Jesuit Stage, Vienna

Call for Papers: Japan on the Jesuit Stage The members of a joint Austrian-Japanese project on the enduring and transforming memory of the Jesuit Japan mission (16th–17th c.), as depicted on the early-modern European theatrical stage, invite proposals for papers and panels to … Continue reading

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Penn State Asian Studies Summer Institute (Special Topic: “Infrastructure”)

2018 Penn State Asian Studies Summer Institute “Infrastructure”  Penn State University invites applicants for its annual Asian Studies Summer Institute, to be held June 10-16, 2018.  This year’s Institute, co-directed by Leo Coleman (Hunter College/CUNY) and Jessamyn Abel (Penn State), … Continue reading

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Call for Papers: Japan in the World, the World in Japan: A Methodological Approach

We are pleased to announce the third “Japan in the World and the World in Japan: A Methodological Approach” international symposium. This year’s event will be held at the Center for Japanese Language and Culture, Osaka University (Minoh Campus), on March 3rd and 4th, … Continue reading

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Call for Papers: Rethinking Labor: Work and Livelihood in Japan

Rethinking Labor: Work and Livelihood in Japan April 13th and 14th, 2018 University of California, Berkeley The UC Berkeley Center for Japanese Studies presents its fifth annual graduate student conference:Rethinking Labor: Work and Livelihood in Japan. The conference will explore how … Continue reading

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Symposium: Cinema and Social Change in Japan

International Symposium October 20-22, 2017 Kyoto University, Japan This international symposium explores the impacts of cinema on social change, and vice versa. Taking Japan’s cinema-going culture as case study, we can trace how social change has been imagined, negotiated, or … Continue reading

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Call for Papers: The Pacific in the World (Harvard Grad Student Conference)

Event: Graduate Student Conference on International History Location: Harvard University, Cambridge MA Date: March 22-23, 2018 Abstract Submission Deadline: Nov 15, 2017 This year’s Harvard Graduate Student Conference on International History has the theme “Global and International History: The Pacific … Continue reading

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