Category Archives: graduate school

Funding: 2018 Asia Studies Fellowship at the East-West Center in Washington DC

Posted on November 20, 2017 by Paula

2018 Asia Studies Fellowship at the East-West Center in Washington DC This fellowship supports scholars and analysts from the United States and the Asia-Pacific who wish to undertake independent research and writing on topics of relevance to contemporary US-Asia policy; … Continue reading →

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Funding: Wolfsonian Fellowship Program (modern Japan)

Posted on November 13, 2017 by Paula

Wolfsonian-FIU Fellowship Program The Wolfsonian-Florida International University is a museum and research center that promotes the examination of modern visual and material culture. The focus of the Wolfsonian collection is on North American and European decorative arts, propaganda, architecture, and … Continue reading →

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

Posted on November 4, 2017 by Paula

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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Workshop: Summer School in Japanese Early-modern Palaeography (Cambridge, UK)

Posted on November 2, 2017 by Paula

We are delighted to announce that the Fifth Graduate Summer School in Japanese Early-modern Palaeography will run from Monday 6 August to Saturday 18 August 2018 at the University of Cambridge, Emmanuel College (Cambridge, UK). We are now accepting applications. The deadline for submitting an application … Continue reading →

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Funding: The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Fellowship and Grant Competitions in Buddhist Studies

Posted on October 23, 2017 by Paula

The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Fellowship and Grant Competitions in Buddhist Studies 2017-18 Call for Applications The American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS) invites applications in the 2017-18 competition year of The Robert H. N. Ho Family Foundation Program … Continue reading →

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Fellowship: The Nippon Foundation Fellows Program at the Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies (IUC)

Posted on October 16, 2017 by Paula

Scholarship Opportunity: advanced Japanese language training for graduate students with Japan-focused career goals in academia, business, diplomacy/government service, journalism, translation, and law The Inter-University Center for Japanese Language Studies (IUC) is pleased to announce a call for applications to The Nippon … Continue reading →

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Fellowship: East-West Center Graduate Degree Fellowship

Posted on October 9, 2017 by Paula

Award Amount: $4,800 per year Number of Awards: Not known Deadline: December 1, 2017 Winner Announcement: Not known Brief Description: The East-West Center is delighted to announce the East-West Center Graduate Degree Fellowship. The program provides masters and doctoral funding for graduate students from … Continue reading →

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Symposium: Cinema and Social Change in Japan

Posted on October 2, 2017 by Paula

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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Funding: Critical Language Scholarship Program

Posted on October 2, 2017 by Paula

We are pleased to welcome American students to apply for the Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program to learn critical foreign languages next summer on a fully-funded study abroad program. The CLS Program is an intensive overseas language and cultural immersion … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: Medieval Unfreedoms: Slavery, Servitude, and Trafficking in Humans before the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

Posted on September 19, 2017 by Paula

Medieval Unfreedoms: Slavery, Servitude, and Trafficking in Humans before the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade October 19 – 20, 2018 Across the medieval world (c. 500 — c. 1500), multiple forms and degrees of unfreedom—slavery, serfdom, forced concubinage, coerced labor, captivity, and … Continue reading →

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