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Category Archives: graduate school
Translation Workshop: Murakami, Contemporary Japanese Writing and the English-reading Marketplace
Murakami, Contemporary Japanese Writing and the English-reading Marketplace Translation Workshop at Newcastle University, March 6-7, 2018 The School of Modern Languages, Newcastle University (UK) is hosting an Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC) funded project on Murakami Haruki. Available in translations … Continue reading
Resource: Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection – Japanese Diaspora Initiative
Stanford University’s Hoover Institution Library & Archives recently launched the Hoji Shinbun Digital Collection as a part of their Japanese Diaspora Initiative, which aims to make the Hoover Institution the leading center for archive-based research and analysis on the historical … Continue reading
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Tagged database, history, Japan, Japanese-Americans, newspapers, OCR, primary sources, resource
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Call for Papers: Media Culture and Race Matters in Asia: Convergences and Divergences
Call for Papers Media Culture and Race Matters in Asia: Convergences and Divergences Deadline for Abstract Submission: September 15th, 2017 The media—digital platforms, webisodes, multilingual media, mobile media, vlogs and other social media, film, radio, and TV—are essential to our … Continue reading
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Tagged asia, Asian Studies, call for papers, Japan, media, media studies, race
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Call for Papers: Teaching Anime and Manga
Teaching Anime and Manga Northeast Modern Language Association convention This session proposes to look at what has been a persistent but under-represented section of comics studies: manga (Japanese comics), and associated with it, anime (Japanese animation). Access to anime and manga … Continue reading
Call for Papers: Asian Extremes: Climate, Meteorology and Disaster in History
SUBMISSION DEADLINE | 17 OCTOBER 2017 The weather plays an often underestimated, yet vitally important role in human history. Climate has been considered an explanation for almost every aspect of society and culture, from causing disease to determining racial characteristics historically. … Continue reading
Funding: Fellowship, Social Sciences, Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies
Institution: Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences Location: Massachusetts Position: Two-year Post Doctoral Fellowship in the Social Sciences The Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies Academy Scholars Program, 2018-2019 The Academy Scholars Program identifies … Continue reading
Call for Papers: Asian Popular Culture / The Asian American Experience
Call for Papers Asian Popular Culture / The Asian American Experience Southwest Popular / American Culture Association (SWPACA) 39th Annual Conference, February 7-10, 2018 Hyatt Regency Hotel & Conference Center Albuquerque, New Mexico http://www.southwestpca.org Proposal submission deadline: October 22, 2017 Proposals for … Continue reading
Call for Papers: Ecologies of Knowledge and Practice: Japanese Studies and the Environmental Humanities
A Day-and-a-Half Workshop and Roundtable for UK Postgraduates and Early Career Researchers in the Humanities St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, 27th and 28th October 2017 Scholars from outside the UK are welcome to apply if they are able to fund … Continue reading
Call for Papers: U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal
Established in 1988, the U.S.-Japan Women’s Journal (USJWJ) is an interdisciplinary, peer-reviewed, biannual publication available in print and online that promotes scholarly exchange on social, cultural, political, and economic issues pertaining to gender and Japan. We encourage comparative study among … Continue reading
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Call for Papers: Workshop: Layers of Interpretation – Commentarial Practices Throughout Buddhist Textual Traditions
The Doctoral Program in Buddhist Studies at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München is pleased to announce a call for papers for the workshop “Layers of Interpretation – Commentarial Practices Throughout Buddhist Textual Traditions,” to be held on June 15-16, 2018 in Munich, Germany, with keynote addresses … Continue reading →