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Category Archives: graduate school
Call of Paper: East Asia as Method: Culture, Knowledge, Space
Call for Papers EAST ASIA AS METHOD: CULTURE, KNOWLEDGE, SPACE An Interdisciplinary Conference for Junior Scholars October 7 & 8, 2016 Keynote Speakers: Jini Kim Watson, Associate Professor of English and Comparative Literature, New York University (Discussant: Dan O’Neill, Associate Professor, … Continue reading
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Tagged call for papers, conference, culture, east asia, East Asian Studies, knowledge, space
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Funding: JSPS Fellowship
The JSPS Washington Office is pleased to announce the second open application period for the FY2016 JSPS Postdoctoral Fellowship Program (Short-term) for Researchers in the U.S. Please see below. This fellowship enables young post-doc researchers or PhD students in the … Continue reading
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Tagged funding, graduate school, JSPS, PhD, postdoc, research
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Call for Papers: Japanese Studies Conference in Bucharest
Call for papers— “Japan: Premodern, Modern, and Contemporary” Bucharest, 1-3 September 2016 The Faculty of Foreign Languages and Literatures (Japanese Department) at the “Dimitrie Cantemir” Christian University (Bucharest, Romania), with the support of its collaborators from Kobe University, Kyoto University … Continue reading
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Tagged call for papers, Christian University, conference, Japan, japanese studies, research, Romania
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Workshop: Traditional Theater Training 2016, Kyoto
Spring has sprung! The Kyoto Art Center has at last begun accepting applications for the 32nd annual Traditional Theater Training (T.T.T.), 2016. You can find more information and downloadable application forms at the following links: http://www.kac.or.jp/eng/news/18211/(English) http://www.kac.or.jp/18211/(Japanese) T.T.T. is a three-week … Continue reading
Workshop: 2016 Early Modern Japan Summer Workshop: Reading Kuzushiji
The Japan Committee of the University of Chicago is pleased to announce the 2016 Early Modern Japan Summer Workshop: Reading Kuzushiji. The workshop will meet from June 13-17. The workshop will be led by Professor Aratake Ken’ichiro of Tohoku University’s Northeast Asia … Continue reading
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Tagged calligraphy, kuzushiji, language, premodern Japan, University of Chicago, workshop
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Funding: Isaac Alfred Ailion Foundation Fellowship
We are happy to announce that the Isaac Alfred Ailion Foundation now accepts applications for fellowships at Leiden University’s Asian Library. All information can be found on the website at http://library.leiden.edu/special-collections/scaliger-institute/research/isaac-alfred-ailion-fellowship.html The closing date for applying for the Isaac Alfred … Continue reading
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Tagged fellowship, funding, Japanese, Japanese culture, Japanese language, japanese studies, research
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Call for Papers: Joint East Asian Studies Conference – SOAS
Call for Papers – Joint East Asian Studies Conference – SOAS, University of London, 7-9 September 2016 Joint East Asian Studies Conference (JEAS) 2016 7th to 9th September, SOAS, University of London The JEAS Conference is a triennial meeting held by … Continue reading
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Tagged call for papers, east asia, East Asian Studies, research, SOAS, University of London
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Should I go on to a Ph.D. after my M.A.? Four insights about the differences between being an M.A. and a Ph.D. Student
We’ve previously posted articles on if graduate school is right for you (or if it isn’t!), and today we will expand on these topics with a guest post by Tori R. Montrose, where she discusses differences between pursuing an M.A. program versus a … Continue reading
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Tagged advice, applications, graduate school, MA, main post, PhD, undergrad
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Call for Papers: AJLS annual conference
AJLS 2016 at Penn State word/image/japan The AJLS (Association of Japanese Literary Studies) conference theme for the 2016 conference to be held at the Pennsylvania State University October 27-30, 2016 is “word/image/japan.” This conference encourages papers linking Visual and Cultural Studies, broadly conceived, … Continue reading
Funding: Louis Frieberg Post-doctoral Fellowships
The Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem offers post-doctoral fellowships for the year 2016-2017. The post-docs are open to scholars in the humanities and social sciences specializing in East Asia, especially China, Japan, Korea … Continue reading
What can I do with a B.A. in Japanese Studies? 