Call for Papers: Innovative Research in Japanese Studies

Posted on October 8, 2014 by Paula

call for papers [150-2]On behalf of our graduate students’ journal Innovative Research in Japanese Studies (IRJS), I would like to extend a warm invitation to graduate students to submit their work for the upcoming 2015 issue, the second issue of this journal.

Our first issue presents five outstanding papers submitted by graduate students from the US, Europe and Israel. To review publication please go to http://www.irjs.org/#!irjs-volume-1-2014—table-of-contents/clii

IRJS aims to become a pioneering international journal showcasing outstanding papers on Japan written by graduate students; it is one of the few publications in existence with such a mission.

IRJS accepts original articles from all academic disciplines pertaining to Japan, including but not limited to politics, international relations, economics, history, literature, cultural studies, anthropology and the arts.

Supported by the Israeli Association for Japanese Studies (IAJS) papers submitted to IRJS will be fully reviewed by our editorial board. Authors of the selected articles will enjoy personal, step by step guidance until publication by members of the editorial board.

IRJS is currently accepting submissions for our second edition. The deadline for submissions is October 30, 2014.

Submissions guidelines can be found at http://www.irjs.org/#!submission/cnec

Our editorial board is listed at  http://www.irjs.org/#!staff/c1ktj

Best regards,

Rotem P. Ayalon
IRJS Managing Director iajapanstudies@gmail.com
IRJS Journal www.irjs.org
About IAJS Grads: http://www.japan-studies.org/IAJS-Grads.html

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Call for Papers: The Japanese Political Economy

Posted on October 8, 2014 by Paula

call for papers [150-2]We invite submissions for upcoming issues of The Japanese Political Economy, which aims to publish high quality, original articles that explore the many facets of and interactions between Japan’s domestic and international political economy. The journal welcomes a broad range of scholarship that will contribute both theoretically and empirically to the field.  Included in this broad range are economic and/or political comparisons of Japan to other East Asian countries or to other countries. Topics in Japanese political economic history and comparative political economic history are welcome. Policy studies and papers that focus on the structure and evolution of Japanese firms, industries, and regulation are also relevant.  All manuscripts must be contributed and published in English.

The journal is edited by Dr. A. Maria Toyoda of Villanova University. Manuscripts should be emailed toamaria.toyoda@villanova.edu or submitted online at https://editorialexpress.com/jpe. Manuscripts should be limited to 12,000 words, including text, tables and figures, notes, references. Font size must be 12 point for all parts of the manuscript, and all body text should be double-spaced. Please include an abstract limited to 150 words.

All submissions must be original work that is not under consideration by another journal. We will not consider submissions that include tables, figures and substantial portions of text that have been previously published. Submitted articles undergo a double-blind peer review process that is overseen by the journal’s Editorial Board.

Questions on submissions should be directed to the editor at  amaria.toyoda@villanova.edu

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Job Opening: Asian Art History

Posted on October 7, 2014 by Paula

job opening - 5Institution:       Loyola Marymount University
Location:          California, United States
Position:           Assistant Professor, Department of Art & Art History

Assistant Professor: Specialization: Asian Art History

The Art History Program at Loyola Marymount University (LMU) invites applications at the rank of Assistant Professor for a tenure-track position in Asian art history to begin in Fall 2015.  The candidate is expected to teach an Arts of Asia survey course as well as more specialized classes dealing with the art of China, Japan, and India.  A candidate with additional specialization in Contemporary Asian Art as well as secondary expertise in another field of non-Western art is preferred.  The selected candidate will teach in the area of specialization, advise students, have an active scholarly engagement with the academic world, and participate in departmental and university service.  There will be opportunities to teach within the university core curriculum and to cross-list courses in interdisciplinary programs, such as Asian and Pacific Studies.  A Ph.D. in Art History and teaching experience are desired at the time of hire.  Preference is given to candidates who demonstrate expertise in interdisciplinary approaches and current methodologies.  Evidence of publication and active scholarly engagement will be required.

The Art History Program, housed in the Department of Art and Art History, currently consists of three full-time faculty members who are dedicated to supporting a liberal arts curriculum as well as excellent undergraduate training in Art History.  A strong candidate for this position will be culturally sensitive, will value the university’s mission, and will demonstrate a special concern for the dialogue between faith and culture.

Loyola Marymount University, founded in 1911, is a comprehensive university in the mainstream of American Catholic higher education.  Located on the west side of Los Angeles overlooking the Pacific, LMU is one of the nation’s 28 Jesuit colleges and universities and five Marymount institutions.  It serves over 6200 undergraduates and over 3400 graduate students in the Colleges/Schools of Liberal Arts, Science and Engineering, Business Administration, Communication and Fine Arts, Film and Television, Education, and Law.

Loyola Marymount University seeks professionally outstanding applicants who value its mission and share its commitment to academic excellence, the education of the whole person, and the building of a just society.  LMU is an equal opportunity institution actively working to promote an intercultural learning community.  The LMU community is composed of faculty, staff, and students from a wide range of culturally-diverse backgrounds. Women and minorities are encouraged to apply.  Visit www.lmu.edu for more information.

Application Deadline is November 30, 2014. To apply, please send a cover letter, curriculum vitae, statement of teaching philosophy, statement of research interests and goals, and two letters of reference to:

Dr. Kirstin Noreen, Professor and Chair of Art History
Loyola Marymount University
1 LMU Drive MS-8346
Los Angeles, CA 90045-2659

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Call for Papers: ‘Networks and Communication in East Asia and Beyond in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries

Posted on October 7, 2014 by Paula

call for papers [150-2]The workshop entitled ‘Networks and Communication in East Asia and Beyond in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries’ will be taking place on 6 and 7 March, 2015, at Senate House, University of London. This workshop sets out to explore the building of information and communications networks during the 19th and early 20th centuries across East Asia and beyond. Building on prior studies on trade and exchange of ideas between East and West, this workshop will focus on the modes of communications and type of networks that were essential elements in enabling and facilitating these exchanges.  For further details please visit http://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/crcworkshop We cordially invite your participation: please send a 200 word abstract through our website by 30 November.

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Funding: Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program Application Open

Posted on October 6, 2014 by Paula

money [150-2]The U.S. Department of State is pleased to announce the opening of the scholarship competition for the 2015 Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program in thirteen critical foreign languages.

The CLS Program is a program of the U.S. Department of State, Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs. It is a fully-funded overseas language program for American undergraduate and graduate students. With the goal of broadening the base of Americans studying and mastering critical languages and to build relationships between the people of the United States and other countries, CLS provides study opportunities to a diverse range of students from across the United States at every level of language learning.

The thirteen CLS languages are: Arabic, Azerbaijani, Bangla, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Korean, Persian, Punjabi, Russian, Turkish, and Urdu.

Please note that participants in the CLS Program are not required to have any experience studying critical languages for most of the thirteen languages. Arabic, Chinese, Persian, Russian, and Japanese institutes have language prerequisites, which can be found on the CLS website: http://www.clscholarship.org.

The CLS Program seeks participants with diverse interests, from a wide variety of fields of study, backgrounds and career paths, with the purpose of representing the full diversity of professional, regional, cultural and academic backgrounds in the United States. Thus, students from all academic disciplines, including business, engineering, law, medicine, science, social sciences, arts and humanities are encouraged to apply.

There is no service requirement for CLS Alumni after the program. However, participants are expected to continue their language study beyond the scholarship period, and later apply their critical language skills in their professional careers. Participants are selected based on their commitment to language learning and plans to apply their language skills to their future academic or professional pursuits.

Please note that CLS is an intensive group-based language program.
The application is now live and available online at:  http://www.clscholarship.org

Applications will be due November 12, 2014 by 8:00 pm EST.

Prior to preparing their application, interested students should review the full eligibility and application information on the CLS Program website: http://www.clscholarship.org/information-for/applicants.

For news, updates and more information about the CLS Program, check out the CLS website or our Facebook page for updates!

CLS Website: http://www.clscholarship.org.

CLS Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/CLScholarship

For questions, please contact us at: cls@americancouncils.org

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Book Announcement: Constructing the Colonized Land: Entwined Perspectives of East Asia around WWII

Posted on October 5, 2014 by Paula

ConstructingConstructing the Colonized Land: Entwined Perspectives of East Asia around WWII
Surrey: Ashgate Publishing Limited, 2014
266 pp.
ISBN: 9781409428183 (hbk)
ISBN:9781409428190 (ebk-PDF)
ISBN:9781472404367(ebk-ePUB)

Despite the precipitous rise of East Asia as a center of architectural production since the Second World War, informed studies remain lacking. The lacuna is particularly conspicuous in terms of regional, cross-national studies, documenting the close ties and parallels between China, Taiwan, Japan and Korea during this period. Examining colonized cities in East Asia, this book brings together a range of different perspectives across both space and time. European, Chinese, Taiwanese, Korean and Japanese discourses are examined, with a range of complementary and conflicting views on the design of urban and architectural forms; the political, institutional, religious and economical contexts of urban planning; thee role played by various media; and influence of various geographical, social and anthropological research methods. The diversity and plurality of these perspectives in this book provides an entwined architectural, urban and social history of East Asia, which offers insights into the cultural systems and the historical and spatial meanings of these colonized cities. It concludes that the difficulties in the historical study of East Asia’s colonial cities do not so much indicate cultural difference as the potentiality for multiple readings of the past toward the future.

Table of contents:

Constructing the Colonized Land: Entwined Perspectives of East Asia around WWII

Foreword by Prasenjit Duara

Introduction
Izumi Kuroishi

Chapter 1 A Study of Japanese Colonial Architecture in East Asia Yasuhiko Nishizawa

Chapter 2 Recentering the City: Municipal Architecture in Shanghai, 1927-1937 Cole Roskam

Chapter 3 Scholarship and Political Identity: Asianism in Tadashi Sekino’s Survey of Chinese Heritage before 1935 Xu Subin

Chapter 4 Transplaniting State Shinto: The Reconfiguration of Existing Built and Natural Environments in Colonized Taiwan Akihito Aoi

Chapter 5 From Political Governance and Spatial Restructure to Urban Transformation and Architectural Achievements: Discourse on Architecture in the Japanese Colonial Period, 1895-1945 Chao-Ching Fu

Chapter 6 Macau’s Urban Transformation 1927-1949: The Significance of Sino-Portuguese Foreign Relations in the Urban Form Paula Morais

Chapter 7 Colonial Modernity and Urban Space: Seoul and the 1930s Land Reajustment Project Junichiro Ishida and Jooya Kim

Chapter 8 On Park Kil-ryong’s Discovering, Understanding, and Designing of Korean Architecture Woo Don-Son

Chapter 9 Domesticating Other’s Space: Surveys and Reforms of Housing in Chosen and Japan by Wajiro Kon Izumi Kuroishi

For further information
Ashgate web catalogue page: http://www.ashgate.com/isbn/9781409428183.

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Job Opening: Assistant Professor of East Asia History, Northern State University

Posted on October 4, 2014 by Paula

job opening - 5Institution: Northern State University
Location:   South Dakota, United States
Position:   Assistant Professor, East Asia History

Northern State University invites applications for a full-time, tenure-track Assistant Professor of History.

Qualifications:  A Ph.D. in History from an accredited institution is required.  ABD candidates with a definite completion date will be considered.  Specialization in the history of East Asia, especially the history of Modern China, is strongly preferred.  Candidates with expertise in the history of the Middle East will also be considered.  Successful candidates must have strong communication skills and a commitment to excellent undergraduate education.  Expertise incorporating technology in their teaching is required.

Responsibilities:  The position carries a 4/4 undergraduate teaching schedule for the academic year.  In addition to courses in their area of specialty, the successful candidate will be expected to be able to teach introductory courses in Western Civilization I or II.  The College of Arts and Sciences puts a high value on excellent undergraduate instruction.  Scholarly activity, academic advising and service are expected.

Setting:  Northern State University is a premier residential institution characterized by outstanding instruction, extraordinary community relations, and unparalleled extracurricular opportunities.  Since 2007 NSU has been continuously named by US News and World Report as one of the best undergraduate institutions in the Midwest.  NSU is fully accredited by the NCATE, NASM, NIBS and HLC.  Northern offers a broad-based athletics program, sponsoring 15 NCAA Division II intercollegiate varsity sports that compete in the Northern Sun Intercollegiate Conference (NSIC).  For more information about NSU and its programs, visitwww.northern.edu.

Northern State University is located in Aberdeen, South Dakota, a vibrant community in northeastern S.D.  The city has a population of approximately 25,000 people and is a retail hub for the region.  The University enjoys a positive and strong relationship with the city and region.

Application:  Review of applications will begin December 1, 2014 and continue until the position is filled.  The anticipated start date is August 22, 2015.     AA/EOE

Contact:
For more information regarding this position, and to apply, visit: https://yourfuture.sdbor.edu.  Click on Northern State University in the Quick Search section.  The system will guide you through the electronic application form.

Website: http://www.northern.edu

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Fun Link Friday: Loneliness sells?

Posted on October 3, 2014 by Paula
moomin

Photo from Tokyo Trends

Some of you may remember many news articles in recent months detailing the popular practice of one restaurant, Tokyo’s Moomin Cafe, to provide single customers with oversized stuffed animals as company for their dining pleasure. Though I’ve not seen it myself (the shop is only a few minutes from my apartment, but there’s always a line!), the pictures leave me with uneasy questions about whether this leans more stunt or is actually really appreciated by customers who can’t bear the thought of eating their muffins by themselves.

In any case, Moomin’s skyrocketing popularity aside, one Japanese company, UniCare, also seems to have created what they call a “tranquility chair,” not so much as a gimmick, but as a way for the elderly to feel a comforting embrace whenever they want. The chair is designed with a larger than life doll’s form, with long, padded arms you can wrap around yourself whenever you just need a warm hug. It’s nice to see efforts being made to keep up people’s spirits, but do you think it will catch on to younger folks too? See the original article here.

chair

Photo from The Telegraph

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Job Opening: World History, Asian field preferred

Posted on October 2, 2014 by Paula

job opening - 5Institution:       Albright College
Location:          Pennsylvania, United States
Position:          Assistant Professor of History

The Department of History at Albright College invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor position in world history, beginning in August 2015. Specialization and period open, although preference will be given to applicants whose research is grounded in an Asian society whether South, Southeast, East or Southwest and who are alert to broader systems of trade and patterns of cultural exchange.  The successful candidate will be a compelling teacher, who, through various world history surveys, promises to inspire global thinking in the minds of diverse undergraduates and enrich those perspectives through more specialized upper level courses.  Department members are creative collaborators in multi-disciplinary curricular innovations and avid supporters of co-curricular learning, and are expected to teach six courses per year. A Ph.D. in hand is required by start of appointment. Applications received before November 15th will receive full consideration. The Department will interview at the annual meeting of the AHA in New York City.

Contact:

Please send a letter of application, curriculum vita, a statement of teaching philosophy, and three letters of recommendation electronically to hr@alb.edu . Located in Reading, Pennsylvania, about an hour from Philadelphia, and three from New York and Washington, DC.  Albright College is an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer and is actively committed to diversity within its community.  In pursuit of this commitment, we actively encourage diversity among applicants for this position.

Website: www.albright.edu

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Job Opening: Japanese Language, Literature, & Culture, Dartmouth College

Posted on October 2, 2014 by Paula

job opening - 5Institution:         Dartmouth College
Location:          New Hampshire, United States
Position:           Assistant Professor, Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures

The Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Languages and Literatures invites applications for a tenure-track position at the Assistant Professor rank in Japanese. Appointment will become effective July 1, 2015, with teaching duties beginning in September 2015. Applicants for this position must either hold a PhD or be ABD; additionally, they must have native or near native fluency in Japanese and English.   The field of specialization will be literature, film, or culture, with priority given to candidates whose research incorporates language and its relationship to issues of representation. In addition, candidates should have a demonstrated commitment to foreign language instruction. The successful candidate will participate in administering the Japanese language program and alternate direction of the annual ten-week study-abroad program in Chiba, Japan. The classroom teaching load is four courses per year, to be taught over three of the four quarters, and would include introductory classes and seminars in English as well as thematic courses in Japanese. Applicants should submit, via email, a cover letter, curriculum vitae, and writing sample (25-50 pages) to http://apply.interfolio.com/26037

Three letters of recommendation should be e-mailed via Interfolio separately.

The review of applications will begin on November 15, 2014.

Preliminary interviews will be conducted via Skype.

Questions should be directed to James Dorsey at: james.dorsey@dartmouth.edu.

Dartmouth College combines a commitment to innovative scholarship with dedication to excellent teaching. One of the most diverse institutions of higher education in New England, Dartmouth College is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer, has a strong commitment to diversity, and in that spirit encourages applications from women, minorities, veterans, and people with disabilities.

http://apply.interfolio.com/26037

 

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