Conference: UK Association of Buddhist Studies Conference 2014: Buddhism and Healing

Posted on February 13, 2014 by Paula

call for papers [150-2]University of Leeds, Tuesday 1 & Wednesday 2 July 2014

Supported by:
School of Modern Languages and Cultures (University of Leeds), East Asian Studies (University of Leeds) and Centre for Religion and Public Life (University of Leeds)

This two-day conference will bring together internationally renowned scholars to explore the theme ‘Buddhism and Healing’ from their respective fields of study. The conference will address this subject through innovative ways from a wide range of interdisciplinary perspectives such as textual studies, history of medicine, medical anthropology and ritual studies. One major objective is to further our understanding of ‘healing’ by investigating the complex interrelationship between body and mind in Buddhist thought and practices in a wide range of different cultural and historical contexts. The aim here is to move beyond what is now widely regarded as a problematic dichotomy in Buddhist Studies, in order to propose a new and more satisfactory model of the dynamic body/mind relationship.

Speakers include:

Bhikkhu Analayo (University of Hamburg)
Pierce Salguero (Penn State University)
Joanna Cook (University College London)
Colin Millard (University of Cardiff)
Anna Andreeva (University of Heidelberg)
Paula Arai (Louisiana State University)
William Tuladhar-Douglas (University of Aberdeen)
Peter Sharrock (University of London)

Buddhism and Healing will take place in the Parkinson Building (University of Leeds) Tuesday 1 & Wednesday 2 July 2014. Please follow the link to access the booking form:

http://www.ukabs.org.uk/ukabs/conferences/2014-conference/

The conference fee includes tea/coffee/biscuits on days, lunch and dinner on 1st July, lunch on 2nd July, conference pack, conference facilities.

Conference organisers
Martin Seeger (M.Seeger@leeds.ac.uk)
Mikael Bauer (M.Bauer@leeds.ac.uk)

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Workshop: New Sources for the Study of Japanese Religion

Posted on February 12, 2014 by Paula

call for papers [150-2]Announcing a combined workshop and conference on “New Sources for the Study of Japanese Religion,” organized by Prof. Kikuchi Hiroki of the Historiographical Institute (Shiryō Hensanjo) of the University of Tokyo and myself, to be held at Princeton University on March 14-16, 2014 (opening reception March 13).

A complete schedule for this event, abstracts of workshops and presentations, and a link for online registration are now available at http://religion.princeton.edu/newsources/.

The deadline for registration is February 21, 2014. Please feel free to pass this announcement on to your graduate students or anyone else who might be interested. Queries may be addressed to newsources@princeton.edu.

Workshop Description: In the last few decades, scholars of Japanese history and religion, especially of the ancient and medieval periods, have expanded their research beyond formal doctrinal writings and written historical records to include texts written on the reverse side of documents (shihai monjo  紙背文書), hagiography, narratives, and other little known or understudied textual sources, as well as pictorial scrolls and other art historical materials, stone and bronze inscriptions, sites and archaeological remains. Led by a number of prominent scholars from Japan, this combined workshop/conference aims to introduce some of these new sources and the interdisciplinary possibilities they offer for the study of premodern Japanese Religion and History, and also provide some preliminary training in their use. We envision a workshop of somewhere between 25-30 people, mostly faculty and graduate students. Apart from talks by American presenters on March 16, the workshop will be conducted primarily in Japanese.

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Job Opening: Japanese Language, Lecturer (12 month appointment)

Posted on February 12, 2014 by Paula

job opening - 5Institution:   University of British Columbia, Asian Studies
Location:   British Columbia, Canada
Position:   Lecturer in Japanese Language

Lecturer in Japanese Language

The University of British Columbia is accepting applications for two or more 12-month lecturer position(s) in Japanese language, commencing September 1, 2014.  Each position is intended to be for one year, with the possibility of renewal, subject to performance appraisals, approval of the Department, and budgetary availability. Each successful candidate will teach 24 credits of Japanese Language courses, possibly from first to fourth-year, over the 12-month period of appointment, as well as assist the Coordinator of the Japanese Language Program in program administration and development.

Applicants are required to have native or near-native fluency in Japanese and English, a Master’s degree in Applied Linguistics, Japanese Linguistics, Language Education, or related fields and extensive teaching experience at the college/university level in North America.  Strong interest in technology-based and/or content-based instruction and in curriculum development is a plus. Salary will be commensurate with qualifications and experience.

Please send applications, including a letter of interest, Curriculum Vitae, names and contact information of three references, and evidence of teaching effectiveness (including a videotape or a DVD of a class taught, as well as a lesson plan for the class taped), no later than March 7, 2014 to:

Japanese 12-month Lecturer Search Committee
UBC Department of Asian Studies
Room 607-1871 West Mall
Vancouver, BC Canada V6T-1Z2

Positions are subject to final budgetary approval.  UBC hires on the basis of merit and is committed to employment equity. All qualified persons are encouraged to apply. We especially welcome applications from members of visible minority groups, women, Aboriginal persons, persons with disabilities, persons of minority sexual orientations and gender identities, and others with the skills and knowledge to engage productively with diverse communities. Canadians and permanent residents of Canada will be given priority. For information about the Department, please visit www.asia.ubc.ca.

Contact:
Japanese 12-month Lecturer Search Committee
UBC Department of Asian Studies
Room 607-1871 West Mall
Vancouver, BC Canada V6T-1Z2

Website: www.asia.ubc.ca

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Job Opening: Modern East Asian History

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Paula

job opening - 5Institution:   Augustana College, Rock Island, IL, History
Location:   Illinois, United States
Position:   History: Modern East Asian, One-year Visiting Assistant Professor

History – Augustana College invites applications for a one-year, visiting assistant professorship in Modern East Asian history beginning in the 2014-2015 academic year. The department has a high likelihood of conducting a tenure-track search during the 2015-2016 academic year.  Preference will be given to applicants who specialize in Chinese history and can teach courses in Japanese history. We seek candidates who are passionate scholar-teachers with an awareness of the liberal arts and a deep interest in teaching undergraduate students. Augustana is on a trimester calendar and the candidate will teach eight courses over three terms, including courses in Augustanas innovative first-year Liberal Studies curriculum. A Ph.D. in hand at the time of appointment and an interest in contributing to Augustanas Asian Studies program is expected.

Augustana College is a selective liberal arts college of 2,500 students, most of whom live on a wooded 115-acre campus.  Rock Island, Illinois is one of the Illinois-Iowa Quad Cities along the Mississippi River, a diverse metropolitan area with 400,000 residents.  Augustana College is an equal opportunity employer and actively encourages applications from women and persons of diverse ethnic backgrounds.  We do not discriminate based on age, race, color, ethnic origin, gender, sexual orientation, disability or creed.
Details about Augustana, our expectation of the faculty, the selection process and the Quad Cities all are available at the Faculty Search website:

http://www.augustanafaculty.org/.

Contact:
To apply, send a letter of application describing your teaching and research interests, curriculum vitae, graduate transcripts (copies are fine),  a sample syllabus, a writing sample, and three letters of recommendation to:

Search #115-14 Asian History, C/O Dr. Margaret Farrar, Associate Dean,
Augustana College, 639  38th Street, Rock Island, IL  61201 or by email to sherrydocherty@augustana.edu .

Questions may be directed to the chair of the department, Stephen Warren, at stephenwarren@augustana.edu.

The committee will begin reviewing applications on March 10, 2014.

Website: http://www.augustanafaculty.org/

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Call for papers: Western Conference Association for Asian Studies (WCAAS)

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Paula

call for papers [150-2]October 3-4, 2014, Arizona State University

Western Conference of the Association for Asian Studies WCAAS

Tempe, Arizona

The ASU Center for Asian Research announces the 2014 WCAAS annual conference to be held in Phoenix, Arizona. We invite Asia scholars and advanced graduate students in the Western region to submit proposals for panels and individual papers reflecting current research on South, Southeast, and East Asia. Please check for conference up-dates at http://car.clas.asu.edu

We welcome proposals for panels and papers on all aspects of Asia studies and submissions from all disciplines are welcome. A panel proposal should include: (1) a prospectus (200 words max.); and (2) a list of the participants, their affiliations, and their prospective paper titles. A proposal for an individual paper submission should include a prospectus plus the name and affiliation of the proposer.

We particularly encourage contributions that explore the impact of digitization and internationalization on the future of Asian Studies. Please contact the Program Chair in advance of the submission deadline if your presentation will address these themes. Please send your proposals by email to Asia@asu.edu, attn. WCAAS Conference.

Deadline: March 10, 2014.
We look forward to hearing from you.

James Rush, Program Chair
Arizona State University
james.rush@asu.edu

James Rush
Center for Asian Research
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Arizona State University
P.O. Box 874302
Tempe, AZ 85287-4302
Phone: 480-965-5851
Fax: 480-965-0310

Email: james.rush@asu.edu
Visit the website at http://car.clas.asu.edu

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Call for Papers: Center for Information on Religion Seminar – Japanese Culture and Religion

Posted on February 11, 2014 by Paula

call for papers [150-2]The Center for Information on Religion (hereafter CIR) launched a seminar for the Study of Japanese Culture and Religion in Japanese for non-Japanese-native graduate students.  The seminar calls for the papers of well-motivated students who hope for presentation and discussion with other participants in Japanese.

We at CIR will invite 6 students maximum among all the non-Japanese-native graduate student applicants who belong to the university or institution outside Japan for the study of Japanese Culture and Religion. We intend to encourage networking and inspiring discussions beyond language barriers among young scholars and experts in Japan.

Presentation and discussion should be in Japanese though we accept additional explanation in English.  The attendants are required to join all the sessions of the one and a half days seminar, to present their paper in Japanese, and to contribute to the discussion to the presentation of others in Japanese.

Date June 14-15, 2014 (Check in June 13, Check out June 16)
Venue Tokyo, Japan

Detail of the call and application are available as following links (in
Japanese)
http://www.circam.jp/files/user/activities/CIRSeminar2014CfP.pdf
Application:
http://www.circam.jp/files/user/activities/CIRSeminar2014Application.docx
Application deadline: March 15, 2014

Please do not hesitate to ask any questions to us.
e-mail kasai@circam.jp

Kenta Kasai, Center for Information on Religion

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Funding: Risk and East Asia Training Group, Three Doctoral Positions and Two Doctoral Stipends

Posted on February 10, 2014 by Paula

money [150-2]Institution: University of Duisburg-Essen, Institute of East Asian Studies
Location:   Germany
Position:   Doctoral Fellow

The DFG Research Training Group 1613 Risk and East Asia invites applications for

Three Doctoral Positions and Two Doctoral Stipends

These positions are available from October 2014 for three years (subject to a satisfactory progress review after 12 months).

Following a successful review in 2013, the Research Training Group Risk and East Asia is entering its second funding period from April 2014 until the end of September 2018. The group is part of the inter-faculty Institute of East Asian Studies (IN-EAST) at the University Duisburg-Essen. IN-EAST offers degree programs at the BA and MA levels, combining disciplinary studies in Economics, Political Science and Sociology with Chinese and Japanese Studies. IN-EAST has recently been awarded funding by the German Ministry of Education and Research for a new School of Advanced Studies, with extensive support for post-doctoral research. The Research Training Group 1613 cooperates internationally with the White Rose East Asia Centre at the Universities of Leeds and Sheffield in the UK, Renmin and Nankai Universities in China, the University of Tokyo in Japan and the German Institute for Japan Studies, Tokyo. In some training measures we cooperate with the FU Berlin Graduate School of East Asian Studies funded by the German Excellence Initiative.

The research program of the Risk and East Asia group is aimed at understanding how large processes of economic, political and social institutional change play out in East Asian, as compared to European, national and regional contexts. Participating researchers examine the impact of market transformations, individualization, decentralization and transnationalization processes on shifts in the responsibility for and governance of risks from states to markets, public to private bodies, and collective to individual actors. The doctoral curriculum in the first year provides extensive training in economic and social scientific methods. In the economics part of the program this includes extensive training in experimental methods.

We invite applications from highly qualified graduates from the fields of Economics, Business Administration, Political Science, Sociology or East Asian degree programs with a strong social-scientific component. Candidates must hold a Master’s degree in one of the aforementioned subjects or be very close to completion and demonstrate advanced language skills in Chinese or Japanese.

Doctoral scholarship holders receive a basic monthly stipend of 1,365 Euros, plus family allowances in accordance with DFG guidelines where applicable.

Remuneration for doctoral positions is based on Grade E 13 TV-L (50%) of the German Public Service Salary Scale.

Additional funding is available to support field research conducted in East Asia.

The Doctoral degrees are conferred by the Faculty of Social Sciences (Political Science, Sociology) or the Faculty of Business Administration/Mercator School of Management.

The University Duisburg-Essen aims at promoting the diversity of its members (see http://www.uni-due.de/diversity). It aims at increasing the share of female faculty members and therefore explicitly encourages women to apply. Women with equal qualifications will, in accordance with state equality legislation, be given priority. People with disabilities are encouraged to apply (see  2 Abs. 3 SGB IX).

The application deadline is March 1, 2014. Short-listed candidates will be invited to an interview within a month of the application deadline.

For detailed information on the application procedure please see our homepage www.risk-and-eastasia.de. Applicants are encouraged to contact one of the Speakers about the preparation of their applications:

Prof. Karen Shire, PhD karen.shire@uni.due.de and Prof. Flemming Christiansen, PhD flemming.christiansen@uni-due.de

Contact:
Uta Golze
DFG Research Training Group 1613 “Risk and East Asia”
Coordinator
Institute of East Asian Studies
University Duisburg-Essen
Forsthausweg 2, LE 732
47057 Duisburg
tel +49 203 379 2249
fax +49 203 379 1829

http://www.risk-and-eastasia.de

Website: www.risk-and-eastasia.de

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Funding: Louis Frieberg Post- Doctoral Fellowships in East Asian Studies 2014-15

Posted on February 10, 2014 by Paula

money [150-2]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 2014-2015. The post-docs are open to scholars in the humanities and social sciences specializing in East Asia, especially China, Japan, Korea and Mongolia. Fellowships are granted for one academic year or one term with the possibility of extension for an additional year. The starting date of the visit should not be later than four years after receipt of the Doctoral Degree; the fellow must hold a valid Doctoral Degree no later than September 2014.

The fellowship consists of a monthly stipend (tax free) of $1,500. Payments are made once in three months in Israeli Shekels and are linked to the “representative rate of exchange.” Fellows are entitled to one airline ticket (economy class, up to 1500$) for a direct flight from their home town to Israel and back.

The fellows are expected to teach one or two courses in the Hebrew University (for additional payment, according to the Hebrew University regulations). The ability to teach a course in Hebrew is welcome, but is not a prerequisite for attaining the fellowship. The fellows are also expected to actively participate in the life and activities of the Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies. The fellows will present their research at the department seminar of the Asian Studies Department, and possibly at other relevant forums. Any work outside the Hebrew University would be allowed only after specific approval by the Frieberg Center.

Applicants should submit *one hard copy and one electronic copy (in one file) of their application to the address below, no later than April 30, 2014.

The application must include:

1.  CV
2. Research plan
3. A sample of applicant’s publications (if relevant)
4. Two letters of recommendation. The applicant should indicate the names and positions of the recommenders, but the letters of recommendation should be sent by the recommenders direct to the email address below.

Please send materials to:

The Louis Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies
Rm 6300, The Faculty of Humanities
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mt. Scopus Jerusalem 91905
ISRAEL

eacenter@mscc.huji.ac.il email:

DEADLINE: April 30, 2014.

The Frieberg Center will announce its decision by June 2014. The academic year at the Hebrew University begins on October 26th, 2014 and ends in June 26th 2015; the fellows are supposed to arrive in Israel no later than October 20th, 2014. The one-term fellowship will end on January 30th, 2015, or start on March 1, 2015 and end on June 30th, 2015

This notice in no way commits to accepting candidates in the fields advertised.

The Frieberg Center for East Asian Studies
Tel/Fax: +972-(0)2-5881371
eacenter@mscc.huji.ac.il

http://www.eacenter.huji.ac.il.

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Book Announcement: Hayashi Seiichi, “Gold Pollen and Other Stories”

Posted on February 9, 2014 by Paula

HayashiHayashi Seiichi, “Gold Pollen and Other Stories” (PictureBox, 2013)

Printed in color, it is a collection of Hayashi’s manga work from the late 60s and early 70s, including some of his most famous work for the legendary monthly Garo, including “Akatonbo” and “Yamauba komoriuta,” the latter an important work of Japanese Pop Art. The book also includes a translation of an autobiographical essay by Hayashi written in 1972, and an introductory essay.

Seiichi Hayashi (b. 1945) was a leading figure in Tokyo’s hotbed of avant-garde artistic production in the 1960s and ’70s. He is best known for his lyrical and experimental manga for Garo, the famous alternative comics magazine. The present volume collects a handful of Hayashi’s most important manga from this period, including “Red Dragonfly” (1968), “Yamauba’s Lullaby (1968), and “Gold Pollen” (1971). Published here in their original full color, these stories mix traditional Japanese aesthetics with Pop Art sensibilities, and range in topic from the legacies of Japanese rightwing nationalism and World War II, to the shadow of America over 60s Japanese youth culture. 

http://www.pictureboxinc.com/products/1186-gold-pollen-and-other-stories

Given Hayashi’s deep involvement with the Tokyo counterculture, this book should appeal to people studying postwar Japanese art, film, and theatre, in addition to comics fans.

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Job Opening: Japanese Literature and Culture, Postdoctoral Research Associate

Posted on February 8, 2014 by Paula

job opening - 5Institution:   Washington University in St. Louis, East Asian Languages and Cultures
Location:   Missouri, United States
Position:   Post-Doctoral Fellow; Japanese Literature and Culture Postdoctoral Research Associate

WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY IN ST. LOUIS seeks highly promising post-doctoral candidates in Japanese literature and/or culture for a one-year post-doctoral teaching position 2014-2015 in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures.  The field of specialization is open to any in Japanese culture broadly defined but preference is given to those with training in literature of any era.   Applicants with additional expertise in another East Asian field are strongly encouraged. Candidates must have native or near native proficiency in modern Japanese and English and should be able to teach thematic courses in their academic discipline in Japanese as well as both introductory classes and seminars in English.  We are interested in a dynamic scholar who is prepared to engage with both graduate and undergraduate students and interested in exploring and developing new pedagogical strategies.  Applicants must have a Ph.D. degree in Japanese literature or a related field by the time of appointment and should be no more than three years beyond receipt of their doctorate. The teaching load is four courses per year.

Applicants must apply through the Washington University HR website: https://jobs.wustl.edu/  Job ID number: 27281. Applications should include a cover letter, descriptions of two courses and sample syllabi, if available, a CV, a research statement of up to 1,500 words, and a sample of recent work. These materials should be uploaded to the HR website. Three letters of reference should be emailed directly by the referees to Search Committee Chair, Professor Rebecca Copeland, at copeland@wustl.edu Application review will begin March 1, 2014 and continue until the position is filled.

Washington University in St. Louis is an Equal Opportunity, Affirmative Action employer.  Qualified women and minority candidates are encouraged to apply. Employment eligibility verification required upon employment.

Contact: Inquiries may be addressed to ealc@artsci.wustl.edu

Website: https://jobs.wustl.edu/

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