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Call for Papers: Cultural Translation and East Asia: Film, Literature and Art Conference

Posted on December 17, 2011 by Paula

Location: United Kingdom, Bangor, Wales Date: September 7-8, 2012 The aim of this interdisciplinary conference is to focus on questions of cultural translation in all its forms and constructs. As global identity becomes increasingly defined by questions of communication across … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: The Asian Conference on Literature and Librarianship, LIBRASIA

Posted on December 15, 2011 by Paula

Osaka, Japan, April 5-8, 2012 The Asian Conference on Literature and Librarianship 2012 Location: Osaka, Japan 5-8 April 2012 **Deadline for submission of abstracts extended: February 1 2011** As the country that gave the world the novel one thousand years … Continue reading →

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Harvard Summer School in Kyoto at Doshisha University June 4-July 27,2012

Posted on December 13, 2011 by Paula

Dear prospective participants, I am writing to invite you to take part in Harvard Summer School’s 8-week program at Doshisha University in Kyoto, Japan. Students enroll in 2 courses: Professor Mikael Adolphson’s “Japan: Tradition and Transformation,” explores the nation’s tumultous … Continue reading →

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Japan Webpage Contest for UK Schools (2011-2012)

Posted on December 12, 2011 by Laura

Make a website to share with the world what your students are doing to explore and learn about Japan and you could win up to ￡1,000 for your school! The Japan Foundation of London has extended the deadline for their … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: Drugs and Drink in Asia: New Perspectives from History

Posted on November 22, 2011 by Paula

Drugs and drink in Asia: New perspectives from History June 22-24, 2012, Shanghai University, Shanghai, China The centenary of the Hague Opium Convention in 1912 marks a hundred years of the development of international controls on commercial flows in psycho-active … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Voices of Early Modern Japan. Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life during the Age of the Shoguns

Posted on November 20, 2011 by Paula

Constantine Nomikos Vaporis. Greenwood Press,2012. 254 pages. ISBN 978-0-313-39200-9 eISBN 978-0-313-39201-6. Voices of Early Modern Japan: Contemporary Accounts of Daily Life during the Age of the Shoguns spans an extraordinary period of Japanese history, ranging from the unification of the … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: Mechademia 8 (1/9/12) “Tezuka Osamu: Manga Life”

Posted on November 10, 2011 by Paula

CFP: Mechademia 8. Tezuka Osamu: Manga Life We seek submissions for the eighth volume of Mechademia, an annual, peer-reviewed forum for critical work on Japanese manga, anime, and related arts. The theme of volume 8 is “Tezuka Osamu: Manga Life” … Continue reading →

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Job Opening: Japanese Language and Culture, Assistant Professor, Florida International University

Posted on November 5, 2011 by Paula

Institution: Florida International University, Modern Languages Location: Florida, United States Position: Assistant Professor (tenure-track) , Japanese Language and Culture Florida International University is a multi-campus public Research-Extensive university located in Miami, a vibrant, international city. The Asian Studies … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: Asian Cinema Studies Society Conference

Posted on October 24, 2011 by Paula

With the Support of The Centre For The Study of Globalization and Culture and the Department of Comparative Literature at the University of Hong Kong March 18-20, 2012 at the University of Hong Kong Hong Kong and Asian Cinema: Creativity … Continue reading →

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Conference: 4th Annual Arizona State University Graduate Conference on Asian Studies

Posted on October 22, 2011 by Paula

Places: Connections and Dislocations in Asia November 4th and 5th, 2011 Arizona State University Memorial Union Sometimes described as a supercontinent, Asia is extremely diverse geographically, culturally, politically, and historically. Places, both real and imagined, are not only the backgrounds … Continue reading →

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