Tag Archives: identity

Book Announcement: Australia, Japan and their relations with Asia

Posted on April 8, 2012 by Paula

edited by Stephen Alomes, Peter Eckersall, Ross Mouer and Alison Tokita. Available through the Custom Book Centre at Melbourne University. http://www.bookshop.unimelb.edu.au/cbc/?9781921775819 Cover note: The essays in Outside Australia: Japanese and Australian Encounters & Identities in Flux originated when the authors … Continue reading →

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Call For Papers: New York Conference on Asian Studies (Asian Religions in the West and Asian American Religions)

Posted on February 14, 2012 by Paula

NEW YORK CONFERENCE ON ASIAN STUDIES September 28-29, 2012 State University of New York at New Paltz Asian Religions in the West and Asian American Religions: Contesting Identities and Praxis Graduate students and scholars working in all areas and disciplines … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Occidentalism: Defining the Japanese Self

Posted on February 5, 2012 by Paula

Rachael Hutchinson, Nagai Kafū’s Occidentalism: Defining the Japanese Self SUNY Press, November 2011 Hardcover 299 pages $80.00 Paperback and e-version forthcoming Describes how writer Nagai Kafū (1879–1959) used his experience of the West to reconcile modernization and Japanese identity. Nagai Kafū … Continue reading →

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Dissertation Workshop: Rewriting History: Nationalism, Identity, and the Politics of the Past

Posted on November 7, 2011 by Paula

We encourage everyone to bring the following announcement for the AAS/SSRC joint dissertation workshop initiative planned for Toronto to your students’ attention. AAS/SSRC Dissertation Workshop Rewriting History: Nationalism, Identity, and the Politics of the Past Toronto, March 12-15, 2012 The … Continue reading →

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Call For Papers: UC Berkeley graduate student conference in East Asian studies

Posted on July 26, 2011 by Paula

Location: University of California at Berkeley “Parameters of Identity: practice, place, and tradition in East Asia” — a graduate student conference at the University of California at Berkeley, January 20-21, 2012 Graduate students in all fields of East Asian studies … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers/Panels: Cool New Asia (Auckland NZ)

Posted on June 26, 2011 by Paula

Cool New Asia: Asian Popular Culture in a Local Context Date: 25th and 26th November, 2011 Location: Unitec Institute of Technology: Auckland, New Zealand. Abstract Submission Due Date: August 31st, 2011. Confirmed Keynote Speakers: Professor Koichi Iwabuchi (Waseda University, Tokyo) … Continue reading →

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Workshop: Being Japanese: Histories, Identities and Modernities

Posted on February 13, 2011 by Paula

Location: Washington, United States This faculty development workshop will explore how the meaning of being Japanese has changed over time, with a particular emphasis on the uses of history, literature and visual culture in shaping and representing a distinctively Japanese … Continue reading →

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