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Tag Archives: Japan
Book announcement: Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh: Dancing in a Pool of Gray Grits
Hijikata Tatsumi and Butoh: Dancing in a Pool of Gray Grits Palgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History Bruce Baird Palgrave Macmillan, January 2012 ISBN: 978-0-230-12040-2, ISBN10: 0-230-12040-7, 6.000 x 9.250 inches, 310 pages, Includes 59 pgs illus, Hijikata Tatsumi’s explosive … Continue reading
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Tagged books, butoh, culture, dance, Hijikata Tatsumi, Japan, Japanese culture, performance
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Study at Doshisha University: UNO-Japan, Summer 2012
Spend 5 weeks in the heart of Kyoto this summer and earn 6 college credits! The UNO-Japan: Study at Doshisha University Program is a 5-week summer program designed primarily for college students to learn Art, Photography, Film, and Japanese Language … Continue reading
Posted in announcements, living abroad, study abroad, study tools, summer program, undergraduate
Tagged art, Doshisha University, film, Japan, Japanese, Kyoto, photography, study abroad, summer program, UNO-Japan
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Job Opening: Teaching Fellows (2) Japanese Studies (Haverford College), Korean Studies (Wittenburg University)
Institution: Haverford College; Wittenburg University; ASIANetwork, Japanese Studies and Korean Studies Position: Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow Positions: Japan and Korea With the generous support of the Luce Foundation, ASIANetwork is providing financial support for the hiring of teaching fellow positions … Continue reading
Japanese Studies: we have a problem—in theory
There are plenty of stereotypes about graduate students, but one of the most persistent images is that of the intellectual snob. Using obscure words in everyday conversations, sprinkling buzzwords into explanations in class, and name-dropping the scholars or theorists they’ve … Continue reading
Posted in graduate school, main posts, senior year, undergraduate
Tagged area studies, coursework, east asia, education, graduate school, Japan, japanese studies, philosophy, teaching, theory
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Conference Announcement: Japanese Cities in Global Context
Conference and Workshop at Bryn Mawr College Sponsored by: Mellon Tri-Co Seed Grant, Lee Frank Lecture Fund at Swarthmore, Center for Visual Culture at Bryn Mawr College, East Asian Studies Department at Haverford College, Growth and Structure and Cities Department … Continue reading
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Tagged Bryn Mawr College, cities, city, conference, global, global context, Japan, Japanese cities, Pennsylvania, workshop
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Book Announcement: Occidentalism: Defining the Japanese Self
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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Tagged identity, Japan, modern, modern history, modernization, Nagai Kafu, occidentalism
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Job Opening: Modern and/or Contemporary Japan Culture/History, Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow
Applications are invited for a post-doctoral teaching fellow in modern and/or contemporary Japanese culture or history for academic year 2012-2013. Institution: Haverford College, East Asian Studies Location: Pennsylvania, United States Position: Post-Doctoral Fellow, Visiting Assistant Professor Applications are … Continue reading
Resource: USCF Japanese Woodblock Prints
Interested in Japanese medical history and art? Check out the University of California San Francisco’s (UCSF) Digital Collection of Japanese Woodblock Prints! About In 1963, an East Asian collection was started by UCSF Provost and university librarian, later Chancellor, John … Continue reading
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Tagged art, culture, early modern, early modern history, Edo period, history, Japan, Japanese art, Japanese culture, medicine, Meiji period, resource, science, ukiyo-e, University of California San Francisco, woodblock prints
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What can I do with a B.A. in Japanese Studies? 