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Tag Archives: Japanese history
Call For Papers: Bundan Snark: Writing and Fighting in Modern Japan Workshop Conference
University of Iowa, May 10-11, 2014 Proposal Submission Deadline: January 15, 2014 This workshop conference, which will result in an edited volume, will examine key instances in modern Japanese literary history (nineteenth through twenty-first centuries) in which personal arguments changed the face … Continue reading
Job Opening: Modern Japanese History, Assistant Professor (tenure-track)
Institution: Michigan State University, History Location: Michigan, United States Position: Assistant Professor, Modern Japanese History Modern Japanese History. Assistant, tenure system. Michigan State University’s Department of History seeks a historian with research expertise in modern Japan. Candidates … Continue reading
Book Announcement: Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japan’s Wartime Era, 1931-1945
Technology, Ideology, and Empire in Japan’s Wartime Era, 1931-1945 (Stanford University Press, 2013) For more information: http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=22812 Table of contents: http://www.sup.org/pages.cgi?isbn=0804785392&item=Contents_pages&page=1 The conventional understanding of Japanese wartime ideology has for years been summed up by just a few words: anti-modern, … Continue reading
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Job Opening: Japanese History, University at Albany, Assistant Professor
Institution : University at Albany Location: New York, United States Position: Assistant Professor in Japanese History (tenure track) The Department of East Asian Studies at the University at Albany, State University of New York, seeks candidates for … Continue reading
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Tagged assistant professor, history, Japan, Japanese history, modern, New York, premodern, tenure track, University at Albany
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Job Opening: Japanese History, U Mass Amherst
Institution: University of Massachusetts – Amherst Location: Massachusetts, United States Position: Japanese History Assistant Professor Japanese History Assistant Professor (Tenure Track) University of Massachusetts Amherst The Department of History at the University of Massachusetts Amherst invites applications … Continue reading
Job Openings: Japanese History and Chinese Literature or Film
Institution: Yonsei University (Underwood International College), Department of Asian Studies Location: Korea, Republic of Position: Assistant Professor, Tenure Track Positions in Japanese History and Chinese Literature/Film Underwood International College, Asian Studies Division Yonsei University Tenure track Positions … Continue reading
Book Announcement: CHANGING LIVES: The ‘Postwar’ in Japanese Women’s Autobiographies and Memoirs
CHANGING LIVES: The ‘Postwar’ in Japanese Women’s Autobiographies and Memoirs (Association for Asian Studies, 2013) It is available in paperback ISBN: 978-0-924304-69-9. 216 pages. Changing Lives offers the reader substantial translations from memoirs and autobiographies by Japanese women. It contains … Continue reading
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Tagged autobiography, book announcement, books, Japan, Japanese history, memoirs, postwar, women, women's history, womens studies
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Book Announcement: Kokugaku in Meiji-period Japan: The Modern Transformation of ‘National Learning’ and the Formation of Scholarly Societies
Leiden, Boston: Global Oriental, 2012 (313 p.) Kokugaku in Meiji-period Japan offers a new perspective on scholarly networks and the foundations of modern Japan. Utilizing never-explored original sources and with a unique focus on the persons involved, Michael Wachutka elucidates how kokugaku … Continue reading
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Tagged book announcement, books, history, intellectual thought, Japan, Japanese history, kokugaku, meiji, Meiji period, modern Japan
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Postdoctoral Fellowships (Research Associate): modern Japanese/East Asian History “The Dissolution of the Japanese Empire and the Struggle for Legitimacy in Postwar East Asia, 1945-1965”
Institution: University of Cambridge, Department of East Asian Studies/Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies Location: United Kingdom Position: Two Postdoctoral Fellowships (Research Associate) in modern Japanese/East Asian History for three year contract Two Postdoctoral Fellowships (Research Associate) … Continue reading
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