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Job Opening: Assistant Professor, Japanese Studies, The Chinese University of Hong Kong

Institution: The Chinese University of Hong Kong Location: Hong Kong Position: Assistant Professor Applications are invited for:- Department of Japanese Studies Assistant Professor (Ref. 170001WP) (Closing date: January 15, 2018) The Master of Arts Programme in Japanese Studies, under the Department of … Continue reading

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Job Opening: Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies, Asian Studies, Randolph-Macon College

Institution:   Randolph-Macon College Location:   Virginia, United States Position:   Tenure Track Faculty The Asian Studies Program at Randolph-Macon College invites applications for a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies, to begin in the Fall semester of 2018. Teaching duties include a … Continue reading

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Job Opening: Japanese Studies, U of Arizona

Institution: University of Arizona, Dept of East Asian Studies Location: Tucson, AZ Position: Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies (tenure-eligible) From the university’s official job listing: The Department of East Asian Studies in the School of International Languages, Literatures, and Cultures … Continue reading

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Job Opening: Japanese Language, Literature, and Culture

The Asian Studies Program at Bates College, a private liberal arts college located in southern Maine with a rich history of diverse coeducation, invites applications for a tenure–track Assistant Professor position in Japanese language, literature, and culture to begin in … Continue reading

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Call for Papers: Medieval Unfreedoms: Slavery, Servitude, and Trafficking in Humans before the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade

Medieval Unfreedoms: Slavery, Servitude, and Trafficking in Humans before the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade October 19 – 20, 2018 Across the medieval world (c. 500 — c. 1500), multiple forms and degrees of unfreedom—slavery, serfdom, forced concubinage, coerced labor, captivity, and … Continue reading

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Book Announcement: Chinese Literary Forms in Heian Japan: Poetics and Practice

Chinese Literary Forms in Heian Japan: Poetics and Practice Brian Steininger Written Chinese served as a prestigious, cosmopolitan script across medieval East Asia, from as far west as the Tarim Basin to the eastern kingdom of Heian period Japan (794–1185). … Continue reading

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Job Opening: Japanese studies, human-computer interaction and robotics

Institution:  Freie Universität Berlin, History and Cultural Studies Location:  Germany Position:  Research Assistant: PhD or Postdoctoral Scholarship in Japanese Studies (human-computer interaction) The Department of History and Cultural Studies at Freie Universität Berlin in conjunction with the European Research Council … Continue reading

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Call for Papers: Ecologies of Knowledge and Practice: Japanese Studies and the Environmental Humanities

A Day-and-a-Half Workshop and Roundtable for UK Postgraduates and Early Career Researchers in the Humanities St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, 27th and 28th October 2017  Scholars from outside the UK are welcome to apply if they are able to fund … Continue reading

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Call for Papers: 5th Ocha Zanmai: 2018 San Francisco International Conference on Chanoyu and Tea Culture

The 5th Ocha Zanmai Conference Sunday, April 29, 2018 (with welcoming events on Saturday, April 28) San Francisco State University Ocha Zanmai is an interdisciplinary conference series that presents the latest research findings and significant work in the study of chanoyu (the Japanese tea ceremony), including various … Continue reading

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Call for Papers: Japan Studies Association 2018

Join us in sunny Honolulu January 2018 to share our new and continuing pedagogical and research interests in Japan’s literary and cultural traditions, historical and economic developments, sociopolitical and religious past and present. We invite proposals for individual presentations, discipline-specific … Continue reading

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