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Call for Applications: 5 Postdoctoral Fellowships 2012/13

Posted on November 28, 2011 by Paula

(Location: Berlin / Closing Date: 10 January 2012) The Berlin-based Forum Transregionale Studien invites scholars to apply for 5 postdoctoral fellowships for the research project ZUKUNFTSPHILOLOGIE: REVISITING THE CANONS OF TEXTUAL SCHOLARSHIP Zukunftsphilologie is a Berlin-based research project that aspires … Continue reading →

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Job Opening: Japanese Literature, Seoul Natl Univ

Posted on November 27, 2011 by Paula

Institution: Seoul National University, Asian Languages and Civilizations Location: Korea, South Position: Full Professor (open rank) in Japanese Literature The Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations (ALC), to be launched at Seoul National University in March 2012, invites … Continue reading →

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Call For Papers: Graduate Student Conference on East Asia

Posted on October 29, 2011 by Paula

Twenty-first Annual Graduate Student Conference on East Asia Columbia University in the City of New York Friday February 10 to Saturday February 11, 2012 Graduate students are invited to submit papers for the Twenty-First Annual Graduate Student Conference on East … Continue reading →

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Symposium: Eloquence of the Text Images in Dialoque. The Shuhanron emaki: Literary genres and representations in medieval Japan

Posted on October 20, 2011 by Paula

To be held in Paris (Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Cernuschi Museum) from Thursday, November 3 to Saturday, November 15. The symposium is organized by Veronique Beranger (Bibliothèque nationale de France), Claire-Akiko Brisset (Paris Diderot University) and Estelle Leggeri-Bauer … Continue reading →

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Job Opening: Assistant Professor in Early Modern and/or Modern Japanese Literature

Posted on October 15, 2011 by Paula

The Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures in the Dana and David Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences at the University of Southern California (Taper Hall of Humanities 356, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA 90089-0357) is … Continue reading →

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Resource: Japanese Historical Text Initiative

Posted on October 10, 2011 by tnguyen3729

Studying Japanese history? Check out the Japanese Historical Text Initiative (JHTI)through the University of California-Berkeley (UCB)! Background The Japanese Historical Text Initiative is the brainchild of Delmer Brown, Professor Emeritus of History at UCB, whose interests in religio-political dimensions of … Continue reading →

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Job Opening: Japanese Literature, Assistant Professor (tenure-track)

Posted on September 30, 2011 by Paula

Institution: University of Iowa, Department of Asian and Slavic Languages and Literatures Location: Iowa, United States Position: Assistant Professor, Japanese Literature; Tenure Track Faculty The Department of Asian and Slavic Languages and Literatures in the Division of World … Continue reading →

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Job Opening: Japanese Lit./Film/Cultural Studies

Posted on July 28, 2011 by Paula

Institution: Princeton University, East Asian Studies Location: New Jersey, United States Position: Japanese Literature/Film/Cultural Studies Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Full Professor The Department of East Asian Studies invites applications for an assistant, associate, or full professor (open rank) in Japanese … Continue reading →

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Book announcement: Avant-gardes in Japan

Posted on July 24, 2011 by Paula

Avant-gardes in Japan. Anniversary of Futurism and Butoh: Performing Arts and Cultural Practices between Contemporariness and Tradition edited by Katja Centonze (Cafoscarina, Venezia, 2010) ISBN: 978-88-7543-293-5 Please visit the webpage: http://www.cafoscarina.it/default2.asp?id=417 This collection of essays examines Japanese avant-garde expressions, the … Continue reading →

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Call For Papers: Transnational Boys’ Love Fan Studies

Posted on July 19, 2011 by Paula

TWC (Transformative Works and Cultures) Special Issue CFP: Transnational Boys’ Love Fan Studies (March 2013) Edited by Kazumi Nagaike and Katsuhiko Suganuma, Oita University http://journal.transformativeworks.org/index.php/twc/announcement/view/19 “BL” (Boys’ Love), a genre of male homosexual narratives (consisting of manga, novels, animations, games, … Continue reading →

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