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Book Announcement: Engaging Japanese Philosophy: A Short History

Posted on May 13, 2018 by Paula

Engaging Japanese Philosophy: A Short History Thomas P. Kasulis University of Hawai’i Press 746pp. December 2017 From the UHP web site (http://www.uhawaiipress.com/p-9844-9780824874070.aspx): Philosophy challenges our assumptions—especially when it comes to us from another culture. In exploring Japanese philosophy, a dependable … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: Japanologist’s Playground 2018 “Fictions & Reality”

Posted on May 9, 2018 by Paula

The Department of Japanese Studies at Nicolaus Copernicus University (NCU) and Polish Association for Japanese Studies invite panel and paper proposals for the International Conference to be held on 29 November – 1 December 2018 at NCU in Torun, Poland. The conference is meant … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Consuming Life in Post-Bubble Japan

Posted on May 6, 2018 by Paula

Consuming Life in Post-Bubble Japan: A Transdisciplinary Perspective Edited by Katarzyna J. Cwiertka, Ewa Machotka Published by Amsterdam University Press This multidisciplinary book analyses the contradictory coexistence of consumerism and environmentalism in contemporary Japan. It focuses on the dilemma that … Continue reading →

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Resource: Re-envisioning Japan

Posted on May 2, 2018 by Paula

How do we connect to objects, and how did people connect to them when they were made? Today’s resource is ReEnvisioning Japan, a collaborative digital humanities project produced through the University of Rochester’s River Campus Libraries Digital Scholarship Lab. Rooted … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Embracing Asia in China and Japan

Posted on April 8, 2018 by Paula

Torsten Weber, Embracing ‘Asia’ in China and Japan. Asianism Discourse and the Contest for Hegemony, 1912-1933. (Palgrave Macmillan 2018, 407 pages, 8 illustrations). https://www.palgrave.com/us/book/9783319651538 This book examines how Asianism became a key concept in mainstream political discourse between China and Japan … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: Manga, Comics and Japan: Area Studies as Media Studies

Posted on February 26, 2018 by Paula

In 2018 Sweden and Japan celebrate 150 years of diplomatic relations. This occasion provides an excellent opportunity to reconceptualize the study of Japanese culture in a way which meets the requirements of an increasingly networked and digitalized world. Our conference … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: International Conference on Gender and Sexuality in Asia

Posted on February 13, 2018 by Paula

CALL FOR PAPERS: INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON GENDER AND SEXUALITY IN ASIA (COGEN 2018) Dates: November 12-14, 2018 | Venue: Monash University Malaysia | Abstract deadline: April 30, 2018 Theme Contemporary religious actors and their significance in gender and sexuality justice in Asia The continuous reification … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: Narratives of (Il)legibility in East Asia – Graduate Student Symposium

Posted on January 15, 2018 by Paula

“Narratives of (Il)legibility in East Asia” Call for Papers: 5th Annual SEAS Graduate Student Symposium University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign May 5th, 2018 Application: https://goo.gl/forms/aSnO4QCeNjHmb4VH2 Keynote Speaker: Johanna Ransmeier, University of Chicago The deadline for submissions is Friday, February 2, 2018. Society of … Continue reading →

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Book Announcement: Placing Empire: Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan

Posted on October 15, 2017 by Paula

Placing Empire Travel and the Social Imagination in Imperial Japan Kate McDonald Placing Empire examines the spatial politics of Japanese imperialism through a study of Japanese travel and tourism to Korea, Manchuria, and Taiwan between the late nineteenth century and the … Continue reading →

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Symposium: Cinema and Social Change in Japan

Posted on October 2, 2017 by Paula

International Symposium October 20-22, 2017 Kyoto University, Japan This international symposium explores the impacts of cinema on social change, and vice versa. Taking Japan’s cinema-going culture as case study, we can trace how social change has been imagined, negotiated, or … Continue reading →

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