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Call for Papers: Contested Spaces: 13th Annual EAS Graduate Conference

Posted on November 13, 2012 by Paula

Contested Spaces – 13th Annual East Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference, University of Toronto, March 2, 2013 Keynote Address by Prof.  Lisa Kim Davis (UCLA) Using East Asia as a point of departure, Contested Spaces challenges speakers to interrogate our … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: Sex, Gender, and Society: Rethinking Modern Japanese Feminisms

Posted on July 5, 2012 by Paula

April 19-20, 2013 Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA The Japanese program of the Department of Russian and East Asian Languages and Cultures (REALC), Emory University, invites paper proposals for a two-day conference on Sex, Gender, and Society: Rethinking Modern Japanese … Continue reading →

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Book Announcements: Modernism and Japanese Culture, Politics and Religion in Modern Japan, Rethinking Japanese Modernism

Posted on December 18, 2011 by Paula

Modernism and Japanese Culture By Roy Starrs. New York and London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011, 344 pages. Paperback: $25, Hardcover: $80. Webpages: UK: http://www.palgrave.com/products/title.aspx?pid=360186; US:http://us.macmillan.com/modernismandjapaneseculture/RoyStarrs Offering an in-depth and comprehensive account of the complex history of Japanese modernism, in this book Roy … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: A Symposium – On the Track and Field between Iran and Japan: Sport, Society, and Politics in Asia

Posted on August 3, 2011 by Paula

The University of Haifa, January 9, 2012 We invite proposals for a symposium concerning the role of sport in the history, politics, society, culture, and economy of modern and contemporary Asia, including nations from Iran eastwards. We are interested in … Continue reading →

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Book announcement: A Room Where the Star-Spangled Banner Cannot Be Heard:  A Novel in Three Parts

Posted on July 31, 2011 by Paula

A translation of Levy Hideo’s A Room Where the Star-Spangled Banner Cannot Be Heard (Seijoki no kikoenai heya, 1992) has recently been published by Columbia University Press.  As the first work of fiction written in Japanese by a white American … Continue reading →

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Book announcement: Cultivating Commons: Joint Ownership of Arable Land in Early Modern Japan

Posted on July 10, 2011 by Paula

Philip C. Brown Cultivating Commons challenges the common understanding of Japanese economic and social history by uncovering diverse landholding practices in early modern Japan. In this first extended treatment of multiple systems of farm­land ownership, Philip Brown argues that it … Continue reading →

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Book announcement: On the Front Lines of Forging a Global Society: Japanese and American Coworkers in Japan

Posted on July 3, 2011 by Paula

by Adam Komisarof As globalization advances and national borders become increasingly porous, Japan is now facing the human reality of these rapid changes: greater cultural diversity in the work force,which brings the concomitant challenge of how to integrate multicultural workers … Continue reading →

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Fellowship: The Wilson Center

Posted on June 13, 2011 by Paula

http://www.wilsoncenter.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=Fellowships.welcome The Center awards approximately 20-25 residential fellowships annually to individuals with outstanding project proposals in a broad range of the social sciences and humanities on national and/or international issues. Topics and scholarship should relate to key public policy challenges … Continue reading →

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Call for Workshop Papers: Anatomies of Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and Health in Asia

Posted on June 4, 2011 by Paula

http://www.ssrc.org/programs/pages/interasia-program/inter-asian-connections-iii-workshop-anatomies-of-knowledge-medicine-science-and-health-in-asia/ Anatomies of Knowledge: Medicine, Science, and Health in Asia at the Conference on Inter-Asian Connections III Hong Kong (June 6-8, 2012)  DEADLINE: Friday, June 24, 2011 Co-organized and co-sponsored by The Hong Kong Institute for Humanities and the Social … Continue reading →

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Call for Papers: Inter-Asian Connections III: Hong Kong

Posted on May 26, 2011 by Paula

Deadline: Friday, June 24, 2011 Inter-Asian Connections III: Hong Kong (June 6-8, 2012) The Hong Kong Institute for Humanities and Social Sciences (HKIHSS) at the University of Hong Kong, the National University of Singapore (NUS), and the Social Science Research … Continue reading →

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