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

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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Conference: Writing the East: History and New Technologies in the Study of Asian Manuscript Traditions

4th Annual Lawrence J. Schoenberg Symposium on Manuscript Studies in the Digital Age: Writing the East: History and New Technologies in the Study of Asian Manuscript Traditions Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, October 21-22, 2011 See the link here: http://www.library.upenn.edu/exhibits/lectures/ljs_symposium4.html There … Continue reading

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Symposium: Cultural Transmission in Medieval East Asia: A Workshop on East Asian Medievality

The Program in Medieval Studies at the University of Illinois (Urbana-Champaign) would like to announce the following workshop, which will be held Saturday, October 22. 10/22 (Saturday) Symposium:  Cultural Transmission in Medieval East Asia: A Workshop on East Asian Medievality Co-sponsored by the Department … Continue reading

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Symposium announcement: The Fifth Annual International Symposium of the Columbia Center for Japanese Religion

Title: Japanese Buddhism and the Performing Arts (geinō) Date: Friday and Saturday, October 14-15, 2011 Location: 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University Schedule Friday, October 14th 9:00-9:30       Registration 9:30-9:35       Opening and Welcoming Remarks  Bernard FAURE (Columbia University) 9:40-10:00     KOMINE Kazuaki (Rikkyō … Continue reading

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Symposium: Visual Underground: Theatre Scorpio & Japanese Experimental Cinema of the Sixties

Location: Quebec, Canada Symposium Date: September 16, 2011 Over the past few years the legacy of the Japanese cinematic and artistic experiments of the 1960s has received renewed international attention in academia in Japan, Europe and North America. Visual Underground: … 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

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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Symposium: The Art Theatre Guild of Japan: Spaces for Intercultural and Intermedial Cinema

The Centre for Media, Culture and Creative Practice, Birkbeck College, University of London Symposium: The Art Theatre Guild of Japan: Spaces for Intercultural and Intermedial Cinema 30th-31st July 2011 Gordon Square Cinema, Birkbeck College, University of London Keynote Speaker: Roland … Continue reading

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Conference: Anime Expo 2011 Anime and Manga Studies Symposium

Location: California, United States Conference Date: 2011-07-01 The continuing popularity of Japanese comics and animation outside Japan has been a topic of interest to scholars across a wide range of disciplines, fields and approaches. However, much of the English-language research … Continue reading

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Digital Research and Japanese History Symposium at UC Berkeley

We are pleased to make an announcement of the Japanese Historical Text Initiative (JHTI)’s “Digital Research and Japanese History” Symposium, sponsored by the Center for Japanese Studies and the Department of History of the University of California, Berkeley. The symposium … Continue reading

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Between Experiment, Form and Culturalism: Butoh in History and Contemporary Practice

May 20-22, 2011 University of California, Los Angeles Despite Butoh‘s 50 year history, much of the current scholarly work in Japan and in North America still focuses narrowly on Butoh’s co-founders, Hijikata Tatsumi and Ohno Kazuo, or worse, assimilates Butoh … Continue reading

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