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How Do I Say "Git Er Done" in Japanese?: The Best of ALC

Reblogged from The Lobster Dance: Space ALC is one of my favorite online dictionaries, especially since it uses a lot of example sentences and words in context. The dictionary also has a huge database of English-language slang terms, both historical … Continue reading

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Funding: Triangle Center travel grants

The Triangle Center for Japanese Studies is pleased to offer travel grants to scholars outside the Durham/Raleigh/Chapel Hill/Greensboro area to conduct Japan-related research at Triangle institutions using Japanese materials in the Duke Library, UNC’s Ackland Art Museum or NCSU’s Gregg … Continue reading

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Conference: Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs

Michigan State University is pleased to host the annual Midwest Conference on Asian Affairs at our East Lansing campus on October 25-27, 2013.  MCAA is the Midwestern affiliate of the Association for Asian Studies and the largest such regional meeting. … Continue reading

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Job Openings: Three PhD Fellowships in Modern East Asian Studies, Leiden University

Three PhD fellowships in Modern East Asian Studies (anthropology, sociology, history) “Garbage Matters: A Comparative History of Waste in East Asia,” Japan, South Korea and Taiwan focus Institution: Leiden University, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean Studies Location:   Netherlands Position:   … Continue reading

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Call for Papers: Association for Japanese Literary Studies

The theme of the 2013 Association for Japanese Literary Studies Annual Meeting is “Performance and Japanese Literature.” The conference will be held October 18-20 on the campus of the University of Chicago. The deadline for submitting paper proposal abstracts (300 … Continue reading

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Call for Papers: Innovative Research of Japanese Studies

On behalf of the recently launched graduate students journal Innovative Research of Japanese Studies, we would like to extend a warm invitation to students to submit their work for the upcoming issue of 2013, the 1st issue of this journal. Innovative Research in Japanese … Continue reading

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Call for Papers: Association for Modern Japanese Literary Studies

AMJLS is happy to announce the conference and call for papers below. Call for papers: “International Research Conference: Interfaces of Modern Japanese Literature” Application deadline: May 31, 2013 Location: Nihon University, Tokyo, Japan Date: December 1, 2013 [URL] Japanese & English: http://amjls.web.fc2.com/gakkai.html#international-e Chinese:http://amjls.web.fc2.com/international-c.pdfContinue reading

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Call for Papers: New York Conference on Asian Studies, NYCAS 13

September 27-28, 2013 Binghamton University, SUNY Before Final Exams, Plan NOW to participate in NYCAS 2013! EARLY submission of panels and papers is encouraged! The deadline for submitting proposals is May 31, 2013. Binghamton University will host the 49th annual … Continue reading

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Conference: Sex, Gender, and Society: Rethinking Modern Japanese Feminisms

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 you to attend a two-day conference on Sex, Gender, and Society: Rethinking Modern Japanese … Continue reading

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Doctoral Fellowships: [general] Globalization and Literature. Representations, Transformations, Interventions

For more information, see https://www.graduatecenter-lmu.de/global/index.php?lang=en http://www.en.grk-globalisierung.uni-muenchen.de/index.html Doctoral Fellowships The DFG-Research Training Group “Globalization and Literature. Representations, Transformations, Interventions” established at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, München (Germany), invites applications for •       7 Doctoral Fellowships starting in October, 2013, for up to … Continue reading

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