113th AAA Annual Meeting: “Producing Anthropology” December 3–7, 2014 Washington DC USA. Call for Papers Our association’s history suggests that anthropology was an early adopter of an alchemic interdisciplinarity. We are a scientific practice of multivocality, committed to conversations across networks, interests, and perspectives. Indeed, the American Anthropological Association introduced annual meeting themes to the … Read more
We cordially invite you to join our workshop on “Heterotopoi in Japan: Embodying Places and Emplacing Bodies” at the Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia (Austrian Academy of Sciences). Address: Apostelgasse 23, 1030 Vienna, Austria Date: March 21, 2014 Time: 9:15-18:00 A detailed programme and a growing bibliography can be found at … Read more
Japan’s Ainu Minority in Tokyo: Diasporic Indigeneity and Urban Politics, Mark K. Watson (Feb. 2014) The First European Description of Japan, 1585: A Critical English-Language Edition of Striking Contrasts in the Customs of Europe and Japan, by Luis Frois, S.J.; edited by Daniel T. Reff, Richard Danford (Feb. 2014) Japanese Tree Burial: Ecology, Kinship and … Read more
The Department of Social Sciences, Oxford Brookes University is pleased to invite applications for the Sasakawa Postgraduate Studentship in Japanese studies, made possible through the generosity of The Nippon Foundation and the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation. The department can nominate up to three MPhil/PhD students for studentships of £10,000. This studentship is initially for one … Read more
Oxford Brookes University, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, is advertising for a Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in the Anthropology of Japan. They are seeking a specialist in the Anthropology of Japan who will also have significant expertise in an additional area of general Social Anthropology and/or expertise in an additional ethnographic area. The successful candidate will … Read more
The upcoming 25th JAWS conference, concurrent with sect. 5 of the 14th International Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS) conferences, will take place in Ljubljana (Slovenia) from 27 to 30 August 2014. For more information, please see: http://aas.ff.uni-lj.si/eajs.
JAWS will be convening two panels at the upcoming conference of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences 2014. The conferences will be held in Chiba from 15 to 18 May 2014 and organised by the Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology (JACSA). The two panels are: #23 ‘Living with disaster: Comparative approaches’ — this … Read more
The Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology seeks two tenure-track assistant professors, one in China Studies and one in Japanese Studies, to start August 2014. Candidates must have an earned PhD or be near completion in anthropology, sociology, or a related discipline. A strong commitment to and experience in undergraduate … Read more
Dear All, A brief reminder that the CFP deadline for the 2014 Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ) is October 15, 2014. [See below] Best regards, Gavin Whitelaw ————————– Asian Studies Conference Japan is now accepting proposals for panels, roundtables, and individual presentations for ASCJ 2014, to be held on the campus of Sophia University, June … Read more
CFP for AJJ (Anthropologist of Japan in Japan) 2013 Autumn Meeting November 9-10 at International Christian University, Tokyo “People, Places, and Practices Redux: Border Crossing and Questioning Boundaries in Anthropology and the Study of Japan” Dates: Saturday, November 9 & Sunday, November 10, 2013 Place: International Christian University (ICU) Mitaka, Tokyo (http://www.icu.ac.jp/access.html) To submit an abstract, … Read more