I am pleased to announce that JAWS will again be able to offer travel grants to support young scholars to attend the upcoming EAJS/JAWS conference in Ghent, 26-29 August 2020. JAWS members may apply for a travel grant to cover transport and/or accommodation costs of max. €250. Eligibility: the applicant must be – a … Read more
PAST: 23rd January 2021 *The upcoming 30th JAWS conference is concurrent with section 5 of the 16th EAJS conference.* The second Call for Panels and Papers for the 16th EAJS International Conference, which will be held as a virtual conference from 25 to 28 August 2021, is now open. Further information on how to submit … Read more
To All JAWS members Apologies for the delays in moving and updating the JAWS website. There are a few technical issues that need attention, some missing files that need uploading and some links that need updating. Please bear with us. 🙂
Aarhus University in Aarhus, Denmark, is hiring an Assistant Professor in Japanese Studies on a tenure track position. Application deadline: 6 May 2019. For further information click here
Josef Kreiner is Professor Emeritus, Bonn University. Born in Vienna, Austria, in 1940, he has conducted numerous fieldwork projects in Southwest Japan and the Ryūkyū Islands. He was professor of Japanology and director of the Institute of Japanese Studies at Bonn University from 1977-1988, founding director of the German Institute of Japanese Studies, Tokyo from … Read more
JAWS is delighted to be able support its members by providing English language editing of academic articles. Eligibility: – The author must be a JAWS member.– The article must be of high and publishable quality.– In the case of native speakers of English, eligibility is restricted to graduate students. In the case of non-native speakers, … Read more
Brigitte Steger and Angelika Koch (2017 eds): Cool Japanese Men. Studying New Masculinities at Cambridge. Lit
It is with great sadness that I note the sudden passing of a dear colleague and friend, Associate Professor Romit Dasgupta, on July 1 2018. Romit obtained a Bachelor of Economics with First Class Honours in 1986, and a Master of Japanese Studies in 1990 from the University of Western Australia. Starting in 1992, Romit … Read more
Dear JAWS members, I hope you had a nice summer no matter whether you were in one of the hot spots of this earth or a more comfortable one temperature wise. It is high time to let you know that the next JAWS conference will take place at Aarhus University in Denmark from 15.-17. April … Read more
Nanase SHIROTA ns637[@]cam.ac.uk University of Cambridge The 15thEAJS international conference took place at the Faculdade de Ciências Socialis e Humanas of the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa in Lisbon, Portugal from 30 August to 2 September with beautiful blue sky and a warm weather. Over 1200 academics and researchers working in the field of Japanese Studies were … Read more