2020/10/30

Miyazaki Hayao's ANIME, the early years

article 10/2020 from the International Institute for Asia Studies in Leiden, The Netherlands (in English),

2020/10/29

online database of events for Japan Studies

(Please circulate.)

 

The Japanese Studies Events Database is a crowd-sourced digital resource commons created in response to the COVID-19 pandemic and the shift to online event programming undertaken by institutions and programs worldwide.

 

The database is intended to serve the international Japanese Studies community—students, scholars, institutes and institutions—by providing a virtual clearing house for information about the range and vibrancy of programmatic activities and research taking place about Japan. There are so many wonderful things—lectures, webinars, online workshops and panels—taking place at universities and centers around the globe. The hope is that the database will further deepen connections and foster collaboration within the larger community, particularly during these difficult times when holding in-person events is more challenging.

 

Universities, research centers, academic departments, and scholars are welcome to share Japan-related programming on this database. If you wish to post an event, please first contact rijs_events@fas.harvard.edu for the Google Form link and password. Upon completion of the form using your email address and password, you will receive an auto-reply confirming submission of the Google Form. This email can be referenced for subsequent edits as needed.

 

Please browse the database here: https://datastudio.google.com/u/0/reporting/621571f0-8678-4efd-a158-c90f85b53513/page/DbleB

 

If you have questions, please contact rijs_events@fas.harvard.edu and thank you for your support of Japanese studies.

2020/10/18

young learners & old, too (book - Wabi Sabi)

Announcement for a children's book about imperfection and impermanence,

Like many children's books, older readers can learn something, too!
Of course wabi-sabi and other culturally rooted realities have Wikipedia pages in English and often in Japanese, too.
But the illustrated and simpler language of the children's book may be the most effect way to communicate these things.