SOAS has announced 13 job cuts in the Library (nearly 25% of the staff). It will be impossible for the Library to provide the same level of services once the School pushes through the plan. SOAS colleagues need your support so please sign their petition and circulate details to your contacts.
Petition - https://www.change.org/p/soas-university-of-london-stop-the-cuts-at-soas...
The NIJL/EAJRS Kuzushi-ji workshop, regularly held at various places in Europe since 2011, will take place in Paris in February 2019. The workshop is free of charge. If you wish to apply for the workshop, please fill in the attached application form and send it as an email attachment by 16 December 2018 to the following organizers:
This award has been created to publicly celebrate Professor Josef Kreiner in his remarkable academic efforts to promote Japanese studies in Europe and at Hosei University Research Center for International Japanese Studies (HIJAS). At the same time we want to encourage overseas scholars of Japanese studies and to contribute to further development in this academic field.
The European Association of Japanese Resource Specialists (EAJRS) especially wishes to encourage the participation to its conference of resource specialists and young scholars from institutions with limited financial means or that have seldom or never attended an EAJRS conference. Therefore, with support from the Japan Foundation and Toshiba International Foundation, the organizers of the 29th EAJRS conference in Kaunas would like to offer grants, which will include:
At the general assembly in Oslo last year, we invited new candidates for the board. Two members of the association presented themselves to us. In order to become active board members, they have to be confirmed by a simple majority of votes at the next general assembly in Kaunas. All members of the mailing list are members of the EAJRS and hold the right to vote. In order for you to cast an informed vote, the two candidates have written small self-introductions. You can find them here in alphabetical order:
The Oxford-NINJAL Corpus of Old Japanese (abbreviated ONCOJ) is a long-term collaborative research project between the University of Oxford and the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, which is developing a lemmatized, parsed and comprehensively annotated digital corpus of all texts in Japanese from the Old Japanese period.
3 PM, Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Hamilton Library Room 401
University of Hawai'i at Mānoa
Light refreshments will be served.
EAJRSでは在欧日本学関係図書館で使われる図書館システムにおいて発生する諸問題に関して、EAJRS会員の皆さんと一緒に解決を模索してゆきたいと考えています。こうした目的のため、各図書館を現状を把握しておきたいと思い、このアンケートを作成しました。どうかご協力ください。また、このアンケートは欧州の事情把握が目的ですが、欧州外の図書館からの答えも比較情報となると考えておりますので、もしよろしければご協力ください。アンケートの結果はEAJRSの会議または関連作業などのため公開させていただくこともある旨、あらかじめご了承ください。
Dear EAJRS friendsHappy New Year to all. |
We are delighted to announce that the Fifth Graduate Summer School in Japanese Early-modern Palaeography will run from Monday 6 August to Saturday 18 August 2018 at the University of Cambridge, Emmanuel College (Cambridge, UK)