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Dear colleagues, 

The new FutureLearn course Global Codex: Hidden Stories of Books Across Cultures invites participants to explore books as historical artefacts, examining the clues hidden in their bindings, paper, illustrations, fibres, annotations, and other physical features. 

Travelling across Japan, Dunhuang, Europe, the Greek and Islamicate worlds, and Southeast Asia, the course reveals how books were created, circulated, and cherished across cultures and centuries. 

Ishibashi Foundation Graduate Programme in Japanese Art History and Multimodal Heritage Curation 2026/27, University of Zurich

Dear Colleagues,

The British Library is delighted to announce a new FutureLearn course entitled Travel Books: History in Europe and Japan which will run from 27 June 2022 for 3 weeks. The course looks at how books travelled between Japan and Europe from the 16th century and how this promoted cultural exchange and influenced individuals and society.

The course is a collaboration between Keio University and the British Library, featuring experts and treasures from both institutions.

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)

The National Diet Library, Japan, released two new e-learning courses with English subtitles.

- How to make good use of the NDL Digital Collections for Japanese Studies http://training.ndl.go.jp/course/under.html?id=58&lang=en
This course provides an introduction to the features of the NDL Digital Collections and how to search and use its contents from outside Japan.

Keio university is organizing a 3-week on-line course entitled "Japanese culture through rare books : explore the important roles that books have played in the cultural history of Japan"

The aim of the course it that at the end you will: