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Deadline very soon! (Feb 15) but if you are interested let me know and we can extend...
Godzilla vs Hedorah (1971)
#godzilla
Look what came in the mail!
The beta version of a long running digital project is available for checking out here: jabeljabel.github.io/cinemapjbeta... Let me know if you have corrections or things you like to see visualized. A more polished version will be out soon on the Japan Past and Present site. #cinemap
Join us for a discussion of the new book.
Introduction: Stating the Field, Seth Jacobowitz and Jonathan E. Abel Part I: Negotiating Disciplinary Formation 1. Between the Margins and the Mainstream: Modern Japanese Women Writers and Evolving Trends in North American Japanese Literature Scholarship, Rebecca Copeland 2. The Inclusion of Okinawa in Japanese Literary Studies, Davinder Bhowmik 3. Do Black Lives Still Matter to Japanese Literary Studies? William H. Bridges IV 4. Ecocritical Precedent, Present, and Possibility in Japanese Literary Studies, Jonathan L. Pitt 5. Comixing Frameworks: Rethinking the Euro-American Critical Paradigm from the Perspective of Manga Studies, Adam Kern 6. Approaches to Researching and Teaching Manga as Literature, Deborah Shamoon Part II. The Question of Language 7. World Literature and Japanese-Language Literature, Hideto Tsuboi 8. The History and Present of Japanophone Literature: Migration, Border Crossing, and Materiality, Hibi Yoshitaka 9. Modern Japanese Literature and Sinitic Literary Traditions, Matthew Fraleigh 10. Literature and the Cultural Politics of Immigration: Between Lee Hoesung and Yang Yi in the “Era of the Immigrant,” YoungRan Kō (trans. Seth Jacobowitz) 11. Translation and the Crisis of Relevancy in Japanese Studies, Jeffrey Angles Part III: Institutional Responses to the Field 12. The Many What-ifs of Literary Urbanism: A European Perspective, Gala Maria Follaco 13. The Problem of Scale in Japanese Literary Studies, John Whittier Treat 14. Signposts for the Non-Specialist: Thoughts on a Renewed View of the State of Modern Japanese Literary Studies, Christopher Lupke
Modern Japanese Literary Studies is 30% off!!! Click on the "flyer" link from this page: press.umich.edu/Books/M/Mode....
I didn’t do the translation this time, but I edited everything and I’ve got an essay in there.
Anne, it was either that or “…stick a fork in it.”
Coming soon! I hope this will be of interest: press.umich.edu/Books/M/Mode...
百年使われた道具は付喪神になる。まさか俺がそんなものになるとは。そもそも同じパソコンを百年も使う人間がいるなんて普通思わないだろ。百年保つパソコンの方もどうかしている。俺だが。そして俺は半ば滅びかけの人類と銀河にはばたく機械たちの橋渡しを受け持つことになったのである。 #140字小説
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This week! In-person and virtual! Registration is still open for JPP's international symposium "Japan Past & Present: Reimagining a Global Field" (5/29–5/31)! 🗾 japanpastandpresent.org/en/jpp-event...
Student film version of the classic by Edogawa Ranpo and maybe creepier than the original: youtube.com/watch?v=rbbE...
Because our sense of imagination about the future is stuck with George Jettson.
This should be fun. Open to online and in person registrations! calendar.ku.edu/event/digita...
Prolly won’t work if I say it this way, but… Posting this in hopes of baiting engagement: www.theatlantic.com/newsletters/...
Saw a copy of Time of Laughter in the wild at #aas2025 at the @uofmpress.bsky.social table. And reserved!
Come by Digital Humanities Japan today at 12:15! Share your latest project and network with colleagues! #AAS2025
Friends and colleagues at/near Penn State! I'll be giving a public talk hosted by the Humanities Institute on Thursday, March 20th from 3:30-5:00 PM. Would love to see some familiar faces in the crowd as I present some new and ongoing research! events.la.psu.edu/event/mediat...
You got to it before me!!!! Thank you so much for noticing.
Exciting news for those writing books on Asia. There's a new book series in town: Power Currents: Asian Media in the World! Edited by some great folks including @jonabel.bsky.social @cheryllsoriano.bsky.social and Rahul Mukherjee, this series looks exciting:
upittpress.org/series/power...
At the AAS in Columbus, CEAL/CJM and NCC will co-host an open meeting on the digitization services by the National Diet Library, Japan to gather feedback on the restrictions on international access. March 13 (Thu) at 20:00. Please forward this to your friends. networks.h-net.org/group/announ...
Oh no… I killed Duo!
Missed our joint DIJ-DWIH international workshop 'Imagined Futures in Japan & Beyond' www.dijtokyo.org/event/imagin... last October? Video recordings from all six panel sessions are now available on the DIJ's YouTube channel www.youtube.com/@DIJTokyo, incl. @hiroosa.bsky.social @jonabel.bsky.social
