public announcements on pmjs list for 2002.03
Date: Thu, 21 Mar 2002
From: The Japan Foundation
Subject: Re: New Short-Term Fellowship
Dear Sir or Madam:
The Japan Foundation is pleased to announce our new Short-Term
Research
Fellowship which will allow established scholars the opportunity
to conduct
intensive research in Japan for periods of three weeks to 60 days.
This
program is intended for projects substantially related to Japan
in the
fields of humanities and social sciences, including comparative
research.
Applicants must have a doctoral degree, hold an academic position
with a
research institution, and be a U.S. citizen or permanent resident.
Applications from researchers and professionals with equivalent
research or
analytical experience are also eligible. As this marks the first
year for
this new fellowship, application deadlines are fast approaching
on May 1,
2002 for terms beginning after July 1, 2002.
If you or anyone you know would be interested in this new opportunity,
please download an application from our website at
<http://www.jfny.org/jfny/ShortTermFellow.html>.
For questions or to receive an application by mail, please
contact Ms.
Katherine Wearne at (212)489-0299 or via email at,
<mailto:katherine_wearne@jfny.org>.
This program is also open to Canadian citizens or permanent
residents. For
further information, please contact our Toronto office at 416-966-1600.
Sincerely,
Fumitomo Horiuchi
Director General
The Japan Foundation New York Office
152 West 57th Street, 39th Floor
New York, NY 10019
www.jfny.org
Tel: (212) 489-0299
Fax: (212) 489-0409
E-mail: katherine_wearne@jfny.org
Date: Sat, 23 Mar 2002 10:01:26 +0000
From: Mikael Adolphson <musashi@tap.aiej.or.jp>
Subject: [pmjs] Heian conference announcement
Invitation to Conference
"Centers and Peripheries in Heian Japan"
Place: Barker Center, Harvard University
12 Quincy Street; Cambridge, Massachusetts
Date: June 11-13, 2002
Students, scholars and anyone interested in Japan's Heian age
are
invited to attend an inter-disciplinary conference, sponsored
by the Edwin
O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies at Harvard University
and the
Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University, which features
presentations by seventeen scholars in addition
to eight respondents from the United States, Japan and Europe.
Description:
The focus of the conference is on the first three centuries of
the Heian
period (794-1086), which saw the consolidation of aristocratic
authority in
Kyoto, the emergence of powerful court factions and religious
institutions
as well as important adjustments in the Chinese-style system of
rulership.
It was also a period of fertile innovation and epochal achievements
in
literature and the arts. In our studies of these and other aspects
of the
period, the theme of "center and periphery" will be
used as a way to find
common ground for inquiries into various disciplinary fields and
theoretical
perspectives. "Centers and peripheries" can refer to
geographical or
spatial relationships, but may also suggest various dynamics in,
among and
between institutions and collectives, clans and families, social
classes,
and gender groups.
The conference, which is a collective effort to offer new approaches,
bridge disciplinary divides, and stimulate new research, is organized
by G.
Cameron Hurst III, Professor of Korean and Japanese History at
the
University of Pennsylvania; Edward Kamens, Professor of Japanese
Literature
at Yale University; Joan Piggott, Associate Professor of Japanese
History at
Cornell University; Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan, Professor of East
Asian Art at
Yale University; and Mikael Adolphson, Assistant Professor of
Japanese
History at Harvard University.
Registration: Pre-registration is required by May 6. Please
send your
name, institutional affiliation (if available), mailing address
(department
or home), email contact, intended dates of attendance (including
the dinner
on June 13) to Stacie Matsumoto at matsumot@fas.harvard.edu. Please
specify
"Heian Conference Registration" in the subject line.
Inquiries: Please direct general inquiries to Stacie Matsumoto
at
matsumot@fas.harvard.edu, or via mail at Department of East Asian
Languages
and Civilizations, Harvard University, 2 Divinity Avenue, Cambridge,
MA
02138, USA. Questions regarding specific conference content may
be directed
to Professor Mikael Adolphson (now on sabbatical in Tokyo) at
adolphs@fas.harvard.edu.
Mikael S. Adolphson, Assistant Professor, Japanese History,
Harvard University
Stacie K. Matsumoto Co-organizer and Ph.D, Candidate, Harvard
University
"Centers and Peripheries in Heian Japan"
Conference Schedule (June 11-13, 2002)
Barker Center, Harvard University
Tuesday June 11, 2002
8:30-9:30
Continental Breakfast and Registration
9:30-10:00
Welcome Address
Andrew Gordon
Professor of Japanese History, Harvard University
Director of the Edwin Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies
Mikael Adolphson
Assistant Professor, Harvard University
10:00-12:30
Panel One: The Political Center and Its Peripheries
"How Did a Regent Lead the Court: Centers and Peripheries
in the Regency of Fujiwara no Tadahira"
Joan Piggott, Cornell University
"The World of the Heian Noble"
G. Cameron Hurst III, University of Pennsylvania
"Women and Men in Heian Japan"
Fukuto Sanae, Saitama Gakuen Daigaku
"Futile Warlords: Provincial Rebellion in the Mid-Heian
Age"
Karl Friday, University of Georgia
Chair:
Mikael Adolphson, Harvard University
Respondents:
Martin Collcutt, Princeton University
Janet Goodwin, Aizu University (Emerita), Japan
12:30-2:00
Lunch
2:00-4:00
Panel Two: Center and Periphery in Heian Literature
"The Way of the Literati: Chinese Learning and Poetry in
mid-Heian Japan"
Ivo Smits, Leiden University
"Terrains of Text in mid-Heian Court Culture"
Edward Kamens, Yale University
"The Exilic Condition in Heian Japan"
Richard Okada, Princeton University
Chair:
Mimi Hall Yiengpruksawan, Yale University
Respondent:
Esperanza Ramirez-Christensen, University of Michigan
4:00-4:30
Coffee Break
4:45-6:00
Viewing of Harvard Law School's Japanese Collection
Wednesday, June 12, 2002
8:30-9:30
Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:30-11:30
Panel Three: Religious Centers and Peripheries
"Buddhism and the State in the Early Heian Age: Diversity
and Integration"
Mikael Adolphson, Harvard University
"The Heart Sutra and the Power of Healing in Heian Japan"
Ry chi Abe, Columbia University
"Pilgrimage and Power in Heian Japan"
David Moerman, Barnard College
Chair:
Joan Piggott, Cornell University
Respondent:
Jacqueline Stone, Princeton University
11:30-1:00
Lunch
1:00-3:00
Panel Four: Artistic and Cultural Paradigms in the Heian Age
"The Buddhist Transformation of Japan in the Ninth Century:
The Case of Eleven-headed Kannon"
Samuel Morse, Amherst College
"The Emergence of Raigo-zu in Heian Japan"
Yoshimura Toshiko, Kanda University of International Studies
"Chinese Traders, Kyoto Aristocrats, and the Transmarine
Factor in the Formation of Medieval Japanese Culture"
Mimi Yiengpruksawan, Yale University
Chair:
Edward Kamens, Yale University
Respondent:
Elizabeth ten Grotenhuis, Boston University
3:00-3:30
Coffee Break
4:00-7:00
Viewing of Heian-Related Objects at the Boston Museum of Fine
Arts
(The Boston Museum of Fine Arts will be open until 9:45pm)
Thursday, June 13, 2002
8:30-9:30
Registration and Continental Breakfast
9:30-12:00
Panel Five: Foreign and Domestic Peripheries in the Heian Age
"Jôjin's Travels from Centers to Centers with Some
Peripheries in Between"
Robert Borgen, UC Davis
"Cross-Border Traffic on the Kyushu Coast, 794-1086"
Bruce Batten, Obirin University
"Climate, Farming, and Famine in Early Japan"
Wayne Farris, University of Tennessee
"Life of Commoners in the Provinces; the Owari gebumi
of 988"
Charlotte von Vershuer, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, IVe
Section, Sorbonne
Chair:
G. Cameron Hurst III, University of Pennsylvania
Respondents:
Peter Bol, Harvard University
Dr. Detlev Taranczewski, Bonn University, Germany
12:00-1:30
Lunch
1:30-3:00
Concluding Discussion
Remarks by Professor Hotate Michihisa
Historiographical Institute, The University of Tokyo
3:00-3:30
Coffee Break
5:30-10:00
Dinner at the Harvard Faculty Club
(RSVP required)
Note: The Sackler Museum will hold a special exhibit from its
Japanese
collections available to all participants throughout the conference.