| Institution |
University of California-Santa Cruz |
Project Title |
Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics Conference |
| Project Date |
5/7-9/2010 |
Grant Amont |
$1,800.00 |
Project Summery |
The 5th Formal Approaches to Japanese Linguistics Conference aims to bring together theoretical researchers working on all aspects of Japanese linguistics. FAJL 5 will feature talks by invited speakers Shigeru Miyagawa (MIT), Mamoru Saito (Nanzan University), Junko Shimoyama (McGill University), and Jennifer Smith (University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill). |
| Institution |
University of Michigan |
Project Title |
"Japan's Long Nineteenth Century: an Interdisciplinary Workshop and Practicum" |
| Project Date |
6/7-12/2010 |
Grant Amont |
$2,146.71 |
Project Summery |
The workshop will be structured around a series of pre-circulated working papers drafted by the hosts and invited faculty. It will be aimed at advanced undergraduates and graduate students both from the UM and from other institutions, both domestic and overseas. The sessions will incorporate a variety of materials drawn from U-M's museums and libraries. These materials include: block-printed books, maps, photographs, and ukiyo-e, prints as well as archival and manuscript material related to early U.S. encounters with Japan. |
| Institution |
Museum of the City of New York |
Project Title |
"Lecture related to the exhibition Samurai in New York: The First Japanese Delegation, 1860." |
| Project Date |
6/15/10 |
Grant Amont |
$500.00 |
Project Summery |
The Museum of the City of New York's exhibition, Samurai in New York, explores the historic 1860 visit to NYC by 70 Japanese samurai. Program includes exhibitions and a concert. |
| Institution |
Mississippi State University |
Project Title |
Proposed Colloquia: Understanding more about Japanese Culture, Business, and IT |
| Project Date |
8/19/10 |
Grant Amont |
$1,021.57 |
Project Summery |
A colloquia will be held at the Mississippi State University campus, in August 2010, which will provide opportunities for members of the audience to be informed of an understanding of essential differences between Japanese and American cultural and business practices. The talk will be led by Professor Yoshiki Matsui, Yokohama National University in Japan and moderated by Professor J.P. Shim, Professor Emeritus of Business Information Systems at MSU. |
| Institution |
University of Florida |
Project Title |
"Yoko Hiraoka's performance of The Tale of the Heike, a biwa recital and lecture." |
| Project Date |
11/10/10 |
Grant Amont |
$800.00 |
Project Summery |
Yoko Hiraoka will perform and discuss Japanese music at the University of Florida on Wednesday, November 10, 2010 from 6- 8 pm. Ms. Hiraoka will play the five string biwa, a lute like instrument that dates back to medieval times, and perform "Tales of the Heike. " This is a famous epic tale, chanted-sung, of the power struggle between the Taira and Minamoto clans of Japan at the end of the 12th century. |
| Institution |
Columbia University, the Donald Keene Center for Japanese Culture |
Project Title |
Donald Keene Center 25th Anniversary Events |
| Project Date |
3/1-12/21/2011 |
Grant Amont |
$17,300.00 |
Project Summery |
To celebratethe career of Professor Emeritus Donald Keene and the 25th anniversary of the establishment of the Donald Keene Center, there will be a special symposium celebrating over fifty years of Professor Keene's contributions to Japanese Studies. The occasion will serve as his "final lecture," and Professor Keene will be asked to speak about his long years of teaching and his lifelong engagement with Japan. Other prominent speakers and dignitaries will also give their remarks. The symposium is free and open to the general public. |
| Institution |
University of Wisconsin |
Project Title |
Yarn: Remembering the Way Home, A Reading and Conversation with Kyoko Mori. |
| Project Date |
3/31/2011 |
Grant Amont |
$800.00 |
Project Summery |
Notable Japanese author and emigrant to the US, Kyoko Mori, will read from her 2010 memoir, Yarn: Remembering the Way Home, and will be joined by poet, Yuko Taniguchi, who will lead a conversation about the challenges that women writers face negotiating their identities as Japanese American authors. At AAS Conference in Hawaii. |
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