NEAC Japan Studies Grants

Fall 2011 Grant Awards

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The Northeast Asia Council (NEAC) is pleased to announce the Fall 2011 recipients of its Japan Studies Grants. The NEAC Japan Studies grant programs are made possible by the generous support of the Japan-United States Friendship Commission.

Short-term Research Travel to Japan

1. Marnie S. Anderson, Smith College, “A Geisha Turned Activist: Sumiya Koume and the People’s Rights Movement”
2. Barbara Brooks, City University of New York, “The League of Nations and Japanese Traffic in Women and Children”
3. Alexis Dudden, University of Connecticut, “Ishigaki Island and Modern Japanese Ocean History”
4. Gabriella Lukacs, University of Pittsburgh, “Diva Entrepreneurs: Labor, Gender, and New Media in Contemporary Japan”
5. Ann Sherif, Oberlin College, “Japan’s Independent Presses and Regional Publishers: Literature as Social Activism”
6. Hilary K. Snow, Johns Hopkins University, “ As Gods and Mortals: Ichikawa Danjûrô in Ema at Naritasan”
7. Anne Walthall, University of California-Irvine, “Practicing Faith: The Hirata Family, 1800-1945”
   

Seminars on Teaching about Japan

1. Toshiko Kishimoto, Clemson University, “The 27th Annual Conference of South Eastern Association of Teachers of Japanese Conference”
2. Rieko Wagoner, Trinity College, “The 26th Annual Conference for Japanese Language Teachers Association of New England “Re-evaluation Teaching Goals To Meet the Changing Landscape of Students’ Needs and Study Modes”
   

Small Scholarly Conferences on Japanese Studies

1. Carl Jacobson, Oberlin Shansi, “Fukushima: Lessons Learned?”
2. Mire Koikari, University of Hawaii at Manoa, “Conference: Culture, Technology, and Transnationality in the Cold War Asia and the Pacific”
3. Bryan Lowe, Princeton University, “Japan’s Oldest Archive: A Workshop on the Shōsōin”
4. Richard Torrance, The Ohio State University, “Rhetoric and Region: The Local Determinants of Literary Expression”

Distinguished Speakers Bureau on Japan

1. Denis Gainty on behalf of Georgia State University, hosting Dr. Stefan Tanaka’s public presentation on “Miscellaneous Happenings In and Around the Pacific in 1884” on February 17, 2012.
2. Doug Slaymaker on behalf of the University of Kentucky, hosting Dr. Carol Gluck’s public presentation of “Past Obsessions: World War II in History and Memory” on March 1, 2012.
3. Hiroki Takeuchi & William Tsutsui on behalf of Southern Methodist University, hosting Dr. Leonard Schoppa’s public presentation on “Politics of the Democratic Party of Japan (DPJ) for Two Years” on March 5, 2012.