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  1. SEMINAR> Tannishō Commentarial Materials
  2. CFP> UC-Berkeley Japan Graduate Conference "On Belonging: Gender, Sexuality, and Identity in Japan"
  3. JOBS> H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-Buddhism: 12 December - 19 December

SEMINAR> Tannishō Commentarial Materials

by Tessa Machida
The Centers for Japanese Studies and Buddhist Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, together with Ōtani University and Ryūkoku University in Kyoto announce a workshop under the supervision of Mark Blum that will focus on critically examining premodern and modern hermeneutics of the Tannishō, a core text of the Shin sect of Buddhism, and arguably the most well-read religious text in postwar Japan. Beginning in 2017, the workshop will continue for five years, meeting twice a year for 3 to 4 days each time, in late March in Berkeley and early August in Kyoto, where it will be hosted alternately by Ōtani and Ryūkoku universities. Organized around close readings of the most influential materials produced in early modern, modern, and postmodern Japan, the workshop aims at producing a critical, annotated translation detailing the salient ways in which this text has been both inspirational and controversial, as well as a series of essays analyzing a wide spectrum of voices in Japanese scholarship and preaching that have spoken on this work. For the early modern or Edo period, the commentaries by Enchi (1662), Jinrei (1801-1808), and Ryōshō (1841) will be examined. For the modern period, works by Andō Shūichi (1909), Chikazumi Jōkan (1930), and Soga Ryōjin (1947) will be the major concern. And for the postwar/postmodern period, due to the sheer volume of publications (over 300 titles), reading choices will be selected at a later date in consultation with participants.

Format: The language of instruction will be primarily English with only minimal Japanese spoken as needed, and while the texts will be in primarily in Classical Japanese and Modern Japanese, with some outside materials in kanbun and English. Participants will be expected to prepare the assigned readings, and on occasion make relevant presentations in English about content.
Dates: Exact dates will vary from year to year based on academic calendars, but for 2017 the meeting hosted by U.C. Berkeley will take place from the 25th to the 27th of March at the Jōdo Shinshū Center in Berkeley, and in Kyoto the seminar will be hosted by Ōtani University from the 4th to the 7th of August.
Cost: There is no participation fee, but in recognition of the distance some will have to travel to attend, a limited number of travel fellowships will be provided to qualified graduate students, based on preparedness, need, and commitment to the project. Participation Requirements: Although any qualified applicant will be welcome to register, graduate students will be particularly welcome and the only recipients of financial assistance in the form of travel fellowships. Affiliation with one of the three hosting universities is not required. We welcome the participation of graduate students outside of Japan with some reading ability in Modern and Classical Japanese and familiarity with Buddhist thought and culture as well as native-speaking Japanese graduate students with a scholarly interest in Buddhism. Although we welcome students attending both meetings each year, participation in only one is
acceptable.
Application Procedure: Applications must be sent for each year that one wants to participate. To apply to register for either or both of the workshops for 2017, send C.V. and short letter explaining your qualifications, motivations, and objectives to Kumi Hadler at cjs@berkeley.edu by the end of January, 2017. Applications are by email only, and application deadlines will remain as end-January in subsequent years as well. Requests for a travel fellowship money should be included in this letter with specifics of where you will be traveling from and if you plan to attend one or both meetings that year. Questions about the content of the workshop may
be sent to Professor Blum at mblum@berkeley.edu.
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CFP> UC-Berkeley Japan Graduate Conference "On Belonging: Gender, Sexuality, and Identity in Japan"

by Tessa Machida
CALL FOR PAPERS
On Belonging: Gender, Sexuality, and Identity in Japan
University of California, Berkeley Center for Japanese Studies
Conference Dates: April 7 – 8, 2017
Submissions Due: January 15, 2017
Email To: cjsgradconference@berkeley.edu
Website: http://cjsgradconference2017.weebly.com/
The UC Berkeley Center for Japanese Studies presents its fourth annual graduate student conference: On Belonging: Gender, Sexuality, and Identity in Japan. We invite proposals for papers that focus on past and present inquiries into and expressions of identity and community formation vis-à-vis gender and sexuality in Japan. Current graduate students and recent graduates in any discipline are invited to apply. In particular we welcome abstracts that explore the role of identity (including gendered, sexual, social, and ethnic) in relation to Japanese Buddhist institutions, texts, and community practices.
This conference will also explore representations of and critical engagements with notions of gender, sexuality, and identity that illuminate where and how interpretations of such notions have manifested barriers to belonging in the forms of discrimination and marginalization. Within this arena individual papers might focus on the expression of private, personal experience as well as the mounting of public demonstrations as critiques of normativity or state practice. Papers might also consider how members of academia deploy theories of gender, sexuality, and queerness to critically analyze the effects normativity and institutional power or to encourage the re-reading of historical objects and events.
Categories of exploration might include but are not limited to:
  • Intersections of gender, race, class, sexuality, and/or other categories of group identity and individual lived experience
  • Questions of normativity/non-normativity, the consideration of how boundaries to belonging are constructed or questioned, and the “queering” of cultural narratives and perspectives
  • Engagements with practices of “close” or “paranoid” readings versus “surface” readings, and how theory can be efficacious to “recovery” of narratives and/or risk obfuscation of historical particulars
  • Whether state and religious institutions enact normativity, whether there can be a “queering” of institutions, or whether institutions can intervene in social constructs of normativity
  • The framing and understanding of gender and sexuality in Japanese Buddhism and other institutions of cultural practice and belief, and how cultural and spiritual practices shape ideas of the normative and non-normative
Requirements for Submission
Proposed papers should present original, critical research that substantially engages with the conference theme in relation to Japan Studies writ largePlease send an abstract of no more than 250 words along with your name, institutional affiliation/program, presentation title, and short biography (100 words) to cjsgradconference@berkeley.edu by January 15, 2017.
Funding
Limited funding is available for participants. Please apply early and indicate your need for funding, including from where you will be travelling and whether you will require lodging. International scholars are encouraged to apply.

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JOBS> H-Net Job Guide Weekly Report For H-Buddhism: 12 December - 19 December

by Charles DiSimone
The following jobs were posted to the H-Net Job Guide from
12 December 2016 to 19 December 2016.  These job postings are included here based on the categories selected by the list editors for H-Buddhism.  See the H-Net Job Guide website at
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/ for more information.  To contact the Job Guide,
write to 
jobguide@mail.h-net.msu.edu, or call +1-517-432-5134 between 9 am and 5 pm US Eastern time.



ANTHROPOLOGY

Amherst College - Post-doctoral fellow
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54324


Osaka University - Associate Professor, Sociology
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54284


University of Pennsylvania - Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship
and Constitutionalism Postdoctoral Fellowship 2017-18 on "States of
Religious Freedom"
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54296




ART AND ART HISTORY

Amherst College - Post-doctoral fellow
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54324


Germanisches Nationalmuseum Nurnberg - Wissenschaftliche/r
Mitarbeiter/in, Deutsche Tafelmalerei des Spatmittelalters
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54283


Linda Hall Library - Linda Hall Library Fellowships
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54302


Rice University - Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in
Architecture and the Humanities
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54316


University of Central Florida - Instructor or Lecturer, Digital Media
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54325




ASIAN HISTORY / STUDIES

Linda Hall Library - Linda Hall Library Fellowships
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54302


Oregon State University - Taiwan Studies postdoctoral fellowship
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54286


Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences - Researcher, Japanese
History and Society
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54320


Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences - Researcher, Korean
History and Society
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54321


The Hong Kong Polytechnic University - Professor / Associate
Professor / Assistant Professor
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54282


University of Hong Kong - Tenure-Track Assistant Professor in China
Studies in the School of Chinese and the School of Modern Languages
and Cultures
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54305




DIGITAL HUMANITIES

Duke University - POSTDOC: Perilman Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the
Duke Center for Jewish Studies
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54278


Leibniz Institute of European History - Head of Digital Historical
Research and Research Infrastructures Unit
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54322


Massachusetts Maritime Academy - FY17-18 Full-time, tenure-track
English & Writing Faculty
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54311


St. Mary's University - Assistant Professor of History
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54328


Texas State University - Digital History, Assistant Professor
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54329




EAST ASIAN HISTORY / STUDIES

Linda Hall Library - Linda Hall Library Fellowships
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54302


Massachusetts Maritime Academy - FY17-18 Full-time, tenure-track
English & Writing Faculty
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54311




INTELLECTUAL HISTORY

Linda Hall Library - Linda Hall Library Fellowships
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54302


Massachusetts Maritime Academy - FY17-18 Full-time, tenure-track
English & Writing Faculty
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54311




JAPANESE HISTORY / STUDIES

Massachusetts Maritime Academy - FY17-18 Full-time, tenure-track
English & Writing Faculty
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54311


Oriental Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences - Researcher, Japanese
History and Society
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54320




RELIGIOUS STUDIES AND THEOLOGY

Duke University - POSTDOC: Perilman Post-Doctoral Fellowship at the
Duke Center for Jewish Studies
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54278


Massachusetts Maritime Academy - FY17-18 Full-time, tenure-track
English & Writing Faculty
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54311


University of Pennsylvania - Penn Program on Democracy, Citizenship
and Constitutionalism Postdoctoral Fellowship 2017-18 on "States of
Religious Freedom"
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54296




NONE

Naval War College - Strategy and Policy:  The position falls in the
Strategy and Policy Department under the Dean of Academics.  The
strategy courses use strategic theory, the history of war (on land
and at sea), and an examination of current-day conflicts to develop
critica
http://www.h-net.org/jobs/job_display.php?id=54285
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