The Waseda International House of Literature (WIHL) and the Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities invites applications to the inaugural meeting of the WIHL\/Yanai Initiative Research Reading Group. This reading group aims to bring together active researchers to read and discuss recently released monographs that are shaping the fields of Japanese studies, world literature, translation studies, and global cultural studies. Each meeting will focus on one text and feature the author as a special guest. The organizers hope to select fifteen applicants from around the world to participate in the reading group\u2019s first meeting. All applications are welcome, with graduate students and early career faculty encouraged to apply. All participants will be provided with a paper or digital copy of the selected book free of charge in advance of the meeting.<\/p>\n
Our first meeting will be held virtually in English and Japanese at 12pm on Saturday, December 18, 2021 (JST). We are delighted to announce that our special guest will be Dr. Rebecca Suter, of the University of Sydney. We will be reading Dr. Suter\u2019s Two-World Literature: Kazuo Ishiguro\u2019s Early Novels<\/em> (University of Hawai\u2019i Press, 2020). In this text, Professor Suter argues that Ishiguro\u2019s texts prevent readers from simply relying on a dominant \u201cone-world\u201d way of thinking, forcing them to \u201cappreciate the complexity of the interrelation of individual and collective identity, of personal and historical memory, and of influence and agency, and to gain a more nuanced, \u2018two-world appreciation\u2019 of human experience.\u201d<\/p>\n Rather than acting as an extended Q & A with the author, the primary goal of the meeting is to discuss the impact Two-World Literature<\/em> has on current research trends, and how it might open new pathways in the participants\u2019 current and future research. We especially welcome researchers who are currently working on a research project that intersects with Dr. Suter\u2019s research and the themes of the book.<\/p>\n Applications open until 11:59pm Monday, November 15. Results released Friday, November 19.<\/p>\n [Please note: Applicants will be asked to supply basic personal information, as well as information about their current position (if applicable) and research topics. Personal information will not be shared or used for other purposes. New applications will be required to reapply for future reading group sessions.]<\/p>\n siercks@aoni.waseda.jp<\/p>\n For more information on the Yanai Initiative: http:\/\/yanai-initiative.ucla.edu\/ja<\/a> The Waseda International House of Literature (WIHL) and the Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humaniti […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1071,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[97],"tags":[89,83,82,73],"class_list":["post-1048","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other-en","tag-announcement-en","tag-education-en","tag-events-en","tag-research-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/wihl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/wihl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/wihl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/wihl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/wihl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1048"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/wihl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5947,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/wihl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1048\/revisions\/5947"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/wihl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1071"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/wihl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/wihl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/culture\/wihl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}ABOUT<\/h5>\n
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