Orientalism

Japan on the Jesuit Stage
Vienna, Alte Burse, 28–29 June 2018

Thursday, 28 June 2018

14.30–15.00 Welcome Address

Panel 1 (chair: Akihiko Watanabe and Florian Schaffenrath)
15.00–15.30 Patrick Schwemmer (Tokyo), Found in Translation: The Jesuit Japan Letters as a Source of Early-Modern European Images of Japan
15.30–16.00 Mirjam Döpfert (Freiburg i.Br.), Christianomachia Iaponensis – Japanese Martyrs on the Jesuit Stage
16.00–16.30 Break
 

Call for Papers
Orientalismus heute. Perspektiven arabisch-deutscher Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft

Internationale Fachkonferenz, Leipzig, 25.–27. Oktober 2018

– gefördert vom Deutschen Akademischen Austauschdienst (DAAD) –

Einreichungsfrist für Beitragsangebote: 31. Mai 2018

Organisation: Stephanie Bremerich, Dieter Burdorf, Abdalla Eldimagh (Universität Leipzig)

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Dear H-Japan members,

I am pleased to announce the following new publication on behalf of the author Christian Tagsold:

Christian Tagsold: Spaces in Translation: Japanese Gardens and the West. (Penn Studies in Landscape Architecture). Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017.

Please find more information below.

Best wishes,
Elisabeth Scherer

Now Available from Penn Press
Spaces in Translation: Japanese Gardens and the West
Christian Tagsold

Dear Colleagues, 

As many of you may remember, in 2012, the image of a statue appeared in global news sources, representing a strange mixture of a Lama in partly Western clothing and the deity Vaiśravaṇa. Made out of metorite iron and featuring a svastika on its armour, the figure appealed to imaginations of Tibet, outer space, Nazism and assumed ancientness. It thereby fulfilled various criteria for triggering modern hopes and fears, elements outlined in Umberto Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum."

STIP: PhD funding opportunities in German Studies, University of Warwick (internal deadline 1 December 2017)

The School of Modern Languages and Cultures at the University of Warwick invites applications to the university’s annual funding competition for doctoral students, for entry in October 2018.

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