CFP Submission Deadline Extended! (8th July 2022)

The submission deadline for CFP for IASIL Japan Conference 2022Ulysses and Beyond” (online, 8th & 9th Oct) has been extended.

If you would like to present a 20-minute paper at the conference, please send a synopsis of 250–300 words as a Word attachment to the IASIL Japan office. Besides the synopsis itself, please send details of affiliation, full postal and e-mail addresses, and telephone and fax numbers by 8th July.

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The Order of the Sacred Treasure awarded to Professor Ken’ichi Matsumura

IASIL Japan is proud to announce that our former President, Ken’ichi Matsumura, is to receive ‘The Order of the Sacred Treasure, Gold Rays with Neck Ribbon’. The award recognises Professor Matsumura’s scholarship and lifetime of service to education and literature, from which IASIL Japan has been the signal beneficiary. We send our congratulations, as well as our sincere gratitude to Professor Matsumura for all he has given us.

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CFP: the IASIL Japan 2022 Conference, “Ulysses and Beyond” (8th & 9th October 2022 Online)

Applicants for a 20-minute paper reading are requested to send a synopsis of 250–300 words as a Word attachment to the IASIL Japan office at <secretary@iasil.jp>. Besides the synopsis itself, please send details of affiliation, full postal and e-mail addresses, and telephone and fax numbers by 31 May. Please renew your membership before submission.

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IASIL bibliography for 2021 (submission by 6 May 2022)

Members are invited to submit bibliographic information of work published in 2021 to our local IASIL Bibliography Committee representative, Shotaro Yamauchi. For further details including Shotaro’s contact e-mail address, please check the following link: http://www.iasil.org/2022/04/2021-iasil-biblioraphy/.

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Announcement: Seamus Heaney Award, Japan

Literary relations between Japan and Ireland might be said to date back to Jonathan Swift’s Lemuel Gulliver, who landed near Edo (Tokyo), albeit briefly, the only real location he visited on his fantastic voyage. Two hundred years later, another voyager, Lafcadio Hearn landed, but stayed longer, becoming eventually a Japanese citizen. Hearn is well known in Japan for his adaptations of Japanese folktales, which, some argue, betray the indelible mark left by his Irish upbringing.
At the turn of the twentieth century, Japanese scholars and writers, such as Yone Noguchi, were some of the first to take a serious interest in the work of W. B. Yeats, an interest that was reciprocated by Yeats, in his adaptations of Noh drama, and in the many poems that reveal the hold that Japanese culture had on the thrust of his imaginative life. It would now be impossible to do justice to the range of poets, novelists, playwrights, academics, translators and scholars, in both countries, whose work has added to this tradition. The distinguished and sustained nature of this work, particularly over the last thirty years, make it appropriate for the Embassy of Ireland, Japan, in conjunction with IASIL Japan, to establish an award to recognise outstanding contribution to the enhancement of literary relations between Ireland and Japan.
To name this award the Seamus Heaney Award, Japan, is to honour a poet whose work, and whose presence on many occasions in Japan, played a vital role in inspiring much of the work that the award will recognise, and to acknowledge in an official manner, and continue, a relationship with Japan which was substantial, sustained, and marked by mutual affection and regard.
The award will be administered biennially by IASIL Japan under the auspices of the Embassy of Ireland, Japan, and to be given to: a work/body of work of outstanding literary merit; an outstanding work/body of work of translation and/or scholarship. Nominations are requested from relevant literary and scholarly associations and institutions, in Japan and Ireland. The nominations will be evaluated by a panel of well-qualified judges drawn from among these nominating organizations. The award itself will be a citation of the recipient’s outstanding contribution to literary exchange between Ireland and Japan, on a specially commissioned piece by Richard Gorman, an Irish artist whose own work has had a long association with Japan.
Nominations, to be received by November 30, 2022, can be sent by email using the subject line ‘Seamus Heaney Award Japan Nomination’ to:
IASIL Japan Office: secretary[at]iasil.jp
or
Embassy of Ireland, Japan: TokyoEmbassy[at]dfa.ie
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IASIL Japan 2022 Conference to be held online

Dear Members of IASIL Japan,

Given the ongoing situation of the COVID-19 and Ukraine, the secretariat and the Executive Committee have decided to hold this year’s conference online, on 8th and 9th October, 2022. 
Details of the programme and registration will be announced in summer.

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Call for Submission: Journal of Irish Studies 36

To be considered for publication in the Journal of Irish Studies vol. 36,
all postal and electronic submissions must reach the Editor by 25 April 2022.
For more details, please go to: http://iasil.jp/guidelines.html.

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CFP: Religion, Spiritualism and Occultism in Irish Literature from the Nineteenth Century to the Present

“Religion, Spiritualism and Occultism in Irish Literature from the Nineteenth Century to the Present,” an international, interdisciplinary conference, will be held online, on Zoom, 7-8 January 2022.

Here is the CFP: https://irishlitspirituality.wordpress.com/

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IASIL Japan 2021 Conference: Registration now open!

The IASIL Japan Conference 2021 will be held online in the form of a Zoom Meeting on 9 and 10 October, with the theme of ‘Revolutions/Resolutions’.

Please go to our Conference website and register by 30 September 2021. The registration is free. Non-members are welcome to join the conference.

Access information and the Zoom meeting details will be sent to your registered email address no later than 4 October.
The conference programme and book of abstracts are downloadable from our Conference website. For the details of our Guest Speakers, see the newsletter.

We hope to meet you all online!

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IASIL Japan 2021 Conference to be held online

Dear IASIL Japan members,

Given the ongoing situation of the COVID-19 in Japan, the secretariat and the Executive Committee have decided to hold this year’s conference online, on 9th and 10th October, 2021.
Details of the programme and registration will be announced shortly.

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