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Poetics of the Palimpsest

2026/10/12 (Mon) 15:31 by eajrs
Dear EAJRS members,

Please allow me to draw your attention to a conference that might of interest to some of the members of this list.
The Working Group for Premodern Japanese Literature (Arbeitskreise Vormoderne japanische Literatur) will mark its 25th annual meeting with the symposium "Poetics of the Palimpsest: Parody and Satire as an Expression of Continuity in Japanese Literature" to be held at Heidelberg University from 27-29 November 2026, with the generous support of the Fritz Thyssen Stiftung.
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Japan-Europe cross talk #3

2026/10/12 (Mon) 15:12 by eajrs
日欧DHクロストーク #3
日本のデジタルアーカイブ、ヨーロッパからのまなざし
デジタルアーカイブ学会第11回研究大会サテライト企画（オンライン）

2026年11月24日（火）
(日本) 19:00-21:00
(フィンランド) 12:00-14:00
(欧州中央) 11:00-13:00

発表タイトル

「海外における日本のデジタルアーカイブ活用の実践と展望：北欧3大学でのワークショップ報告を中心に」（大井将生・布施倫英）

「日本とノルウェーにおける図書館資料のデジタル化によるアクセス拡大をめぐる制度の違い：国立図書館の比較を通じて」（イエンシュケ準子）

ゲスト

大井将生（同志社大学准教授）

布施倫英（ヘルシンキ大学専任講師）

イエンシュケ準子（元ベルゲン大学司書）

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Beyond Transliteration: Romanisation and Word Segmentation in Japanese Metadata

2026/10/07 (Wed) 17:26 by eajrs
EAJRS Cross Talk Series
Beyond Transliteration: Romanisation and Word Segmentation in Japanese Metadata
翻字のその先へ：メタデータにおける日本語のローマ字表記と分かち書き

今回、シリーズ第1回となるクロストークを開催します。

NIIやOCLCをはじめとする書誌データベースにおける表記の違いを出発点に、翻字と分かち書きの課題を考えます。これは単なる記述ルールの議論ではなく、日本語メタデータを世界へどう届けるかという戦略に関わる重要なテーマと言えるのではないでしょうか。
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New Digital Platform for the Publication of Critical Editions and Translations of Early Modern Japanese Books

2026/10/07 (Wed) 16:57 by eajrs
Dear Colleagues and Friends,

Please join us for the launch of a new Digital Platform for the Publication of Critical Editions and Translations of Early Modern Japanese Books.

Learn more HERE ahead of the launch.
_{Original logo and character designed by}_{Kamito Sumi 紙戸スミ(かみとすみ)}
- kotenseki
- web event
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Light over Dejima

2026/10/07 (Wed) 16:34 by eajrs
Following their presentations at EAJRS 2026, the book 'Light over Dejima' by Maartje van den Heuvel and Akiyoshi Tani has now been published and is available for sale here: https://wbooks.com/winkel/deutsch-english/licht-over-deshima/
- publication
- photography
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FutureLearn course Global Codex: Hidden Stories of Books Across Cultures

2026/10/01 (Thu) 12:00 by eajrs
Dear colleagues,

The new FutureLearn course Global Codex: Hidden Stories of Books Across Cultures invites participants to explore books as historical artefacts, examining the clues hidden in their bindings, paper, illustrations, fibres, annotations, and other physical features.

Travelling across Japan, Dunhuang, Europe, the Greek and Islamicate worlds, and Southeast Asia, the course reveals how books were created, circulated, and cherished across cultures and centuries.
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International Symposium – Making Knowledge: Books, Prints, and Manuscripts in Japan

2026/10/01 (Thu) 11:50 by eajrs
Dear EAJRS friends,

Dr. Freya TERRYN, researcher and curator of the Japanese Donation Books Collection at the Université catholique de Louvain (Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium), is pleased to announce an international symposium in July 2027 on a topic that may interest many of you : Making knowledge, Books, Prints, and Manuscripts in Japan.
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NIJL / EAJRS kotenseki seminar 2026

2026/09/22 (Tue) 11:10 by eajrs
The National Institute of Japanese Literature (NIJL) and the European Association of Japanese Resource Specialists (EAJRS) are pleased to announce the next Kotenseki Seminar, to be held online via Zoom.
This seminar will focus on variations between Edo-period woodblock-printed editions.
Date 10:00-12:15 Central European Time
Tuesday, 20 October 2026
(There will be a break at around 11:00, and a Q&A session at the end)

Speaker: Professor IRIGUCHI Atsushi (Deputy Director-General, National Institute of Japanese Literature)
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CrossAsia / New digitized collections: Photography Database of the National Taipei University of Education and The Tomoe Takagi Collection

2026/09/11 (Fri) 17:07 by eajrs
Dear EAJRS members,

At the end of August, two new digital image and data presentations went online on CrossAsia (crossasia.org). They expand the portfolio of electronic resources on Taiwan within the CrossAsia database portal to include materials that would otherwise have remained invisible, made available under the CC-BY-NC-SA license:
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Position: early Japanese photography

2026/09/08 (Tue) 16:18 by eajrs
Dear friends and colleagues,

The Photography Department at Villa Guimet is recruiting a Research Officer to work on early Japanese photography for the HikarIA project (2023–2027). This is a full-time 12-month position starting on December 1, 2026.
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