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… the affective, aesthetic, and religious life of premodern Japan: one where fabrics gave material presence to mourning, … forthcoming book project, “Embodied Embroideries: Gender, Agency, and the Body in Japanese Buddhism,” which examines … the impurities of the female body. Carolyn was born in Japan and grew up in Okinawa and Sendai before moving to the …

… the affective, aesthetic, and religious life of premodern Japan: one where fabrics gave material presence to mourning, … forthcoming book project, “Embodied Embroideries: Gender, Agency, and the Body in Japanese Buddhism,” which examines … the impurities of the female body. Carolyn was born in Japan and grew up in Okinawa and Sendai before moving to the …

… outcomes of internal conflicts. His research seeks combine social science with history and area studies to produce work … conducting research, he taught an undergraduate seminar, “Contemporary State-Building in Asia.” Klaus … on the violence of state recognition in contemporary Japan, and specifically, on the intersection of this violence …

… globe on December 6-7 to discuss some of the most pressing social, political and cultural issues facing Europe today.  … (see slideshow) The conference opened with a panel on contemporary cultural production in Vladimir Putin’s Russia. … international partners continued during the day’s final event—a keynote speech about contemporary security challenges …

… (Yale, Anthropology) The Workshop on Rural Modernities in Contemporary India was envisaged as a workshop that would bring perspectives from across the social sciences and humanities together, on the theme of how … historicizing vernacular modernities beyond the colonial event of modernity, and of interrogating the category of the …

… surrounding questions of citizenship and belonging in contemporary Europe. I will also draw some comparison to the … shaped by political and institutional rather than narrowly social and economic forces, any account of slave portraiture needs to move beyond the techniques of social and cultural history (the techniques espouse by the …

… Professor Seth Jacobowitz’s Writing Technology in Meiji Japan was awarded the 2017 International Convention of Asia … conference: Superbly written, Writing Technology in Meiji Japan deploys a sophisticated analytical prism to examine the … for its increasing efforts toward standardization. Meiji Japan is masterfully placed in conversation with the global …

… and how works like Yamashiro’s may intervene in the social and intersubjective experience of living under … is an Associate Professor in the international program of “Japan-in-Asia” Cultural Studies (JACS) and Screen Studies … the author of Independent Filmmaking across Borders in Contemporary Asia (Amsterdam University Press, 2019). In …

… and how works like Yamashiro’s may intervene in the social and intersubjective experience of living under … is an Associate Professor in the international program of “Japan-in-Asia” Cultural Studies (JACS) and Screen Studies … the author of Independent Filmmaking across Borders in Contemporary Asia (Amsterdam University Press, 2019). In …

… over her house in Novoazovsk for a long time), and for her social media activity. Lyudmila was initially detained in the …

… borders that separated Ewe-speaking communities between contemporary Togo and Ghana. But these individual stories … women about the birth of their first child because this event is seen as the marker of the transition to womanhood in … individual histories only gain meaning when they reaffirm social relations within the community as whole. While many …