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CENTRE FOR JAPANESE RESEARCH
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Centre for Japanese Research:
Walk in Canada, Talk on Japan:
Foreign Policy, Economy, Culture, and International Relations.
Monday, October 28
3:00-4:30pm (doors open at 2:30pm)
C.K. Choi building, room 120
Light refreshments will be served, please RSVP below.
Speakers: Ambassador Kenjiro Monji, Keita Kakehashi, iho Kurosaki, Jonathan Berkshire Miller, and Saki Matsunaka
Through a discussion of Kobayashi's writings on Vincent van Gogh, this presentation addresses the role of interiority within his reactionary take on the history of modernism, and the significance of this position within the context of raging debates on the function of artistic production in the postwar period.
Click
here
to find out more and RSVP!
Spotlight on Japanese Canadian communities
Sunday Nov 10th, 2019, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm 312 Main, Vancouver (entrance on East Cordova)
The first of a series
film screening and discussions organized by the Intragroup Dynamics and Social Exclusion Project at SFU, in partnership with the 16th Annual Downtown EastSide Heart of the City Festival and the David See-Chai Lam Center at SFU.
Please click on the link or scan the QR codes on the poster to register, or click
here or to find out more about Heart of the City Festival, click
here
JET PROGRAMME 2020
Career days and Information Sessions at UBC
*Student and Faculty both invited
Recruitment for the 2020 Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme is currently underway. This past summer there were 49 participants from British Columbia, including thirteen former students from the University of British Columbia. The Japan Exchange and Teaching Programme seeks to enhance internationalisation in Japan by promoting mutual understanding between the people of Japan and those of other nations. The Programme aims to enhance foreign language education, and promote international exchange at the local level through the fostering of ties between Japanese youth and foreign youth alike.
JET Programme at Career Days @ UBC on
Tuesday,
October 8 and Wednesday, October 9
Information sessions at UBC:
1)
Tuesday, October 22, 5:30 pm to 7:00 pm - Earth Sciences Building, Room 2012 .
2)
Thursday, October 24, 12:30 pm to 2:00 pm - Asian Centre, Seminar Room
For more information, click
here. Application forms and further details about the JET Programme can be found on the Embassy of Japan's JET Programme website:
jetprogramme.ca
Mitacs-JSPS Summer Program
*Canadians and PR only
Mitacs is now accepting applications for the
Mitacs-JSPS Summer Program, which supports researchers in Canada to undertake 10-week research projects in Japan in Summer 2020. O
ffered in partnership with the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) provides opportunities for graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in Canada to pursue collaborative research in Japan, allowing them to advance their own research while promoting scientific progress in both Japan and Canada. The program is open to graduate students and postdoctoral fellows in all disciplines at Canadian academic institutions. The deadline to apply for the Mitacs-JSPS Summer Program is November 27, 2019.
Click
here for more information about application
That's all for now
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