Asiascape.net is pleased to announce its first manga project. We seek contributions from manga artists, cartoonists and scholars in the form of a graphic essay; they should be variations on or interpretations of the classic ‘oxherding’ sequence, traditionally used in Zen Buddhism to illustrate the journey towards Enlightenment. Text may be used if desired (in any
language, as appropriate -- but please provide English translations), but text is not required. The purpose is to explore the expressive potential of manga.
Further information
MEARC Conference 'Sovereignty and Intervention in the International Society of East Asia – historical legacies and new dynamics' --- Online report
The Asiascape Collection, volume 1
Asiascape.net is an attempt to build a new international research coalition in the rapidly emerging fields of cyberculture (New Media, Convergence Culture, Video Games and other related media, such as fan-culture) and animanga (Anime and Manga), especially as they relate to (or originate from) East Asia. The recently MEARC-published collection of essays in this area is now available online as well.
The Asiascape Collection v. 1 (PDF)
An Exhibition of Stills from Famous Japanese Anime
From November 30th 2009 until August 31st 2010
Time: 17.00
Venue: Room 130 (the Silent Area of the East Asian Library) Arsenaal Building
For more information, see here
MEARC NEWS
MEARC warmly congratulates her director Prof. Dr. Goto-Jones with his appointment as Dean of Leiden
University College The Hague. We are grateful to be able to announce that Dean Goto-Jones will remain
with us as the director of MEARC. Please refer to the University's (Dutch-language) article on the
new University College here, or view the University College The Hague's homepage, www.LUCTheHague.nl
MEARC ANNUAL REPORT
MEARC is pleased to announce the online release of the MEARC Annual Report for 2007-2008.
Please find the report in PDF here.
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Welcome to the Modern East Asia Research Centre
Welcome to MEARC, based at Leiden University in the Netherlands. On this website
you will find information on the centre's Research projects, as well as details
of forthcoming events and a selection of downloadable publications.
MEARC represents the institutionalisation of a cluster of disciplinary research trajectories in the various regional fields of Modern East Asian Studies. Its explicit purpose is to support, showcase and stimulate genuinely disciplinary research (initially in the disciplines of Politics, History and Philosophy) on Greater China, Japan, and - in the near future - also Korea, in the period from the nineteenth century until the present day. It will achieve this purpose through support of lectures, workshops, conferences, and by the provision of research grants.
“One of the great strengths of Leiden University is its growing vision of multidisciplinarity. In particular, I wish to congratulate MEARC on being at the forefront of this intellectual bridge-building between conventional disciplines such as Law, Politics, History and Philosophy, and Area Studies, especially Chinese and Japanese Studies. This is exactly the kind of initiative that the university’s governing board seeks to support, and it is precisely the kind of multidisciplinary vision that Leiden should be aiming to achieve, building on its tradition as a classical, comprehensive university with wide-reaching resources
across many fields.”
Prof. dr. Douwe D. Breimer, Rector Magnificus and President of Leiden University (2001-2007), on the occasion of a visit from H.E. Ambassador of the People's Republic of China, Xue Hanqin, February 2007.
