Speaker: Prof. Gunter Schubert
Title: The Struggle to be a "Normal Country": Nationalism and National Identity in Post-authoritarian Taiwan
Date: Tuesday, February 2nd 2010
Time: 15.00 - 17.00
Venue: Small Auditorium, Academy Building, Leiden
MEARC NEWS
MEARC would like to congratulate Dr. Mathias Zachmann on receiving the prestigious JaDe award, given to the most outstanding publication on Japan in a German-speaking country for his recently published book, China and Japan in the Late Meiji Period. Please see JaDe, and Routledge for more information on this new book in our Leiden series.
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 CALL FOR PHD APPLICATIONS
MEARC is currently searching for applicants for three PhD positions for 38 hours a week over a four-year period. These positions are part of the research project ‘Beyond Utopia: New Politics, the Politics of Knowledge, and the Science Fictional Field of Japan’. For more information please see the PDF here. Please be informed that the deadline has been moved to December 31st.
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.
MEARC NEWS
MEARC is pleased to announce a new Writing Up Grant recipient: Dr. Chun-Yi Lee. She has received the grant to pursue the study of Taiwan in Comparative East Asian Perspective. MEARC welcomes Dr. Lee and looks forward to the efforts of her research.
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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.
