8th EAJS WORKSHOP FOR DOCTORAL STUDENTS AT NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY (UK)
- Call for Applications -

Project director: Dr Laura Moretti
Venue: Newcastle University, United Kingdom
Time: 22-24 May 2012
Language for applications and during the workshop:
English
Application Deadline: 12 February 2012

For an application please use our online submission
system at https://www.eajs.eu/index.php?id=563.

The European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS)
invites applications from doctoral students in all
humanities and social science disciplines for the 8th
EAJS workshop for doctoral students. The EAJS applied
for funding from the Toshiba International Foundation
to cover the costs of travel (up to 500 Euro) and
accommodation for the duration of the workshop for a
group of about 16 doctoral students and senior scholars
who act as advisors.

The EAJS workshops for doctoral students aim to create
a European multidisciplinary network of advanced
graduate students and senior scholars in Japanese
Studies. The informal environment of the workshop
provides a unique opportunity for participants to work
together intensively to enhance individual projects and
engage in concentrated discussions of common themes and
methods. Through presentations and focused sessions,
students give and receive critical feedback on
dissertation projects, fieldwork plans and preliminary
results. Students will be asked to read the work of
their peers and prepare for workshop presentations
linking their own work to the broader international
Japanese Studies field. Students will also get a
one-to-one supervision with a senior scholar in their
respective field.
Eligibility

Full-time graduate students working on Japan,
regardless of citizenship, who are enrolled at
universities in Europe, and students of European
nationality, who are enrolled in graduate programmes
outside Europe but have an interest in European
Japanese Studies, are eligible. Students travelling to
the workshop from outside Europe should expect no more
than 500 Euro to be paid toward their transportation
costs. Doctoral students from European universities
that do not have major centres of Japanese Studies are
especially encouraged to apply. Applications are
particularly welcome from graduate students in the
early-fieldwork through the middle stages of
dissertation writing. All applicants are expected to
have studied the Japanese language and to use materials
written in Japanese as sources for their dissertations.
Applicants are expected to provide evidence of Japanese
language ability in their applications.

Application and Selection Process
Please be aware that EAJS uses an online system to
manage submissions to its 8th Workshop for doctoral
students. Click here to be directed to the submissions
website at https://www.eajs.eu/index.php?id=563.

Your application should in the first instance consist
of:
. a brief professional history (CV), including
list of publications, if any

. a covering letter (200 words), indicating the
motivation for attending the workshop as well as the
current state of progress of doctoral work

. a summary of the dissertation project (500
words)

These documents must be submitted via the submissions
website by 12 February 2012.

Selected candidates will be notified by 15 March 2012
of their ability to participate in the dissertation
workshop.

Shortlisted candidates will then be required to send
the following texts Laura Moretti
(laura.moretti[at]ncl.ac.uk) by 15 April 2012:

1. a project outline and progress report (ca. 1500
words)
containing major research questions, structure,
sources, methodology, difficulties, if any, etc.
2. a long essay (3000-3500 words)
i.e. any (preliminary) part of the dissertation, e.g.
theoretical introduction, research review, data
analysis, elaboration of specific questions, and/or
arguments etc.

The essay should conform to best academic practice
(language, referencing, etc.).

These two items will be the basis for the group
presentations and discussions as well as for the
individual supervisions.

Note that this second application stage will not be
competitive. Each applicant who sends in a complete and
properly elaborated project outline and essay by the
deadline will be accepted. However, extension of the
deadline will not be possible since all project
outlines and essays need to be sent to all
participants.