Japanese Materials Workshop was held at Yale University!
Professor Ishigami’s welcome address to the workshop/ Professor Kamens making a keynote presentation.
On Wednesday, March 26, 2008, from 10am to 5pm, a Japanese Materials workshop was held at Yale University and under the joint organization of the Todai-Yale Initiative and the Yale University Council on East Asian Studies. This workshop marked the beginning of concrete activities by the Todai-Yale Initiative, established in September last year as a university-wide overseas center, towards the realization of its dual objectives of energizing Japan Studies from a base in Yale University, and the training of young researchers to provide them with the skills to be active on the global stage.
The workshop started with an address from Professor Eiichi Ishigami (Historiographical Institute of the University of Tokyo, Vice Chairman of the Todai-Yale Initiative Committee), a keynote presentation by Professor Edward Kamens of Yale University describing the outline of Japanese Studies at Yale, followed by nine presentations in English from Curator Ellen Hammond of the Yale University East Asia Library, Librarian for the Japanese Collection at the East Asian Library Haruko Nakamura, Professor Shigekazu Kondo of the Historiographical Institute, Reference Librarian Eiichi Ito of the Library of Congress Asian Division, and from five graduate students from the University of Tokyo and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) Young Scientist Research Fellows. In total about forty participants, including students and faculty from the University of Tokyo and Yale University, took part making the event a great success.
Among the students presenting at the workshop, there were those for whom this was their first opportunity to present Japanese Studies materials in English and overseas, making this an important experience. It is hoped that in the future they will make use of this experience and when presenting the fruits of their research on the global stage.
This workshop was enabled through the financial support of the JSPS International Training Program (ITP) .
Location：
Room100 Center for Language Study(Yale University), 370 Temple Street, New Haven, CT
Schedule：
March 26th, 2008
