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Professor Bogdanova-Kummer Wins Prestigious Kenneth B. Pyle Prize for Best Article in The Journal of Japanese Studies
We are delighted to announce that Professor Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer (Deputy Director and Professor of Japanese Arts at the Sainsbury Institute) has been awarded the Kenneth B. Pyle Prize for Best Article in The Journal of Japanese Studies (JJS) 2025. The prize recognises Professor Bogdanova-Kummer’s outstanding essay: “Zen Violence: The Legacy of Nantenbō Tōjū’s Calligraphy in…
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[Closed] Call for Applications: The Ishibashi Foundation Network Leader Fellowship Programme in Japanese Arts 2026-27
Project Summary: Since 2025, the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures has established the Ishibashi Foundation Network Leader Fellowships in Japanese Arts, a programme offered to exceptional candidates from around the world and generously supported by the Ishibashi Foundation. In 2025–26, five Network Leader Fellows were selected, and their research projects…
International Seminar – Architecture: Design and Research.
The Sainsbury Institute, Universidade Lusófona and the University of Ljubljana invite you to an International Seminar Architecture: Design and Research. The online sessions, comprising talks about ongoing research followed by questions and discussion, are open access. The seminars aim to encourage academic exchange between researchers and postgraduate students working in cognate areas in a global context.…
[Closed] Call for Contributions – Transnational Japanisms: Art, craft, design
A conference in memory of Professor Toshio Watanabe London, 15-16 May 2026 This two-day conference will address the future of the study of art, craft and design in a transnational perspective. Our intention is to honour the memory of Toshio Watanabe (1945-2025), late Emeritus Professor of Japanese Arts and Heritage at the Sainsbury Institute for…
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[Closed] Call for Applications: Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellowships 2026-27
We are now inviting applications for the Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellowships 2026-27. The Fellowships provide recipients with an opportunity to work in a scholarly environment conducive to completing a publication project. The positions are available to academics who have received a PhD in any area of Japanese culture. Preference will be given to Early…
Art of Manga: Sainsbury Institute Research Director Curates Landmark Exhibition in San Francisco
The Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures is proud to announce that its Research Director, Professor Nicole Coolidge Rousmaniere, is the curator of a major new exhibition, Art of Manga, opening at the de Young Museum in San Francisco on 27 September 2025. This will be the first large-scale exhibition in the Americas to explore manga as an…
Professor Tatsuo Kobayashi (2 November 1937 – 22 August 2025)
It is with great sadness that we learned of the passing of Professor Tatsuo Kobayashi, Senior Advisor on Archaeology at the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, Emeritus Professor of Archaeology at Kokugakuin University in Tokyo, and Honorary Director of the Niigata Prefectural Museum of History, of which he was Director…
Selected Fellows – Ishibashi Foundation Network Leader Fellowships
We are pleased to announce that we have chosen from a large number of applications six fellows for the Ishibashi Foundation Network Leader Fellowships in Japanese Arts 2025-2026 following a rigorous selection process. The names of the candidates, their institutions, and the projects they are pursuing as part of the programme are as follows:
Emeritus Professor Toshio Watanabe (1945-2025)
It is with deep regret that we pass on the news that Toshio Watanabe, our Professor Emeritus of Japanese Arts and Cultural Heritage passed away unexpectedly but peacefully on 27 July while on holiday with his family in Hokkaido. We take this opportunity to revisit the post we prepared about him when he retired and became…
Watch the Japan Foundation Awards 2024 Commemorative Lecture – How Japanese arts and cultures make us happier
Last October, to commemorate the news that the Sainsbury Institute had received the Japan Foundation Award 2024, Professor Simon Kaner was invited to deliver a lecture at the Japan Foundation titled How Japanese arts and cultures make us happier. We are pleased to announce that a recording of this lecture is now available to watch…
[Closed] Call for Applications: The Ishibashi Foundation Network Leader Fellowship Programme in Japanese Arts 2025-26
Please note that submissions for this programme are now closed. Further information on the programme can be found below. Project Summary: Starting in 2025, the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures is establishing a programme of Ishibashi Foundation Network Leader Fellowships in Japanese Arts, offered to exceptional candidates from anywhere in…
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[Closed] Call for Applications: Interdisciplinary Japanese Studies Conference, 3-7 March, Norwich
Thanks to the generous support of the Toshiba International Foundation, the Centre for Japanese Studies at the University of East Anglia is delighted to announce a week-long in-person residential conference aimed at advanced undergraduate and masters level students and those considering postgraduate studies in Japan-related fields, from 3-7 March 2025. The conference will take place…