Here are some resources to help out with funding:
FastWeb has been around forever, and has some of the most annoying advertisements on earth (make sure to click "no thanks" on all the loan consolidation and credit card offers) but continues to be good at thoroughly searching for scholarships. It brought up some Hawai'i community scholarships available to those of us who live here - yes, even if your tuition bill says "nonresident". Various deadlines.
East West Center Scholarships and Fellowships - various fall deadlines
Finally, if you're a doctoral student, Hamilton Library has a nice collection of resources for research funding called the "Foundation Collection" near the reference desk on the first floor. If you're having trouble finding it just come up and ask someone at the desk.
Saturday, October 6, 2007
"The Case Study of Chujohime"
CENTER FOR JAPANESE STUDIES SEMINAR SERIES
The Crossing of Boundaries between the Religious and Social Constructions of Gender in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Narratives: The Case Study of Ch•ujohime
By Dr. Monika Dix
Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature
EALL, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
DATE: Thursday, October 25, 2007
TIME: 3:00 - 4:30PM
PLACE: Tokioka Room (Moore Hall 319)
The story of the legendary eighth-century young noblewoman, Chujohime, is one of the
extensive body of late medieval short stories - collectively called otogi zÿshi -which are preserved in written form from the Muromachi period (1392-1573) onward and are generally considered the earliest works of popular literature in Japan.
One of the key stories in the Chujohime legend is her journey to Hibariyama - a fantastic textual, physical, and spiritual transcendent travel which played a key role in the popularization of Ch•ujohime's legend and her cult from the fifteenth to seventeenth century.
This paper focuses on the significance of Chujohime's transcendent journey to Hibariyama and explores how it constitutes a crossing of boundaries between the religious and social constructions of gender in this Buddhist tale of female salvation, presenting Chujohime as religious outcast - not being able to attain enlightenment in her female body due to her sex - and as social outcast - transgressing the bounds of her role of filial daughter vis-à-vis her father.
Dr. Dix suggests that Chujohime's forced journey to Hibariyama - her exile - not only triggers her religious awakening (hosshin) but also indicates a constant renegotiation of gender-power imbalance between Pure Land Buddhist ideology and social customs which mutually influenced each other in casting transgressing women as religious outcasts in late medieval Japanese society.
The Crossing of Boundaries between the Religious and Social Constructions of Gender in Medieval Japanese Buddhist Narratives: The Case Study of Ch•ujohime
By Dr. Monika Dix
Visiting Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature
EALL, University of Hawai'i at Manoa
DATE: Thursday, October 25, 2007
TIME: 3:00 - 4:30PM
PLACE: Tokioka Room (Moore Hall 319)
The story of the legendary eighth-century young noblewoman, Chujohime, is one of the
extensive body of late medieval short stories - collectively called otogi zÿshi -which are preserved in written form from the Muromachi period (1392-1573) onward and are generally considered the earliest works of popular literature in Japan.
One of the key stories in the Chujohime legend is her journey to Hibariyama - a fantastic textual, physical, and spiritual transcendent travel which played a key role in the popularization of Ch•ujohime's legend and her cult from the fifteenth to seventeenth century.
This paper focuses on the significance of Chujohime's transcendent journey to Hibariyama and explores how it constitutes a crossing of boundaries between the religious and social constructions of gender in this Buddhist tale of female salvation, presenting Chujohime as religious outcast - not being able to attain enlightenment in her female body due to her sex - and as social outcast - transgressing the bounds of her role of filial daughter vis-à-vis her father.
Dr. Dix suggests that Chujohime's forced journey to Hibariyama - her exile - not only triggers her religious awakening (hosshin) but also indicates a constant renegotiation of gender-power imbalance between Pure Land Buddhist ideology and social customs which mutually influenced each other in casting transgressing women as religious outcasts in late medieval Japanese society.
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