IASIL JAPAN Newsletter
2006–3
International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures
September 2006

1. Come Gather Round Me, IASIL JAPAN members!

Like Aichi-Expo 2005, our 23rd Conference in Nagoya will be an excellent international event—on a smaller,
more comfortable scale—with lots of educational, inspirational and gastronomic opportunities. Please come andhave a fun weekend with us, and enjoy what promises to be a memorable conference!
Mitsuko Ohno and Joint Committee members of Aichi Shukutoku University* Please post the enclosed post card with enquiries by the 22nd of September!!

We are planning to issue some of future newsletters in the form of e-mail.
write down your e-mail address.

Please do not forget toThank you for your cooperation.

2. New IASIL JAPAN Representatives

The result of 2006 IASIL election was announced at the 2006 IASIL conference in Sydney, and it
will be posted in IASIL head office’s website ( http://www.iasil.org/ ) in the near future. Our vicechair is Prof. Akiko Manabe, and representatives are Prof. Masami Nakao, Prof. Peter O’Connor andProf. Nobuaki Tochigi.
3. Conference PosterThedigitalisedconference

postermaybefoundatour“newslink”( http://iasiljapan.cocolog-nifty.com/iasil_japan_news/ ) as a Microsoft Word file.

websitePlease download

the poster, print it for distribution according to your need, to promote our conference.

You can visit

the newslink website via IASIL JAPAN website ( http://www.musashino-u.ac.jp/iasil-j/ ).

Click“IASIL JAPAN Latest NEWS” on its top page.
4. IASIL org.

Please visit our head office’s website ( http://www.iasil.org/ ) and check its contents on theregular basis.

In the course of this year’s IASIL election, the good-standing statuses of members musthave strictly been defined because all information related to the matter had been posted on the IASIL.
org. and shown to the public for a certain duration.

Also, the office strongly encourages IASIL JAPANmembers to visit our website ( http://www.musashino-u.ac.jp/iasil-j/ ) on the regular basis..

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5. Bargain of Back Issues of IUR and JIS

Considering the bulk of back issues of IUR and JIS stored by IASIL JAPAN and promotion ofIrish studies, the office will start bargaining their back issues as from the conference days.

The price of

all of them will be reduced to ¥1000, including special issues of IUR: Brian Friel, Lady Gregory,Thomas Kinsella and others. The catalogues will be taken free at the conference venue. The officewill also sell them by post (order of 1 or 2 copies—commission fee: ¥500.

3 or more than 3copies—commission fee: free).
6. 2007 IASIL

The next IASIL conference is planned to be held at UCD from 16 to 20 July.

Organizers tried

to rethink its schedule for Japanese delegates, but this schedule is to be fixed to secure accommodation
inside the campus of UCD.
NB: In order to apply for the IASIL at UCD, you must be a member in good standing.

If you paid

your 2005 and/or 2006 membership fee(s) by the end of August 2006, you are in good standing.
Otherwise and if you wish to join the IASIL at UCD, please contact the IASIL JAPAN office.
7. The 2006 Membership Fee

Please do not fail to send the 2006 membership fee.
Regular membership–8,000 yen
Married couple––12,000 yen per couple
Student membership––5000 yen. (Students who would like to receive IUR and to participate inIASIL conference as well as IASIL JAPAN conference have to pay 8,000 yen.)
The following is the details of our bank account:
Name of Bank: Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ
Name of Branch: Nishijin (Branch No. 441)
Account No.: 3891501
Under the Name of: IASIL Japan Treasurer Shiho Sakuma
三菱東京 UFJ 銀行（銀行番号 0005)
西陣支店（店番 441)
普通 3891501
イアシル・ジャパン 会計 佐久間 思帆

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