Yuri Yoshino is the new Secretary, and Tetsuko Nakamura is the new Treasurer. The IASIL Japan office
is located at the address below. Please inform the office of any changes in your contact information,including email address or affiliation:
IASIL Japan c/o Yuri Yoshino, Department of English Language and Cultures
Faculty of Letters, Gakushuin University, 1-5-1 Mejiro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 171-8588, Japan
E-mail: secretary@iasil.jp
2. Payment of Annual Fees
Please find enclosed the 2022 Membership Fee remittance sheet payable to Japan Post Bank. You may
choose to pay to the IASIL Japan account at MUFG BANK (Mitsubishi UFJ Bank) below. If you havenot paid the membership fee below for any of the past three years, a separate sheet indicating the unpaid
year is enclosed, so we ask you to add that amount to the 2022 fee.
If you are applying for Student membership fee, please provide the office with a copy of valid
student ID with your payment.
Membership with JIS¥ 7,000
Couple membership with JIS¥ 10,000
Membership with JIS & IUR¥ 10,000
Couple membership with JIS & IUR ¥ 13,000
Student with JIS*
¥ 5,000*a copy of valid student ID should be provided annually
If you live abroad, you can use PayPal. Please follow the instruction shown in the email you will
receive shortly from Treasurer Tetsuko Nakamura <treasurer@iasil.jp>. Or you can transfer yourmembership fee to the following account:
Bank Name: MUFG Bank, Ltd.
SWIFT Code: BOTKJPJT (in 8 digits); BOTKJPJTXXX (in 11 digits)
Branch Name: Okurayama Branch (Branch No. 308)
Branch Address: 1-17-8 Okurayama, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture,
222-0037, Japan.
Tel: +81(0)45-544-1011
Account Name: IASIL Japan Treasurer Tetsuko Nakamura
Account No: 0688983 (Savings Account)
The membership fee for overseas members does not include the transfer charge, so please makesure that the exact amount reaches us. Please add the overseas postal charge to mail you the copies ofJournal of Irish Studies and Irish University Review for which you have paid, according to the tablebelow.
International postal
rates for JIS & IUR
JISJIS & IUR

Asia
¥ 750
¥ 1,500

Oceania, North America, Central
South America, Africa
America, Europe, Middle East
¥ 1,000¥ 1,300¥ 2,000¥ 2,6002

NB If you wish to receive Journal of Irish Studies, vol. 36 (and IUR for those subscribing) in October
2022, please complete your payment by the end of September 2022. Late payments will be accepted,
but your journal(s) will be delivered in April 2023.
3. IASIL 2022 Executive Elections
The IASIL Japan Executive Committee has sent the nomination of the following members to represent
Japan at the IASIL Executive Committee for 2022-2025. The nominations were accepted.
Vice-chairperson: Andrew FitzsimonsRepresentatives: Tetsuko Nakamura, Yuri Yoshino, Naoko Toraiwa
4.

IASIL Conference 2022 “Intersectional Irelands”

IASIL Conference, hosted by our colleagues at the University of Limerick, will be held as an in-person
event from 25th to 29th July, 2022. The applications are now closed. For more details, please go to IASIL
Website: http://www.iasil.org/2021/10/cfp-iasil-2022-intersectional-irelands-university-of-limerick-2529-july-2022-uni-of-limerick/ and the Conference website: https://www.ul.ie/artsoc/iasil-2022.
5.

Reports on IASIL Japan Scholarship

There was no application to IASIL Japan Scholarship. We would like to encourage more postgraduate
students to apply for the scholarship next year.
6. Plans for the IASIL Japan 2022 Conference, “Ulysses and Beyond”
The following plan was confirmed at the Executive Committee Meeting held on 12th March:
Dates: 8th & 9th October, 2022
Venue: Zoom
Theme: Ulysses and Beyond

Guests: TBC

Symposium 1: “Joyce” (tentative title)
Chair: Kumiko Yamada (Rikkyo Univ)
Panellists: Andrew Fitzsimons (Gakushuin Univ), Eri Tanaka (Kumamoto HealthScience Univ), & Kazuo Yokouchi (Kwansei Gakuin Univ)
Symposium 2: “Silences and the Silenced in Irish Writing” (tentative title)
Chair: Beverley Curran (ICU)
Panellists include Kumiko Kiuchi (Tokyo Institute of Technology) & Naoko Toraiwa(Meiji Univ)
Considering the ongoing situations of COVID-19 and Ukraine, the Executive Committee decided to holdthe conference online.
Call for a Panelist (Symposium 2)! Symposium 2 is looking for one more possible panelist working on
this theme that would like to participate. If interested, please write to the IASIL Japan Office at<secretary@iasil.jp>.

3Call for Papers!
Applicants for a 20-minute paper reading are requested to send a synopsis of 250–300 words as a Word
attachment to the IASIL Japan office at <secretary@iasil.jp>. Besides the synopsis itself, please senddetails of affiliation, full postal and e-mail addresses, and telephone and fax numbers by 31 May.
7.

Journal of Irish Studies

The deadline for submission to Journal of Irish Studies Vol. XXXVI is 25 April 2022. Contributors
should send articles for consideration together with a short biographical note to Brian Fox at<editor@iasil.jp>.

MoreinformationcanbefoundontheIASILJapanwebsite:

http://iasil.jp/journal.html.
The editor suggests that those whose mother tongue is not English should have their articles
checked by native speakers of English prior to submission.
8.

Announcement: Seamus Heaney Award, Japan

Nominations, to be received by 30 November 2022, can be sent by email using the subject line ‘Seamus
Heaney Award Japan Nomination’ to: IASIL Japan Office: <secretary@iasil.jp> or Embassy of Ireland,
Japan: <TokyoEmbassy@dfa.ie>. More information can be found on the IASIL Japan website:
http://iasil.jp/news/?p=795.

Updating the E-Mailing List
The IASIL Japan Office would like to update members’ e-mail addresses forcommunications. Please register your contact details on the following online formby 30 April:https://forms.gle/gTSXfCgDoCXhrh9G6
Thank you very much for your cooperation.

IASIL Japan
c/o Yuri Yoshino
Department of English Language and Cultures, Faculty of Letters, Gakushuin University
1-5-1 Mejiro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 171-8588, Japan
Email: secretary@iasil.jp

IASIL Japan Newsletter 2022 No.2 will be distributed digitally in September.

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