IASIL JAPAN Newsletter 2007-2March 2007
IASIL JAPAN Office: shimox@suac.ac.jp

1. Plan for IASIL JAPAN 2007 Conference
At the Committee Meeting held on February 27th, plans for the 24th Conference ofIASIL-JAPAN were discussed.
a) Dates: Oct. 27 (Sat.) & Oct 28 (Sun.)b) Venue: Kobe Shinwa University, Kobec) Conference Theme (Tentative): New Irelands: Verbal and Visuald) Guest Speakers: Prof. Luke Gibbons (The University of Notre Dame)e) Symposiai) Beckett and MediaThe chair (Prof. Joseph O’Leary) and three speakers are decided.
ii) Ulster poets
The office has been negotiating with some of IASIL JAPAN members to join thissymposium. If you have interest in it, please contact the office.
f) Call for Papers!
Applicants for the paper reading are requested to send the office a synopsis by the end ofMay. The following items must be either
saved in a FD and sent with a hard copy typed on A4-sized sheets
orsent by e-mail as an attached file or as written in the message
Name, University or other Affiliation, Address, Title of the Paper and 250–300 Words
Summary.
Papers read at the conference should be 2,800-3,000 words and given within 20 minutes.
2. Journal of Irish Studiesa) Deadline of the Articles for the Next Issue: JIS Vol. XXIIThe closing date for the coming issue of JIS is 25 April 2007. The information more indetail about the submission of manuscript is found in more detail on the backcover of JIS
Vol. XXI.
Attention:i) The editor of JIS, Prof. Seishi Matsuda, hopes that those who are planning to submit apaper to JIS Vol. XXII will contact the editor or the office immediately.
address of the editor is as follows: chronos@kobe-shinwa.ac.jp

The e-mailII) The length of your paper must be no more than 4,000 words.
iiI) The editor suggests that the papers submitted by those whose mother tongue is not
English should be checked by native speakers of English before submission.
b) Bibliography of 2006
We are compiling the IASIL bibliography for the year 2006

(publications from January toDecember), to be published in the next issue of the Journal of Irish Studies.

As IASIL org. has publicized, you can inform your publications before 2005 if you havenot informed them of our bibliographer.

Please send a bibliography of your publications to Prof. Kazuhiro Doki by the end of March,2007 (Sorry for this short notice). The bibliography can include books, articles,and translations. Your bibliography should follow the conventions used in the 1984-2003
Bibliography in the 2003 issue of the Journal of Irish Studies (Vol. XVIII).

1.

Font and size: Times New Roman 12 pt.

2.

Author’s name: Japanese names: no comma between the family name and given
name. Non-Japanese names: give surname first, comma, then given name. Use upperand lower case. For example: Smith, John; Ohno Mitsuko

3.

Name of Journal: All journal names should go in italics. For example: Joycean Japan;
The Harp.

4.

In: Before you give the name of the journal, collection etc., write “In”. For example: InJoycean Japan 9, 108-121.

5.

No comma after the journal name: After the journal name, go straight to the volume

number, without using a comma. For example: In Theatre Survey 42:2, 137-64. [NOT:In Theatre Survey, 42:2, 137-64.]
6.

Other Journal details: With all Irish Studies journals in Japan, including the Journal ofIrish Studies, there is no need to accompany with further detail such as: (Bulletin of theX Society of Japan), as there will be a key at the beginning of the Bibliography.
Therefore, not: The Harp (The Bulletin of IASIL Japan) but simply: The Harp

7Article title: Put the title of the article in single quotes.

8.

Quotes, titles or phrases within title: Use double quotation marks for internal quotes:
Ito Eishiro, ‘The Nameless Narrator and Nationalism: A Study of the “Cyclops” episodeof “Ulysses”. In The Harp 12, 103-112.

9.

Papers or books published in Japanese: First give the original Japanese title in romanletters (romaji). Then after a backslash, give a translation of the title in English.
For example: Ito Hiromi, ‘Yeats Toki to Eien Sono 5’/‘Time and Eternity in Yeats’s Poetry
No. 5’ . In Bulletin of Toyo University, Liberal Arts 39, 53-70.

In transcribing Japanesewords into Romaji:(a) Follow the Hepburn system ( ), whose table you can find in Kenkyusha’s New
Japanese-English Dictionary, 4th ed, 1991.
(b) Do not use mqcrons such as

Ex. Not ti but chi; not tu but tsu, etc.

or − over vowels in order to indicate vowel length.

(c) English names should be spelled in English; Do not transcribe into Romaji eventhough the article is written in Japanese: Ex. Not: Yeitsu Shi ni okeru, but: Yeats Shi niokeru
10.

Do not write the words “In Japanese”: If your paper/book is in Japanese, it will beobvious from the translation at the beginning of your entry. If your publication is inEnglish, this will be clear from the absence of a translation, so do not add the words “InEnglish”:
11.

Multiple editors: Where there are many editors (or authors), punctuation andinitialling should be as follows:

Moody, T.W., McDowell, R.B., & Woods, C.J. (eds.) (1999) The Writings of Theobald
Wolfe Tone 1763-98, Oxford University Press (Oxford).
12.

Publisher and place Spell out the full name of the publisher, i.e., Oxford UniversityPress, not OUP, and always give the location, even if it appears obvious, i.e.,
Cork University Press (Cork).

Please send your bibliography either by e-mail or by postal mail to:Prof. Doki Kazuhiro
Foreign Languages Department
Aichi University of Education
1 Hirosawa, Igaya-cho Kariya-city, Aichi 448-0001
E-mail: kdoki@auecc.aichi-edu.ac.jp

3. Arrived!!
Our copies of John Banville Special Issue of Irish University Review (Spring/Summer 2006)
finally arrived at the office.

If you wish to read them immediately, please contact the office.

4. Membership Fee
We are sending postal transfer sheets to the members who have not paid this year’s
membership fees yet.

Please pay the fee as soon as possible if you receive a postaltransfer sheet, as the end of this fiscal year is at hand and the treasurer must balanceaccounts.

Your cooperation will be very, very helpful for our association.

Regular membership–8,000 yen
Married couple––12,000 yen per couple
Student membership––5000 yen. (Students who would like to receive IUR and toparticipate in IASIL conference as well as IASIL JAPAN conference have to pay 8,000yen.)
You can also transfer the fee to our bank account. Its details are as follows:
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

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07/03/07
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