IASIL Japan Newsletter
2021 No. 1
The Japan Branch of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures
April 2021

1. Election of New Executive Committee Members
The term of the present IASIL Japan Executive Committee Members is due to expire on 31
December, 2021 and we are now conducting an election for the new members. Beverly Curranand Haruko Takakuwa have agreed to serve as Election Officers.
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the current Executive Committee has agreed to adopt evoting for this election. Members in good standing (paid-up for 2020) receive a voting-code anda list of the candidates with this Newsletter. They will also receive an email from the IASIL
Japan Office which includes the URL to a ballot sheet in Google Forms.
The voting method is indicated below the voting code. Please make sure to vote by theend of 25 May. The results of the election will be announced at the Annual General Meeting
during the Annual Conference to be held in October.
2. Payment of Annual Fees & Introduction of PayPal
Please find enclosed the 2021 Membership Fee remittance sheet payable to Japan Post Bank.
You may choose to pay to the IASIL Japan account at the Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi below. If
you have not 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 2020 fee.
If you are applying for Student membership fee, please provide the office with a copy ofvalid student ID with your payment.
Membership with JIS¥ 7,000
Membership with JIS & ¥ 10,000
IUR
Student with JIS*
¥ 5,000

Couple membership with JIS
Couple membership with JIS & IUR¥ 10,000¥ 13,000*a copy of valid student ID should be provided annually

If you live abroad, you can use PayPal from April 2021. Please follow the instruction shown inthe email you will receive shortly from Treasurer Hironao Kobayashi <treasurer@iasil.jp>. Or
you can transfer your membership fee to the following account:
Bank Name: Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, LTD.
SWIFT CODE: BOTKJPJT
Branch Name: Kawagoe Branch (Branch No. 382)
Branch Address: 1-2-7 Shintomi-cho, Kawagoe City, Saitama Prefecture, 350-0043, Japan1

Tel: +81 (0)49-222-2351
Account Name: IASIL Japan Treasurer Hironao Kobayashi
Account No: 0343056

The membership fee for overseas members does not include the transfer charge, so please
make sure that the exact amount reaches us. Please add the overseas postal charge to mail you
the copies of Journal of Irish Studies and Irish University Review for which you have paid,
according to the table below.
International postal
Asia
rates for JIS & IUR
JIS
¥ 750

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

JIS & IUR

¥ 2,000¥ 1,500¥ 2,600

3. Plans for the IASIL Japan 2021 Conference, “Revolutions/Resolutions”
Currently, the Office are planning to hold this year’s conference as below:
Date: 10-11 October, 2020.
Venue: Meiji University, Surugadai Campus
https://www.meiji.ac.jp/cip/english/about/campus/index.html
Guest Speakers 1) Matthew Campbell (University of York) and 2) Leontia Flynn
Symposium 1: “Illness in Irish Writing: mental, physical, social” (tentative title)
Chair: John Maher
Panellists: Naoko Toraiwa, Nao Igarashi, Beverley Curran
Symposium 2: “Revolutions/Resolutions: Conflict and Art” (tentative title)
Chair: Andrew Fitzsimons
Panellists: Akiko Manabe, Naomi Miki and David Taylor
Considering the ongoing situation of COVID-19 pandemic, however, the Executive
Committee will make the final decision on how to run the conference by 21 May. Possible
formats include:(a) holding the conference face-to-face, at Meiji University(b) holding the conference face-to-face, at another university in Tokyo(c) holding the conference face-to-face, at another university in another city(d) holding the conference online
Please be updated by checking the emails from the IASIL Japan Office.
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

2itself, please send details of affiliation, full postal and e-mail addresses, and telephone and fax
numbers by 31st May.
4. IASIL Conference 2021 “Creative Borders”
IASIL Conference, hosted by our colleagues at the University of Łódź, is going to be run asa fully online event from 19 to 23 July, 2021. Accordingly, Students, early career scholars, andthe unsalaried can participate free of charge (regular fee of 10 EURO for others). In order toaccommodate those who have not submitted an abstract due to the ongoing uncertainty about
travel, the deadline has been extended one more time, to 30 April. For more details, please go toIASIL Website: http://www.iasil.org/2021/03/message-from-iasil-chair-2021-conference/ andthe Conference website: http://iasil.uni.lodz.pl/
5. Reports on IASIL Japan Scholarship
There was no application to IASIL Japan Scholarship. For 2021, no new scholarships will beawarded by IASIL Japan for the IASIL Conference, since PhD students will not need to pay aregistration fee, and will not incur any travel or accommodation costs. We ardently encourage
more postgraduate students to apply for the scholarship next year.
6. Journal of Irish Studies
The deadline for submission to Journal of Irish Studies Vol. XXXV is 25 April 2021.
Contributors should send articles for consideration together with a short biographical note toJane O’Halloran at <editor@iasil.jp>. Please send articles and biographical information as MS
Word files attached to the e-mail. The biographical information should include the author’s
affiliation, full postal and e-mail addresses, and telephone and fax numbers. More information
can be found on the IASIL Japan website: http://iasil.jp/journal.html.
The editor suggests that those whose mother tongue is not English should have theirarticles checked by native speakers of English prior to submission.

3IASIL Japan

c/o Toshiki Tatara
Department of English, Faculty of Letters, Yasuda Women’s University
6-13-1 Yasuhigashi, Asaminami-ku, Hiroshima 731-0153, Japan
Tel: +81-(0)80-3701-0547 Email: secretary@iasil.jp

IASIL Japan Newsletter 2021 No.2 will be distributed digitally in September.

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