IASIL Japan Newsletter
2023 No. 1
The Japan Branch of the International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures
April 2023

Message from the President
As we approach the fortieth anniversary of its founding, IASIL Japan is entering one of the mostexciting periods in its history. Any major anniversary is transitional, a time to take stock as well as a time
to look forward, but this year will, in a very practical sense, be even more transitional: we are preparing
ourselves to host the annual IASIL International Conference in Tokyo in 2024, and we are also, for thefirst time since 2019, going to hold our own conference face-to-face. These are major commitments, andrequire the hard work and dedication of the secretariat, and I want to thank Yuri Yoshino and Tetsuko
Nakamura for their already huge contribution of time and energy and intelligence to these matters, andto the smooth running of our organization.
I also want to thank the Executive Committee, and all of our membership, for the time they devote
to IASIL Japan. For the first time in a scarcely believable four years, we will, all being well, be able tosee each other face-to-face at our annual conference, and so I hope as many of you as possible will beable to make the trip to Ritsumeikan University in October. It is something to which, at long last, taking
stock of what we have all been through, we can truly look forward.

Andrew Fitzsimons
1. Payment of Annual Fees
Membership of IASIL Japan runs from the beginning of April to the end of March every year. Pleasefind enclosed the 2023 Membership Fee remittance sheet payable to Japan Post Bank. You may choose
to pay into the IASIL Japan account at MUFG BANK (Mitsubishi UFJ Bank) below. If you have notpaid 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 2023 fee.
If you are applying for Student membership fee, please provide the office with a copy of a 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 a valid student ID should be submitted at the beginning of every fiscal year1

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: 3-7-17 Shin-Yokohama, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture,
222-0033, Japan
Tel: +81(0)45-475-3822
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 so that we can post you thecopy/copies of Journal of Irish Studies (and Irish University Review) for which you have paid, according
to the table below.
International postal
Oceania, North America, CentralAsia
South America, Africa
rates for JIS & IUR
America, Europe, Middle EastJIS¥ 850¥ 1,000¥ 1,300
JIS & IUR
¥ 1,500¥ 2,000¥ 2,600
NB Due to the rise in postage, the international postal rate for JIS to be sent to a member in Asia has
become ¥850. If you wish to receive Journal of Irish Studies, vol. 37 (and IUR for those subscribing) at
the annual conference in October 2023, please complete your payment by the end of September 2023.
2.

IASIL Conference 2023 “Sustainability”

IASIL Conference, hosted by our colleagues at the British University in Egypt, will be held as an inperson event from 17th to 21th July, 2023. The applications are now closed. For more details, please go
to IASIL Website: http://www.iasil.org/conference-2023-the-british-university-in-egypt-july-17-212023/ and the conference website: https://www.bue.edu.eg/iasil/.
3.

Reports on IASIL Japan Scholarship

There was no application to IASIL Japan Scholarship 2023. We would like to encourage morepostgraduate students to apply for the scholarship at the next opportunity.
4. Plans for the IASIL Japan 2023 Conference, “Evolutions / Dissolutions”
The following plan was confirmed at and after the Executive Committee Meeting held on 4th March:
Dates: 28th & 29th October, 2023
Venue: Ritsumeikan University, Kinugasa Campus (https://en.ritsumei.ac.jp/access/)
Theme: Evolutions / Dissolutions

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Guests: Anne Haverty (in-person) and Claire Connolly (online)
Symposium 1: “Evolutions / Dissolutions in Irish Literature” (the tentative title)
Chair: Beverley Curran (ICU)
Panellists: TBC
Symposium 2: “Post-Times: Writing in the Aftermath” (the tentative title)
Chair: Masaya Shimokusu (Doshisha Univ)
Panellists: Fuyuji Tanigawa (Konan Women’s Univ)
Kiminori Fukaya (Hosei Univ)
Imazeki Yuta (Edogawa Univ)
Masaya Shimokusu (Doshisha Univ)
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 2023.
Call for Book Launches!
If you would like to launch your book during the conference, please write to the IASIL Japan Office at<secretary@iasil.jp>.
Travel Arrangements
In light of the recent tourism boost in Kyoto, the members are advised to make their hotel bookingsfor the conference early. Hotels around JR Enmachi (円町) station, Nijojo (二条城), Doshisha University(同志社大学), Kyoto Gosho (京都御所) should be most convenient for the venue. It is also advisable toavoid areas near Shijo (四条) and JR Kyoto station (京都駅), because the route to the venue will beheavily congested.
Members will be requested to fill in an online registration form. Further details will be given in thenext Newsletter.
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Journal of Irish Studies, Vol. XXXVIIThe deadline for submission to Journal of Irish Studies Vol. XXXVII is 25 April 2023. Contributors
should send articles for consideration together with a short biographical note to Brian Fox at<editor@iasil.jp>.

More

information

canbefoundontheIASIL

Japan

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

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Journal of Irish Studies, Anniversary Issue

In 2024, the Journal of Irish Studies will celebrate the 40th anniversary of IASIL Japan (1984-2024).
Proposals for material for this special anniversary edition include:• Bibliography of publications in Japan within the field of Irish Studies 2003-2023 (NOT limited tothe Journal of Irish Studies) in English and in Japanese. All publications by IASIL Japanmembers may be included, regardless of where they were published.
• Reflections from original and long-standing members of IASIL Japan• Photographs (from IASIL Japan conferences 1984-2024, etc.)
IASIL Japan members are encouraged to send any of the above material to the editor of the Journal ofIrish Studies (editor@iasil.jp) before 25 April 2024. All photographs should be sent as either JPEG or
PDF (if scanned) files to the editor by email attachment. All publications for the bibliography should bein the following format (for consistency, we will follow the same format as the 1984-2003 bibliography):
Journal Articles:
Name (year of publication) ‘title.’ In Journal Title [vol:no], [pages].
Example:Abe Kazuko (1994) ‘The Poetry of Derek Mahon, 1962-1982.’ In Kasumigaoka Review 1, 91-107.
― (1994) ‘Father-Son Relations in Brian Friel’s “Philadelphia Here I Come!”.’ In Éire 14, 21-31.

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 2023 No.2 will be distributed digitally in September.

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