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The latest news about research, events, staff and students from the School of East Asian Studies.
XINJIANG PAPER 2023

鈥淲e know you better than you know yourself鈥: China鈥檚 transnational repression of the Uyghur diaspora

Read the full report and findings, including a presentation session by By David Tobin & Nyrola Elim盲.
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ESG in East Asia: The 'S' Factor

In 2022 Dr Peter Matanle won funding from Japanese investment bank Nomura and the UK's Economic and Social Research Council for an Impact and Knowledge Exchange project to research employment standards.
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Translating Japanese Women鈥檚 Writing: a Conversation on Kono Taeko with translator Lucy North and Professor Julia Bullock

This event will feature a three-way conversation between literary translator Lucy North, Julia Bullock, Professor of Japanese literature and Nozomi Uematsu, lecturer in Japanese Studies in the School of East Asian Studies.
The poster for the Japan Now series of events

Japan Now North 2020

Japan Now North聽is a week of activities celebrating the art, culture, literature and film of Japan. Now in our third year, we are holding events across Sheffield, home of one of Europe's leading academic centres on Japan.
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Employability in the spotlight

We鈥檝e had a full semester of events over the last few months, including careers presentations from a number of East Asia-focussed companies and organisations with long experience finding roles for East Asian studies graduates.
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A successful BAJS Conference in Sheffield

The School of East Asian Studies welcomed over 200 Japanese experts to Sheffield in September for the triannual British Association for Japanese Studies Conference.
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Meet our growing East Asian Studies Team

The school has employed a number of new staff recently, growing our expertise in various discipline with a focus on the East Asia region.

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New era of leadership in SEAS

September 2019 will see a major and exciting change in the governance of the School of East Asian Studies (SEAS) as Professor Hugo Dobson steps down as Head of Department after 6 and a half years and Dr Kate Taylor-Jones takes on the role.