2020-2021 IPS Small Grant Program Awardees – The Japan Foundation, New York

Institution	Project Title
The Japan Studies Association	Enhancing Japanese Studies in the U.S.: A Focus on Hokkaido
LaGuardia Community College, the City University of New York	“Be Better, Together” Japanese Studies Curriculum Development and Building Bridges

Grantee	The Japan Studies Association
Project Title	Enhancing Japanese Studies in the U.S.: A Focus on Hokkaido
Grant Period	2021/03/31-2022/03/25
Outline	This grant supports the participation of 22 faculty from community colleges, four-year colleges, and universities throughout the United States, which do not have established Asian Studies programs, to join an innovative workshop, “Hokkaido 2020: Diversity, Transformation, Renewal.” The workshop will explore the impact of the natural environment on Hokkaido’s history, the “frontier” legacy of Japanese settlers, and offer a nuanced understanding of Ainu society and culture. Participants will rely on “object-based learning” and “mining the museum” methodologies to engage with Hokkaido’s material culture. The grant also supports travel for participants to disseminate their findings from the workshop at a conference in Hawaii. For more information, please click here.

Grantee

The Japan Studies Association

Project Title

Enhancing Japanese Studies in the U.S.: A Focus on Hokkaido

Grant Period

2021/03/31-2022/03/25

Outline

This grant supports the participation of 22 faculty from community colleges, four-year colleges, and universities throughout the United States, which do not have established Asian Studies programs, to join an innovative workshop, “Hokkaido 2020: Diversity, Transformation, Renewal.” The workshop will explore the impact of the natural environment on Hokkaido’s history, the “frontier” legacy of Japanese settlers, and offer a nuanced understanding of Ainu society and culture. Participants will rely on “object-based learning” and “mining the museum” methodologies to engage with Hokkaido’s material culture. The grant also supports travel for participants to disseminate their findings from the workshop at a conference in Hawaii.

For more information, please click here.

Grantee	LaGuardia Community College, the City University of New York
Project Title	“Be Better, Together” Japanese Studies Curriculum Development and Building Bridges
Grant Period	2020/06/01-2020/02/26
Outline	“Be Better, Together” Japanese Studies Curriculum Development and Building Bridges across CUNY seeks to bring together faculty from across the City University of New York (CUNY) in an effort, for the first time, to systematically discuss the current and future state of Japanese Studies in the CUNY system, with over 275,000 students the largest urban public university in the United States. For more information, please click here.

Grantee

LaGuardia Community College, the City University of New York

Project Title

“Be Better, Together” Japanese Studies Curriculum Development and Building Bridges

Grant Period

2020/06/01-2020/02/26

Outline

“Be Better, Together” Japanese Studies Curriculum Development and Building Bridges across CUNY seeks to bring together faculty from across the City University of New York (CUNY) in an effort, for the first time, to systematically discuss the current and future state of Japanese Studies in the CUNY system, with over 275,000 students the largest urban public university in the United States.

For more information, please click here.

* Project Cost Totals and JF Grant Totals are estimated at the time of The Japan Foundation’s initial award. The actual figures may change throughout the course of the project’s implementation.