2013-2014 IPS Small Grant Program Awardees

Institution	Project Title
Asian Art Museum	C. Laan Chun Library Center Card Catalog Digitization
Bryn Mawr College	Japanese Studies in the Tri-College Community and Greater Philadelphia Area: Deepening Engagement through a Film Series on Disaster and Rebuilding in Japan
University of Mary Washington	Year of Japan: UMW 2014
University of Southern California (East Asian Library)	Expanding US’s Summer Kambun Workshop

Grantee	Asian Art Museum
Project Title	C. Laan Chun Library Center Card Catalog Digitization
Grant Period	2013/10/1-2014/09/30
Outline	With support from JF, the C. Laan Chun library will undertake the digitalization of approx. 5,400 Japanese and non-Japanese language card catalog resources about Japan.

Grantee	Bryn Mawr College
Project Title	Japanese Studies in the Tri-College Community and Greater Philadelphia Area: Deepening Engagement through a Film Series on Disaster and Rebuilding in Japan
Grant Period	2014/01/01-2014/04/30
Outline	Primary grant project is a film series on disasters and rebuilding in Japan, which will deepen the ongoing cooperation among Bryn Mawr, Haverford, and Swarthmore Colleges while reaching out to the greater Philadelphia community.

Grantee	University of Mary Washington
Project Title	Year of Japan: UMW 2014
Grant Period	2014/01/01-12/31/2014
Outline	Grant project includes a course on postwar Japanese fiction, nine monthly visiting presentations on Japan, and library acquisitions.

Grantee	University of Southern California
Project Title	Expanding USC’s Summer Kambun Workshop
Grant Period	2014/03/01-2015/02/28
Outline	This grant supports the USC Summer Kambun workshop by offering travel/accommodation funds for graduate students from universities other than USC to participate in the workshop.

* 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.