30 August 2024
The Fitzwilliam Museum is currently displaying a collection of ukiyo-e prints, providing an exciting opportunity to take a closer look at these rarely displayed works.
FAMES PhD student Helen Magowan undertook a 3-month internship at the Fitzwilliam museum at the beginning of the year, which has now materialised into the current display in the Shiba Gallery.
30 July 2024
Interview of Dr Brigitte Steger with Manabi no Chizu on studying Japanese Studies (in Japanese) by onjin published
24 July 2024
Last Wednesday (17th July 2024) Professor James Montgomery was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy.
10 July 2024
The British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies has awarded their 2024 Book Prize to Aaron Hornkohl for his book, The Historical Depth of the Tiberian Reading Tradition of Biblical Hebrew
05 June 2024
Translation and the Borders of Contemporary Japanese Literature: Inciting Difference
15 May 2024
The Japanese Studies section celebrated 75 Years of Japanese Studies at Cambridge on Friday 10 May at an evening reception with alumni, students and supporters
03 May 2024
Kanda Yoko and Tatekawa Shinoharu brought their captivating performances to FAMES on Wednesday 1 May 2024
23 April 2024
We are extremely proud of our alumna Tessa Rizzoli. Tessa, who graduated in 2020 from Japanese Studies at AMES, has recently published in Japanese a very interesting book on the Japanese language:『イタリア女子が沼ったジワる日本語』（亜紀書房、2024）
26 March 2024
'The Geography of Injustice: East Asia's Battle between Memory and History' is out now
02 February 2024
The essay, titled 'Subjection and Citizenship: 1930s Nikkei Citizenry and Japanese-Language Education in Hawaii', features in the new publication from the Hoover Institution: 'Japanese America on the Eve of the Pacific War: An Untold History of the 1930s'
19 January 2024
The piece, co-authored with Steven Irvings, is titled: In the Black Ships’ Wake: Early American Enterprise at Treaty Port Hakodate
08 January 2024
The Royal Asiatic Society of Great Britain and Ireland has announced that Dr. Thomas P. Barrett, who is currently Postdoctoral Research Associate within the faculty, has been awarded the Society's 2023 Bayly Prize for his doctoral dissertation 'Foreigners and the Making of the Chinese Diplomat', for which he received his doctorate for from the University of Oxford in 2022.
22 November 2023
The UK-Japanese Defence and Intelligence Relationship event recording is now available to watch online
03 October 2023
The Korean Studies section at the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies is excited to welcome the first awardee of the Yang Won Sun Foundation Postgraduate Studentship.