News and information

This is our fourth Report about activities and plans of the EARL published for the attention of the institutions, participating in the EARL, and for information to all our supporters, users and followers, who have enjoyed the EARL thus far – and hopefully will continue to do so in the future.

Yomidas Rekishikan database is a digital archive covering the entire history of newspaper publishing in Japan. Students and staff of Faculty of Social Sciences and Faculty of Arts can access the trial from 5 January until 7 March 2021.

The Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs invites students from Slovenia to join the MIRAI (Mutual-understanding, Intellectual Relations and Academic Exchange Initiative) Program in Japan, in May 2021.

EARL is delighted to invite you to the 3rd online “Taiwan Lecture on Chinese Studies,” cohosted by Tel Aviv University (Israel), National Central Library (Taiwan), and Center for Chinese Studies (Taiwan).

The EARL was proud to be the venue for the virtual presentation of the book by Matjaž Uršič and Heide Imei, which took place on 1st December 2020.

Between tradition and modernity: The Korean Film Week 2020 deliberately focuses on the Korean woman and provides an insight into the life of “ordinary” Korean women in five selected feature films. In a cinematic foray through the last century, from Korea in the 1920s to the present day, the program focuses on the change of gender roles of women and the external and internal conflicts associated with it.

EARL invites you to the 2nd online “Taiwan Lecture on Chinese Studies,” cohosted by Institute of Oriental Studies of the Russian Academy of Sciences, National Central Library (Taiwan), and Center for Chinese Studies (Taiwan).

The East Asia Resource Library (EARL) invites you to an introduction of the book written by Matjaž Uršič and Heide Imai, titled: Creativity in Tokyo – Revitalizing a Mature City. The book, which was published by Palgrave this year, will be discussed by the authors, on Tuesday, 1 December 2020, at 10 am Ljubljana time, on Zoom.

Our partner, the Capital Library of China has kindly brought to us two electronic exhibitions for which it has cooperated with some institutions to organize and produce. One is on COVID-19 as experienced in China, whereas the other takes us on a trip to observe changes in China’s rural areas.

The VAZ (East Asian Collections in Slovenia) website (www.vazcollections.si) was officially presented at an online event hosted by the Department of Asian Studies of the Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana, on Thursday, 8 October 2020, at 1 pm. With a large database of East Asian material from Slovenian museums and institutions, the VAZ website (www.vazcollections.si) connects various objects of East Asian origin on the national level and makes them accessible to the general public for the first time.