| The Chino Kaori Memorial Essay Prize |
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The JAHF Chino Prize Committee is delighted to announce the selection of the essay "Building the Narrative of Postwar Japan: Tange Kenzo's Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park" by Hyunjung Cho, a PhD candidate in Art History at the University of Southern California, to receive the 7th annual Chino Kaori Memorial Essay Prize. Hyunjung's essay explores the dialogue between the international modern style and Japanese traditional architecture in the realization of Tange's memorial, emphasizing some of the continuities between Tange's war-time and post-war design. Established in 2003, the Chino Kaori Memorial Essay Prize is administered by the Japan Art History Forum (JAHF) and sponsored by the University of Hawaii Press. This annual competition is open to graduate students from any university. The prize will be awarded to the best research paper written in English on a Japanese Art History topic. The prize consists of a gift of 400 dollars in books from the University of Hawaii Press catalogue (postage paid by UHP) and a complimentary two-year JAHF membership. In addition, the prize recipient will receive the bi-lingual book form of the most recently published annual Chino Kaori Memorial 'New Visions' Lecture, sponsored jointly by the Center for the Study of Women, Buddhism, and Cultural History at the Medieval Japanese Studies Institute, Kyoto, and the Gender Research Center, Tokyo. This is an annual competition, open to graduate students from any university. The prize will be awarded to the best research paper written in English on a Japanese Art History topic and submitted to the selection committee by the deadline. Papers should be under 10,000 words (in Times New Roman, 12 point, double spaced) and not previously published. The selection committee will post an abstract of the winning paper on the JAHF website. The deadline for submission of papers is June 1, 2008. The 2008 selection committee is Hillary Eve Pedersen (the elected JAHF graduate student representative, Kansas University), Jonathan Reynolds (Barnard College), Miriam Wattles (University of California at Santa Barbara), Joshua Mostow (University of British Columbia), and Toshio Watanabe (University of the Arts London). Submissions should be made by email. Texts should be in Microsoft Word or Adobe Acrobat (PDF); Illustrations should be in MS Power Point or Adobe Acrobat (PDF) with individual illustration images no larger than 75 dpi and the total file size no larger than 4 MB. Submissions not complying with the specifications will not be accepted. Please direct submissions and questions to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it Miriam Wattles
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