International symposium: Japan Past & Present: Reimagining a Global Field”
The symposium, which will feature dozens of scholars from areas ranging from Spain to Southeast Asia to the Southern United States, will serve as a platform for the collective exploration of the varied local histories and realities that make up the global field of the Japanese humanities. At the same time, it will facilitate discussion about how Japan Past & Present might best further its mission of providing equitable access to scholarly resources for research and teaching and for realizing an increasingly diverse and inclusive future for the field.
Panels of specialists active in a range of disciplines across the globe will explore the history and state of the Japanese humanities in the particular contexts with which they are most familiar. These presentations will serve as a starting point for a series of discussions about how to promote greater collaboration and provide transregional support for scholarship and education in the Japanese humanities. This symposium will be an important opportunity for mutual learning about the unique and shared challenges fellow scholars and students face in contexts across the globe and for considering collaborative solutions.
- Day & Time：May 29 (Tue) – 31 (Sat)
- Venue：Ono Memorial Auditorium
- Language：English & Japanese
- Participants：Students, Faculty and Public
- Participation：Free
- REGISTRATION：In Person / Virtual
- Presented by the Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities, with support from the Waseda International House of Literature
Please visit our event website for more information on each panel, presenters, and more.
Progaram
* THU, MAY 29
09:00 AM- Opening Remarks
09:15 AM- Panel 1: Japanese Humanities in Latin America: Developments and New Initiatives from Japanese Art Studies
10:30 AM- Panel 2: Japanese Studies in Spain: Balancing Global Conversations and Local Debates
11:30 AM- Discussion
02:00 PM- Panel 3: Teaching Japanese Studies and Institutional Program Building in the American South
03:15 PM- Panel 4: Whose Japan Is It Anyway?: Navigating the Competing Desires and Crossed Thresholds as Japan Studies Scholars and More
04:15 PM- Discussion
* FRI, MAY 30
09:00 AM- Panel 5: Enhancing Japanese Humanities in Indonesia: Curriculum Development, Cultural Revitalization, and Infrastructure Development
10:15 AM- Panel 6: Japanese Studies Education Across Borders: Regional Challenges in East and Southeast Asia
11:15 AM- Discussion
01:30 PM- Panel 7: Australians, Australians, Everywhere: Australia’s Japanese Studies Boom (1987–2000) and its Global Afterlives
02:45 PM- Panel 8: From Japan to the World and Back Again: Thinking Critically about Japanese Studies in the Japanese University Classroom
03:45 PM- Discussion
* SAT, MAY 31
09:00 AM- Discussion 1: Reflections Past & Present
10:15 AM- Discussion 2: Reimagining a Global Field
11:15 AM- Closing Remarks
Japan Past & Present
Contact
Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities: [email protected]
