For the first time ever in 2025, the Japanese Studies Association of Australia Biennial conference will be held in Anaiwan Country (also a meeting place for Dangaddi, Gunbainggari and Baanbai tribes), on the New England Tablelands in Armidale at the University of New England campus. All scholars involved in Japanese Studies in some way, or at its margins, are welcomed to the conference.
The conference theme is 'Marginal Places, Flows, Identities', inspired by the Anaiwan region, and UNE's position in a marginal place, at around 1000 metres above sea level. Like Armidale's relationship to the major urban cities of Sydney and Brisbane, there are many marginal places on the edges of Japan, and beyond, where identity has been affected by historical prejudice and losses, and where the often-assumed 'homogeneity' of Japan is questioned.
Keynote speakers at JSAA2025 will include:
* Emerita Professor of ANU, Tessa Morris-Suzuki and
* Dr Reiko Yoshida of the University of South Australia
Registrations
Registrations open 10 March. Early bird registration closes 27 June.
Attending online
Please note that JSAA2025 is not a fully hybrid conference. Online only presentations will be scheduled together with other online presentations and online registrations will not have access to all face-to-face sessions, with the exception of the keynote presentations, which will be streamed.
The limited access will be reflected in the price of registrations.
Contact
Co-convenors: Gwyn McClelland and Laura Clark
Please email any questions to
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More information on the webpage:
https://www.une.edu.au/about-une/faculty-of-humanities-arts-social-sciences-and-education/hass/news-and-events/jsaa-conference-2025
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