Next EAJS Conference

Next EAJS Conference

The 12th International Conference of EAJS will be held at Salento university in Lecce/Italy in 2008, September 20-23. Prior to the conference, the Fifth EAJS PhD Workshop will be held at the same location.

All details of the registration procedure, conference fees, venue and accommodation can be found on the conference website at www.eajsconference.unile.it in English and in Japanese. Here you'll also find a short introduction to the Salento region and facts about Salento university.

The conference programme can be downloaded on the Italian conference website and also here as PDF file. It will be updated regularily, and the newest version can be found here: August 28, 2008

(836 KB).

The eight sections into which the conference is divided and the names of all convenors are listed in the following table and PDF file August 11, 2008 version

(20 KB).

EAJS International Conference 2008
Sections, Convenors and Calls for Papers

The deadline for proposals has passed.
Proposers of panels or individual papers have been informed of the results in January.

In case you would like to contact convenors by e-mail,
please send enquiries for the e-mail address to the EAJS Office.

Interdisciplinary Panels

Members who wish to present research on Japanese Studies beyond the scope of the themes of the individual sections for this conference are invited to submit proposals for interdisciplinary panels.

Section 1: Urban and Environmental Studies Section

Oliver Mayer, Aichi University of Education, Kariya, Japan

Rémi Scoccimaro, Institut d'Asie Orientale, Lyon/Paris, France

Section 2: Japanese Linguistics and Language Teaching Section

Barbara Pizziconi, University of London, SOAS, United Kingdom

Arkadiusz Jablonski, Adam Mickiewicz University, Oriental Institute, Poznan, Poland

Noriko Iwasaki, University of London, SOAS, United Kingdom

Section 3: Literature Section

– Modern Literature –

Matthew Königsberg, Freie Universität Berlin, Department of Japanese Studies, Germany

Diana Donath, Jagiellonian University Kraków, Institute of Oriental Philology, Poland

– Pre-modern Literature –

Robert Omar Khan, University of London, SOAS, United Kingdom

Section 4: Visual and Performimg Arts Section

Peter Eckersall, University of Melbourne, Australia

Joshua Mostow, University of British Columbia, Canada

Donatella Failla, Museum of Japanese Art, Genova, Italy

Section 5: Anthropology and Sociology Section

Anemone Platz, Aarhus University, Denmark

Ingrid Getreuer-Kargl, University of Vienna, Austria

Section 6: Economics and Economic History Section

Iris Wieczorek, GIGA Institute of Asian Studies, Hamburg, Germany

Parissa Haghirian, Sophia University, Faculty of Liberal Arts, International Business and Economics Area, Tokyo, Japan

Section 7: History, Politics and International Relations Section

Sven Saaler, University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, Japan

Dick Stegewerns, Osaka Sangyo University, Japan

Section 8: Religion and History of Ideas Section

Susanne Formanek, Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for the Cultural and Intellectual History of Asia, Vienna, Austria

Galen Amstutz, Ryukoku Daigaku, Faculty of Letters, Kyoto, Japan

Next EAJS Conference

EAJS International Conference 2008 Sections, Convenors and Calls for Papers

EAJS International Conference 2008
Sections, Convenors and Calls for Papers