Join us in sunny Honolulu January 2018 to share our new and continuing pedagogical and research interests in Japan’s literary and cultural traditions, historical and economic developments, sociopolitical and religious past and present. We invite proposals for individual presentations, discipline-specific or interdisciplinary panels, roundtables on pedagogy and teaching innovation and staged readings.

We encourage both east-west and inter-Asian comparative perspectives and particularly welcome contributions by alumni of JSA’s Freeman Foundation intensive workshops on Japan (2002–2016) such as the Wichita and Belmont workshops, both funded by a generous grant from the Japan Foundation. We also welcome proposals from participants in the 2014 Kyoto, the 2015 Hiroshima/Nagasaki and the 2017 Okinawa workshops. We recommend you contact colleagues with whom you share pedagogical and research interests to form a panel or a round table as this results in more engaging presentations and follow-up discussion.

Submitting an abstract or a panel proposal:

Abstracts for an individual presentation (approx. 250 words) or proposals for a themed panel, roundtable or staged reading (approx. 500 words) should be submitted via JSA’s website: http://www.japanstudies.org by Monday, 25 September 2017 Please make sure that you include the name(s), institutional affiliation and contact information for each presenter along with individual presentation titles.

For more information, please contact the Conference Program Co-Chairs:

Prof. Andrea Stover, Belmont University: andrea.stover@belmont.edu

Prof. Paul Dunscomb, University of Alaska Anchorage: pedunscomb@alaska.edu