We are pleased to announce the third “Japan in the World and the World in Japan: A Methodological Approach” international symposium. This year’s event will be held at the Center for Japanese Language and Culture, Osaka University (Minoh Campus), on March 3^rd and 4^th, 2018.

The symposium focuses on the secondary and tertiary level instruction of subjects related to Japan (history, culture, literature, etc) in a cosmopolitan way that aims to place knowledge in the context of an internationally-oriented education, appropriate in this age of super-globalization. We invite proposals for:

1) pedagogically-based papers and panels on the instruction of content courses;

2) presentations introducing novel syllabi, teaching methods and materials;

3) demo lessons centred on content-based class activities.

   Please submit a 250-word abstract, along with a 50-word presenter bio and contact information, by December 31, 2017 to japanintheworld1@gmail.com.

Important Dates: Abstract proposal: December 31, 2017

Notification of result: January 31, 2018

Registration: by February 20, 2018

You can see the programme and abstracts of the presentations given at the previous symposium (December 3-4, 2016, Otemae University) on our Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/Japanintheworld/

A selection of the papers presented will soon be available as a peer-reviewed volume on Otemae University’s online repository.