Biennial Conference of the Japanese Studies Association of Australia 2023/ International Conference of the Network for Translingual Japanese

Theme: Living in a post-Covid Society: Mobility of People and Language across Borders for Social Integration

The joint JSAA-ICNTJ2023 conference will bring cutting-edge research across all areas of Japanese Studies and related fields to the fore, including a feature on Japanese as a heritage and community language. After a hiatus of face-to-face networking and while reflecting on a significant period of restrictions across Australia in 2020-2021, the conference will be a venue to engage researchers in all fields of Japanese Studies through discussions that relate to (but are not limited to) the movement of people and language across borders in a Post-COVID society. The conference will delve into new ways of considering mobility, diversity and social integration where decolonisation and globalisation in and of Japan may be considered in a different light.

 Various social events including a Multilingual/Multicultural/Multisensory Precincts Walking Tour and a Japanese Community Language School Visit will be organised to offer lived experiences of the dynamism and diversity of Sydney. These events aim to give participants the chance to develop and expand the conference themes of mobility, diversity and social integration in situ.

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Venue

University of New South Wales (UNSW)

University of Technology Sydney (UTS)

The University of Sydney 

Online (Hybrid)

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Call for Papers

Authors are invited to send paper proposals (in english, 250-500words and in Japanese,600- 1200 characters ) via the easychair, using on-line submission system. 

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Important Dates:

November 2022               Call for papers/Open for registration

February 28,  2023 → March 15, 2023         Submission of paper proposals

March  2023                    Decision on proposals

April 2023                         Early bird registration due

May 2023                         Registration due

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Session Types:

1.       Research-Oriented Presentation (30 or 60 minutes)These presentations should include a clearly indicated research topic, a brief literature review, an overview of the research methodology and findings, and a discussion of the implications for theory and/or practice. 60-minute sessions will be suitable for larger projects with multiple presenters. All sessions should include some time for Q&A.

2.       Practice-Oriented Presentation or Workshop (30 or 60 minutes)This kind of session shows, as well as describes, a technique for teaching, testing, or other education-related matters. This should be a hands-on professional development session that gives attendees the opportunity to learn to do something new. 60-minute sessions would likely include hands-on activities.

3.       Forum/Panel (90 minutes)Multiple presenters give presentations on a similar topic, or hold a panel discussion (6 presenters maximum). 

4.    Poster Session (90 minutes)Poster presentations with charts, graphs, illustrations, and summaries convey information quickly and effectively and allow for short, informal discussion between the presenter(s) and attendees, as attendees circulate within the poster-session area. Poster sessions serve as an important and interactive forum for sharing professional ideas and for receiving feedback.

Presentation topics:

1. Japanese language and society/community/日本語と社会・地域社会
2. Japanese language learning and learners/日本語学習と学習者
3. Second Language Acquisition of Japanese/日本語の第二言語習得
4. E-learning of Japanese/日本語のe-ラーニング
5. Japanese linguistics (theoretical, applied, socio, psycho…)/日本語の言語学（理論、応用、社会、心理...）
6. Communication studies/コミュニケーション研究
7. Language ideology/言語イデオロギー
8. Identity and language/アイデンティティと言語
9. Nikkei studies/日系研究
10. Japanese (popular) cultural studies/日本の（大衆）文化研究
11. Japanese literature/日本文学
12. Japanese History/日本史
13. Japanese Politics/日本の政治
14. A wide range of areas in Japanese studies/ 幅広い分野にわたる日本研究
15. Studies in relation to Japan and Japanese/日本および日本人に関連する研究
16. Japan and/in the global world/日本とグローバリゼーション
17. Japanese as heritage/community language/継承語・コミュニティランゲージとしての日本語