BAJS 2018 Conference: Crisis? What Crisis? Continuity, and Change in Japan

The 2018 British Association for Japanese Studies (BAJS) 2018 conference “Crisis? What Crisis? Continuity and Change in Japan” will bring together scholars and students from a wide range of locations and fields to discuss the relevance of viewing Japan as being in states of social, economic, and/or demographic crisis. With Japan creating, resisting, and implementing major constitutional changes in recent years, signs of sustained growth have begun to emerge and a resurgent image of what it means to be Japanese is being promoted, particularly with the 2020 Tokyo Olympics approaching. The BAJS conference will look at the relevence of a crisis and continuity framework in modern Japanese Studies discourse.

 

Accompanying the talks from a wide range of speakers, the conference will also include a conference film programme, a postgraduate student workshop, and a postgraduate student poster session.

The key note speakers for this conference are Professor Mori Yashitaka (Tokyo University of the Arts) and Professor Gennifer Weisenfeld (Duke University) who will be exploring cultural and social change in Japan from two different perspectives.

 

For more information and for registration details please visit the BAJS website