Program
(updated on 16 February 2007)
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Sunday December 10th
Afternoon Session (2:30 - 5:30 pm)
Mark Lincicome
Centering the Periphery: National Identity and the Problem of Asian Regionalism in Australia and Japan
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Tasaku Tsunoda
Japanese participation in the documentation and revitalisation of Australian Aboriginal languages
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Nanette Gottlieb
Japanese Studies in the Internet Age
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Dinner at Cable Beach Resort
Evening Session of Four Short Presentations (8:00 - 9:00 pm)
Sachiko Noguchi
Goals of Japanese language education in pre-war time: Moshi Inagaki at the University of Melbourne
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Mie Tsunoda
Systematic teaching of Japanese grammar
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Masayo Tada
Japanese Studies in a Globalised Era: Representations of the Other in Japan as Teaching Materials
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Hiroko Hashimoto
30 years of student exchange between Australia and Japan
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Monday December 11th
Morning Session (9:00 am - 12:00 pm)
Robin Gerster
CONTACT! Cultural Impacts of the Australian Post-War Occupation of Japan
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Leith Morton
War and Culture: The Debate over Japanese Poetry and World War Two
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Beatrice Trefalt
Repositioning Asia in the context of Australian memories of the war with Japan
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Afternoon Session (2:00 - 5:00 pm)
Stephen Alomes
Margins to Mainstream: Changing Populism in Australia and Japan
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Takashi Terada
30 Years of the Australia-Japan Partnership in Asian regionalism: Evolution and Future Directions
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Four Short Presentations
Narrelle Morris
(PhD Research Student, Asia Research Centre – Japanese Studies
Murdoch University, Western Australia)
From ‘Japan-bashing’ to ‘Japan-surpassing’? – Australia, Japan and the Rise of China in the Early Twenty-First Century
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Kylie Martin
(PhD student, Monash University)
Iyayraykere: welcome to a new Japanese world
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Yoko Harada
(PhD Research Student, University of Wollongong)
Australia, Japan and Orientalism: Examining a common symptom – inferiority complex – of “Natural Partners”
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Alexandra Hambleton and Jun Yano
Hanryū and Resident Koreans in Japan
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Dinner at Cable Resort (6:00 - 7:30 pm)
Guests from local communities, including Lucy Dann.
Facilitated by butoh dancer, Yumi Umiumare (Yumi's profile)
After Dinner (8:00 pm)
Screening of Mayu Kanamori’s documentary Heart of the Journey
Tuesday December 12th
Morning Session (9:00 am - 12:00 pm)
Vera Mackie
(University
of Melbourne)
Japanese Studies after the 'Somatic
Turn'
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Keiji
Sawada
Hybridity and interculturalism in Australia-Japan
theatrical exchanges
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Peter Eckersall
(University of Melbourne)
Australia’s Japanese
avant-garde theatre: habitus, cultural community
and soft power
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Afternoon Session (2:00 - 5:00 pm)
Charles Schencking
At the Epicentre of 1920s Japan: Unity, Contestation, and the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923
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Janet Borland
(Asia Institute, The University of Melbourne)
Learning from Disasters: Japan, Australia and the Asia-Pacific Region in History
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Chris Mullis
Great Earthquake, Great Opportunity: International Aid and International Politics in Japan, America, and Japanese America
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Pam Oliver (in absentia)
The Japanese in Broome: contributions and conflicts in White Australia to 1942
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Alan Davidson
Vale David Sissons
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Launches (5:00 - 6:00 pm)
Launch of Japan Foundation journal for Early Career Researchers, New Voices
Launch of Unexpected Encounters: Neglected Histories Behind the Australia-Japan Relationship, edited by Michael Ackland and Pam Oliver (MAI Press)
Dinner at Cable Resort (6:00 - 7:30 pm)
After Dinner (8:00 pm)
Playwright John Romeril will talk about his Ms Tanaka, and other Japan-Broome inspirations. (John's profile)
Wednesday December 13th
Morning Session ( 9:00 am - 12:30 pm)
Toshiko Ellis
Reading Japanese literature in translation: How can we make it approachable?
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Ross Mouer
Translating Japan
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Tetsuo Mizukami
Sojourners and Settlers: Patterns of Japanese Migration to Australia
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Dr Hideko Nakamura
The hidden role of activism in the Australia-Japan relationship
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Afternoon Session (2:00 - 5:30 pm)
Pauline Kent
“The Chrysanthemum and the Sword”: the past meets the future of Japanese Studies
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Robyn Spence-Brown
Reconsidering the goals of Japanese language education
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Alison Tokita
Marriage and the Australia-Japan relationship
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Yasuko Claremont
Australian Perspectives of Japan: enlightening Japanese students visiting Australia
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