Upcoming events

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Australia-related books recently published in Japan

Upcoming Event Information

Gekidan Haisho to present "The Secret River" by Andrew Bovell, based upon Kate Grenville's novel

15-24 July 2022
Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo (Sun-mall studio)

Yasukichi Murakami – Through A Distant Lens: Japanese Language Reading

24-25 June 2022
Shinjuku-ku, Tokyo (Waseda University for Waseda University students and staff)
Online for all other audiences (bookings from 1 June)

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Photographs by: Yasukichi Murakami Courtesy, Murakami Family Archives

Australian Studies Association of Japan 2022 National Conference

'Rethinking the Local and the Global of Australian Studies'

18 -19 June 2022
Online and Kwansai Gakuin University

18June

Zoom Link
Meeting ID: 626 746 9631 Passcode: 128697

13:30 Opening Ceremony
14:00-14:50 Special Lecture by Mr Bruce Miller AO, Chair, Australia-Japan Foundation – Australian Embassy Tokyo and Australia-Japan Relations

15:00-17:00 AJF Symposium – Call and Response of Indigenous Studies in Australia and Japan
MC: Prof Yugo Tomonaga, Ryukoku University

Speakers:
Prof Sana Nakata, The University of Melbourne “A Torres Strait Islander’s perspective on non-Indigenous relations”

Prof Mai Ishihara, Hokkaido University “The (im) possibilities of Indigenous Research in Japan: The invisibility of indigenous people and the absence of settlers”
Prof Jeffry Gayman “Challenges and prospects of call and response work with the Ainu: Reflections on efforts at collaborative research of an American scholar based in Hokkaido”

19 June

10:00-12:30 Breakout sessions (Research Presentations)

Zoom Link
Meeting ID: 874 2675 1764 Passcode: 579243

14:00-16:30 AJF Symposium – Transnational Flows of People and Culture: Issues of Australian Tourism in Covid-19 Crisis

Zoom Link
Meeting ID: 626 746 9631 Passcode: 128697

MC Prof Michiyo Yoshida, Wakayama University

Speakers: Prof Hayato Nagai, Wakayama University - “Trends and the current state of international tourism: A focus on tourism between Australia and Japan”

Mr Paul Summers, Tourism Queensland - “Rebuilding Japanese travel demand to Australia: A State Tourism Organisation (STO) perspective”

Prof Monica Chien, University of Queensland – “Passing the baton – From the Tokyo 2020 Olympic and Paralympic Games to Queensland 2032: Big impacts, small footprints”

Register by 3 June: https://forms.gle/RmNi4smV5CM5m3Vq9