SAA-ICJLE 2009 Conference Announcement

July 13-16, 2009

The Japanese Studies Association of Australia (JSAA) is delighted to host JSAA-ICJLE2009, a joint conference for the JSAA conference and the International Conference on Japanese Language Education (ICJLE) in Sydney. The conference will be opened in the evening of the 13th July 2009 at the Art Gallery of New South Wales, and research presentations and discussions will be held from 14th to 16th July at the University of New South Wales with the Conference Dinner in the evening of 15th July in the historic MacLaurin Hall at the University of Sydney. JSAA-ICJLE2009 not only follows the 15th Biennial Japanese Studies conference held in Canberra in 2007, but also follows the 1998 International Symposium in Tokyo on Japanese Language Teaching and subsequent ICJLE conferences in Seoul (2000), Beijing (2002), Tokyo (2004), New York (2006) and Pusan (2008). Given the prominence of Australia in Japanese language education in the world, it is timely to welcome ICJLE for the first time to the Oceania region.

JSAA-ICJLE2009 features research and discussion in various disciplines of Japanese language and studies. The main theme of the conference will be "Bridging the gap between the Japanese language and Japanese studies". The conference aims to provide a forum for Japanese language and studies academics and educators from around the world to meet and share ideas beyond and across their disciplines. The conference will highlight issues that will be of interest across education levels (primary, secondary and tertiary) and disciplines (language, linguistics, literature, sociology, culture, education, history, politics, economics, law, to name but a few). It will provide a forum where researchers and practitioners alike can present their research findings and new pedagogical ideas.

Plenary addresses at the conference will be presented by Professor Joseph Lo Bianco (The University of Melbourne, the most prominent Australian scholar in Language education and policies), Professor Mary Elizabeth Berry (University of California, Berkeley CA, a renowned historian of the premodern and early modern periods), and Professor Jay Rubin ( Harvard University, a distinguished scholar and translator of Akutagawa and Murakami). In addition, there will be a series of panels featuring various themes, individual paper presentations, postgraduate workshops, poster sessions, exhibitions and more.

July 13-16, 2009

University of New South Wales | University of Sydney

Sydney, Australia