Call for Papers
The Anthropology of Japan in Japan (AJJ)
Fall Meeting 2017
Doshisha University (Imadegawa Campus)
December
Saturday 9 & Sunday 10, 2017
Sponsored by The Institute for
the Liberal Arts
Organized by Dr. David Uva
Ways of Becoming: the Anthropology of Education, Anthropology and Education, and Anthropology in Education
Meeting Theme
You are cordially invited to participate in the Fall Meeting of the Anthropology of Japan in Japan (AJJ) to be held at Doshisha University on December 9~10, 2017.
This fall in Kyoto we hope to expand on previous discussions around the themes of “innovation” (Spring 2017 in Osaka), “reinvention, redefinition, and reconfiguration” (Fall 2016 in Tsukuba), “centers and peripheries” (Spring 2016 in Sendai), and “birth and death” (Fall 2015 in Tenri).
To these themes we would like to direct our conversation to the topic of “education” as imagined broadly in Japanese or comparative contexts.
Ideas of selfhood and perceptions of the self are at the core of educational and socialization practices.
These practices in turn reflect the fundamental tension between social actors and social structure, a core theoretical concern of the social sciences.
We ask in what ways do communities socialize individuals, directing perceptions of childhood, adulthood, parent hood, and selfhood?
How are worldviews transmitted through socialization processes, both in schools or the community more
generally?
How can anthropological studies better describe both formal and informal educational institutions, practices, actors, and p edagogy, as well as the paradoxes and contradictions within these?
How might an anthropological lens better contribute to the study of educational systems and a philosophy of education in both local and comparative contexts? comparative contexts?
With these questions in mind, this meeting seeks to stimulate interdisciplinary this meeting seeks to stimulate interdisciplinary dialogue around both theoretical and descriptive accounts of educational and dialogue around both theoretical and descriptive accounts of educational and socialization processes in Japan, the diaspora, and beyond, in a comparative sense.
Of course, as always, participants are very welcome to submit paper proposals on themes not necessarily directly related to education and from a variety of disciplinary themes not necessarily directly related to education and from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
Keynote Speakers:
Saturday Dec. 9
Dr. Joy Hendry, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, Oxford Brookes, Recipient of the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette 2017.
Sunday Dec. 10
Dr. Tadashi Nishihira, Professor of Education and Philosophy, Graduate School of Education, Kyoto University
Abstracts:
Please send proposals for a panel, or paper, to Professor David Uva (email: duva at mark mail.doshisha.ac.jp).
Abstract length: maximum 250 words per paper.
Abstracts should be in English only.
Papers may be presented in either English or Japanese.
Important Dates:
Deadline for abstract submission: October 13, 2017
Notification of acceptance: October 30, 2017
Presentation Time:
25 minutes per presenter including Q&A
Location:
Doshisha University, Kyoto
Imadegawa Campus
Ryoshinkan Building
http://www.doshisha.ac.jp/en/information/campus/imadegawa/imadegawa.html
Conference Fees (both days):
Undergraduate students: free
Graduate school students: ¥1,000
All other participants: ¥2,000
Reception Fee: ¥1,000 for all
Organizing Committee:
Prof. David Uva (Conference Chair)
Prof. Gregory Poole
Prof. Bruce White
Prof. Fumi Watanabe
Daesung Kwon
Roy Hedrick