The ANU Japan Institute Seminar Series is supported by the Australian Government through the Australia-Japan Foundation of the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade.
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The ANU Japan Institute Seminar Series showcases cutting-edge research by leading and emerging scholars based primarily in Australia and Japan. It aims to promote networking among Japan Studies scholars in the two countries and will feature innovative research on the bilateral relationship.
The seminar series will run in 10-week blocks over the two semesters of the academic year, and will subsequently be made available online for public viewing. Join our mailing list to receive updates and reminders ahead of each seminar.
Semester 2, 2024
Thursday, August 8 2024
Speaker: Associate Professor Tomoko Akami, ANU
Tuesday, August 20 2024
Seminar: Click bait, bikers, and dystopian politics
Speaker: Dr Emerald L King, Tasmania University
The YouTube clip referenced by the speaker at the Seminar.
Tuesday, September 3 2024
Seminar: Billiken unveiled: Osaka’s quirky naked grinning icon
Speaker: Dr Matthew W Shores, University of Sydney
Tuesday, September 24 2024
Speaker: Dr Gwyn McClelland, University of New England
Recording available here
Tuesday, October 1 2024
Seminar: Transnational spread of Japanese queer media across Southeast Asia
Speaker: Dr Thomas Baudinette, Macquarie University
Thursday, October 17 2024
Seminar: Re-articulating the Okinawan struggle in East Asia’s postcolonial cold war
Speaker: Dr Shin Takahashi, Victoria University of Wellington
Semester 1, 2024
Tuesday, April 16 2024
Seminar: Japanese war crimes: An assessment
Speaker: Professor Sandra Wilson, Murdoch University
Tuesday, May 7 2024
Seminar: A reconsideration of Japan’s delayed surrender in World War II
Speaker: Professor Peter Mauch, Western Sydney University
Wednesday, May 22 2024
Seminar: Women's voices from the end of the Japanese Empire
Speaker: Dr Mayuko Itoh, ANU
Semester 2, 2023
Wednesday, December 6 2023
Seminar: Comparing pathways of digital innovation in Australian and Japanese public services
Speaker: Hajime Isozaki , University of Canberra
Wednesday, November 29 2023
Seminar: The Silent Protest: Understanding Sasangge’s Role in South Korean Pro-Democracy Movements
Speaker: Younghye Seo-Whitney, The Australian National University
Wednesday, November 15 2023
Seminar: Queering Japanese Boy Band and Homosociality
Speaker: Dr Katsuhiko Suganuma, University of Tasmania
Wednesday, November 1 2023
Seminar: Diplomatic traditions of Japan and the United States: A preliminary comparative analysis
Speaker: Professor Naoki Kamimura, Nanzan University, Nagoya, Japan
Wednesday, October 25 2023
Seminar: Japan in WWII: the Soviet View
Speaker: Professor Yaroslav Shulatov, Waseda University, Tokyo, Japan
Wednesday, October 18 2023
Seminar: South Korea’s National Identity and Japan: Beyond the ‘History Problem’
Speaker: Associate Professor Alexander Bukh, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand
Semester 1, 2023
Wednesday, May 18 2023
Seminar: Zainichi Korean 'home' as a space of confrontation, before the repatriation to North Korea
Speaker: Joowhee Lee, The Australian National University
Wednesday, May 11 2023
Seminar: Mixed Japanese youth identities and multiculturalism in Australia and Japan
Speaker: Aoife Wilkinson, University of Queensland
Wednesday, May 4 2023
Seminar: Star power and the malleability of 'tradition' - The case of Kamigata Rakugo
Speaker: Dr Matthew Shores, University of Sydney
Wednesday, April 27, 2023
Seminar: The Australian Embassy in Tokyo and Australia-Relations
Speakers: Professor Kate Darian-Smith, University of Tasmania, and Professor David Lowe, Deakin University
Wednesday, April 20, 2023
Seminar: Japan's national security strategy in a changing era
Speaker: Professor Yoko Iwama, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies
Wednesday, April 6, 2023
Seminar: The crisis of reproduction in Japan: the state and the operation of biopolitics/necropolitics
Speaker: Professor Hiroko Takeda, Nagoya University
Wednesday, March 30, 2023
Speaker: Associate Professor Timothy Amos, University of Sydney
Wednesday, March 23, 2023
Speaker: Professor Donna Weeks, Musashino University
No recording available
Wednesday, March 9, 2023
Seminar: Hidden Flowers - depictions of sexuality in shojo and redikomi versions of The Tale of Genji
Speaker: Dr Emerald L King, University of Tasmania
Wednesday, March 2, 2023
Seminar: Why are there more women in the Upper House?
Speaker: Professor Yoshikuni Ono, Waseda University
Semester 2, 2022
Wednesday 16 November 2022 (online)
Time: 5-6 pm AEDT / 3-4pm JST
Speakers: Julie Lahn, Samantha Faulkner, Annick Thomassin, and Jacinta Baragud, ANU
Wednesday 9 November 2022 (online)
Time: 5-6 pm AEDT / 3-4pm JST
Seminar: The future demand-supply gap in unpaid work in Japan and the UK: How much technology do we need?
Speaker: Dr Setsuya Fukuda, Natioonal Institute of Population and Social Secruity Rsearch, Tokyo, Japan
Co-author of Research: Dr Rikiya Matsukura, Nihon Unveristy, Tokyo, Japan
Wednesday 2 November 2022 (online)
Time: 5-6 pm AEDT / 3-4pm JST
Speaker: Dr Pinar Temocin, Hiroshima University
Wednesday 26 October 2022 (online)
Time: 5-6 pm AEDT / 3-4pm JST
Speaker: Yuma Osaki, ANU
Wednesday 19 October 2022 (online)
Time: 5-6 pm AEDT / 3-4pm JST
Seminar: States, markets and nationalism: Japanese international shipping in the interwar era
Speakers: Dr Masumi Yoshida, Mitsui Bunko
Wednesday 12 October 2022 (online)
Time: 5-6 pm AEDT / 3-4pm JST
Seminar: Asia and postwar Japan: Deimperialisation, civic actvism, and national identiy
Speakers: Professor Simon Avenell, ANU
Wednesday 5 October 2022 (online)
Time: 5-6 pm ADST / 3-4pm JST
Seminar: Japanese security strategy: Becoming a 'normal' great power?
Speakers: Dr Thomas Wilkins, University of Sydney and Australian Strategy Policy Institute
Wednesday 21 September 2022 (in-person and online)
Time: 5-6 pm AEST / 4-5pm JST
Seminar: Making Manchuria Red: Japanese Engineers and the Chinese Communist Revolution
Speakers: Dr Koji Hirata, Monash University
Wednesday 14 September 2022 (in-person and online)
Time: 5-6 pm AEST / 4-5pm JST
Seminar: The role of language in the political gender gap in Japan
Speakers: Dr Yoko Yonezawa, University of Sydney
Wednesday 31 August 2022 (in-person and online)
Time: 5-6 pm AEST / 4-5pm JST
Seminar: The Inescapable China in Japanese Democracry
Speakers: Professor Kiri Paramore, National University of Ireland
Semester 1, 2022
Wednesday, May 25, 2022
Seminar: Celebrating Professor Carol Hayes
Speakers: Emerald King (UTas); Vera Mackie; Bruce Miller AO; Ikuko Nakane (U Melb); Katherine Seaton (Latrobe); Grady Venville (ANU)
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
Speakers: Associate Professor Nana Oishi
No recording available.
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Seminar: The McMahon Moment in Australia's Japan Policy
Speakers: Professor Rikki Kersten
Wednesday, May 4, 2022
Seminar: Rethinking Regulation in Japan: New Empirical Insights
Speakers: A/Professor Carol Lawson, University of Tokyo and A/Professor Stacey Steele, University of Melbourne Law School
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
Seminar: Japan-Australia Cooperation: Middle Powers Rising in the Indo-Pacific
Speakers: Dr. Stephen R. Nagy
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Seminar: The Transference of Trauma, and Nagasaki Narratives
Speakers: Dr Gwynn McClelland
Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Seminar: Ginza Bricktown and the politics of Urban Reform in Early Meiji Tokyo
Speakers: Associate Professor Tristan R. Grunow
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Seminar: Colonial Policy Studies and visions of Nanyo (the South Seas) in modern Japan
Speakers: Tomohito Baji
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Seminar: Transpacific Visions: Connected Histories of the Pacific across North and South
Speakers: Professor Yasuko Hassall Kobayashi, Dr Shin Takahashi
Semester 2, 2021
Wednesday, October 20, 2021
“Local Knowledge as the Basis of Disaster Management in Asia”
Co-hosted by ANU Japan Institute & College of Global Arts at Ritsumeikan University
Wednesday, October 13, 2021
Roundtable: “Parasites in Popular Culture: Science and Culture at Play”
Chair: Associate Professor Carol Hayes
No recording available
Wednesday, October 6, 2021
Roundtable: “Speaking to contemporary artist Kiki Ando - Highest Mountain and Deepest Bay Exhibition”
Chair: Associate Professor Carol Hayes
Wednesday, September 29, 2021
“Belt and Road Initiative and its Implications for Japan”
Associate Professor Miwa Hirono, Ritsumeikan University
Wednesday, September 22, 2021
“The Okinawa Struggle and Translocalism: Beyond Minority Politics”
Dr Shin Takahashi, Victoria University of Wellington & ANU visiting academic (2022)
Wednesday, September 15, 2021
“Foreign Labour without Foreign Residents? The question of social integration for migrants in Japan's agriculture”
Professor Glenda S. Roberts & Dr Noriko Fujita, Waseda University
Wednesday, September 1, 2021
“The Monumentalism of Hindu-Buddhist Kingship in Medieval Japan”
Dr Matthew Stavros, The University of Sydney
Wednesday, August 25, 2021
“Questioning the ‘History’ of the Cowra Breakout”
Rebecca Hausler, The University of Queensland
Wednesday, August 18, 2021
“Waste nationalism: A gender analysis of the consumption and recycling of plastics in Japan”
Dr Shiori Shakuto, The University of Tokyo
Wednesday, August 11, 2021
Roundtable:“Understanding Japan through reimagining the Australia-Japan relationship”
Chair: Associate Professor Shiro Armstrong
Semester 1, 2021
Wednesday, 19 May 2021
Roundtable on Supporting Teaching Advanced Japanese in Australia - Network for Teaching Advanced Japanese in Australia (豪州上級日本語ネットワーク)
Co-Chairs: Carol Hayes, The Australian National University (ANU) and A/Prof Ikuko Nakane, University of Melbourne
Wednesday, 12 May 2021
Japan’s Net Zero Carbon Emissions: What Happens Now?
A/Professor Llewelyn Hughes, The Australian National University (ANU)
Wednesday, 5 May 2021
Japan's New Strategic Role in the Indo-Pacific: Fulfilling the Potentials of the ‘Quad-Plus’
Assistant Prof. Kei Koga, Nanyang Technological University
Wednesday, 28 April 2021
Toward Societal Reconciliation between South Korea and Japan: the Role of Youth
A/Prof. Seiko Mimaki, Takasaki University of Economics
A recording of this session can be made available on request by emailing Partnerships.CAP@anu.edu.au
Wednesday, 21 April 2021
Against Blind Love: Eugenic Marriage Counselling in Wartime Japan
Alison Darby, The Australian National University
Wednesday, 14 April 2021
Institutional Barriers to Gender Equality and Corporate Changes in Japan
Prof. Kumiko Nemoto, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies
A recording of this session can be made available on request by emailing Partnerships.CAP@anu.edu.au
Wednesday, 31 March 2021
Coed Revolution: The Female Student in the Japanese New Left
A/Prof. Chelsea Szendi Schieder, Aoyama Gakuin University
Wednesday, 24 March 2021
The Opening of the Right-Wing's Eyes: Tsukui Tatsuo, State Socialism, and the New China of the 1950s
Dr Andrew Levidis, NLA Fellow in Japan Studies
Wednesday, 17 March 2021
BRINDIV’s (British India Division) Participation in the Allied Occupation of Japan
Dr Rowena Ward, University of Wollongong
This session was not recorded.
Wednesday, 10 March 2021
Ruby and Diamond: On the Multiculturalism of Japanese in Wartime Australia
Professor Emerita Tessa Morris-Suzuki, ANU
