ANU Japan Institute Seminar Series 2022

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 virtual seminar series will run in 10-week blocks over the two semesters of the academic year (from 2021 to 2023), and will subsequently be made available online for public viewing. Join our mailing list to receive updates and reminders ahead of each seminar.
Please see the full schedule of seminars and available recordings below. The virtual seminars will take place from:
- 5-6PM Australian Eastern Standard Time (AEST)
- 4-5PM Japan Standard Time (JST)
- 3-4PM Singapore Standard Time (STST)
After 1 October, with Australian Eastern Daylight Time
- 5-6PM Australian Eastern Daylight Time (AEDT)
- 3-4PM Japan Standard Time (JST)
- 2-3PM Singapore Standard Time (STST)
SEMESTER 2, 2022:
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
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 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 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 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 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 26 October 2022 (online)
Time: 5-6 pm AEDT / 3-4pm JST
Speaker: Yuma Osaki, ANU
Wednesday 2 November 2022 (online)
Time: 5-6 pm AEDT / 3-4pm JST
Speaker: Dr Pinar Temocin, Hiroshima University
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 16 November 2022 (online)
Time: 5-6 pm AEDT / 3-4pm JST
Speakers: Julie Lahn, Samantha Faulkner, Annick Thomassin, and Jacinta Baragud, ANU
SEMESTER 1, 2022:
Wednesday, March 16, 2022
Seminar: Transpacific Visions: Connected Histories of the Pacific across North and South
Speakers: Professor Yasuko Hassall Kobayashi, Dr Shin Takahashi
Recording Available Here:
Wednesday, March 23, 2022
Seminar: Colonial Policy Studies and visions of Nanyo (the South Seas) in modern Japan
Speakers: Tomohito Baji
Recording Available Here:
Wednesday, March 30, 2022
Seminar: Ginza Bricktown and the politics of Urban Reform in Early Meiji Tokyo
Speakers: Associate Professor Tristan R. Grunow
Recording Available Here:
Wednesday, April 13, 2022
Seminar: The Transference of Trauma, and Nagasaki Narratives
Speakers: Dr Gwynn McClelland
Recording Available Here
Wednesday, April 20, 2022
Seminar: Japan-Australia Cooperation: Middle Powers Rising in the Indo-Pacific
Speakers: Dr. Stephen R. Nagy
Recording Available Here
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
Recording Available Here
Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Seminar: The McMahon Moment in Australia's Japan Policy
Speakers: Professor Rikki Kersten
Recording available here
Wednesday, May 18, 2022
Speakers: Associate Professor Nana Oishi
No recording available.
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)
Rcording available here