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

Recording available here

 

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

Recording available here

 

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

Recording available here

 

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

Recording available here

 

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

Recording available here

 

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

Recording available here

 

Wednesday 26 October 2022 (online)
Time: 5-6 pm AEDT / 3-4pm JST

Seminar: Japan's role int he eveloution of East Asian regional integration - from the adoption of bilateral FTAs to the making of RCEP

Speaker: Yuma Osaki, ANU

Recording availalbe here

 

Wednesday 2 November 2022 (online)

Time: 5-6 pm AEDT / 3-4pm JST

Seminar: Environmental civil society organisations and engagement in the energy decision-making processes in post-Fukushima Japan

Speaker: Dr Pinar Temocin, Hiroshima University

Recording available here

 

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

Recording available here

 

Wednesday 16 November 2022 (online)

Time: 5-6 pm AEDT / 3-4pm JST

Seminar: Japanese geographic and ethnographic research of Torres Strait (Zenadth Kes) Australia: Rekindling connections 50 years on

Speakers: Julie Lahn, Samantha Faulkner, Annick Thomassin, and Jacinta Baragud, ANU

Recording available here

 

 

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

Seminar: Voluntary Underclass? Globalism, Temporality, and the Life Choices of Japanese Working Holiday Makers in Australia

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