ANU Japan Institute Seminar Series 2023

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 1, 2023:
Wednesday, March 2, 2023
Seminar: Why are there more women in the Upper House?
Speaker: Professor Yoshikuni Ono, Waseda University
Watch the semianr on Vimeo
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
Watch the semianr on Vimeo
Wednesday, March 23, 2023
Speaker: Professor Donna Weeks, Musashino University
Wednesday, March 30, 2023
Speaker: Associate Professor Timothy Amos, University of Sydney
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, 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 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, May 4 2023
Seminar: Star power and the malleability of 'tradition' - The case of Kamigata Rakugo
Speaker: Dr Matthew Shores, University of Sydney
Wednesday, May 11 2023
Seminar: Mixed Japanese youth identities and multiculturalism in Australia and Japan
Speaker: Aoife Wilkinson, University of Queensland
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
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.