2023 Venue & travel
The 17thInternational Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS) took place in Ghent, the capital of East Flanders and a city, which is, according to the Washington Post, “Belgium’s unsung capital of cool.” National Geographic Traveller even sees Ghent “as the most authentic historic city in the world.” The city combines an impressive […]
2023 Exhibitors
Exhibit information The book exhibit took place in the halls of the main conference building – Blandijnberg 2, Ghent University.Delegates had the opportunity to browse the newest releases and selection of publication there during the whole conference. Opening times: Thursday 10:30 – 16:00 Friday 09:30 – 17:00 Saturday 09:30 – 17:00 Sunday 09:30 – 16:00 […]
2023 Information for convenors and authors
Rules for submissions All delegates may only present once. Convenors may present a paper in their own panel, or, if they wish, be the chair/discussant in their own panel, and present a paper elsewhere (they cannot do both). All paper-givers may also have an additional role as the discussant in another panel – not the […]
2023 Sections and Convenors
Call for papers and panels are now closed.
2021 Sections
Accordion Title Accordion Content Urban, Regional and Environmental Studies –> Urb (was Section 1) Theme: Human mobilities, demographic change and post-growth societies Section convenors: Adrian Favell and Susanne Klien Keywords: Post-growth, sustainability, social-spatial polarization, political ecology, urban/rural inequalities, mobilities and migration, transnationalism This section will offer as always a welcoming reception to a wide range […]
2021 Film Programme
Films were accessible during the conference and the following week, now the film access has been closed, apart from Recollection of the violets, which can still be watched via the link. Ainu. Pathways to Memory 沖波 (Okinami) Human Error joso Ōkunoshima おみおくり〜Sending Off〜 (Sending Off) 坂網猟 −人と自然の付き合い方を考える (Sakaami, Traditional Wild Duck Hunting: Thinking About the […]
Who Won the War
A Hiroshima survivor embarks for America to avenge his father’s death, but gets tricked into a medical experimentation program for radioactive subjects.
An Anthropologist in Changing Japan: 45 years working with one Village
The story of an anthropologist’s 45 year affair with one horticultural village in Japan
みゃーくふつの未来：消えゆく声、生まれる声 (The future of Myaakufutsu: vanishing voices, emerging voices)
The future of Myaakufutsu: vanishing voices, emerging voices
Kazoku no Shomei (Proof of Family)
An Ethiopian asylum seeker in Tokyo takes on Japan’s bureaucracy to prove his legal family ties to his wife and daughter.
