The EAJS conference content is traditionally split into disciplinary ‘Sections’ with each Section convened by a 2-3 of Section convenors. The content is timetabled so as to maximise the ability to participate in any specific section as fully as possible.
See the list of sections and their convenors below:
Anthropology and Sociology
Section convenors: Jennifer McGuire (Doshisha University) and Sachiko Horiguchi (Temple University Japan Campus)
Economics, Business and Political Economy
Section convenors: Patrik Ström (Stockholm School of Economics) and Saori Shibata (University of Sheffield)
History
Section convenors: Arvydas Kumpis (Vytautas Magnus University), Nathan Hopson (University of Bergen) and Torsten Weber (DIJ Tokyo)
Intellectual History and Philosophy
Section convenors: Bettina Gramlich-Oka (Sophia University) and Michael Kinski (Frankfurt University)
Interdisciplinary Section: Digital Humanities
Section convenors: James Morris (National Museum of Japanese History and the National Institutes for the Humanities) and Paweł Dybała (Laboratorium Językowe KOTOKEN)
Interdisciplinary Section: Environmental Studies
Section convenors: Katarzyna Cwiertka (Leiden Unviersity) and Linas Didvalis (Vytautas Magnus University)
Interdisciplinary Section: Gender Studies
Section convenors: Marta Fanasca and Sirpa Salenius
Interdisciplinary Section: Transregional Studies (East/Northeast/Southeast Asia)
Section convenors: Aike Rots (University of Oslo) and Raymond Yamamoto (Aarhus University)
Language and Linguistics
Section convenors: Aleksandra Jarosz (Adam Mickiewicz University) and Ivona Barešová (Palacký University Olomouc)
Law
Section convenors: Giorgio Fabio Colombo (Ca’ Foscari University of Venice) and Yuki Horie (Adam Mickiewicz University)
Media Studies
Section convenors: Aleksandra Jaworowicz-Zimny (Nicolaus Copernicus University) and Jaqueline Berndt (Stockholm University)
Modern Literature
Section convenors: Andrzej Świrkowski (Adam Mickiewicz University) and Stefano Romagnoli (Sapienza University of Rome)
Performing Arts
Section convenors: Iga Rutkowska (University of Warsaw) and Philip Seaton (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Politics and International Relations
Section convenors: Hanno Jentzsch (Vienna University) and Karol Zakowski (University of Lodz)
Pre-Modern Literature
Section convenors: Anna Zalewska (University of Warsaw) and Edward Kamens (Yale University)
Religion and Religious Thought
Section convenors: Emily B. Simpson (Wake Forest University) and Erica Baffelli (University of Manchester)
Urban and Regional Studies
Section convenors: Beata Kowalczyk (Adam Mickiewicz University) and Giulia Dugar (University of Bologna)
Visual Arts
Section convenors: Jakub Karpoluk (Polish-Japanese Academy of IT) and Klara Hrvatin (Faculty of Arts, University of Ljubljana)
If you have any questions or comments, please write to the conference address eajs(at)nomadit.co.uk
