Dear Moderators of the SSJ-Forum,

This is David Uva from the Institute for the Liberal Arts of Doshisha
University. Would it be possible to post the call for papers below on
SSJ-Forum please? Thank you.

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The Anthropology of Japan in Japan (AJJ) Fall Meeting 2017: Call For
Papers

Place: Doshisha University (Imadegawa Campus, Ryoshinkan Building)
http://www.doshisha.ac.jp/en/information/campus/imadegawa/imadegawa.html

Date: December Saturday 9 & Sunday 10, 2017

Meeting Theme:
Ways of Becoming: the Anthropology of Education, Anthropology and
Education & Anthropology in Education

You are cordially invited to participate in the Fall Meeting of the
Anthropology of Japan in Japan (AJJ). This fall in Kyoto we hope to
expand on previous discussions around the themes of “innovation” (Spring
2017 in Osaka), “reinvention, redefinition, and reconfiguration” (Fall
2016 in Tsukuba), “centers and peripheries” (Spring 2016 in Sendai), and
“birth and death” (Fall 2015 in Tenri). To these themes we would like to
direct our conversation to the topic of “education” as imagined broadly
in Japanese or comparative contexts.

Ideas of selfhood and perceptions of the self are at the core of
educational and socialization practices. These practices in turn reflect
the fundamental tension between social actors and social structure, a
core theoretical concern of the social sciences. We ask in what ways do
communities socialize individuals, directing perceptions of childhood,
adulthood, parenthood, and selfhood? How are worldviews transmitted
through socialization processes, both in schools or the community more
generally? How can anthropological studies better describe both formal
and informal educational institutions, practices, actors, and pedagogy,
as well as the paradoxes and contradictions within these? How might an
anthropological lens better contribute to the study of educational
systems and a philosophy of education in both local and comparative
contexts?

With these questions in mind, this meeting seeks to stimulate
interdisciplinary dialogue around both theoretical and descriptive
accounts of educational and socialization processes in Japan, the
diaspora, and beyond, in a comparative sense.

Of course, as always, participants are very welcome to submit paper
proposals on themes not necessarily directly related to education and
from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.

Keynote Speakers:
Dr. Joy Hendry, Emeritus Professor of Anthropology, Oxford Brookes
University (Dec. 9)
Dr. Tadashi Nishihira, Professor of Education and Philosophy, Graduate
School of Education, Kyoto University (Dec. 10)

Abstracts:
Please send proposals for a panel, or paper, to Professor David Uva (
email: duva at mark mail.doshisha.ac.jp). Abstracts should be in English
only with a maximum length of 250 words per paper. Papers may be
presented in either English or Japanese. Presentation time is limited to
25 minutes per presenter including Q&A.

Important Dates:
Deadline for abstract submission: October 13, 2017
Notification of acceptance: October 30, 2017

More details on AJJ Blogs: http://www.ajj-online.net/www.ajj-online.net/Blog/Blog.html

David Uva (Conference Chair)
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Best regards,

David Uva

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David Uva Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
B.A. Liberal Arts Program
The Institute for the Liberal Arts
Doshisha University

http://ila.doshisha.ac.jp/

Tel. +81-75-251-4975
Fax. +81-75-251-3304

E-mail duva@mail.doshisha.ac.jp
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