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*CALL FOR PAPERS *

*International Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Politics and Science of Ageing in Japan and the UK *

Dates (ONLINE):

*9th - 10th September 2021 *

The University of East Anglia's (UEA) Interdisciplinary Institute for Humanities (IIH), in collaboration with the International Graduate Program in Japanese Studies at Tohoku University, is pleased to announce a call for papers for an *_online_* International Interdisciplinary Workshop on the Politics and Science of Ageing in Japan and the UK, scheduled to be hosted at UEA from September 9^th -10^th , 2021. The event aims to bring together scholars and postgraduate researchers from across a range of nationalities and disciplines to share research and exchange ideas, with the goal of fostering collaborations that can generate new knowledge and high-quality outputs.

*The workshop is interdisciplinary and open to all from across social and natural sciences*. It will aim to offer an ideal platform from which to examine how in particular Japan and the UK might improve their approaches in terms of contributing to successes and avoiding failures in order to enhance engagement with, and develop better integrated policy responses to, the multi-fold challenges presented by ageing societies. Its aspirational agenda is to initiate the fostering of research networks that adopt methodologically credible interdisciplinary approaches and responses to practical problems arising from ageing society in Japan and the UK, with a view to wider application. The workshop, therefore, seeks to advance this agenda by engaging with these challenges from an integrated, interdisciplinary perspective.

The workshop will build upon The Second Conference on Global Japanese Studies, hosted at Tohoku in December 2019 and, as such, celebrates the continuation of the partnership between the University of East Anglia and Tohoku University.

Paper proposals should include a title, abstract and institutional affiliation, should be no longer than 250 words, and should be submitted no later than:

*Friday 30th April 2021 *to Ra Mason:***Ra.Mason@uea.ac.uk ***

*Ra Mason (PhD^{^2} , FHEA)***

*Sasakawa Lecturer in International Relations and Japanese Foreign Policy*

School of Politics, Philosophy, Language & Communication Studies*
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(01603 593935 | *Ra.Mason@uea.ac.uk |