Dear members of SSJ-Forum, 

GAS committee as well as Japan Foundation are happy to announce that the second JF conference will be held on 29th of September, 2023. We welcome all of those who are interested in JF-GJS initiative. The concrete program is as follows. Those who will join the conference are kindly requested to register by 20th of September 2023 (JST). 

JF-GJS Initiative: Japan Foundation Fellow Conference 2023

JF-GJSイニシアチブ 「日本研究フェロー・カンファレンス 2023」

Date and Time: September 29 (Fri), 2023, 13:00-20:30 (JST)　

Venue: Ito International Research Center, The University of Tokyo

Registration: https://forms.gle/5F4EsFe22zLBnDu3A

Language: English, Japanese 

プログラム／Program

Opening (Ito Hall) 13:30 Remarks by the Executive Vice President of The Japan Foundation (SATO Yuri)

 

Session I "Japan in Asia" (Ito Hall) 

13:45-14:15 

Presenter: RAINA, Vidhita (PhD Candidate at the University of Kansas) "Exploring Early Modern Society through Sarasa: Art and Popular Culture" (English)

Chair: OGAWA Michihiro (Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo)

14:15-14:45 

Presenter: FU, Huiqin (PhD Candidate at Nankai University) "INOUE Tetsujiro's Thoughts of Kogaku Sect: Focusing on ITO Jinsai and OGYU Sorai"(Japanese)

Chair: NAKAJIMA Takahiro (Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo)

14:45-15:15 

Presenter: REZA, S M Ali (University of Dhaka) "Democracy and Economic Development: A Japanese Perspective for Bangladesh" (English)

Chair: SATO Jin (Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo)

 

Group Photo (The Japan Foundation Fellows and the JF-GJS, etc) 

15:15-16:15 Networking (Event Space) 

 

16:15-17:15 Session II "Breakout Session: Meet JF Fellows" (Event Space) 

 

Closing (Ito Hall) 

17:15-17:45 "Reflections of Breakout Session"

Speaker: YI, Yunsu (Hongik University, JF-GJS Fellow), HYNES, Mairead Cecille (Columbia University, JF-GJS Fellow), SONODA Shigeto (Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo), HARA Hideki (Managing Director of Japanese Studies Department, The Japan Foundation)

17:45- Remarks by the Director of Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, The University of Tokyo (NAKAJIMA Takahiro)

-20:30  Reception (Event Space) 

 

Organizer: JF-GJS Initiative, Japan Foundation 

Contact: gas[at]ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp

Best Regards,

JF-GJS Initiative at Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia

Global Asian Studies (GAS) 

https://gas.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp