Workshop Opportunities
The information below is based on the 2015-2016 events. Event dates and deadlines are subject to change.
Last Update: Oct 17, 2016
1 Graduate Conferences for Japanese/Asian Studies
Grad conferences are the best starting point to present your first paper in academia. H-Net gives you updates about grad student conference: https://networks.h-net.org/tags/graduate-student-conference
- Harvard East Asia Society Conference
Event Date: February
Venue: Harvard University (Cambridge, Massachusetts)
Webpage (for 2016): http://projects.iq.harvard.edu/heasconference/home
- Annual Graduate Student Conference on East Asia, Columbia
Event Date: February
Venue: Columbia University (New York)
Webpage: http://ealac.columbia.edu/graduate/gradcon/
- Asian Studies Graduate Student Conference, CUBASGA
Event Date: February
Venue: The University of Colorado Boulder Asian Studies Graduate Association (Boulder, Colorado)
Webpage: http://www.colorado.edu/alc/cubasga
- Annual SPAS Graduate Student Conference
Event Date: March
Venue: University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa (Honolulu, Hawai’i)
Webpage (for 2016): https://manoa.hawaii.edu/asianstudies/?p=586
- McGill East Asian Studies Graduate Symposium
Event Date: April
Venue: McGill University (Montreal, Canada)
Webpage (for 2015): http://blogs.mcgill.ca/easpgsa/symposium-2015/
- Annual UC Berkeley Japan Studies Graduate Conference
Event Date: April
Venue: University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, California)
Webpage (for 2016): http://cjsgradconference2016.weebly.com/
- Annual Japan Studies Graduate Student Conference, UCLA
Event Date: October
Venue: UCLA (Los Angels, California)
Webpage: http://uclajstudiesgradcon.weebly.com/
2 Japanese/Asian Studies Conferences
- Association for the Asian Studies
The AAS hosts annual meetings as well as many regional conferences in the U.S. (http://www.asian-studies.org/About/Regionals) and annual conferences in Asia (http://www.asian-studies.org/Conferences/AAS-in-ASIA-Conferences/).
- Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ)
Event Date: June/July, Annually
Venue: Tokyo
Webpage: http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~ascj/
- International Conference of the European Association of Japanese Studies (EAJS)
Venue: Europe
Webpage: http://www.eajs.eu/index.php?id=305
- East Asian Consortium of Japanese Studies
Event Date: November/December, Annually
Venue: East Asia
Webpage: http://www.eacjs.org/
- Japanese Studies Association of Australia Conference (JSAA)
Event Date: June/July, Biennially (2015, 2017, 2019...)
Venue: Australia
Webpage: http://www.jsaa.org.au/main/page_conferences__seminars_conferences.html
3 Conferences for the History of Science and Medicine in Japan/Asia
- Asian Society for the History of Medicine
Event Date: Fall, Biennially (2014, 2016, 2018...)
Venue: Asia
Webpage: http://www.ihp.sinica.edu.tw/~medicine/ashm/en_index.htm
- International Conference on the History of Science in East Asia
Venue: Europe
Webpage: http://isheastm.org/
- Nihon Kagakushi Gakkai (History of Science Society of Japan)
Event Date: Spring
Language: Japanese
Webpage: http://historyofscience.jp/english-information
- Nihon Ishi Gakkai (Japanese Society for the History of Medicine)
Event Date: Spring
Language: Japanese
Webpage: http://jsmh.umin.jp/index_e.html
4 Workshops
These workshops are consisted of one or a couple long lecture(s). Coordinators of these workshops will be happy if you want to give a talk.
- Kazemi
Venue: Tokyo Institute of Technology (Tokyo, Japan)
Language: English/Japanese
Webpage: http://www.histec.me.titech.ac.jp/kazemi.htm
Note: This workshop is organized by faculty and graduate students in the department of the history of science and technology at Tokyo Institute of Technology. They invite historians of science, technology and medicine from all over the world.
- Yōgakushi Gakkai workshop
Venue: University of Electro-Communications (Tokyo, Japan)
Language: Japanese
Webpage: http://yogakushi.jpn.org/announcements.html
- Nihon Ishi Gakkai workshop
Venue: Juntendō University (Tokyo, Japan)
Language: Japanese
Webpage: http://jsmh.umin.jp/events.html
- Asian Society for Social History of Medicine Workshop
Venue: Aoyama Gakuin University (Tokyo, Japan)
Language: English/Japanese
Webpage: http://d.hatena.ne.jp/asshm/
- Seibutugakushi Kenkyūkai (History of Biology Workshop)
Venue: University of Tokyo, Komaba Campus (Tokyo, Japan)
Language: English/Japanese
Webpage: http://www.ns.kogakuin.ac.jp/~ft12153/hisbio/frame_j.htm
Note: I am one of the coordinators of this workshop, and let me know if you want to deliver a talk. We welcome presenters not only from the history of biology but also from history/sociology of science/medicine/health!
- Modern Japan History Workshop
Venue: Waseda University (Tokyo, Japan)
Language: English
Webpage: https://sites.google.com/site/modernjapanhistoryworkshop/