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• CALL FOR PAPERS: 2009 Graduate Student Symposium Program: Mapping of Japanese Space: Place and Geography in the Study of Japan

UCLA Paul I. and Hisako Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies invites proposals for the 15th Annual Graduate Student Symposium on "Mapping of Japanese Space: Place and Geography in the Study of Japan." Proposals from graduate students affiliated with the U.S. and Canadian Institutions will be accepted.

Past Symposia

The 13th annual UCLA Graduate Conference on Japanese Studies held May 5, 2007 explored issues pertaining to aesthetics in Japan.

One for all, and all for one: The Japan Center's Graduate Student Symposium

The Graduate Student Symposium for Japanese Studies faces its share of challenges. Not least of all the question of how to do so much in such little time.

Transculturation and National Signifiers: "Japan" In, After, and Via Diaspora and Return

UCLA Center for Japanese Studies Annual Graduate Student Conference held on April 22nd 2006.

Out of Bounds: Japan With/Out the West

Eleventh Annual Graduate Student Symposium for Japanese Studies, May 7th, 2005

The Other Within

Tenth Annual Graduate Student Symposium for Japanese Studies, May 3, 2003.

Technology, Transformation and Japan

Eight Annual Graduate Student Symposium for Japanese Studies, May 12, 2001.

Voices from the Empire: Japanese Colonialism and its Legacy

Seventh Annual Graduate Student Symposium for Japanese Studies, May 6, 2000.

Foreign Presence in Japan

Sixth Annual Graduate Student Symposium for Japanese Studies, May 1, 1999.

Sites and Sounds: Japanese Popular Culture Visual and Aural, Past and Present

Fifth Annual Graduate Student Symposium for Japanese Studies, April 25, 1998.

Japan the Making of a Nation

Fourth Annual Graduate Student Symposium for Japanese Studies, April 19, 1997.

Challenging the Myth of Uniqueness: Japan in Comparative Perspective

Third Annual Graduate Student Symposium for Japanese Studies, May 4th, 1996.

Japan Breaking Boundaries

Second Annual Graduate Student Symposium for Japanese Studies, April 22, 1995.

Japan Power and Resistance: Contested Interpretations

First Annual Graduate Student Symposium for Japanese Studies, April 16, 1994.