SYMPOSIUM - Japanese Communities in Transition: Australia 2010, Mar 13 2010 [15.02.2010]
MONASH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF LANGUAGES, CULTURES & LINGUISTICS JAPANESE STUDIES CENTRE & JAPANESE STUDIES PROGRAM
SYMPOSIUM
"Japanese Communities in Transition: Australia 2010"
Time: March 13 (Saturday), 2010, 9:30-5:00
Venue: Japanese Studies Centre, Bldg.54 Monash University, Clayton Campus, Wellington Road
Clayton, Victoria
Intensive transnational networks and activities are creating new types of ethnic communities in Australia. This symposium will explore aspects of Japanese settlement issues in Australia, as a variant of emerging settlement patterns of Australia’s new migrants. It aims to show how the Japanese community is changing from the earlier types of settler community and sojourner community, to become transnational communities; and how the Japanese communities differ from other ethnic communities in Australia in this regard. Some papers will showcase research on macro data (Mizukami and Spence-Brown/De Kretser); others will present results of more focussed qualitative research projects, including research on Japanese international students, Japanese background speakers in Japanese language programs in universities, intermarriage, Japanese working holiday makers, senior members of the Japanese community, aspects of Japanese communities in Brisbane and Sydney, and possibly also Japanese long-stay senior visitors (to be confirmed).
Registration:
Registration for the symposium is free, but is essential for catering purposes. As there will be no food outlets open on Saturday, a light lunch will be provided for participants. Closing date for registering is
17:00 on Friday March 5th.
Please send your registration with the following information to:
Japanese Studies Centre: japanese.studies.centre@arts.monash.edu.au
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Program
9:30 Opening remarks by Professor Ross Mouer
Guest Speaker, The Consul-General of Japan (tbc)
Speakers:
10:00 Mizukami Tetsuo (Japanese Studies Centre / Professor, Rikkyo
University)
Overview of the Japanese population in Australia with a focus upon demographic data.
10:30 Robyn Spence-Brown (Monash University) and Anne de Kretser (Melbourne Centre for Japanese Language Education)
The current state of Japanese language education in Australia (tentative title)
11:00 Naomi Kurata and Kenta Koshiba (Monash University)
Cultural identity of Japanese background speakers.
11:30 Shizu Koyanagi (Metropolitan University of Tokyo)
Interpersonal interaction and perceived boundaries in intercultural contexts of Australia, Japan and Thailand: the cases of Japanese international students and retired seniors.
12:00 Lunch
1:00 Fujioka Nobuaki (PhD candidate, Hitotsubashi University)
Japanese working holiday makers in Australian cities.
1:30 Itoh Mayuko (Phd candidate, University of Melbourne)
International marriage communities.
2:00 Selena Kusaka (MA candidate, University of Sussex / La Trobe University)
Australian-Japanese international marriage community in Melbourne
2:30 Tea break
3:00 Masao Nobe (Professor, Okayama University)
The networks of elderly Japanese in Australia
3:30 Nagatomo Jun (Kwansei Gakuin University, Kobe)
Current situation of Japanese business in Australia and changes in the Japanese community in Queensland.
4:00 Takeshi Hamano (PhD candidate, University of Western Sydney)
Dwelling in Australia and resurgence of Japanese gender identity: Japanese marriage migrants and their ‘home’ in Sydney’s rural suburbs
4:30 Closing discussion
5:00 Finish