Past Conferences

30^th JAWS Conference 2021
held concurrently with the Anthropology and Sociology section and the Media Studies section of the 16th EAJS conference, 24-28 August 2021

29^th JAWS Conference 2019
Aarhus University, Denmark, 15-19 April 2019.
Event Web site and Conference programme (PDF)

28^th JAWS Conference 2017
Concurrently with Section 5a and Section 5b of the 15th EAJS International Conference 2017 in Lisbon, Portugal, 30 August – 2 September 2017.

27^th JAWS Conference 2016
Kobe University, Kobe (Japan), concurrently with the 2nd EAJS Japan Conference.

26^th JAWS Conference 2015
Boğaziçi University, Istanbul, Turkey, 1-4 September 2015.

AJJ in Tokyo 2015
Seijo University, Tokyo, 25-26 April 2015.
AJJ in Tokyo 2015 poster (.pdf)

16^th Deutschsprachiger Japanologentag 2015
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München Germany, 26-28 August 2015.
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25^th JAWS Conference 2014
held concurrently with Section 5 of the 14th European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS) conference, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 27-30 August 2014.

24^th JAWS Conference 2014
two panels (P023 and P116) and a roundtable at the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences (IUAES) 2014 congress, Chiba, Japan, 15-18 May 2014 and organised by the Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology (JACSA).

23^rd JAWS Conference 2013
University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh PA, USA, 07-09 March 2013.

22^nd JAWS Conference 2011
held concurrently with Section 5 of the 13^th European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS) conference at Tallinn University, Estonia, 24-28 August 2011.

21^st JAWS Conference 2011
Otago University, Dunedin NZ, 10-11 July 2011.

20^th JAWS Conference 2010
University of Texas at Austin 2010, Religion, Ritual, and Identity in Japan.
Keynote Speaker: Delores Martinez

For information on earlier conferences, see the History page.