Japan Anthropology Workshop


Japan Anthropology Workshop developed out of a "growing international interest in the anthropology of Japan," and the first conference was organised in Oxford in March 1984. It is now an annual conference organised with hosts across the world.

Conferences

An overview of the JAWS conferences from 2005.
DateTitleSubjectLocationKeynote speakerNotes
200516th JAWS ConferenceEast Meets WestUniversity of Hong KongEmiko Ohnuki-Tierney
200517th JAWS ConferenceTime and MemoryUniversity of ViennaHeld in conjunction with the 11th European Association for Japanese Studies Conference
200718th JAWS ConferenceJapan and Materiality in a Broader PerspectiveUniversity of OsloJoy Hendry
201020th JAWS ConferenceReligion, Ritual, and Identity in JapanUniversity of Texas at AustinDelores Martinez
201121st JAWS ConferenceOtago University, at Dunedin
201122nd JAWS ConferenceTallinn University in EstoniaHeld concurrent with Section 5 of the 13th EAJS Conference
201323rd JAWS ConferenceUniversity of Pittsburgh, USA
201424th JAWS Conference
  1. Living with disaster: Comparative approaches
  2. Mutual anthropology: a proposal for future equality in the discipline
Chiba, Japan
  • Dr. Hayashi Isao and Dr. Brigitte Steger
  • Professors Joy Hendry and Shioji Yuko
    		• Held at the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences and organised by the Japanese Society of Cultural Anthropology
    201425th JAWS ConferenceLjubljana, SloveniaHeld concurrent with Section 5 of the 14th International Conference of the European Association
    201526th JAWS Conference
  • Boğaziçi University, Istanbul Turkey
  • Seijo University, Tokyo
  • Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Germany
    • 201627th JAWS ConferenceKobe University, JapanHeld concurrent with the 2nd EAJS Japan Conference
    201728th JAWS ConferenceLisbon, PortugalHeld concurrent with section 5a and 5b of the 15th EAJS International Conference
    201929th JAWS ConferenceAarhus University, Denmark