Conference Program

Venue: Japanese Studies Centre, 12 Ancora Imparo Way, Monash University Clayton Campus

5:00 pm	Opening Comments
	Professor Carolyn Stevens, Director, Japanese Studies Centre
	Ms. Keiko Haneda, Consul-General of Japan in Melbourne
5:10 pm	*Keynote Address: Learning to Pivot: Japan as a* kaname for engaging with Asia**
	Professor Veronica Taylor, Regulatory Institutions Network (RegNet), Australian National University
5:40 pm	Alumni Voices: Shaping a career through the study of Japanese language and culture
	Mr Brian Kitney, Vice President / Chief Commercial Officer, Osaka Gas Australia Pty Ltd
6:00 pm	Networking drinks
	Make new acquaintances in the Japanese Studies community and catch up with old ones over drinks and nibbles.
7:00 pm	Monash Japanese Studies 50th Anniversary Dinner
	Monash Club, 32 Exhibition Walk, Monash University Clayton Campus

9:30 am	Keynote Address: Critical Japanese Studies in Australia
	Senior Professor Vera Mackie, School of Humanities and Social Inquiry, University of Wollongong
10:30 am	Morning tea
10:45 am	Postgraduate conference: Session 1 (detailed program and abstracts here)
11:45 am	Break
11:55 am	Postgraduate conference: Session 2 (detailed program and abstracts here)
1:00 pm	Lunch
2:00 pm	Postgraduate conference: Session 3 (detailed program and abstracts here)
3:00 pm	Break
3:10 pm	Postgraduate conference: Session 4 (detailed program and abstracts here)
4:10 pm	Afternoon tea
4:30 pm	*Panel Discussion: Images of Japanese Society* 30 years on**
	2016 is the 30th anniversary of the publication of Images of Japanese Society: A Study in the Structure of Social Reality, a highly influential work in the field of contemporary Japanese Studies. We welcome the book’s authors to discuss the book’s impact and revisit some of its frameworks and arguments thirty years on. Panellists: Emeritus Professor Ross Mouer, Monash University; Emeritus Professor Yoshio Sugimoto, La Trobe University Moderator: Professor Carolyn Stevens, Monash University
5:30 pm	Close