JAPAN STUDIES ASSOCIATION OF CANADA (JSAC) 2024
LAST CALL FOR PAPERS
The annual conference of the Japan Studies Association of Canada (JSAC) will be held at theUniversité du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) from October 24 to 27, 2024.
This year’s theme, “A laboratory for a future Japan”, is inspired by that of Expo 2025, which willtake place next year in Osaka, and where Expo 1970 was held after Expo 1967 in Montreal. Theseuniversal exhibitions, having attracted worldwide attention to Japan and Canada, left a legacy ofvarious infrastructures, leading to a wider vision of the world and profound socio-cultural,economic and technological changes.
If Expo 1970 introduced the rest of the world to the Japanese economic "miracle", Expo 2025 willtake place in a completely different socio-economic context and is intended to introduce a newform of society as it relates to the national project of a Society 5.0 and to place the United Nations
Sustainable Development Goals at the forefront of this event.
The post-pandemic world, however, is confronted with new forms of conflict, climate change andan intensification of economic and technological competition, within a geopolitical context wheretraditional wars endure and the international order weakening. Will Japan prove resilient when
faced with these challenges? This multidisciplinary JSAC conference is open to panels andindividual papers addressing Japan's past, present and future.
The conference will begin on the afternoon of Thursday, October 24 with its opening speech. Theconference will take place all day on Friday, October 25 and Saturday, October 26 as well as themorning of Sunday, October 27.
This annual conference, which will be held at UQAM, represents an important milestone for theJSAC, founded in 1987. Although the JSAC annual conference is organized each year by adifferent university across Canada, this is the first time that it will take place in a French-speaking
institution. JSAC meetings are truly multidisciplinary and known for their exceptionally collegial
welcome. Members and participants come from a wide range of disciplines, united by a sharedinterest for Japan. We hope you will join us. Do not hesitate to share this call for papers with otheracademics and students.

We will have a series of keynote addresses to which you are all warmly invited:• Augustin Berque. Sur la contingence de tout Japon à venir (On the contingency of any futureJapan?). Professor emeritus, École des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris (EHESS –School of Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences).
• Bernard Bernier. Le Japon, un monde en transformation depuis 1966 (Japan, a World inTransformation since 1966). Professor, Département d’anthropologie, Université deMontréal (Department of Anthropology, University of Montreal).
• Sébastien Lechevalier. Société 5.0 et innovation tirée par le care dans le cas des soins auxpersonnes âgées dépendantes au Japon (Society 5.0 and Innovation Driven by Care in theCase of Care for the Dependent Elderly in Japan). Professor, EHESS. President of theFrance-Japan Foundation of EHESS.
• Leonard Schoppa. Creating Livable Society at the Local Level: How Population Decline andCivic Engagement Combine to Reshape Localities in Japan (Créer une société vivable auniveau local: comment le déclin démographique et l'engagement civique se combinent pourremodeler les localités au Japon). Professor, Department of Politics, University of Virginia.
• Yuriko Yokoyama. ⽇本社会のジェンダー 性売買の歴史を⼿がかりに Gender in JapaneseSociety: Through the history of sex trade. Professor, National Museum of Japanese History.
• Toru Yoshida. Du populisme au Japon. Quoi de neuf ? (Populism in Japan, what’s new?).
Professor, Doshisha University.
This year, we will organize a workshop for university students in the presence of Emil Pacha
Valencia, editor-in-chief of Tempura Magazine, a French publication based in Paris.
We invite you to make a proposal (panels or individual communications). Each panel session lasts
90 minutes. Please prepare a 20-minute presentation per participant. A Q&R session will follow at
the end of each panel.
Please send your name, the title of your presentation or panel and an abstract in the language ofpresentation (article: max 200 words / panel description: max 500 words) using the following link
before August 15: https://forms.gle/E5p9r8b2Rj5QCk5L6
When a group of presenters wishes to form a panel, the panel organizer must coordinate with theother speakers and take responsibility for that panel.
Important Dates
Abstract submission deadline : August 15th, 2024 (EST)
Confirmation of acceptance : Generally within two weeks
Each (co-)presenter must register for the conference before September 15th, 2024 (EST).
https://sites.grenadine.uqam.ca/sites/ecoledelangues/en/jsac2024••

Please contact the following address for any inquiry about the submission process:conferencejsac2024uqam@gmail.com
Please include the words JSAC Panel or JSAC Paper in the subject line.