Japan Anthropology Workshop

Japan Anthropology Workshop (JAWS) developed out of a "growing international interest in the anthropology of Japan," and the first conference was organised in Oxford in March 1984.[1] It is now an annual conference organised with hosts across the world.

Conferences

An overview of the JAWS conferences from 2005.[2]

Date Title Subject Location Keynote speaker Notes
2005 16th JAWS Conference East Meets West University of Hong Kong Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
2005 17th JAWS Conference Time and Memory University of Vienna Held in conjunction with the 11th European Association for Japanese Studies (EAJS) Conference
2007 18th JAWS Conference Japan and Materiality in a Broader Perspective University of Oslo Joy Hendry
2010 20th JAWS Conference Religion, Ritual, and Identity in Japan University of Texas at Austin Delores Martinez
2011 21st JAWS Conference Otago University, at Dunedin
2011 22nd JAWS Conference Tallinn University in Estonia Held concurrent with Section 5 (Anthropology and Sociology) of the 13th EAJS Conference
2013 23rd JAWS Conference University of Pittsburgh, USA
2014 24th JAWS Conference
  1. Living with disaster: Comparative approaches
  2. Mutual anthropology: a proposal for future equality in the discipline
 Chiba, Japan
  1. Dr. Hayashi Isao and Dr. Brigitte Steger
  2. 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 (JACSA)
2014 25th JAWS Conference Ljubljana, Slovenia Held concurrent with Section 5 of the 14th International Conference of the European Association
2015 26th JAWS Conference
  1. Boğaziçi University, Istanbul Turkey
  2. Seijo University, Tokyo
  3. Ludwig Maximilians University of Munich, Germany
2016 27th JAWS Conference Kobe University, Japan Held concurrent with the 2nd EAJS Japan Conference
2017 28th JAWS Conference Lisbon, Portugal Held concurrent with section 5a and 5b of the 15th EAJS International Conference
2019 29th JAWS Conference Aarhus University, Denmark
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References
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  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2018-03-27. Retrieved 2010-10-24.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
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