The 59th Annual Meeting of the JAAS will be held at Hokkaido University in Sapporo on
May 31 and June 1, 2025. The Program Coordinating Committee invites proposals for the
“Independent Paper Sessions” to be held during the morning of the first day, May 31.

Submission:

Submit your proposal (PDF) that includes: 1) your name and affiliation; 2) the title; 3) the abstract (approximately 800 words); 4) five keywords, via the following section of the American Studies Association website.

https://www.jaas.gr.jp/outline/contact-us.html?lang=en  (page in English)

https://www.jaas.gr.jp/outline/contact-us.html#contact  (page in Japanese)

Deadline: November 15, 2024.

Acceptance and decline emails will be sent in early January.

Proposal from Japan:

JAAS members are eligible for submission. Non-members wishing to submit proposals are asked to complete the membership application upon submission.

Proposal from outside Japan:

Submissions from both JAAS members and non-members are reviewed. Upon acceptance, non-members are asked to make the conference registration by e-mail no later than March 1, 2025. Also, the 8,000 JPY registration fee (non-refundable) should be paid at the venue prior to the presentation.

* Non-members living outside Japan may present papers once without becoming formal members of the JAAS. From the second time on, you are asked to become a member before presenting a paper. You can apply for the membership upon submission.

** You can present papers for two consecutive years, but not three years in a row.

***All the submissions should be previously unpublished and should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. The committee accepts proposals in English and Japanese.

****When your proposal is accepted, you will be asked to submit the full paper (approximately 5,000 to 7,500 words in English, 8,000 to 12,000 letters in Japanese) to the Committee no later than May 10, 2025. The paper, locked with the password, will be posted on the JAAS website for the members prior to the Annual Meeting.

The JAAS Annual Meeting Program Coordinating Committee

The 58th JAAS Annual Meeting will be held on June 1st and 2nd, 2024 at Waseda University, Tokyo.
The Fifty-Eighth JAAS Annual Meeting Program

Map to the Ikuta Campus is below.

https://www.senshu-u.ac.jp/english/campus/ikuta/

・2023Program English.Final (20230510)

Dear Colleague,

We inform you that the JAAS Executive Board and Program Committee decided that our 55th Annual Conference on June 5-6, 2021, is to be held ONLINE. We appreciate the JAAS members and partners at Keio University, and apologize for inconveniences this decision may cause to those of you who had planned to attend the 2021 Conference. Details regarding the online conference will be provided on the JAAS official website and through the association mailing list.

Ayumu KANEKO
Chair, Program Committee, JAAS

The 55th Annual Conference of the Japanese Association for American Studies,
(Keio University, Tokyo, Japan)

The 55th JAAS Annual Meeting will be held on June 5th and 6th, 2021 at Keio University, Tokyo. The JAAS Annual Meeting Program Coordinating Committee invites JAAS members to send paper proposals for the “Independent Paper Sessions” to be held on June 5th, 2020. If you are interested in giving a paper, please send by email a proposal that includes (1) your name, (2) your affiliation, (3) the title of your paper, (4) a summary of your paper (approximately 800 words) and (5) five keywords to the JAAS Annual Meeting Office (program@jaas.gr.jp) by November 20th, 2020 (Japanese Standard Time, JST).

The 55th Conference may be held online, if the of COVID-19 pandemic is not sufficiently resolved. Please check JAAS official website for the latest information.

[Proposals from Japan] Only JAAS members can submit a paper proposal. Proposals from non-members will be reviewed if their membership application is received by November 20th, 2019 and the membership is approved in the Board of Executive Directors meeting. Upon approval, you should compete your membership payment.

[Proposal from outside Japan]Non-members can submit a proposal. When the paper is accepted, you should register before March 1st, 2021 (JST) to ensure your presentation. Registration fee is 8,000 JPN. Please note that registration fee is non-refundable.

You can present a paper in the “Independent Paper Sessions” two years in a row, but not three years. A previously published paper will not be accepted.

If your proposal is accepted, you will be asked to submit your full paper (approximately 5,000 to 7,500 words) to the JAAS Annual Meeting Program Coordinating Committee by May 15th, 2021. The paper will be posted at the JAAS Internet site for two weeks before and after the Annual Meeting; it will be protected by a password that will be given to JAAS members only.

The JAAS Annual Meeting Program Coordinating Committee