Thursday 6 September, 2012 - Friday 7 September, 2012
Thomas Paine Study Centre, the University of East Anglia, NR4 7TJ
Speaker
Yoshimi Shunya
The British Association for Japanese Studies (BAJS) is a UK-based association of scholars and researchers dedicated to the development of Japanese Studies. The 2012 BAJS Conference will take place at the University of East Anglia, Norwich, UK, on 6-7 September 2012. Papers are presented in a variety of specialist areas and offer an opportunity to keep abreast of current scholarly thought and research in Japanese Studies. The Conference is open to both members and non-members who share an interest in Japanese Studies.
Keynote speaker:
Professor Yoshimi Shunya
Media Theorist, University of Tokyo
Atomic Dreams: The political Use of Nuclear Technology in Exhibitions and Popular Culture in Postwar Japan (1953-2011)
(The talk will be given in English at 10am, 7 September; the Conference is open to both members and non-members who share an interest in Japanese Studies.)
Organised by: British Association for Japanese Studies [http://www.bajs.org.uk/]
Co-organized by: Centre for Japanese Studies, Japan Foundation, British Centre for Literary Translation, The Great British Sasakawa Foundation