Call for Papers

This conference invites graduate students from all disciplines of Japanese Studies to explore past and present concepts, understandings, and experiences of health and the body. How are these embodied in Japan's knowledge systems, institutional structures, and identities?

Possible areas of inquiry include (but are not limited to):

• Healing & medical practices, systems, technologies
• Public & environmental health
• Embodied identities (e.g. gender, LCBTQ, race, disability, reproductivity, aging, illness, pain, death)
• Mental health
• Art, media & representation of health/bodies/embodiment
• Fitness, athletics & bodily discipline
• Aesthetics & affect in/of the body
• Subjectivity & representation
• Embodiment & futurity

Keynote speaker: Professor Noriko Horiguchi (University of Tennessee),
​author of Women Adrift: The Literature of Japan's Imperial Body

Deadline for abstracts (up to 250 words):
Friday, January 8th, 2016

Please email abstracts (including name, institutional affiliation, and presentation title to: cjsgradconference@berkeley.edu

Limited funding is available for presenters. We encourage applicants seeking funding to apply well in advance of the deadline