Schedule - Friday August 25th, 2006
2:00-6:00 pm Symposium at the Japanese Studies Centre"Perspectives on the Japanese diaspora in Australia"
2:00-3:00
Kuniko Yoshimitsu:
"Negotiating
bilingual and bicultural identities of Japanese background students
in Australia".
Abstract
(pdf format)
Shoko Hagino:
"Roles
of community language schools in New Times"
Abstract (pdf format)
Helen Marriott:
"Diaspora and language
behaviour"
Abstract
(pdf format)
"The function of the interpreter in intercultural business communication"
Abstract (pdf format)
3:15-4:15
Hiroko Hashimoto:
"Significance
of studying abroad at Japanese universities for students from 'multicultural'
Australia"
Abstract
(pdf format)
Jun Yano (with Takako Asaoka
and Mariko Kubota):
"Significance of studying abroad
at universities in 'multicultural' Australia"
Abstract (pdf format)
Robyn Spence-Brown:
"Literacy
and communication skills in Japanese as a second language in the
computer age."
Abstract
(pdf format)
Takako Tomoda:
"Are
kanji in decline?"
Abstract
(pdf format)
4:15-4:30
Dedication of Japanese Studies Centre auditorium as the J V Neustupny Auditorium.
4:30-5:15
Beatrice Trefalt:
"Diaspora
in reverse: repatriation, identity and integration in Japan, 1945-1958"
Abstract (pdf
format)
Ross Mouer:
"New
Japanese Cultural Communities in Australia"
Abstract (pdf format)
Alison Tokita:
"Australia-Japan relations
and the future of Japanese studies"
Abstract
(pdf format)
5:15-6:00
Keynote Address
Tetsuo Mizukami ((Rikky
University, PhD Monash 1999):
Contemporary Japanese migration
to Australia
Abstract
(pdf format)
6:30 Move to Monash Club for Dinner
Welcome speech
Associate Professor Helen Marriott
"Overview of 40 years of Japanese at Monash"
Dinner speaker
Ms Caitlin Stronell (BA ,Monash
University, 1990; MLL, Keio University, 1997)
"Princess
Mononoke and me - the life and times of an Australian Shinto Priest
in Japan"