Department of Modern Languages
Teaching Japan Conference
DePaul University's Japanese Studies Programs is pleased to present Teaching Japan: Pedagogical Possibilities in U.S. Higher Education on October 29-30, 2010 at the Lincoln Park Campus in Chicago, Illinois.
In the last two decades, the academic and institutional environment for Japanese studies at U.S. colleges has changed dramatically. This conference is intended to serve as a forum within which to explore this new landscape in terms of the dynamic interfaces between pedagogy, research, institutional structures, and the dissemination of knowledge.
We believe that a considered conversation based on our experiences of and strategies for teaching undergraduate students amid this rapid transformation will likely reveal new pedagogical and research possibilities, mainly within the humanities and the social sciences, such as anthropology, art and art history, ethics and religious studies, film, history, language, literature, media, peace studies, political science, sociology and theatre, as well as possibly in other disciplines.
Norma M. Field, Ph.D., Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Service Professor in Japanese Studies in East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago, will be the conference keynote speaker.
The registration fee for the conference is $30. Please bring a check payable to DePaul University to the conference site. A receipt will be given upon payment. The deadline for registration is October 22, 2010.