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Call for Proposals for the 38th (2023) Annual Conference of SIETAR Japan

Call for Proposals for the 38th (2023) Annual Conference of SIETAR Japan

Sustainable Multicultural Societies: Eliminating Disparities

November 11-12, 2023

National Olympic Memorial Youth Center, Tokyo (the Yoyogi Olympic Center)

FULL DETAILS ARE AVAILABLE ON THE HOMEPAGE(coming soon)

http://www.sietar-japan.org/en/our-activities/annual-conference

 

SIETAR Japan will hold its 38th Annual Conference on November 11 (Saturday) – 12 (Sunday), 2023. This year’s conference will focus on how intercultural communication can contribute to the realization of a sustainable and inclusive society without disparities. We are seeking proposals that are related to the field of intercultural communication and/or reflect the conference theme. We look forward to receiving your submissions.

Conference Chair: Manami Tanaka (Tokyo Future University)

 

For members of SIETAR Japan: Proposals can be submitted from July 1 using this Google Form https://forms.gle/M4jMsAXBeQD9GqTm8 (to be announced)

You will be asked to fill in your 8-digit membership number as well as the name of the first presenter, affiliation, contact telephone number and email address. (Affiliations and e-mail addresses for co-presenters will be required after acceptance, but not phone numbers.). First presenters can only present once.

Requirements: First presenters MUST be members of SIETAR Japan or other SIETAR organization. If you cannot locate your membership number, please contact office@sietar-japan.org

Presenters who reside in Japan must apply for membership of SIETAR Japan before June 18 (Sunday) and make their membership payment by June 30 (Fri.). All presenters are expected to pay the full conference fee (to be announced) before the conference begins.

Types of presentations – full details will be available in the SIETAR Japan newsletter, the SIETAR Japan website and the SIETAR Japan Facebook page.

  1. In person presentations: Research presentation or Report on practice and activities (30 minutes)
  2. In person workshops (110 minutes)
  3. In person poster presentations (Academic research or Report on practice & activities; non-members

eligible if recommended by a SIETAR member). Guidelines will be available on the submissions Google

Form. Presenters can also email the conference chair (sietarjapanconference@gmail.com) for details during the submission period.

Submission Period: July 1 (Sat.), 2023 – July 31 (Mon.), 2023

* Please note that no proposals will be accepted after the deadline of midnight JST, July 31 (Mon.), 2023. You will be notified of whether your proposal has been accepted by September 30 (Sat.).

For inquiries, please contact sietarjapanconference@gmail.com

 

The 38th (2023) Annual Conference of SIETAR Japan

The 38th (2023) Annual Conference of SIETAR Japan

Theme: Sustainable Multicultural Societies: Eliminating Disparities

November 11-12, 2023 at the National Olympic Memorial Youth Center (the Yoyogi Olympic Center)

*More details will be coming soon.

SIETAR Japan will hold its 38th Annual Conference November 11 (Saturday) – 12 (Sunday), 2023 at the National Olympic Memorial Youth Center. This year’s conference will focus on how intercultural communication can contribute to the realization of a sustainable and inclusive society without disparities.
The Call for Proposals will be sent soon.
Presenters will be required to pay membership dues by the SIETAR Japan membership payment deadline date.
We look forward to seeing you at the conference.

Conference Chair: Manami Tanaka (Tokyo Future University)

The 37th SIETAR Japan Online Conference has ended successfully!

To everyone who attend last weekend’s SIETAR Japan 2022 Online Conference: A HUGE THANK YOU to ALL the presenters who contributed to making the SIETAR Japan 37th annual conference a success! All who attended the conference gained different perspectives and new insights on how we – educators, intercultural trainers, researchers, and students – can make use of what we have learned from your presentations in order to promote and encourage positive change in our communities. THANK YOU!

Best wishes,

Michi Saki & Lisa Rogers
Conference Co-Chairs

*We appreciate your feedback!
Please click on the feedback survey link and send your comments.

https://forms.gle/MtaEBihvFpuoL7E78

The 37th SIETAR Japan Online Conference,the Keynote Sessions only ticket available

The 37th SIETAR Japan Online Conference November 26 – 27, 2022

Living in the “in-between”: Exploring multicultural identities and belonging
大会テーマ:「文化の狭間に生きる: 多文化的なアイデンティティと帰属意識の探求」

*Participants can attend the Keynote Sessions for only 1500 yen.
◎Keynote-only attendees may access both the Japanese and English Keynotes
To register: https://sietar2022.peatix.com/

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS:
Saturday, November 26 13:30-15:30)
Reiko Ogawa  (Chiba University )
Consultant to Immigration Bureau and former Chair of Immigration Policy Society

Sunday, November 27 9:00-11:00
Neelam Sahota ニーラム・サホタ
CEO of DIVERSEcity Community Resources Society, BC, Canada

Lisa Rogers & Michi Saki
Conference Chairs

 

English Keynote Speaker(English version).22.10.09Japanese Keynote Speaker(English Version)

 

37th SIETAR Japan Annual Conference :EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT ENDS next Monday, November 7th!

Dear SIETAR Japan Members,

 

Happy November! Just a kind reminder that the EARLY BIRD DISCOUNT ENDS next Monday, November 7th! Be sure to register and take advantage of the Early Bird rate discount!

 

37th SIETAR Japan Annual Conference website:

https://sites.google.com/view/sietar2022/home?authuser=0

Register for and purchase your Conference Ticket through the PEATIX System: https://sietar2022.peatix.com/

 

We look forward to seeing you at the conference!

 

 

Conference Chairs

Michi Saki (Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts)

&

Lisa Rogers  (Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts)

 

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SIETAR Japan October Workshop

SIETAR Japan  October Workshop

Theory and Practice of a New Textbook on Intercultural Training: Encountering “Difference” through Perceptual Constructivism

 

Date/Time: Saturday October 1, 2022 13:00-16:00

Language: Japanese

 

Guest Speakers:

Shizu Yamamoto is a professor of intercultural communication at Tokai University. Dr. Yamamoto earned her master’s degree in speech communication from Portland State University and her doctorate in education from Sophia University. Her research interests are centered on intercultural sensitivity and the development of intercultural training methods. Her current research focuses on DMIS, using both qualitative and quantitative methods to examine how Japanese people perceive, interpret, and express their experiences of difference. Based on the results of previous studies, she developed a Japanese psychological scale for DMIS (in press).

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Taketo Ishiguro is an intercultural communication scholar (Ph.D. in Intercultural Communication Studies) whose research centers on intercultural discourse in multicultural organizations/teams. He uses qualitative research methods such as a constructionist version of life-story interview research, modified grounded theory approach, and discourse analysis. He has published such books as Images of Japanese leaders in multicultural organizations: A life-story interview approach (Shumpu-sha) and Multicultural teams and Japanese leaders’ dynamic thought processes: A grounded theory approach (Shumpu-sha).

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Outline Workshop :

What becomes possible when we remove “bunka” (culture) from “i-bunka” (interculral) communication and try to focus just on “i” (difference)? This workshop will introduce a new book “Experiencing Intercultural Communication: Growing Up with ‘Difference'” (Shizu Yamamoto, Taketo Ishiguro, Milton Bennett, Daisuke Okabe, Sanshusha, November 2022), which summarizes a new approach to intercultural communication education. This book is a challenge to update traditional intercultural communication education. The theoretical background of the book is “constructivism” and the “development of intercultural sensitivity.” In this workshop, the following will be conducted.

 

1 Introduction to the overall structure and characteristics of this book. Video greeting from Dr. Bennett introducing the book.

2 Explanation of perceptual constructivism and “i” (difference) as a theoretical foundation

3 Introduction to and explanation of sample chapters

4 Practice and explanation of sample exercises

5 Q & A, interaction among authors and participants in a free atmosphere. Dr. Bennett will also participate.

 

Unique feature of this book is that by focusing on “i” (difference), it attempts to extend the applicability of intercultural communication knowledge outside of the traditional units of social categories such as country, race, and ethnicity. There has been a kind of difficulty in taking the approach that different cultures are collectively defined at the collective level and thus linking different cultures to social categories. The use of existing social categories alone does not adequately capture the asymmetrical relationships that are made diversely visible in various contexts, which people are increasingly becoming aware of at home, at work, and at school. For example, “those who have experienced” and “those who have not experienced” certain events, such as studying abroad, taking exams, giving birth, getting married, divorcing, changing jobs, illness, disasters, etc., may feel uncomfortable with each other’s comments and actions, and misunderstandings and conflicts may occur due to differences in their standpoints. It is important to be able to focus on the divisions of positions through line-drawing (segmentation) without being bound by the culture of the group unit, and to be able to not only divide but also reconnect by redrawing the boundaries. With this concern, Yamamoto, who was trying to teach from constructivist and situated perspectives, encountered “context shifting” as conceptualized by Ishiguro, and the idea of removing “culture” from “cultural difference” and making “i” (difference) as a perceptual object came to take shape.

 

From a constructivist perspective, we believe there is a need for intercultural communication in which people can learn how to deal flexibly with categories, including categorizing, de-categorizing, re-categorizing, and using categories as a lens for observation. In this context, the emphasis is on having a sense of agency as a category generator and being aware of the possibility of changing boundaries. It is necessary not only to increase the cognitive complexity of being able to use multiple categories simultaneously, but also to increase the perceptual complexity involved in the sensitive attention to categorization. This idea is in line with the development of intercultural sensitivity that Milton Bennett has advocated in the constructivist paradigm. In addition to Bennett’s introductory and final chapters, this book includes Japanese translation of Bennett’s lecture on the developmental model of intercultural sensitivity given at the 18th Annual Conference of the Japan Society for Multicultural Relations.

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[Participation Fee & Registration Procedures] 

Please register through Peatix and beware that your registration will not be valid without a membership number. 

Peatix: https://sietar20221001.peatix.com

 

Participation fee: 600 yen (members), 1000yen (non-members), Free (student members). 350yen (non-member students)

Once your registration is completed, we will send you the zoom link.

We ask that you have a stable online connection.

 

Please contact:

Yuka Suzuki (Japanese) & Soyhan (English)

Program Directors

 

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Secretariat: 〒162-0801 東京都新宿区山吹町358-5

E-mail: sietar-post@bunken.co.jp, Website: www.sietar-japan.org

Call for proposals Extension

◆Call for proposals Extension

Due to complications caused by the recent surge in  COVID-19 cases in Japan,  the presentation submissions deadline for the 37th Annual Conference of SIETAR Japan has been extended. Proposals submitted using the following link will be accepted until 11:59 PM of Aug. 9 (Tue.) Japan time.

https://forms.gle/44rrPuUDLZedENpK9

You will need your 8-digit membership number indicated on the address label on envelopes from SIETAR Japan.  If you cannot locate your Membership Number, please contact office@sietar-japan.org.

 

Call for Proposals for the 37th (2022) Annual Conference of SIETAR Japan

Call for Proposals for the 37th (2022) Annual Conference of SIETAR Japan

Theme: Living in the “in-between”: Exploring multicultural identities and belonging
November 26-27, 2022

SIETAR Japan will hold its 37th Annual Conference on-line on November 26 (Saturday) – 27 (Sunday), 2022. This year’s conference will focus on the ways we negotiate different cultures within our workplace, our local communities and our families. We are seeking proposals that are related to the field of intercultural communication and/or reflect the conference theme. We look forward to receiving your submissions.

Conference Chairs:
Michi Saki & Lisa Rogers (both Doshisha Women’s College)

Upcoming Program, June 18, 2022

ONLINE Lecture: Ukraine War and Condition of Peace

Date/Time: Saturday June 18, 2022 13:30-15:30
Language: Japanese

Outline of Lecture:
Why did the war in Ukraine occur 30 years after the collapse of the Soviet Union?
Why did the post-Cold War relationship between the U.S. and Russia, especially the issue of NATO’s eastern expansion, occur
and why has this not only become a global conflict but could also lead to a nuclear war?
Also, what are the conditions for ceasefire and peace?
All these questions will be discussed by a leading expert on Russian politics.
The content of the lecture is subject to change in accordance with the ever-changing situation.

Guest Speaker: Nobuo Shimotomai (Professor Emeritus, Hosei University, Specially Appointed Professor, Kanagawa University)
He graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1971. While working as a professor at Seikei University and Hosei University, he also engaged in research activities at the Center for Russian and East European Studies at the University of Birmingham and Harvard University.
He is the author of numerous books, including Putin Aiming for Asia: International Politics in a Time of Radical Change (2014), and Putin in Religion and Geopolitics: Russia’s Quest for a “Third Rome” (2016). He has been viewed as “the leading scholar of Russian politics.”

[Participation Fee & Registration Procedures]
Please register through Peatix and beware that your registration will not be valid without a membership number.
Peatix: https://sietar-june-program2022.peatix.com

Participation fee: 500 yen (members), 1000yen (non-members), Free (students)
Once your registration is completed, we will send you the zoom link.
We ask that you have a stable online connection.

Please contact:
Yuka Suzuki (Japanese) & Soyhan (English)
Program Directors

<学会事務局>
Secretariat: 〒162-0801 東京都新宿区山吹町358-5
E-mail: sietar-post@bunken.co.jp, Website: www.sietar-japan.org