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for Papers: ASCJ 2024</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Century,serif"><a name="OLE_LINK2"></a><a name="OLE_LINK1"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)">The Executive Committee of the Asian
Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ)</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)">invites
proposals for panels, roundtables, and individual papers to be</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)">presented
at the 2024 Asian Studies Conference Japan. Next year’s conference will be held
on the Yotsuya Campus of Sophia University on </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Saturday &
Sunday, July 6 & 7.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Century,serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)">As in past years, all presentations are to be delivered
in English. Proposals may be submitted online between September 15 and October
31. Results will be announced by late December.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Century,serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Each participant is allowed to apply to present only one
panel or individual paper during the conference. (This restriction applies to
co-authored and co-presented papers.) Furthermore, during the conference, presenters
may also be the chair of their own panel or of another one, but no presenter
should be the discussant for their own panel. Presenters may be the discussant
for a different panel.</span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Century,serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)">The forms and further information are available at:<br>
</span><a href="https://ascjapan.org/conference/" style="color:blue"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">https://ascjapan.org/conference/</span></a><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Century,serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Submission Categories</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Century,serif"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Panels</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> are
proposed by individual scholars around a common subject.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)">A
complete panel includes</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> up to five participants (three or four <span style="color:rgb(26,26,26)">paper presenters and one or more chair/discussants).
Panel proposals should include a 250-word (maximum) abstract from each
participant as well as a 250-word (maximum) statement that explains the session
as a whole. Only complete panels will be considered for acceptance.</span></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Century,serif"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Roundtables</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> offer
an opportunity for participants to discuss a specific</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)">theme,
issue or significant recent publication. A maximum of six active</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)">participants
is recommended. While a roundtable proposal will not be as</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)">detailed
as a panel proposal, it should explain fully the purpose, themes</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)">or
issues, and scope of the session.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Century,serif"><b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)">Individual papers</span></b><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)"> give
</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">scholars an opportunity
to participate in the conference even if they are not able to put together a
complete panel. Papers may be co-authored. However, only the names of
registered participants will appear on the program. </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Century,serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:black">The Executive Committee encourages members to
submit proposals that, by focusing on more than one </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)">region
or by drawing on more than one discipline, will attract a broad range of
scholarly interest. Suggestions for</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)">innovative
alternatives to the panels, individual papers and roundtables</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"> </span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)">described
above are also encouraged.</span><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif"></span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Century,serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(26,26,26)">The Executive Committee also strongly encourages graduate
student participation and will give favorable consideration to panels that
embed students alongside more seasoned scholars. </span></p>

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<p class="MsoNormal" align="left" style="background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;margin:0cm 0cm 0.0001pt;font-size:12pt;font-family:Century,serif"><span style="font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Since
2014 the ASCJ has awarded the L.B. Grove Graduate Student Paper Prize. For
details on this competition please see the “Conference” section of the ASCJ
website. To be considered for this prize the student must be enrolled in a
degree program at a Japanese university and be accepted as a presenter at the ASCJ
2024 Conference. The deadline for submission of the completed paper is June 15,
2024. The winner will be announced at the time of the keynote lecture.</span></p>

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and my colleagues on the Executive Committee look forward to seeing you in
Tokyo in 2024.</span></p>

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