Recent Happenings
Updates, Presentations & Events
Summer Institute on International Education Japan
Nagoya, August 2019
We spent a great two and a half days at Nanzan University in Nagoya discussing professionalism in international education. During the institute the past and present NAFSA JapanSIG co-chairs had a chance to catch up to share expertise and news of the SIG's upcoming plans.
A busy June weekend!
The weekend of 7-9th June was a busy one for me in the world of international higher ed. On Friday, I moderated an excellent talk at Temple University, Japan by the well-known Dr. Rahul Choudaha who shared his thoughts on student mobility. On Saturday, I presented a poster at the excellent Lakeland University Conference on Global Higher Education, and then on Sunday I attended the Japan Comparative Education Society conference at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. I topped off the weekend helping the new NAFSA JapanSIG leaders Mina Mizumatsu and Mike Matsuno plan for the year ahead!
JapanSIG Reception@NAFSA 2019
Washington DC, May 2019
NAFSA's JapanSIG celebrated it's 30th anniversary at the recent NAFSA conference in Washington DC. We held a reception at the Embassy in Japan and enjoyed great food and networking. With many thanks to Namiko Bagirimvano and Michiyo Fujimoto for a great year together as co-chairs of the JapanSIG.
APAIE 2019
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
I recently presented at the March 2019 APAIE conference in KL and had a wonderful time finding out more about current internationalization trends in the Asia Pacific.
Talk for Oxford EMI Training
March 2019
On 15th March, I was honoured to give a talk about EMI in Japan for EMI faculty trainees at International Christian University
Book series on EMI
Are you interested in writing about English-medium instruction?
Howard Brown from the University of Niigata Prefecture and I are editing a new book series for Routledge. Details can be found here.
Narratives of Female Academics in Japanese Higher Education
18th September 2019 19:00-21:00
- Panelists:
- Jennifer Yphantides
- Kristie Collins
- Reiko Yoshihara
Despite the fact that women obtain the majority of undergraduate, graduate and doctoral degrees, their under-representation in higher education leadership is a global phenomenon. In Japan, the skewed academic gender balance is recognized as a national problem and the government has set a goal to raise the number of female academics to 30% by 2020. Here, women currently hold 24.8% of full-time university teaching positions. Join three experts in education, gender and teacher identity as they discuss the journeys, trials and successes and uncover the anxieties, discontent, powerlessness, and even despair of both Japanese and foreign women in Japanese higher education. Jennifer Yphantides and Kristie Collins explore to what extent foreign female academics are being welcomed into and succeeding as leaders in Japanese higher education. Jennifer traces the career trajectories of foreign women leaders in TESOL while Kristie chronicles her own long and twisty path to landing a tenured position at a Japanese university. Reiko Yoshihara turns attention to the academic precariat, reporting on the account of a Japanese woman who became a part-time instructor of English in several Japanese universities, left teaching, and subsequently returned to the teaching profession. By situating Japan as being at a unique intersection between a market-based neoliberal society and cultural gender ideology, she sheds light on the issue that women are underestimated in Japanese academia. At the heart of this discussion, the presenters ask, do categories of gender, age, and/or foreign nationality work for or against us?
- Date & Time:
- Wednesday, September 18 19:00 - 21:00 (Doors open at 18:30)
- Venue:
- 1F Parliament student lounge, Temple University, Japan Campus
1-14-29 Taishido, Setagaya-ku Tokyo
Open in Google Maps - Moderator:
- Annette Bradford, ICAS Adjunct Fellow
- Registration:
- Registration is encouraged (e-mail to icas@tuj.temple.edu), but not required. 登録なしでも参加できますので、直接会場へお越しください。
Note: All ICAS events are held in English, open to the public, and admission is free unless otherwise noted.
Free Symposium at Otemae University, Nishinomiya Featured speakers are Stephen Krashen and Gerry Yokota
7th December 2019
- For more information see: https://www.otemae.ac.jp/english/gotemae/53/
International Conference and Seminar
"The challenges of information society: a Japanese perspective"
University of Tartu (Estonia)
24-27th September 2019
ICLHE 2019, Universitat Jaume 1 in Castellón (Spain), 15th-18th October 2019
PESA CONFERENCE 2019 49TH ANNUAL CONFERENCE
PHILOSOPHICAL DIALOGUES IN EDUCATION, EAST MEETS WEST, The University of Hong Kong, 7th-11th December 2019Meiji University
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