September 17, 2021: In this post, our Series Editor Elicia O’Reilly illuminates the ecosystem of #NVJS13, with a focus on connections between contributors, Australia-based scholars and broader organisational and institutional networks. Is your name here? If so, thank you for being part of the extended #NVJS13 network! ————————- The #NVJS13 Network There’s a certain perspective that editors are…
September 17, 2021: With the publication of #NVJS13, a big chapter in NVJS history comes to a close. We’ve just published our first-ever special issue, and among the many people we have to thank for this, first and foremost is the Guest Editor of this volume—the wonderful Dr Gwyn McClelland of the University of New…
September 17, 2021: At last, we’re excited to share our thirteenth volume, and first-ever special issue. #NVJS13 emerged from an online symposium held earlier this year, co-presented by The Japan Foundation, Sydney and the University of New England, titled “Beyond Japanese Studies: Challenges, Opportunities and COVID-19”. #NVJS13 brings together three refereed papers and two discussion…
September 13, 2021: With our first-ever Special Issue scheduled for release this month, and with our 2021 New Voices Scholar panel coming soon, we’re offering a sneak peek at one forthcoming paper linked to both of these projects. “Re-Orienting Japanese Studies with Views from the Nan’yō” is a discussion paper by Philippine historian and recent…
August 2, 2021: We love to watch our ever-fabulous #NVJSAlumni continue to shine as they build their profiles, achievements and contributions to their fields beyond their NVJS publications. Today, we celebrate recent the projects and achievements of five NVJS authors (in alphabetical order). 1. Rebecca Hausler (NVJS11 author) Rebecca is organising the Japanese Studies Association…
July 30, 2021: It’s official! Our New Voices Scholar panel proposal has been accepted, which means that three NVJS authors will be presenting their work side by side (virtually) at the Japanese Studies Association of Australia Conference. All three panellists are recent PhD graduates whose work crosses disciplinary boundaries and who seek to make critical…
June 9, 2021: We’re delighted to introduce Dr Gwyn McClelland as the Guest Editor of our upcoming volume. Gwyn is a historian of Japan who completed his PhD at Monash University in 2018 and was appointed to University of New England in 2020 as a lecturer in Japanese. Importantly for us, Gwyn is also one…
June 4, 2021: NVJS 12 author Haydn Trowell recently celebrated the release of his first book-length literary translation in the form of Maki Kashimada’s award-winning novella from 2012, Touring the Land of the Dead. The book was released in April by Europa Editions, a publisher whose portfolio of translated fiction titles includes Mieko Kawakami’s Breasts…
June 3, 2021: In March this year, NVJS 11 author Atsushi Yamagata of the University of Wollongong published a paper in the Taylor & Francis journal Japanese Studies. Titled “Newspaper Discourses on the Acceptance of Refugees in Japan from the 1970s to the 1980s”, the paper draws on media analysis to highlight historical social responses…
June 1, 2021: Today was the deadline for panel submissions to the Japanese Studies Association of Australia (JSAA) 2021 Conference, and we’re very happy to say that we’ve submitted a New Voices in Japanese Studies panel again this year. The panel we’ve proposed to JSAA features two authors from NVJS 12 and one author from…
February 11, 2021: #BeyondJapan21 Program Now Available The program for the Beyond Japanese Studies symposium, to be held online over February 18-19 (AEDT), is now available. The symposium aims to support early career scholars of Japan in the Asia-Pacific region and will culminate in a special issue of NVJS later this year. The symposium features…
January 13, 2021: Trying to decide what to read next be like… Never fear, the NVJS annual book list is here! Every year we keep an eye on Japan-related new releases as they appear and compile them into a book list to inspire early career scholars to read, write and review. As usual, this year’s…
January 11, 2021: We’re delighted to welcome Professor Gracia Liu-Farrer (Waseda University) as the keynote speaker for the #BeyondJapan21 symposium. As we announced last month, the next volume of NVJS will be a special issue related to an upcoming symposium titled “Beyond Japanese Studies: Challenges, Opportunities and COVID-19”, to be held online over February 18-19…
Dec 12, 2020: For NVJS 13, we’re doing something different (because 2020). This past year has been a departure from the usual in so many ways. Here at NVJS, we decided that we’d harness a break in our usual publication cycle to think about how we might better support emerging scholars of Japan in our…
Sep 4, 2020: Ever wondered how to get your research into the media? Public relevance and good timing are essential for media coverage. If you’re keen to share your research in the public sphere, think about how you can connect it to issues that are being debated in the media, or pinpoint any anniversaries or key dates which might…
Aug 17, 2020: We’ve just released an exciting new volume, featuring five papers and five reviews. In terms of the number of contributors, this is our biggest volume since NV 2! As always, NVJS 12 covers a range of subjects, including: immigration citizenship literature anime fashion gaming religion Japan in Australia We hope you’ll continue to…
Aug 4, 2020: Over recent months we’ve had some more great news: a number of NVJS alumni have been newly appointed to academic positions. These are exciting achievements, and we hope you’ll join us in congratulating these past authors. Geraldine Carney (NVJS 8) is now a Research Assistant at The University of Melbourne’s Asian…
Aug 3, 2020: It’s always a delight to share new publications by NVJS alumni. As we put the finishing touches to NVJS 12, we’d like to take a moment to celebrate some recently published work by past NVJS authors. Many of our authors’ NVJS articles represent their first or near-first academic publishing experiences, so it’s…
Jul 31, 2020: NVJS 12 is scheduled for release next month. It features five papers and five reviews, which will see us welcome TEN new authors to the NVJS family! In the meantime, we’re delighted to present an excerpt from one paper by Megan Catherine Rose from UNSW Sydney and The University of Tokyo, whose research challenges…
December 17, 2019: As much of Australia burns, now casting a smoke plume as far as New Zealand, our thoughts can’t help but turn to the environment and society’s need for better stewardship towards it. This month, we shine a spotlight on two NVJS articles by Evan Hamman and Madeleine Sbeghen, whose work explores the…
December 13, 2019: Guess what? Our New Voices Scholar Panel has been accepted to the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) Conference next year! A big congratulations to our three scheduled panellists—Atsushi Yamagata, Sonja Petrovic and Monica Flint—who will be presenting research related to their recent NVJS papers: ‘Perceptions of Islam and Muslims in Contemporary…
Nov 21, 2019: We’re right in the thick of reviewing submissions for NVJS12, which means that our Guest Editor for this volume has officially commenced duties! We’d like to take a moment to introduce him here. Dr Alexander Brown is an early-career researcher whose work looks at contemporary social movements in Japan and the Asia-Pacific…
Nov 20, 2019: We spend most of our time letting you know what we publish (or want to publish) in NVJS, but this time we turn the spotlight onto what our alumni have been publishing outside of NVJS. (We’ve narrowed this list down to books, but there are plenty of chapters and articles out there…
Sep 13, 2019: We’re excited to let you know that NVJS author Atsushi Yamagata’s research has been featured in Japan in Focus, an ABC news podcast covering current affairs and culture in Japan. Atsushi was interviewed about the content of his recent paper, ‘Perceptions of Islam and Muslims in Contemporary Japan’ (NVJS 11, 2019). This…
August 20, 2019: We’ve just released the Call for Papers for Volume 12 of New Voices in Japanese Studies, scheduled for publication in mid-2020. As with last year, we’re accepting both papers and reviews! ♦ Eligibility In general, we publish work by Honours graduates, Masters (Research) graduates and PhD candidates or recent graduates of the…
July 26, 2019: This year’s Japanese Studies Association of Australia conference (#JSAA2019) is just around the corner. Our Series Editor, Elicia O’Reilly, will be there from start to finish so if you have any questions about NVJS, this is your chance to ask! ♦ Panel: New Voices in Japanese Studies July 2 (Tues), 3:30pm-5:00pm, Room…
Jan 31, 2019: We’re excited to announce the awardees for our 2019 New Voices Scholar program, which was created to help some of our most promising authors take their work from the page to the conference sphere. These three scholars will present their work side by side in a New Voices Scholar panel at the…
Jan 30, 2019: Move over, sumo banzuke: it’s time for the annual #NVJSTop10 rankings! Of the articles in this Top 10 list, half are from our recent post-renewal catalogue, and half are from our back-catalogue (under the old New Voices moniker). Recurring themes include fashion, samurai history, gender and linguistic analysis using natural semantic metalanguage. Interestingly,…
December 12, 2018: If you missed our previous Call for Papers, never fear. We’ve just opened the Round 2 Call for Papers for NVJS 11, scheduled for publication in mid-2019. Who can submit? As always, we’re seeking papers on Japan from Honours, Masters and PhD students (or recent graduates thereof) with ties to Australia or New Zealand.…
Nov 12, 2018: The NVJS 11 Call for Papers officially closed last week. Thanks for your submissions! As we bunker down to review them, this seems as good a time as any to farewell our outgoing Guest Editor and introduce our incoming Guest Editor. But first, a quick word about the Guest Editor role. Each…
Nov 12, 2018: If you’re not in or from Australia or New Zealand but want to submit to NVJS, then this message is for you! Postgraduate scholars who present at the Japanese Studies Association of Australia (JSAA) 2019 conference will be eligible to submit to New Voices in Japanese Studies under our new ‘Postgraduate Presenter’ category. …
October 12, 2018: Interested in reviewing for New Voices in Japanese Studies? We’ve put together this list of recent Japan-related titles to help you on your way. Don’t feel limited to these–there are plenty of others out there. You’ll need to give the book a good close read, so choose something that will be helpful…
October 12, 2018: Overnight, somewhere in Sweden, the winner of The New Academy Prize for Literature will be announced. What does this have to do with Japanese Studies? Not much anymore. The New Academy Prize sprung up this year to replace the Nobel Prize for literature, on hiatus for 2018 due to a scandal. The…
August 16, 2018: We’ve just released the Call for Papers for Volume 11 of New Voices in Japanese Studies, which is scheduled for publication in mid-2019. What’s new? This CFP brings with it a few key changes. 1. Broader eligibility From this year, eligibility has been expanded to include postgraduates from overseas who have recently…
Welcome to the world, NVJS 10! Over 10 years on from our first-ever volume, we’re excited to still be providing a platform for some of the newest scholarly voices on Japan. NVJS10 Themes As Guest Editor Dr Penny Bailey notes, “The four papers in this volume are linked by themes associated with identity construction and perception”, but…
This Anzac Day, we take a moment to remember the non-European Australians who have played a valuable part in Australia’s history. Australia’s Anzac Day holiday on April 25 is a time for remembering the service and sacrifices of military personnel during war. A forthcoming paper by Shannon Whiley (University of Queensland) does just this, shining…
Feb 8, 2018: As V-Day approaches, we wanted to celebrate all things love in the best way we know how. We can’t send you roses, but we can give you a selection of articles exploring love and sexuality in Japan, from past to present and in various convention-breaking guises. 1. Anne Lee: ”A Centaur…
Feb 6, 2018: We’ve recently added security to the NVJS website, so the links now start with ”https”, not ”http”. This means that some of your bookmarks or links may need to be refreshed. If you have NVJS links bookmarked in your browser or shared on any websites or social media pages (such as Academia.edu), they’ll need to be updated. You…
Jan 30, 2018: Just before January leaves us, we wanted to share our Top 10 Articles for 2017. It’s an interesting mix of old favourites and new ones too. Our top article for 2017 uses the quirky metaphor of ”a kimono riding a bicycle” to frame an ethnographic study of changes in Japan’s traditional fashion industry. It shows how kimono is being…
Dec 6, 2017: Didn’t make it in time for the last Call for Papers? Then you’re in luck! We’ve just opened a second-round CFP for volume 10, which is scheduled for publication in mid-2018. You can submit to NVJS if you are a current or recent Honours or Masters student, PhD candidate or if you are a recent PhD…
Oct 17, 2017: MA & PhD Call for Papers deadline extended The Call for Papers deadline for Masters and PhD students for NVJS Volume 10 has been extended to November 6, so there’s still time if you’re looking to be published in 2018. If you’re a recent graduate in or from Australia or New Zealand, we’d love to consider your…
Sep 25, 2017: New Voices in Japanese Studies (NVJS) is delighted to welcome Dr Penny Bailey as Guest Editor for Volume 10. Dr Penny Bailey is a researcher in Japanese studies and art history at the University of Queensland. Her research focuses on Japanese and Korean art history and design in the modern period. Penny received her PhD from The University…
Jul 28, 2017: Keen to be published in 2018? The Call for Papers for NVJS Volume 10 is now open. We’re inviting Honours and Masters students and graduates, and PhD candidates and recent graduates in or from Australia and New Zealand to submit their research. All disciplines are welcome, provided papers have a focus on Japan.…
Jul 5, 2017: We’re delighted to announce that Volume 9 is now live! Volume 9 brings to the fore five new voices in the field of Japanese studies. This volume’s contributors have tackled a number of complex areas including: Gender studies Literature Meiji era studies Popular fiction Wildlife conservation Take a look at Volume 9 here>> …
Jun 19, 2017: New Voices in Japanese Studies is delighted to support Masters student Madeleine Sbeghen as this year’s New Voices Scholar. Madeleine will have the opportunity to present her research at the 2017 Japanese Studies Association of Australia (JSAA) conference, June 27-30, at the University of Wollongong. Madeleine’s research on community engagement with wildlife conservation in…
Feb 7, 2017: Get published with NVJS! A second round Call for Papers for NVJS Volume 9 is now open. If you’re a recent graduate in or from Australia or New Zealand, take this opportunity to submit your Honours, Masters or PhD research and be published. For more info, see our Call for Papers page. …
Nov 30, 2016: New Voices in Japanese Studies (NVJS) is delighted to welcome Dr Olivier Krischer as Guest Editor for Volume 9. Olivier completed his doctorate at the University of Tsukuba in Japan, and is fluent in Japanese, Chinese and French. He is currently a post-doctoral fellow at the Australian Centre on China in the…
Jul 21, 2016: Submit Your Work! The Call for Papers for NVJS Volume 9 is now open. We’re calling for papers from Honours and Masters students and graduates, and PhD candidates and recent graduates in or from Australia and New Zealand. For more info, see our Call for Papers page. …
Jul 13, 2016: Welcome to the world, Volume 8! This volume contains a really interesting mix of areas, which made it a real pleasure to put together. Areas include law and media, linguistics, gender, sociology and politics. The articles tackle some big subjects and questions, too. Topics include: International parental child abduction Boys’ Love (BL)…
Jul 13, 2016: Congratulations to our 2016 New Voices Scholars, Ross Tunney (University of Tasmania) and Geraldine Carney (Monash University), on their presentations at the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) conference last week. We hope you enjoyed the experience and made some new connections while you were there. We’re proud to have supported Ross…
Jun 21, 2016: Are you going to the Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) conference in July? We’ll have a table at ASAA, so come along and say hello! If you’re thinking of submitting or know someone who is, this will be a great opportunity for you to meet us and ask any questions you…
Jun 18, 2016: NVJS is very proud to support PhD candidates Geraldine Carney (Monash University) and Ross Tunney (University of Tasmania) to present their work at the 2016 Asian Studies Association of Australia (ASAA) conference, July 5-7 at Australian National University, Canberra. Ross’ NVJS article was published in Volume 7, and Geraldine’s NVJS article will…
Jun 18, 2016: We’re excited to announce a new program to support emerging local researchers whose work focuses on Japan. Starting this year, the New Voices Scholar program will support NVJS authors in presenting their work at local academic conferences. The program is open to recent NVJS authors on an application basis, and provides successful…