2012 AATJ Annual Spring Conference
The 2012 American Association of Teachers of Japanese (AATJ) Annual Spring Conference took place on Thursday, March 15, in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. This conference, the first to be held under the auspices of the newly renamed AATJ, was held in conjunction with the 2012 Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS). The AATJ Annual Spring Conference featured more than 100 presentations on various aspects of Japanese language and literature, and was attended by more than 250 people. Please click on one of the following links to view and download the conference program: List of Panels and Presentations (7 pages) Complete Program Including Abstracts (28 pages) Our keynote speaker, Dr. Jim Cummins of the Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE), University of Toronto, has generously made available the PowerPoint presentation that accompanied his lecture, "Language Learning and Language Maintenance in a Multilingual World". Thanks to our 2012 Conference Sponsors: the Sojitz Foundation, Kodansha USA, and Tuttle Publishing! The 3012 Annual Spring Conference will be held in San Diego, California, March 21, 2013. Please look for information on this website in early fall 2012. The 2012 Fall Conference, in conjunction with ACTFL, will take place in Philadelphia, PA, on November 16-18. Information will be posted soon. |