The 2007 ATJ Seminar will be held on Thursday, March 22, in Boston, MA. Sessions will be held concurrently beginning at 9:45 a.m. in Salons E. F. G. I, and J on the fourth floor of the Boston Marriott Copley Place. The hotel's web site (http://www.marriott.com/property/propertypage/BOSCO) has maps which can be used to locate the meeting rooms. The keynote address by Professor Hosea Hirata will take place from 4:50 - 5:50 p.m. in Salon G.
Admission to the Seminar is $15 ($10 for students) for members of ATJ and our sister organization the National Council of Japanese Language Teachers (NCJLT). For non-members, the registration fee is $50. To register in advance at our secure payment website, please go to http://www.aatj.org/sem2007.html. To join or renew your membership, if you have not already done so, please go to http://www.aatj.org/membership.html.
Information on hotel accommodations can be found at the web site of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS), http://www.aasianst.org, whose conference is held at the same venue beginning the evening of March 22.
ATJ's Language and Culture SIG and the Classical Japanese SIG will meet on Friday evening, March 23, from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m. in Salon C (Classical SIG) and Salon D (Culture SIG) of the Marriott Copley Place. The Community College SIG and the Study Abroad for Advanced Skills (SAFAS) SIG will meet during the ATJ Seminar, at 11:30 a.m. on Thursday, March 22. The Professional Development SIG is sponsoring several panel sessions at the Seminar, on the job searches and getting work published. See below for further details on the SIG meetings and sessions.
The full schedule for the 2007 ATJ Seminar, including times and room assignments, can be found by clicking here. It contains links to abstracts, which are also indexed by Author and Title.
Individual papers are 20 minutes long with an additional 5 minutes for discussion. Organized panels are 100 minutes long in total with four active participants (four paper presenters, or three presenters and one discussant).
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ATJ's annual General Membership Meeting will be held Saturday, March 24 from 1:00 to 2:30 p.m. in Salon E. A special feature will be reports from representatives of ATJ's Special Interest Groups on their activities. The meeting will also feature news about professional development opportunities and other projects of the Association; remarks from ATJ's incoming President, Joan Ericson; announcement of the results of the annual election of new Board members and a new President-elect; and an assortment of fabulous door prizes.
Several of ATJ's Special Interest Groups (SIGs) have scheduled meetings and activities in conjunction with the ATJ Seminar and the AAS Conference. The Classical Japanese (Bungo) SIG will meet Friday evening, March 23, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m., in Salon C. The topic will be the interface between modern language and classical language classes.
The Language and Culture SIG will also meet on Friday evening, March 23, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m., in Salon D. The meeting will feature three presentations:
The Professional Development SIG will sponsor two panel sessions during the Thursday Seminar, one focusing on getting a job and the other on getting published. The Japanese as a Heritage Language SIG also will sponsor a panel session at the Seminar, on challenges in heritage language education.
The Study Abroad for Advanced Skills (SAFAS) SIG will hold a session during the ATJ Seminar at 11:30 a.m. - 12:55 p.m., in Salon F. The session will feature two special presentations:
The Community College SIG will meet in Salon J, also during the lunch break of the Seminar, from 11:30 - 12:55.
ATJ will have a booth in the Exhibit Hall again this year at the AAS conference. The booth number is 117. We will have membership information, copies of the newsletter and the journal Japanese Language and Literature,, information on professional development projects and the Bridging Project for Study Abroad in Japan, and small gifts for visitors. Please stop by!
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