<NASSS Professional Conference>

   The NASSS (Nagoya American Studies Summer Seminars) is a five-year program which started in 2007, hosted by Nanzan University. It is to inherit and develop the over-half-a-century-long “American Studies Summer Seminars,” which have contributed to the development of American Studies in Japan. In the time of new “global society,” while the United States has been the central figure in the world, the NASSS’s mission is to let researchers from whole Asia and Pacific Area share problem consciousness, and seek a new standard ethic system. In the “Professional Conference,” a pillar of the NASSS, which researchers from Japan, the United States, Asia and Pacific Area get together, hold discussion on American Studies based on international view in order to find a way for carrying out the NASSS’s mission.

<NASSS International Graduate Students Seminar>

   “International Graduate Students Seminar (hereinafter referred to as “Graduate Seminar”)” is a project newly added after the Seminar came to Nanzan University, along with the “Professional Conference.”

   Nowadays, studying in the United States or getting academic degree there is not so rare. However, there are not enough opportunities of exchanging the different types (or views) of American Studies. American Studies in the United States should be different from ones in other countries. To make such an opportunity, the Graduate Seminar was born, and the past two seminars were successful.

   Participants are required to attend the NASSS Professional Conference (both the Plenary Session and Sectional Conference), join in discussions in the Plenary Session of the Graduate Seminar, and give presentations in the workshop of the Graduate Seminar, which is divided into 3 sections: “History and Society ,” “Politics and International Relations,” and “Literature and Culture.” In addition, an excursion is planned to encourage the interchange between domestic and overseas graduate students.

   This Seminar will be a great opportunity for graduate students to widen views for studies and build friendships by staying under the same roof and having serious discussions with other graduate students and professors. Your applications are very welcome!

<About the GP >

In September 2008, the "Fostering Multicultural Practices
in Business and Education: An Instruction Program in Global
Perspective based on Internationalization of American Studies"proposed by the Graduate School of International Area Studies was accepted by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports,Science & Technology as "Good Practice" (GP), an object of "Support Program for Improving Graduate School Education,"and began as three-year project from the academic year 2008.
This GP aims at promoting capable human resources that have high language skills as well as knowledge and can contribute to pluralistic international society.
It cooperates with the Nagoya American Studies Summer Seminars (NASSS), especially its new project, "International Graduate Students Seminar."