The 2025 Annual Spring Conference will be held in person on Thursday, March 13, 2025, in Columbus, Ohio, in conjunction with the 2025 Association for Asian Studies Annual Conference.
The AATJ conference will feature a full day of concurrent panel and individual presentation sessions beginning at 9:00 AM, followed by a general session and keynote presentation.
A networking event is being planned for the evening of Wednesday, March 12; please stay tuned for details. Several of AATJ’s Special Interest Groups may also schedule meetings during the AATJ/AAS conference.
The keynote speaker at the 2025 Conference is Mari Noda, Professor Emeritus at the Ohio State University’s Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures and a longtime leader in the field of Japanese language education. Professor Noda is the 2025 recipient of AATJ’s Lifetime Achievement Award, which will be presented following her keynote address.
The conference sessions will be held in meeting rooms on the second floor of the Hyatt Regency Columbus Hotel (360 North High Street, Columbus, OH 43215; 614-463-1234; https://www.hyatt.com/hyatt-regency/en-US/cmhrc-hyatt-regency-columbus).
The conference program will be available soon.
REGISTER FOR THE SPRING CONFERENCE
Registration for the conference is open. Registration fees are as follows:
$60 for AATJ members (post-secondary faculty)
$40 for student members
$30 for K-12 educators
$110 for non-members
Members of the Canadian Association of Japanese Language Educators (CAJLE) are welcome to register at the same rates as AATJ members.
Hotel reservations at the Association for Asian Studies conference rate are available on the AAS website: please go to https://www.asianstudies.org/conference/hotel2025/ to reserve a room at one of the conference hotels.
We strongly encourage AATJ members to also attend the AAS conference, which takes place Friday – Sunday, March 14-16, at the Hyatt Regency and other nearby venues. The Program information is online at https://www.asianstudies.org/conference/ . The AAS conference features hundreds of presentations on topics related to Japan and other Asian countries, as well as a large Exhibit Hall at which academic publishers and other organizations display their latest books on Asia and other products. Exhibitors include many publishers from Japan. Entrance to the Exhibit Hall is free to everyone; it is not necessary to be registered for the AAS conference to enter.
2024 International Conference on Japanese Language Education
Instead of a 2024 Spring Conference, AATJ hosted the 2024 International Conference on Japanese Language Education, August 1-3, in Madison, WI.
Programs from Past Spring Conferences
2023 Spring Conference Program
2022 Spring Conference Program
2022 Spring Conference Program with Abstracts
2021 Spring Conference Program
2021 Spring Conference Program with Abstracts
2020 Spring Conference Program
2020 Spring Conference Program with Abstracts
2019 Spring Conference Program
2019 Spring Conference Program with Abstracts
2018 Spring Conference Program
2018 Spring Conference Program with Abstracts
2017 Spring Conference Program
2017 Spring Conference Program with Abstracts
2016 Spring Conference Program
2016 Spring Conference Program with Abstracts
2015 Spring Conference Program
2015 Spring Conference Program with Abstracts
2014 Spring Conference Program
2014 Spring Conference Program with Abstracts
