ELT Calendar

Saturday, October 22nd, 2016

SCBWI Japan Translation Day
Time: 8:30 AM - 4:30 PM
Speaker: Yumiko Sakuma, Zack Davisson, Ginny Tapley Takemori, Alexander O. Smith, Julia Marshall, Avery Fischer Udagawa
Organization: The Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI) Japan
Location: Yokohama City, Kanagawa Prefecture
Short description: A day of presentations, critiques, and conversation for published and pre-published translators of Japanese children's/YA literature into English, including prose literature and manga.

Okayama JALT October meeting: A Survival Guide to Student Misbehavior
Time: 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Speaker: Douglas Sweetlove (Kinjo Gakuin University)
Organization: Okayama Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Okayama City, Okayama Prefecture
Short description: The classroom is the arena where student, teacher, and lesson all come together. Yet there is often friction between these elements as to what behavior is and is not acceptable.

They Like Reading What?! An Introduction to and Discussion of Boys Love Manga and Other Media in Japan
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Speaker: James Welker (Kanagawa University)
Organization: Gifu Chapter of the Japan Association for Language Teaching
Location: Gifu City, Gifu Prefecture
Short description: This talk will focus on the "boys love" --or BL-- genre of manga, anime, games, and other media in Japan. Boys love manga, depicting male�male romantic and sexual relationships, were first created by and for adolescent girls and young women in the early 1970s in response to contemporary social norms.