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Chelanna White (Reitaku University)04/10/2025, 10:45Interactive Presentation
This presentation draws on an autoethnographic study conducted as the capstone project for my Master of Education in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages. The study explores how personal identity shapes teaching practice, particularly in contexts where aspects of that identity may be marginalized or rendered invisible, highlighting a broader gap in the literature: queer educator...
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Shzh-chen Nancy Lee (Osaka University)04/10/2025, 11:30Interactive Presentation
As a single, foreign Asian woman living in Japan, I chose to become a mother through medical treatment. It was a decision that challenged cultural expectations, social norms, and personal limits. Born in Taiwan and raised in Australia, I arrived in Japan as an exchange student and have since spent nearly two decades working as an English teacher. Despite a fulfilling professional life, I faced...
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Prof. Amanda Gillis-Furutaka (Kyoto Sangyo University), Donna Fujimoto (Pragmatics SIG), Margaret Kim (Kobe College)04/10/2025, 13:30Interactive Presentation
We all have multiple identities, and they shift naturally depending on the situations we encounter. In general, we are not conscious of these shifts, but in this session, we will examine how and why some individuals deliberately change their identities. In this presentation, we will focus on an intercultural training group (which uses the Contrast Culture Method) where role plays are an...
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Ellie Smith (Aichi University)04/10/2025, 14:10Workshop
You’re highly knowledgeable in your field, but when it’s time to share that knowledge, your voice sometimes tells a different story. It’s easy, and often jarring, to feel the shift from confident and assured in your daily role as an educator, researcher, or professional to nervous and shaky in the role of a public speaker trying to present your work. Maybe your voice trembles when all eyes are...
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Gretchen Clark (Ritsumeikan University), JENNIE ROLOFF ROTHMAN (Kanda University of International Studies, JALT SIG Representative Liaison)04/10/2025, 15:45Round Table
In this session, attendees will explore the concept of privilege. Using the ‘wheel of power and privilege’ developed by Sylvia Duckworth and others, we will consider what aspects of our identity grants us privilege in various situations and those that don’t. The presenters will lead the group in an informal discussion about possible things we miss, how to reconcile one’s privilege and then how...
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John Rucynski04/10/2025, 17:00Interactive Presentation
Universities in Japan are seeing an ever-increasing number of students from diverse cultural backgrounds (Mamiya, 2024). For students including international exchange students, returnees, and Third Culture Kids, university is thus a time not only to prepare for their future career, but also explore their identity and where they belong. In other words, do they view Japan as just a temporary...
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Bernadette Benjamin (Meiho Junior High School), Dillon Flores (JET Programme), Emmlyn Dversdall (JET Programme), Hayley Wallace (JET Programme), Kurtis Carter (AJET)05/10/2025, 09:30Panel
What does it mean to navigate identity while teaching in a society that often values conformity? In this session, we will explore the lived experiences of five Assistant Language Teachers (ALTs) in Japan who identify as neurodiverse, gender-diverse, sexually diverse, and racially diverse. Each speaker will share their personal journey of identity development, resilience, and connection while...
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Dar Watson05/10/2025, 11:15Interactive Presentation
As a single mom in Japan, much of my identity was shaped by that role, to the point where it even eclipsed my professional persona. I became Daren kun no Mama everywhere I went, and my entire day, schedule, and life were driven by meeting the needs of motherhood. As a single parent and a gaijin living in Japan, I was isolated in many ways. It was overwhelming for both of us at times as we...
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Ms Ma Wilma Capati (Global Englishes SIG)05/10/2025, 12:00Interactive Presentation
In many classrooms I have experienced as both student and educator, learners are expected to conform to standardized norms, which reflect the culturally homogeneous nature of Japanese society. As a Filipino woman in Japan, I bring a different set of lived experiences. While working against persistent stereotypes surrounding Filipino women in Japan, I also encountered the assumption that I am a...
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Terry Tuttle05/10/2025, 14:00Interactive Presentation
Fiction is an inevitable product of imagining "the other," which is often a crucial first step to understanding and combatting oppression. Fictional media, then, can in turn be understood as a promising site of connection, understanding, and growth. Media about people different from us can be a particularly rich site of conceptualizing, imagining, and remediating our understand of marginalized...
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Lynsey Mori (Ritsumeikan University)05/10/2025, 14:45Interactive Presentation
What happens when everything you thought you knew about yourself dissolves at once? When your body, culture, relationships, and work all shift simultaneously, familiar roles vanish and uncharted selves begin to emerge. This 50-minute interactive workshop invites participants to explore identity "extinction" — those liminal moments when who we were no longer fits who we're becoming. Drawing on...
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