1. Editor’s Introduction

5. Yukako HISADA, Recovering Voices from Lowell, Massachusetts in the 1830s: Women Workers’ Strikes, Antislavery Petitions, and Anti-Abolition Mobs
23. Junko MIURA, Mexican Laborers, American Workers, and New Deal Socioeconomic Politics: The San Antonio Pecan Shellers Strike of 1938
47. Takeya MIZUNO, Real Voices or Government Mouthpieces? U.S. Propaganda Efforts to Use Japanese Americans in World War II Camps
71. Ryoichi YAMANE, Voices That Matter: Walker Percy’s Semiotic Masculinity in The Moviegoer
95. Keiko WELLS, Voices of Two Little Girls Blue: Janis Joplin, Nina Simone, and the Blues
129. Yohei SEKIGUCHI, Whispering without Sound: Patriarchal Historiography of Women’s Reproduction and Herstories in The Cider House Rules and The Handmaid’s Tale

149. English-Language Works by JAAS Members 2022

The 59th Annual Meeting of the JAAS will be held at Hokkaido University in Sapporo on
May 31 and June 1, 2025. The Program Coordinating Committee invites proposals for the
“Independent Paper Sessions” to be held during the morning of the first day, May 31.

Submission:

Submit your proposal (PDF) that includes: 1) your name and affiliation; 2) the title; 3) the abstract (approximately 800 words); 4) five keywords, via the following section of the American Studies Association website.

https://www.jaas.gr.jp/outline/contact-us.html?lang=en  (page in English)

https://www.jaas.gr.jp/outline/contact-us.html#contact  (page in Japanese)

Deadline: November 15, 2024.

Acceptance and decline emails will be sent in early January.

Proposal from Japan:

JAAS members are eligible for submission. Non-members wishing to submit proposals are asked to complete the membership application upon submission.

Proposal from outside Japan:

Submissions from both JAAS members and non-members are reviewed. Upon acceptance, non-members are asked to make the conference registration by e-mail no later than March 1, 2025. Also, the 8,000 JPY registration fee (non-refundable) should be paid at the venue prior to the presentation.

* Non-members living outside Japan may present papers once without becoming formal members of the JAAS. From the second time on, you are asked to become a member before presenting a paper. You can apply for the membership upon submission.

** You can present papers for two consecutive years, but not three years in a row.

***All the submissions should be previously unpublished and should not be under consideration for publication elsewhere. The committee accepts proposals in English and Japanese.

****When your proposal is accepted, you will be asked to submit the full paper (approximately 5,000 to 7,500 words in English, 8,000 to 12,000 letters in Japanese) to the Committee no later than May 10, 2025. The paper, locked with the password, will be posted on the JAAS website for the members prior to the Annual Meeting.

The JAAS Annual Meeting Program Coordinating Committee

2023年1月1日から12月31日の期間に出版された著作のなかから、自薦・他薦で寄せられた4作品を厳正に審査した結果、今回は「受賞作なし」となりましたことをご報告申し上げます。

2023年1月1日から12月31日の期間に出版された著作のなかから、自薦・他薦で寄せられた4作品を厳正に審査した結果、次の作品が受賞作となりました。

青野利彦（一橋大学）
『冷戦史（上）第二次世界大戦終結からキューバ危機まで』、
『冷戦史（下）ベトナム戦争からソ連崩壊まで』（中公新書）

青野会員

The 58th JAAS Annual Meeting will be held on June 1st and 2nd, 2024 at Waseda University, Tokyo.
The Fifty-Eighth JAAS Annual Meeting Program