FORTHCOMING
Saturday 26th April, 2025 3 - 4 pm IST
Indian Educators at the 1937 Tokyo Conference:
A Forgotten Chapter in India-Japan Relations
In 1937, Tokyo hosted the 7th World Federation of Education Associations (WFEA) Conference - an event that brought together nearly 900 educators from around the world. Among them were 50 delegates from the Indian subcontinent. While this conference has largely faded from historical memory, this talk will explore the contributions of some of these educators from India and calls for collaboration to unearth their writings in Indian languages.
SPEAKER
Mr. Arun Shyam is currently an Adjunct Researcher at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics, Tokyo, Japan. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor at the English and Foreign Languages University (2009-2024), Hyderabad, India. Some of his edited publications include: Japanese Language Education in South Asia: What Does South Asia Need? (2024) and Teaching Methodologies in Japanese Language Education in India (2019). He is also involved with an online forum called, Sekai To Watashi (https://sites.google.com/view/sekaitowatashi/). This is open to Japanese language users including native speakers, and is aimed at facilitating intercultural dialogue using Japanese.