General Questions
1. Is there a registration fee?
No. There is no registration fee.
2. Are there any opportunities for the participants to receive grants for the accommodation (travel and hotel expenses)?
No. The organizer does not provide any financial support to presenters.
3. Are there any opportunities for the papers from the participants to be published in any journals or proceedings?
We are discussing with some journal to find opportunities for our presenters. We will inform about the opportunities once we have more information.
4. May I know how to register?
There is no registration process at this stage. What you need to do is to submit your abstract. The abstract should be less than 300 words. It should state your research background, research questions and argument. There is no particular format of the abstract. You must send your abstract to this email address which is japanese.studies.asean@gmail.com. The committee will select the good abstracts and we will announce the selected abstract soon. If you are selected, we will send you a form to register. There is no registration fee.
5. Could you please let me know the registration fees for virtual paper presentation?
Although we acknowledge that online platforms have given presenters and participants to attend academic activities more freely, we strongly encourage everyone to attend the conference physically. Nevertheless, we do financially support you to attend the conference (except postgraduate workshop on 20th December 2023). Should you have any questions, please feel free to write an email to us.
6. This time you only want the abstract or also accept for the full paper as well?
This time we do not call for full papers. We accept original abstracts from scholars in the field of Japanese studies to present their ideas at Chiang Mai University. We, nonetheless, do not publish proceedings, or any full paper this time.
7. In the 7th JSA-Asian event, the winner of the presentation will have the chance to publish his paper. How about this time? Only the winner can have a chance to publish or you also consider of other works to publish as well?
We do not give awards to any paper this year. We will send out questionnaires to the authors if they want to publish their papers with our journal partners or not. We will work closely with our journal partners. However, the procedure of matching the journal will be announced in due course.
8. Is the journal under your organization SCOPUS-indexed?
At the Faculty of Political Science and Public Administration, Chiang Mai University, we do have a double-blind peer-review journal which is indexed in TCI tier 1. You can learn more about the journal at https://so05.tci-thaijo.org/index.php/polscicmujournal.
9. Can I send my abstract and present my paper to a team consisting of 2 people?
Generally, we allows one presenter for one paper. Accordingly, if your paper has three authors, we allow just only one representative to be the presenter.