Dr Jeanine Leane, post doctoral fellow attached to the Australian Centre for Indigenous History, has been invited to a symposium on Australian Indigenous writing arranged by the Australian and New Zealand Literature Society of Japan as part of its annual conference. Dr Leane will also be addressing the conference as a guest speaker along with another Indigenous author Alexis Wright.

The conference is to be held in Kyoto in November and builds on the existing Japanese links of the ACIH forged by the late Mino Hokari, and the scholarship that was subsequently established in his name.