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THE FIFTEENTH ASIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE JAPAN (ASCJ 2011)
International Christian University (ICU), Tokyo, June 25–26, 2011 ![]() ASCJ 2011 poster [see large size]
An announcement will be given via Twitter (@ascj20xx) when new information is available online. Information about ASCJ 2011
ASCJ online program with corrections (PDF)
Full set of abstracts in order of the program (PDF) (The abstracts total 140+ pages in length. Read page one before you print!) Conference venue at ICU: access (English) アクセス (Japanese) directions to conference venue, accommodation suggestions Information for exhibiters and advertisers (PDF / English) 会場での書籍展示即売とカタログ配布 (PDF / Japanese) Registration and Payments for Advertisers and Exhibitors (webform) The Keynote Address will now be delivered by Theodore C. Bestor Vice-President, Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Edwin O. Reischauer Professor of Japanese Anthropology Harvard University Professor Bestor will speak on the subject of Comprehending Disaster from Afar Harvard University's Digital Archive of Japan's 2011 Disasters There are now TWO programs available online: (1) The online program of panels and sessions (17 pages, 270 kb) (2) the full printed program with additional information and advertising by exhibiters and other sponsors (30 pages, 24 mb) The PDF file of abstracts can be searched online or after downloading. For your convenience in browsing and printing, each session begins on a new page. The time, room number, and title of the session are indicated in a header. Abstracts will not be available at the conference. Check the online program to see when your panel or paper is scheduled, or for any changes not included in the full program, which has gone to the printer's. Email us if you find any errors in your listing. Online registrations closed on June 10. Registration in cash only can be accepted at the conference site at the higher rate of 5000 yen (2000 yen for graduate students). While tickets last, it will also be possible to pay for the Saturday night reception. Other conference information:
Organizers are asked to write to ascj20xx@gmail if there are any changes in their session. Individual paper presenters and members of panels/roundtables should do the same if there are any changes in name, affliliation, or paper title. The following two roundtables were accepted for ASCJ 2011. Online registration for the conference begins on February 20. Roundtable organizers should encourage all participants to register before April 20 when "early bird" registration ends. Online registration is required for your roundtable to be included in the final program. Exploring Issues of Diversity and Human Rights in Japan from a Feminist Perspective
(Roundtable) Organizer/Chair: Kumiko Fujimura-Fanselow, Toyo Eiwa University 1) Keiko Aiba, Meiji Gakuin University 2) Kaoru Aoyama, Kobe University 3) Kumiko Fujimura-Fanselow, Toyo Eiwa University 4) Minata Hara, Kyosei-Net for LGBIT 5) Yuriko Hara, International Movement Against All Forms of Discrimination and Racism-Japan Committee (IMADR-JC) 6) Sachiko Kaneko, Nagoya College 7) Leny P. Tolentino, Kalakasan Migrant Women Empowerment Center & Solidarity Network with Migrants Japan A Post-Western IR? Examining the Possibility of an 'Asian' International Relations Theory (Roundtable) Organizer/Co-Chair: Giorgio Shani, International Christian University Co-Chair: Mustapha Kamal Pasha, University of Aberdeen 1) Anna Agathangelou, York University 2) Pinar Bilgin, Bilkent University 3) L.H.M. Ling, The New School 4) Hiroyuki Tosa, Kobe University The following 38 panels have been accepted for the conference. They are listed in the order of the organizer's surname. Some titles have been abbreviated. For up-to-date information, including names of panelists, papers, and discussants, see the program (PDF). Online registration for the conference begins on February 20. Panels organizers should encourage all members of their panels—including discussants—to register before April 20 when "early bird" registration ends. Online registration for the conference is required for your panel to be included in the final program.
The following 52 individual papers were accepted for ASCJ 2011. Your paper will be included in one of the thematically organized "Individual Paper Sessions"after you have registered for the conference. Online registration for the conference begins on February 20. You are urged to register before April 20. If you do not pre-register for the conference, your paper will not be included in the final program. Shakil Ahmed, University of Tsukuba Civil Society of Bangladesh: Depoliticized in Working Agenda but Politicized in Power Relation Mauricio Baros, Universidad de Chile The New Horizons of Whistler: Japan and Chile Yves Berna, University of Mainz Political Aspects of the Escape of European Jews to Shanghai during WWII: The role of Ho Feng-shan and the Chinese bureaucracy in the escape of 20,000 Jews from Europe to China/Shanghai Winifred Chang, University of California, Los Angeles Imperiled Stronghold or Certain Victory: Between Everyday Life and Extraordinary Performance in Colonial Taiwan, 1937–1945 Jamyung Choi, University of Pennsylvania Blooming Students Middle-class: The Red Gate Consumption Cooperative and Student Life at Todai Jonathan Dil, Chuo University Open and Closed Systems in Murakami Haruki’s 1Q84 Klaus Dittrich, Hanyang University The Foreign Community in Late Joseon Korea, 1882–1910 Monika Dix, Saginaw Valley State University Reading the Sacred in Medieval Japan: Narratives and Spatial Practices in the Taima-dera jikkai-zu byōbu PRESENTER UNABLE TO ATTEND Daisy Du, University of Wisconsin-Madison Moving Pictures and Border Politics: Chinese Animation Film and its Japanese Connection in Early Socialist China Elise Foxworth, La Trobe University A Postcolonial Analysis of Mandogi Yūrei Kitan [The Extraordinary Ghost Story of Mandogi] by Zainichi Korean Writer Kim Sok Pom Gideon Fujiwara, University of British Columbia Religious Thought and Practice in Hirata Nativism: The Case of Students in Hirosaki Domain Yan Gao, University of Cambridge Rural Guanxi, Gift Money Giving and Resource Reallocation: Evidence from a Poverty-stricken County in Northeast China David R. George, Jr., Bates College A Spanish Novelist’s Tour of Japan: the Image of Vicente Blasco Ibañez in the Taisho Press (1919–1928) Luke Hambleton, Beijing Normal University An Environmental Approach to the Early Development of Tobacco in China Namhee Han, University of Chicago Embodying Wide and Deep Urban Space: City Dwellers in Akira Kurosawa’s High and Low (1963) Akiko Hōjō, Waseda University Rituals for Imperial Births in Japanese Medieval Literature Carola Hommerich, German Institute for Japanese Studies The Advent of Vulnerability: Perceptions of Crisis in Present-Day Japan Zhiya Hua, City University of Hong Kong In the Name of "Culture": Village Temples and Their Survival Strategies in Contemporary North China Tomoe Ikeda, Kansai University Development of the Detective Story in 1920s China Timothy Iles, University of Victoria Miike Takashi: Ridiculous Visions of Impossible Masculinity Arnel Joven, University of the Philippines Colonial Appropriation of Medicine and Health-Seeking Behaviour in the Philippines during the Japanese Occupation Period Ayako Kano, University of Pennsylvania Consequences of the Backlash Against State Feminism: Fighting Back, Backpedaling, and Turning Back to Men Joyman Lee, Yale University Japanese Economic Ideas and Chinese Policy on Industrial Development, 1920–1940 Victoria Lee, Princeton University Microbial Transformations: the Antibiotic Boom in Postwar Japan, 1945–1965 Wai Shing Lee, The Chinese University of Hong Kong Reexamining Hong Kong Medical History under Japanese Occupation: Using HonKon Nippō (Hong Kong News) as the Main Reference Yanming Li, Keio University The Japanese Business Community's Attitude toward China during the Koizumi Administration Yu Liu, Niagara County Community College The Religiosity of a Former Confucian-Buddhist: The Catholic Faith of Yang Tingyun Dylan McGee, SUNY New Paltz Defacing Books: Allographic Inscription and Reader Reception in Early Modern Japan Takuma Melber, University of Mainz/Waseda University Allied Studies concerning Morale, Psychology and Mindset of Japanese POWs in World War II Franck Michelin, Meiji University Hawks vs. Doves? The Analysis of the Occupation of Northern French Indochina Process as a Way to Transcend a Historical Myth Ikuyo Nakagawa, City University of New York The Modern Mural Movement in Japan: An International Perspective Shota Ogawa, University of Rochester A Cinematic History of Zainichi Koreans Tomoki Ota, Japan Society of the Promotion of Science/Tokyo University of the Arts The Increase in Public Understanding of Art History through Popular Culture in the 1920-50s: Kōdan, Radio Drama and Children's Books Ronie Parciack, Tel Aviv University Ilanit Loewy Shacham, University of Chicago A Theological Model for Antinomic Politics: The Case of Laloo Prasad Yadav Wayne Patterson, St. Norbert College Maritime Customs and Informal Imperialism: A New Look at Sino-Korean Relations in the 1880s PRESENTER UNABLE TO ATTEND Maria G. Petrucci, University of British Columbia Silver, Salt and Saltpeter: The Rise and Demise of Sixteenth-Century Japanese Piracy in Kyushu Chrissie Reilly, US Army Staff Historian/UMBC Whaling Policy in Japan During WWII and Postwar Occupation Sangho Ro, Princeton University Offspring of Tonghak, Modern Media and Consumer Culture, 1898–1910 Frédéric Roustan, Hitotsubashi University Challenging Colonial Domination : The Legal Categorisation of Japanese Migrants in French Indochina Kaori Saito, the Australian National University Can Japan Compete with ‘Emerging Donors’? Aid Policy for Cambodia Yae Sano and Misato Kimura, Ritsumeikan Asia-Pacific University Urbanization and Environmental Volunteerism in Japan Devika Singh, University of Cambridge Approaching the Mughal Past in Indian Art Criticism: the Case of MARG (1946–1963) Katarzyna Sonnenberg, Jagiellonian University From Recollection to Perception. A Bergsonian Reading of Higuchi Ichiyō’s Narratives Christian W. Spang, University of Tsukuba The Expansion of the German East Asiatic Society (OAG) in East Asia (1930–45) Takako Suzuki, International Christian University Political Interests and Religious Miracles in Hayashi Razan’s Honchojinjyako Benny Teh, Universiti Sains Malaysia Japanese Community under the Malaysia My Second Home (MM2H) Program Kiyoshi Ueda, Hosei University "State" Shinto in Postwar Japan: Association for Studies of Japan as a Case Study Maki Umemura, Cardiff University Rebuilding Networks Lost: Neocolonialism and the Remaking of Japanese Entrepreneurial Networks in Taiwan and South Korea, 1945–80 Alexander Vesey, Meiji Gakuin University Temples, Timber, and Truculence: Clerical-Lay Tensions over Timber Resources in Early Modern Japan. Linh Vu, University of California at Berkeley Carless and Careless Natives: Car Accidents in French Indochina Zeying Wu, Lingnan University Does Patriotic Education Lead to Anti-Japanese Sentiments in China? Nobuo Yamamoto, Keio University Figuring Tan Malaka: Reading Pewarta Deli in the 1930s Return to top of this page. Contact the organizers: email: ascj20xx@gmail.com Asian Studies Conference Japan |