Roundtables accepted for ASCJ 2012
Can I eat that?: Food, Drink, and Disaster
Organizers: 1) Paul Christensen, Union College
2) Nicolas Sternsdorff, Harvard
University
1) Paul Christensen, Union College
2) Satomi Fukutomi, University of St. Thomas
3) Andrew Littlejohn, Harvard University
4) Nicolas Sternsdorff, Harvard University
5) Satsuki Takahashi, Princeton University
The Winter of Neoliberal Discontent: Critical
Perspectives
Organizer: Mustapha Kamal Pasha, University of Aberdeen
Chair: Hiroyuki Tosa, Kobe University
1)
Anna Agathangelou, York University
2)
Giorgio Shani, International
Christian University
3) Yoshihiro Nakano, International Christian
University
3.11: Issues, Materials, Teaching and Research
Organizer: David Slater, Sophia University
1)
Andy Gordon, director of Reischauer Institute
2)
Ted Bestor, professor of anthropology; globalization and
food
3) Yamashita Shinji, professor of anthropology; disaster
anthropology
4) Daniel Aldrich, associate professor of political science;
social movements, Japan
5)
Yoshioka Tasuya, Director of Peace Boat Japan (Japanese NPO)
6)
Charles McJilton, Director of Second Harvest Japan (NPO
foodbank)
Panels accepted for ASCJ 2012
History and
Reconciliation in East Asia: An International
Comparison
Organizer: Lionel
Babicz, The University
of Sydney
Chair: Nobuko Kosuge,
Yamanashi Gakuin University
1) Junichiro Shoji,
The National Institute for Defense Studies
Japan-China versus Germany-Poland
2) Lionel Babicz, The
University of Sydney
Japan-Korea versus
France-Algeria
3) Fumitaka Kurosawa,
Tokyo Woman’s Christian
University
From “Politicization”
of “History” to “Historicization” of “History”
Discussant: Nobuko
Kosuge, Yamanashi
Gakuin University
A Muck Time: Environmental hygiene and
human waste disposal in Japan
across the twentieth-century
Organizer
and Chair: Alexander R. Bay, Chapman University
1)
Alexander R. Bay, Chapman
University
Nation from the Bottom Up: Disease,
Toilets and Waste Management in Modern Japan
2) Ichikawa Tomo, Shanghai
Jiaotong University
What is an ideal toilet? The Development
and Diffusion of Public Toilet in Meiji Japan, 1868-1912
3)
Roderick Wilson, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater
Dirty Water: An Environmental History of
Tokyo’s
Waterways and Bay, 1888-1964
4)
Hoshino Takanori, Keio
University
Prewar reformation of the night-soil
circulation network in the suburbs of Tokyo
Discussant:
Nagashima Takeshi, Senshu
University
Print
Matters: The Production and Circulation of the Printed Word in British Asia
Organizer
and Chair: Amelia Bonea, Heidelberg
University
1)
Prabhat Kumar, Heidelberg
University
Working
for the Hindi Press in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
2)
Dhrupadi Chattopadhyay, Heidelberg
University
Print
and the Christian Religious Imaginary in Nineteenth-Century Bengal
3)
Nitin Sinha, Zentrum Moderner Orient
Between ‘Paiswa’ (Money) and ‘Sawatiya’
(Second-wife): Womanhood and Print in Late Colonial India
4)
Mark Frost, University
of Essex
Pandora’s Post Box: The Information
Revolution in British Asia, 1860-1920
Discussants:
Toshie Awaya, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, and Riho Isaka, University of Tokyo
Treaty port Yokohama
reconstructed: accounts, images, injustice and bloody murder, 1859-1899
Organizer: Dr. Simon Bytheway, Nihon University
Chair:
Dr. David Hopkins, Tenri University
1) Martha Chaiklin, University of Pittsburgh
Pioneer in Old Yokohama:
Insights through the Adventures of C.T. Assendelft De Coningh
2) Simon
Bytheway, Nihon University
The
arrival of the ‘modern’ West in Yokohama:
images of the Japanese experience, 1859-1899
3)
Chester Proshan, Bunka Gakuen
University
Searching
for Justice: The Michael Moss Case in the Yokohama
Treaty Port, 1860
4) Eric HAN, College of William and Mary
“Tragedy in China-Town” and
the End of Extraterritoriality
Discussants:
Donna Brunero, National University of Singapore and David Hopkins, Tenri University.
Home, Sweet Home:
Dispersion, Relocation
and Settlement under the Imperial Sun and Thereafter
Origanizer: Seungki
Cha, SungKongHoe University
1) Sun Young Yoo
The “Good Koreans” on Foreign Soil
2) Seungki Cha, SungKongHoe University
A Showdown
between Nationalism and Regionalism: the Koreans in the Naichi
3) Helen J. S. Lee
Coming of
Age in the City of the Damned: Nakajima Atsushi’s “Kyŏngsŏng”
Stories
4) Seung-Mi
Han Yonsei
University
From
Multiculturalism to Participation: Korean-Chinese Efforts for Representation in
Korea and State/Society
Dynamics in Multicultural East Asia
Discussant: Michele Mason (University of Maryland))
The End of Old Romance? : Imageries of Love in South
Korean TV Dramas
Organizer and
Chair: Hyaeweol Choi, Australian
National University
1) Hyaeweol
Choi, Australian National University
Capital Scandal: Re-imagining the
Colonized Nation and the Modernized Body
2) Chang-Ling Huang, National Taiwan
University, and Nien-Hsuan Fang, National
Chengchi University
Romanticized Coercion: Love Scripts and Viewers’ Reception of
Korean TV dramas
3) Insook Kwon, Myongji University
Class and Gender Identity in Romance
Town: the 1970s Meets the 2010s
Discussant:
Seungsook Moon, Vassar
College
"Post-Bubble" Contemporary Art
in Japan:
Towards an Art History of the 1990s and After
Organizer:
Adrian Favell, Sciences Po, Paris
Chair:
Adrian Favell, Sciences Po, Paris
1)
Adrian Favell, Sciences Po, Paris
The Struggle for a Page in Art History:
The Global and National Ambitions of Japanese Contemporary Artists from the
1990s
2)
Kiyoko Mitsuyama-Wdowiak, Independent Art Historian, London
Continuities and New Affinities in the
Exhibition of Japanese Contemporary Art in the West Before and After 1990
3)
Matthew Larking, Doshisha University, Kyoto
Nihonga
Beside Itself: Contemporary Japanese Art’s Engagement with the Position and
Meaning of a Modern Painting Tradition
4)
Kirstin Ringelberg, Elon University,
North Carolina
Little
Sister, Big Girl: Tabaimo and the Gendering of Japanese Contemporary Art
Discussant:
Rachel DiNitto, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg VA
Female
Archetypes: Images of Women in Japanese Art and Literature
Organizer:
Karen Fraser, Santa Clara
University
Chair:
Karen Fraser, Santa Clara
University
1)
Caroline Hirasawa, Sophia
University
Multiple
Identities of the Tateyama Goddess Ubason
2)
David Gundry, University of California, Davis
The
Figure of the Deceptive Prostitute in Ihara Saikaku’s The Life of an Amorous
Man
3)
Miri Nakamura, Wesleyan
University
Whispering
Out Loud: Maids in Meiji Japan
4)
Karen Fraser, Santa Clara
University
Paragons
of Patriotism: Images of Motherhood in the late Meiji Period
Discussant:
Janine Beichman, Daito
Bunka University
Making a Statement: Fashion, Film, and Folk in the Shaping of 1960’s
Japanese Popular Culture
Organizer: Michael
Furmanovsky, Ryukoku
University
Chair: James Dorsey, Dartmouth
University
1) Mikiko Tachi, Chiba University
The
Ivy Fashion, Folk Music, and the Japanese Imagination of America in the
1960s
2) Michael Furmanovsky, Ryukoku University
Pop Culture and the Europeanization of
Japanese Women’s Fashion, 1955–65
3)
James Dorsey, Dartmouth
College
Bringing It All Back Home:
Constructing an Indigenous “Folk” for Japanese Folk Music
4) Hiroshi Narumi, Kyoto University
of Art and Design
Subcultural Bricolage in Japanese Street
Style
The
Global and the Local in the “Supirichuaru” (Spiritual) of 21th Century Japan
Organizer:
Ioannis Gaitanidis, White
Rose East
Asia Center
Chair:
Norichika Horie, University of the Sacred Heart
1) Mizuho Hashisako, Rikkyo University
SPI-CON:
A Case Study of "Kawaii" (Cute) "Supirichuaru"
2) Ioannis Gaitanidis, White Rose
East Asia Center
Globalization
of the New Age Movement? The Case of a Latecomer New Ager in Japan
3) Aki Murakami, University of Tsukuba
Japanese
Shamanistic Traditions and the “Supirichuaru”
4) Naoko Hirano, Waseda University
The Global and the Local in
REIKI: Countermodern Discourse in “Reijutsu”, New Age and the "Supirichuaru"
Discussants:
Norichika Horie, University of the Sacred Heart and Yasushi Koike, Rikkyo University
Coping
with Disaster: Field reports from Tōhoku
Organizer:
Tom Gill (Meiji Gakuin University)
Panel
1: Coping with Death, Destruction and Radiation: Life in the Disaster Zone
Chair:
Tom Gill (Meiji Gakuin University)
1)
Yoko Ikeda, Independent scholar
The
Social Construction of Risk after the Fukushima
Nuclear Power Plant Accident
2)
Rika Morioka, Johns
Hopkins University
Women
as mediators between a passive populace and a paralyzed government in Miyagi
3)
Nathan Peterson, University
of Iowa
Adapting Religious Practice to Disaster Areas in Iwate Prefecture
Discussant:
TBA
Panel
2: Coping with journalists, aid workers and volunteers: Interfaces between
disaster insiders and outsiders
Chair:
Michael Shackleton (Osaka
Gakuin University)
1)
David McNeill (Journalist, The
Independent, The Irish Times)
Them versus Us: Journalism and Japan's triple
disaster
2)
Charles McJilton (CEO, Second Harvest Japan)
Aid and
Japan:
Challenges in Disaster Relief
3)
Tuukka Toivonen (University
of Oxford)
Japanese
Youth Post-3/11: The Volunteering Experience, Change-Making and the Future
Discussant:
James Roberson (Tokyo
Jōgakkan University)
Engendering
the Self on Screen and off Screen: Women’s Consumption and the Media in Japan
Organizer: Alexandra Hambleton, University of Tokyo
Chair:
Jason Karlin, University
of Tokyo
1) Akiko Takeyama, University of Kansas
The
Futuristic Romance and the Feminine Self in Millennial Japan
2) Elizabeth Rodwell Marks, Rice University
Producer
as Consumer: Woman as Object of and For Japanese Television
3) Michelle Ho
The
Woman in Distress: Defamiliarizing the Uchi in “Sensational” Wide-Show Crime
News
4) Alexandra Hambleton
The
Individualized Sexual Self: Media, Women and Sexuality in Japan
Discussant: Gabi Lukacs, University of Pittsburgh
Trans-Pacific
Expertise, Trans-Pacific Lives in a Time of Rupture
Organizer:
Sally Hastings, Purdue
University
Chair:
Kumiko Fujimura-Fanselow, Toyo
Eiwa University
1)
Sally Hastings, Purdue
University
Women’s
Education and the World: Fujita Taki
2)
Izumi Koide, University
of Tokyo
Emergence
as a Leader: Naomi Fukuda in the late 1950s
3)
Vanessa B. Ward, University
of Otago
Journeys
in Thought: Chō Takeda Kiyoko and the Promotion of US-Japan Intellectual
Exchange
Discussant:
Kumiko Fujimura-Fanselow, Toyo
Eiwa University
and Noriko Ishii, Otsuma Women’s University
Transplanting Western
Knowledge in East Asia in Early Modern Period:
Its Socio-political Implications and Impacts on Modern
Transformation
Organizer and Chair: Dong-No Kim, Yonsei University
1) Sang-Sook Jeon, Ewha Womans
University
Characteristics and Differences between Korean and
Japanese Acceptance of Western Social Sciences as Stimulated by Encounters with
the West
2) Myungsoo Kim, Keio University
Comparative Study of Eiichi Shibusawa and Sang-Yong
Han: The Introduction of Modern Management Thoughts to Japan and Korea
3) Takeyuki Tokura, Keio University
“Confucianism” and “Civilizationalism” of Fukuzawa
Yukichi: Policy Debate over the Sino-Japanese War as an Example
4) Tae-Hoon Lee, Ewha Womans
University
The Formation and Characteristics of the Acceptance of
Social Science in the Taehan Empire(大韓帝國)
Discussant: Yukihiro Ikeda, Keio
University and Yung-Myung Kim, Hallym University
Modern
Visions: Identity, Media, and the City
Organizer:
Yu Kishi, International
Christian University
Chair:
Yu Kishi, International
Christian University
1)
Daiki Amanai, University of Tokyo
Identity in Mirror: Architects' Argument in
Interwar Japan
2)
Yu Kishi, International
Christian University
The Photo-modern in Japan
3)
Norio Yoshimoto, Tokyo Institute of Technology
Gazes
of intellectuals and non-intellectuals on the city: Urban images of modern Osaka.
Discussant:
Mari Takamatsu, New York
University.
Personal
Choices during Radical Times
Organizer:
Zisu Liang, Huazhong
Normal University
Chair:
Chen Yu, Yokohama
National University
1) Zisu
Liang, Huazhong Normal
University, Wuhan
Formation
and Transformation of Shibusawa Eiichi's Views of the World: From Shogunate
Retainer to Meiji Government Official
2)
Zhenzi Hu, Kansai
University
Pursuing
Academic Neutrality in Turbulent Times: Kano
Naoki and Japanese Sinology
3)
Chen Yuan, Kansai
University
True to
the Cause: Huang Xing and the 1911 Revolution
4)
Dan Luo, Kansai University
On the
Final Life Choices of Qing Loyalist Zheng Xiaoxu, First Prime Minister of Manchukuo
Discussant: Jian Zhao, Tokiwakai Gakuen
University
Tokyo Now and Then: A
Profile of the Changing City
Organiser & Chair:
Titanilla Mátrai, Waseda
University, Theatre Museum
1)
Titanilla Mátrai,
Waseda University, Theatre Museum
Tokyo Through the Eyes of Foreign Filmmakers
2)
Magali Bugne,
University of Strasbourg / Centre européen d'études japonaises d'Alsace
Tôkyô's experiment: portrait of the city through the writing of Paul
Claudel, Nicolas Bouvier and Marcel Giuglaris
3) Shelley Brunt, RMIT University
Interactive Intimacy: The
Role of the Audience in Tokyo’s
Annual Televised Kouhaku
utagassen (Red and White Song Contest)
4)
Yusuke Suzumura,
Hosei University
Figures of Foreigners in Tokyo: The Case of a Cartoon Sazae-san
Discussant: Dr.
John Clammer, United Nations
University
Rethinking
the Kamakura
Period through Literature
Organizer/Chair:
Michael McCarty, Columbia
University
1)
Michael McCarty, Columbia
University
Japan on the Eve of the Jōkyū Disturbance:
Using Literary Sources to Challenge Kamakura-Period Historiography
2)
Erin Brightwell, Princeton
University
A
Multi-faceted Mirror: Kara Kagami and Creating Hi/stories
3)
Michael Watson, Meiji
Gakuin University
Narrow
Escapes and Jail Breaks: Kamakura-period Warriors in Bangai
Noh
4)
Ariel Stilerman, Columbia
University
The
Poetics of Nostalgia: Tachibana no Narisue’s Kokonchomonjū (Notable Tales Old and New)
Discussant:
Matthew Thompson, Sophia
University
Public
health nutrition discourses as social discourses: Understanding Japan through
the lens of Shokuiku.
Organizer:
Melissa Melby, University
of Delaware
Chair:
Melissa Melby, University
of Delaware
1) Melissa Melby, University of Delaware
Shokuiku ideals and realities: Lifestyle constraints influencing
discordance
between ideal and actual eating habits
2) Wakako Takeda, Australian National
University
Role of
commensality (meal sharing) in Shokuiku
3) Aiko Kojima, University of Chicago
Responsibility or Right to Eat Well?: Food Education (Shokuiku)
Campaign in Japan
Discussant: Glenda Roberts, Waseda University
Non-traditional Security Cooperation in Northeast Asia: A
case for cooperation in the areas Human, Environmental and Energy Security
Organizer: Stephen Robert Nagy
Chair: Stephen Robert Nagy
1) Tai Wei Lim, Chinese University
of Hong Kong
Environmental Cooperation in NEA: A Case Study of Local
Communities in Eco-tourism Ventures and their Interactions with National
Government Initiatives
2) Justin Dargin, Harvard University/
Oxford University
Energy Cooperation in Northeast Asia:
An Examination of Institutional Frameworks for Energy Cooperation in NEA
3) Stephen Robert Nagy, Chinese University
of Hong Kong
Human Security Cooperation in Northeast
Asia: Japanese Human Security Norms as a Platform for Regionalism
4) Ralph Ittonen Hosoki, University of California,
Irvine;
Department of Sociology
The Determinants of the Expansion of the Human Security
and Rights of Migrants in the Asia- Pacific
Discussant: Christian Wirth, Waseda University
Visual
Representations of the Japanese from a Cross-cultural
Perspective, 1930-45
Organizer:
Asako Nobuoka, Toyo
University
Chair:
Asako Nobuoka, Toyo
University
1)
Asako Nobuoka, Toyo
University
Enigma
of the Beautifulƒ Enemy Land: Photographic Representations of Japan in National
Geographic Magazine
2)
Masako Oomori, Tokyo
University of Foreign
Studies
The
Image of the Japanese in Soviet Media Culture from the Late 1930s to 1945
3)
Shiho Maeshima, Hosei University, The University of British
Columbia
The
Dream of a Multicultural Empire: Representation of the “Japanese” in the 1930s
Popular-Magazine Photo Stories
4)
Hana Washitani, Waseda University Tsubouchi
Memorial Theatre
Museum
Eroticized Masculine Body as “Fake
Foreigner” in War-time Japanese Popular Culture: Focusing on Hasegawa Kazuo in Forward!
Flag of Independence (1943)
Discussants:
Yumi Tanaka, Japan Women's University and Eriko Kosaka, Kyoritsu
Women's University
Cultures
of Silent Film: Preservation, Reassessment, Digital Reproduction, and
Contemporary Performance
Organizer
and Chair: Kyoko Omori, Hamilton
College
1) Joanne
Bernardi, University
of Rochester
Re-envisioning Japan in Silent
Travel and Educational Films
2) Kenko
Kawasaki, Japan Institute of the Moving Image
"Voices"
in Silent Film; Gender and Sexuality in Benshi Performance
3) Kae Ishihara, Film Preservation Society and Gakushuin University
Playing
“Musical Chairs” with Japanese silent films: Can our films be properly
screened?
4) Kyoko Omori, Hamilton College
What
Can Digital Humanities do for the Study of Silent Cinema and Benshi Narration?
Discussant: Hidenori Okada, National
Film Center,
The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Constructing
Networks of Power: Process of Electrification in Late 20th Century’s South
Korea
Organizer
and Chair: Tae Gyun Park
1)
Seong-Jun Kim, Seoul National University
Who Rules the Atom?: Controversies
Surrounding the Nuclear Power Plant Management System in South Korea during the
1950s and 1960s
2) Yeonhee Kim, Seoul National University
New Village Movement (Saemaeul Undong)
and Rural Electrifying Project
3) Jin Hee Park, Dongguk University
The Rise and fall of solar energy in
Korea 1973-1985
Discussant: Sungook Hong, Seoul National University
Defining
and Engaging the Social: Religious Praxis in Modern Japan
Organizer:
Cameron Penwell, University
of Chicago
Chair:
Masahiko Okada, Tenri
University
1)
Yijiang Zhong, National University of Singapore
Partitioning
Shinto, Generating Society
2)
Helen A. Findley, University
of Chicago
Shakai
kyōiku: Katō Totsudō and the Creation of
a Buddhist Social Imaginary
3)
Cameron Penwell, University
of Chicago
Watanabe
Kaikyoku’s Vision of Buddhism as “Social Religion” in Taisho Japan
4)
A. Carly Buxton, University
of Chicago
State
Shinto and the Korean Social Experiment
Discussant:
Masahiko Okada, Tenri
University
Tradition
and Innovation in Modern Japanese Theatre
Organizers:
Cody Poulton, University of Victoria (Canada)
and Michael De Schuyter, Sophia University (Japan)
Chair:
Robert Tierney, University of Illinois (USA)
1) Robert
Tierney, University
of Illinois
Translation and Tradition: The Strange
Tale of Caesar
2)
Aragorn Quinn,
Stanford University (USA)
The Ideology of Space in Proletarian
Theater
3) Michael
De Schuyter, Sophia
University
Interweaving Time and Tradition: Noda
Hideki and Intercultural Theatre
4) Cody
Poulton, University
of Victoria
From Puppet to Robot: Technology and the
Human in Japanese Theatre
Discussant:
Mari Boyd, Sophia
University
Aspiration or Reality? Equal Employment Opportunities in North East Asia
Organiser:
Kirsti Rawstron, University
of Wollongong
Chair:
Linda White, Middlebury
College
1)
Ayako Kano, University
of Pennsylvania
International Norms, U.S.-Style Backlash,
and the History of Japanese Debates on Equality and Employment
2)
Kirsti Rawstron, University
of Wollongong
A
Quantitative Analysis of the Effect of Equal Employment Opportunity Laws in South Korea and Japan
3)
Stephanie Assmann, Akita
University
Quo
Vadis Gender Equality? The Revision, Implementation and Acceptance of the Equal
Employment
Opportunity Law in Japan
4)
Myeongjae Yeo, Boston
College
CEDAW
and Women's Policy in Korea:
Changes since 2008
Discussant:
Linda White, Middlebury
College
Serious Games Amidst Casual Chats: The Social Uses
of Poetry in Song Dynasty Miscellanies
Organizer:
Benjamin Ridgway, Valparaiso
University
Chair:
Stephen H. West, Arizona
State University
1)
Benjamin Ridgway, Valparaiso
University
Status and Style: Poetry Composition and Literati
Identity in Ye Mengde’s A Record of Chats
to Beat the Heat
2)
Meghan Cai, Arizona State University
There’s a Poem about That: Poetry as
Documentary Evidence in Old Stories from
the Bend of
[River] Wei
3)
Gang Liu, Carnegie
Mellon University
The “Poelitics” of a Drinking Game: Jia Sidao and
Southern Song Politics in the Anecdotes
of Qiantang
Discussant:
Jeffrey Moser, Zhejiang
University
Industry
and Economy in Japanese Manchuria
Organizer and Chair: Victor Kian
Giap Seow, Harvard
University
1) Fumi Yoshii, University of Tokyo
The
Monopoly of Manchukuo
and the Open Door Principle: The
Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs and the Interpretation of the Nine-Power
Treaty
2) Koji Hirata, University of Tokyo
The
Legacies of a Colonial Developmental State: Manchukuo’s
Industries and Postwar China
3) Victor Seow, Harvard University
Engines of Enterprise: Technology in
the Manchurian Coal Mining Industry
Discussant: Linda Grove, Sophia University
“Sino-Japanese” Beyond China
and Japan
(1895-1938)
Organizer/Chair: Seiji Shirane, Princeton University
1) Seiji Shirane, Princeton
University
Chinese and Taiwanese Migration in Japan's Southern Frontier,
1895-1936
2)
Andrew Leong, Northwestern University
Japanese American Anti-Sinification After the Asian Exclusion Act
of 1924
3)
Evelyn Shih, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC
Berkeley
Nearing Nanjing
1938: Travel Writing, Imperial Positionality and the Human Remainder
Discussant: Daqing Yang, George Washington
University
Panel
Title:
From 'Futei
Senjin' to 'Zainichi Korean': (Re)signifying Korean Identity within the
Japanese Empire and Post-Colonial Japan
Organizer:
Deborah Solomon, Otterbein
University
Chair:
Deborah Solomon, Otterbein
University
1)
Andre Haag, Stanford
University
Re-signifying
Korean Resistance: Contests over the Language of Colonialism and Rebellion in
Interwar Japan
2) Deborah Solomon, Otterbein University
Student Activism and the Language of
`Total War`: Power and Protest in 1940s Colonial Korea
3) Su
Yun Kim, Doshisha
University
“Harmony in Difference”: Korean-Japanese
Love and Family in Late Colonial Period Films
4)
Christopher D. Scott, Nihon University/Macalester College
Monstrous
Masculinity: Rikidōzan and the Spectacle
of the Zainichi Korean Male Body in 1950s Japan
Discussant: Ryuta Itagaki, Doshisha University
Overcoming
Vicissitudes: The Tohoku Region in Modern Japan
Organizer:
M. William Steele, International
Christian University
Chair:
M. William Steele, International
Christian University
1) Hiraku
Shimoda, Waseda University Faculty of Law
“The Treasure of Our Country”: Meiji Developmentalism in Fukushima
2) M.
William Steele, International
Christian University
The
Great Northern Famine of 1905-06: Two Sides of International Aid
3) Patricia
Sippel, Toyo Eiwa University
The 1909 Akita Tour and the
Formation of a Positive Modern Identity
Discussant: Hidemichi Kawanishi, Hiroshima University
Women,
Narration, and Categorization in Premodern Japanese Literature
Organizer: Loren Waller, University of Kochi
1) Loren Waller, University of Kochi
Heavenly
Maidens and Narrative Discourse in Early Japanese Mythological Texts
2) Takafumi Nakamaru, Keimyung University
The
Production of Kana Narratives within the East Asian Cultural Sphere: Narrating
Otherworldly Women
3) Teiko Ito, Shinagawa Joshi
Gakuin
Marriage Proposal Tales and the
Function of Conversation
4) David Atherton, Columbia University
Vengeance
as a Family Enterprise: Reading Mothers and
Daughters in Edo Period Vendetta Fiction
Discussant: Bettina Gramlich-Oka,
Sophia University
Technologies of Japanese
Empire: Aesthetics, Planning and Ideology
Organizer: Max Ward, Middlebury College
1)
Aaron S. Moore, Arizona State University
Constructing the Continent: Japanese Urban Planning Technology and the Case
of “Pan-Asian” Beijing
2)
Takeshi Kimoto, University
of Oklahoma
Empire as a Work of Art: Yasuda Yojūrō on
Japanese and Chinese Architecture
3) Max
Ward, Middlebury College
Subjective Technology: The Japanese Peace Preservation Law and the Colonial
Question
Discussant: Erik W. Esselstrom,
University of Vermont
Education
in a transnational context: The case of newcomers in Japan
Chair and Organizer: Lucia E. Yamamoto, Shizuoka
University
1) Hyunsuk Park,
Tohoku University
Lifelong
education in a multicultural family
2)
Ana
Sueyoshi, Utsunomiya
University
The
Education Environment of Returnee Nikkei Peruvian Children in Peru and Japan
3) Lucia E. Yamamoto,
Shizuoka University
Brazilian
Migrant children’s education in a transnational context
Discussant:
Edson I. Urano, Tsukuba University
Individual papers accepted for ASCJ 2012
1. Alexis Agliano Sanborn, Harvard
College
Flavoring the Nation: The Role of School Lunch in Modern Japanese Society
2. Jiwon Ahn, Keene State College
Period Films in Transition: Transnational jidai-geki and sageuk in Japanese
and S.Korean Cinema
3. Anatoliy Anshin, Russian
State University
for the Humanities
Yamaoka Tesshű’s Memoirs of the Bloodless Surrender of Edo Castle
4. Shino Arisawa, Tokyo Gakugei University
Chinatowns in Japan:
Shaping Communities through Performing Arts
5. Olivier Baible, Peking University (Chinese Department) / EHESS
Language Purification in South
Korea: Toward a New Perspective on the Sino-Japanese
Words (Wasei Kango)
6. Ievgeniia Bogdanova, Heidelberg University
Negotiating Art Borders: Between Avant-Garde Calligraphy and Abstract
Painting
7. Loredana Cesarino, University
of Rome “La Sapienza”
Poems by Courtesans in Quan Tangshi 全唐诗: Some Cases of Doubtful Authorship
8. Eno Compton, Princeton University, Fulbright Graduate Research Fellow at Rikkyo University
Figurative Love Affairs and Erotic Wordplay: Rereading Heian Waka alongside
Six Dynasties Poetry
9. Emma Dalton, University
of Wollongong
Affirmative Action in Japan’s Bureaucracy
10. Hsiuyu Fan, University
of California, Berkeley
Our Life, Our Marriage and Our Family as Defined by Immigration Law
The Making and Unmaking of Law and Culture, From the Perspective of Chinese American
Films
11. Liya Fan, Tokyo
University
Laurence Binyon and Arthur Waley:
Two Different Types of British Oriental Scholars
12. Rie Fuse, University of Tampere
Seeking for “Richness” in Finnish Lifestyle: Analysis of “Finland Boom” in Japanese Media
13. Yan Gao, University of Cambridge
Rural guanxi, gift money giving and resource reallocation: Evidence from a poverty-stricken
county in northeast China
14. Noriaki Hoshino, Cornell University
A Transpacific Study on Social Work and Imperial Subject Formation: The Case
of the Koreans in Japan and
of the Japanese in the U.S.
15. Timothy Iles, University
of Victoria
Technologue: Technology and fear
in contemporary Asian horror cinema
Film as technologue—a mediating
dialogue between fear and technology.
16. Jinhua Jia, University of Macau
Female Religiosity in the Daoist
Tradition of Tang China
17. Rodney Jubilado, University of Malaya
Border Ethnicities: Language,
Culture, and Migration of the Sama-Bajaus
18. Miriam Kaminishi, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
The Japanese Imperialism in Manchuria: an Approach on the Role of Japanese
Currencies in the Soybeans Marketing
during the 1920s
19. John Christopher Kern, Ohio State University
(currently a kenkyusei at Waseda University)
A Conversation with Shunzei – An
example of Kamakura-era Genji studies
20. Minkyu Kim, Northeast Asian History Foundation
"Treaty for Japanese Annexation
of Korea"
and the Transmutation of the East Asian Interstate Order
21. Kazuo Kobayashi, Soka
University
Institutionalization of “Invented
Tradition” in Java under the Japanese Occupation.
22. Hanae Kurihara Kramer, Independent Scholar
The South Manchuria Railway
Company's Film Unit (1923-1944)
23. Celine Y. Y. Lai, City University of Hong Kong
The ritual roles of the acrobats of
the Eastern Han
24. Ashton Lazarus, Yale
University
Scenarios of Agricultural
Performance: Commoner Crowds and Elite Identifications in Dengaku
25. Dukin Lim, Tokyo University
Making The Decision Between Naturalization
And Permanent Residence For Newcomers Koreans In Japan
26. James Lin, University of California, Berkeley
Teach a Nation to Fish: Globalizing
Development in Taiwan, East Asia, and the World, 1949 – 1975
27. Judit Erika Magyar, Waseda University
Mizuno Hironori’s “The Next Battle”:
a historical snapshot of the Japanese Navy in 1913
28. Noriko Manabe, Princeton University
"Representing Japan: Japanese
Hip-Hop DJs, the Global Stage, and Defining a 'National' Style"
29. Paul McQuade, Sophia
University
x + ander = ? Tawada Yōko and
Thirdspace Writing
30. Hsin-I Mei, Department of History, University
of California, Los
Angeles (USA)
The Divine Empyrean Movement in Jiangxi during the Song China (960-1279)
31. Matthew Mitchell, Duke University
The Light of Japan – Nuns,
Sites, and Semiofficial Patronage Networks in the Early Modern Period
32. Alejandro Morales Rama, Sophia
University.
A Polyphonic Monogatari: a Study on
the Process of Intertextuality in Nakagami Kenji’s the Immortal
33. Makiko Mori, Auburn
University
“Religion or Philosophy: Popular
Enlightenment in the Late Qing Reformist Discourse”
34. Ryan Shaldjian Morrison,
University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology,
Department of Contemporary Literary Studies; Sophia University, Adjunct
Professor, Japanese Literature
35A Portrait of the Artist as a Pan-Possessed Nympholeptic: A Close Reading of
Ishikawa Jun’s Kajin”
35. Haruka Nomura, Australian National
University
Joining the age of empires: The world in a Shanghai newspaper, 1872-1892
36. Caroline Norma, RMIT University
The cultural climate of pornography: Japan in the first decade of the
twenty-first century
37. Rachel Payne, University of Canterbury
Mrs Otake Buhicrosan: an unlikely advocate of Meiji Japan's radical
westernization
38. Andres Perez Riobo, Ritsumeikan University
Eating meat and caring for lepers:
the formation of a despised image of Christiantiy in the early Edo
period
39. Shuk-wah Poon, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
When Chinese Dogs Meet British
Colonialism: Animal Welfare and the Contested Ban on Eating Dogs in Colonial Hong Kong
40. Gwenola Ricordeau, Université
Lille-I (France)
Local Gender Identities and LGBT Culture in the P
hilippines: Baklas, Tomboys and Cultural
Globalizatio
41. Martin Roberts, Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dartmouth College
Groovisions: Database Consumption and Ritual Performance in Otaku Culture
42. Jae-ho Shin, University
of Pennsylvania
Peasants into Chosŏn Subjects: the
Koreanization of the Fifteenth Century Borderlands
43. Binti Singh, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay,
Mumbai, India
New Civil Societies in contemporary urban India
44. Massimiliano Tomasi, Western
Washington University
Christianity and the Modern: A
Metanarrative of the Life of Jesus Christ in Meiji and Taisho Literature
45. Giancarla Unser-Schutz, Hitotsubashi
University
The social implications of new
Japanese names
46. Alexander Vesey, Meiji Gakuin University
Temples,
Timber, and Truculence: Clerical-Lay Tensions over Timber Resources in Early Modern Japan
47. Robert Winstanley-Chesters, University of Leeds
"Landscape as Political
Project?" – North Korean Environmental Management, New Strategies in the Field of Coastal Land
Reclamation
48. Yoshitaka Yamamoto, University
of Tokyo
Flowers, Letters, and Politics:
Yamamoto Hokuzan's Engagement with Classical Chinese Literature and Minor Arts in
Edo-Period Japan
49. Sun-Hee Yoon, Loyola
Marymout University
War, Fiction and History
50. Zhiqun Zhu, Bucknell University,
USA
The Chinese Communist Party at 90:
Many Happy Returns?