Eleventh Annual Graduate Student Symposium for Japanese Studies, May 7th, 2005
Visualizing Boundaries (9:00 – 10:30am)
- Nobuko Toyosawa (University of Illinois-Champaign, East Asian Languages
and Cultures): “East-West Intertextuality and the Remapping of Japan:
Nihon Fûkei-ron and Things Japanese”
- Theresa Orth (UCLA, Asian Languages and Cultures): “Majestic Landscape,
Marginal Space: Mountains in Late Meiji Japanese Literature”
- Tomoko Kitagawa (University of British Columbia, Asian Studies): “Nationalism
and ‘Imagined Universe': Creating National Boundaries without
‘the Other'”
- Discussant: James Fujii (UC Irvine, East Asian Languages and Cultures)
Boundless Citizens (10:45-12:15pm)
- Yoshiko Konishi (UC Berkeley, Anthropology): “Thinking Japanese Citizenship:
From Gender Inequality to Gender Equality”
- Hiromi Yampol (Indiana University, East Asian Languages and Cultures): “Being
Abandoned: Empire, Identity, and Orphaned Japanese ‘Returnees'
from Former Colonial Lands Since 1945”
- Ayako Takamori (New York University, Anthropology): “Native Foreigners:
Japanese Americans in Japan”
- Discussant: Kristine Dennehy (Cal State Fullerton, History)
LUNCH (12:15-1:30pm)
KEYNOTE ADDRESS (1:30-2:45pm)
- Tomiko Yoda , (Duke University, Asian and African Languages and Literature)
Confronting Boundaries (3:00-4:30pm)
- David Novak (Columbia University, Ethnomusicology): “Signal to Noise
in the Trans-Pacific Circulation of Experimental Music”
- Mika Yoshitake (UCLA, Art History): “Encounter vs. Event: The Emergence
of ‘Non-Art' in Japan, circa 1970”
- Hisayo Suzuki (UCLA, Asian Languages and Cultures): “Takeuchi Yoshimi's
Kindai to wa nanika: Resistance, Tenkô and the Fifteen-Year War”
- Discussant: Michael Bourdaghs (UCLA, Asian Languages and Cultures)
ROUND TABLE DISCUSSION (4:45-5:45pm)
Organized by Emily Anderson, Koichi Haga, Franz Prichard and Mika Yoshitake
Sponsored by UCLA Center for Japanese Studies
Contact: Mariko Bird, bird@international.ucla.edu (310) 825-8681
Published: Wednesday, June 22, 2005
