May 13, 2024/ 9:30 AM
Hotel Angeleno
27th Annual Japan Studies Graduate Conference at UCLAAction and Perception
Action and Perception
At what moment does perception transform into action? Whether through the performance of a composer’s scribbled quarter notes, the mediation of the materiality and affection, or the demands of activists to have their voices heard – the alchemical transformation of phenomena into activity is not only a creative, but often decisively political, event. As a distinctly phenomenological undertaking, perception involves an activation of the senses, an absorption of the world in which ourselves and those before us have lived. Yet, molding such a world requires action, the activation and rousing of bodies in space. Clay becomes sculpture, radio broadcasts fill our homes, and communities take to the streets. This conference offers a chance for us to explore action and perception more thoroughly, as both a historical and conceptual phenomenon in the context of Japan. We therefore invite participants to address the idea of action and perception in their own work, be these thematic or methodological, to answer questions concerning the ways in which transformation occurs at its boundaries.
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Schedule
| 9:30 – 9:35 am |
Opening Remarks
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| 9:40 – 10:40 am |
Keynote Address
Dr. Namiko Kunimoto (The Ohio State University)
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| 10:40 am – 12:10 pm |
Panel A: Movement
Wei Lin Tan (Harvard University)
"The Possibilities and Limits of Perception as Political Action in 1960s Left-Aligned Cultural Production"
Benjamin DeTora (University of Washington, Seattle Campus)
"Buraku activism and literature after the death of Nakagami Kenji"
Ying Han (University of British Columbia)
"Representing Breasts and Eggs Everywhere: Reading Kawakami Mieko’s Authorial Persona"
Discussant: Dr. Satoko Shimazaki (UCLA)
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| 12:10 – 1:50 pm |
Lunch
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| 2:00 – 3:30 pm |
Panel B: Memory
Julie Morris (UCLA)
"Sound as Body: Exploring the Sonic Dimension of Imayō"
Jiayin Yuan (University of Pennsylvania)
"When Memories Materialize: The Counter-narrative of the Genpei War in Heike kindachi zōshi"
Fang-Ru Lin (UCLA)
"The Perception of Voice in Shiritsuron (1883)"
Discussant: Dr. Paula R. Curtis (UCLA)
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| 3:30 – 3:50 pm |
Break
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| 3:50 – 5:20 pm |
Panel C: Sensation
Dingding Wang (UCSD)
Traveling and Un-traveling in Kaneko Misuzu’s Dōyō Poetry: Poetic Imagination and the Mundane Everydayness
Andrew Park (UCLA)
Arts on the Line: Sam Gilliam and Shingu Susumu for the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority
Yaqi Wang (UC Irvine)
The Grain of White Cotton: Kaori Oda and Her Documentary Ethics in “Toward A Common Tenderness”
Discussant: Dr. Julia Hansell Clark (UCLA)
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| 5:30 – 5:35 pm |
Concluding Remark
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Organizing Committee
Zelin Min (UCLA)
Jessica Peña (UCLA)
Oliver Ruhl (UCLA)
Sponsor(s): Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies