UCLA Grad Student Symposium

[Michael Daines]

CALL FOR PAPERS
1998 Fifth Annual UCLA Graduate Student Symposium for Japanese Studies
Sponsored by the UCLA Center for Japanese Studies Saturday, April 25, 1998

JAPAN: Sites & Sounds
Japanese Popular Culture: Visual, Aural, Past and Present

Established interpretations of Japanese popular culture have come under
considerable debate, particularly in the realm of sight and sound. What
constitutes popular culture and how has this definition been represented
over the course of Japanese history? How are we to view and hear the daily
lives and recreational activities of under-represented groups? How have
these groups been marginalized in relation to those in positions of power
and how have these realms been integrated into or become the subject of
academic inquiry?

The fifth annual UCLA graduate student symposium for Japanese studies on
April 25, 1998, sponsored by the UCLA Center for Japanese Studies, offers
interested graduate students from the western United States and faculty
commentators a forum in which to discuss these questions. Transportation
and two nights' lodging for presenters will be paid for by the symposium.
The symposium committee welcomes proposals from various academic fields
addressing these questions. The submission of papers employing
interdisciplinary, comparative, or cross-cultural approaches is encouraged.

Please submit proposals of no more than one page in length by November 7,
1997. Please include your university, department, field of specialization,
name, mailing address, telephone number, and e-mail address, along with a
self-addressed stamped postcard for an acknowledgement of the receipt of
your submission.

Send proposals to:
UCLA Graduate Student Symposium
c/o Center for Japanese Studies
405 Hilgard Ave.
11250 Bunche Hall
Los Angeles, CA 90095-1487

Inquiries and proposals may be directed to the above address or via e-mail
to: kdennehy at ucla.edu
This information may be accessed on the web at:
http://www.isop.ucla.edu/japan/gradstud.htm