UCLA Graduate Student Symposium

[Ono Seiko and Aaron Gerow]

A crosspost from H-JAPAN.  Looks great.  Wish I was there!

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

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

Location: Tom Bradley International Center
417 Circle Drive West
(at the corner of Gayley and Strathmore)
University of California, Los Angeles
9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

9-9:30 a.m.  -  Coffee
9:30-9:40 a.m. - Opening Comments

Panel One: The Commodification of Aesthetics (9:40-11:45 a.m.)
Commentator: Professor Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto, University of Iowa, Department
of Asian Languages & Literature
1. William Burton, University of Washington "The Golden Age of Japanese
Comics: Garo in the 1960s"
2. Jinsoo An, University of California, Los Angeles "Eiko Ishioka: Can She
Be Anything Other Than 'Japan's Ultimate Designer?'"
3. Eric Cazdyn, University of California, San Diego "The Pornographic
Aesthetic: Image, Popular Culture, and Late Capitalism in Japan"
4. Jing He, University of California, Los Angeles "Fenollosa's Bunjinga
Theory and Tokugawa Bunjinga"

11:45-1:20 p.m. -  Lunch

Panel Two: Shifting Folk Identities (1:20 - 3:00 p.m.)
Commentator: Professor Kim Brandt, Amherst College, Department of History
1. Gregory Miller, University of Pittsburgh "Shards of History Taking Form:
An Examination of Self and National Identity Among Contemporary Potters"
2. Patrick Patterson, University of Oregon "The Sound of Home: Shin-minyo
and the Essence of 'Japan'"
3. Chika Shirota, University of Hawaii "Shifting Identities through
Performing an Okinawan Popular Dance Eisa"

3:00-3:20 p.m. -  Break

Panel Three: Constructions of Women (3:20 - 5:00 p.m.)
Commentator: Professor Anne Walthall, University of California, Irvine,
Department of History
1. Gerald Marsella, University of Kansas "Not Just Another Pretty Face: The
Yumeji Woman in the 1910s"
2. Hank Glassman, Stanford University "Flesh of My Flesh: Pregnancy and
Violence in Late Medieval Japan"
3. Barbara Poertner, University of Hawaii "Sexuality in Japan: A
Content-Analysis of Japanese Women's Magazines"

5:00 -6:00 p.m. -  Reception

This event is free and open to the public.
Parking on campus is $5.