Fwd: Culture and Fascism in Inter-war Japan Conference

[Ono Seiko and Aaron Gerow]

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From: Sayuri Oyama <sioyama at uclink4.berkeley.edu>

<bold>Culture and Fascism in Inter-war Japan

</bold>An interdisciplinary symposium on the question of fascism and
culture in Japan in the 1920s and 1930s



<bold>Friday - Saturday, March 16 - 17, 2001

8:30 am - 5:00 pm

Toll Room, Alumni House

University of California at Berkeley


</bold>website:  http://socrates.berkeley.edu/~tansman

campus map:  http://www.berkeley.edu/map/maps/DE34.html


For more information contact:

Alan Tansman

Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

University of California at Berkeley

(510) 643-4311, tansman at socrates.berkeley.edu



Sponsors:

Center for Japanese Studies (CJS)

Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS)

Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

Edward H. Heller Fund

Bonwit and Heine Memorial Lecture Fund


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<bold>Friday, March 16, 2001


Panel I

</bold>8:30 - 10:30 am



<underline>Panelists</underline>

Kevin Doak

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

      "Culture and Fascism in Wartime Japan: The Ambiguous Legacies of
Imanaka Tsugimaro"



John Brownlee

University of Toronto

      "The Development of the Concept of the Kokutai [National Essence]
in the 1930s"



Richard Torrance

Ohio State University

      "'The People's Library': The Spirit of Prose Literature versus
Fascism"



<underline>Respondent</underline>

Andrew Barshay

University of California at Berkeley





<bold>Panel II

</bold>10:45 am - 12:45 pm


<underline>Panelists</underline>

Nina Cornyetz

New York University

      "Virgins and Other Little Objects: Some Fascist Proclivities in
Kawabata Yasunari"



Charles Cabell

University of Montana

      "The Empire's Sacred Center: Art, Nature and Race in Kawabata
Yasunari's Wartime Writings"



Greg Golley

University of Chicago

      "Yokomitsu Riichi, Einstein, and the Physics of Nation"



Keith Vincent

New York University

      "Insomniac Homosociality in Hama Shiro's 'Akuma no deshi'"



<underline>Respondents</underline>

John Treat

Yale University



Miryam Sas

University of California at Berkeley




<bold>Panel III

</bold>2:00 - 3:45 pm



<underline>Panelists

</underline>Kim Brandt

Amherst College

      "Joy in Work: Imagining Factory Girls in Japan's New Order"



Alan Christy

University of California at Santa Cruz

      "Local Diversity and National Unity: Suturing the Nation in
Japanese Native Ethnology, 1910-1945"



Noriko Aso

University of California at Santa Cruz

      "Mapping the Modern in Prewar Japanese National Expositions"



<underline>Respondent</underline>

Jordan Sand

Georgetown University





<bold>Keynote Address

</bold>4:00 - 5:00 pm



<underline>Speaker</underline>

Harry Harootunian

New York University

      "'Constitutive Ambiguities': The Persistence of Modernism and
Fascism in Japan's Modern History"





<bold>Saturday, March 17, 2001



Panel IV

</bold>8:30 - 10:30 am



<underline>Panelists</underline>

Gennifer Weisenfeld

Duke University

      "Fascist Modernities: Reconsidering the Culture & Aesthetics of
Reactionary Modernism in 1930s-40s Japan"



Bert Winther-Tamaki

University of California at Irvine

      "Bohemian Eros to Military Thanatos: Fujita Tsuguji"


Akiko Takenaka-O'Brien

Yale University

      "Architecture: Politics in Imperial Japan"


<underline>Respondent</underline>

Jonathan Reynolds

University of Southern California





<bold>Panel V

</bold>10:45 am - 12:00 pm



<underline>Panelists</underline>

Aaron Gerow

Yokohama National University

      "When a National Cinema Becomes National: The Historical
Construction of Japanese Film"



Markus Nornes

University of Michigan

      "Cinematic Style and the Fascist State of Mind"


<underline>Respondents</underline>

Yoshimoto Mitsuhiro

University of Iowa



Andrew Jones

University of California at Berkeley





<bold>Panel VI

</bold>1:15 - 2:45 pm



<underline>Panelists</underline>

James Dorsey

Dartmouth College

      "Voices from the Deep: Fascism and the Thoughts of Men on the
Front"



Angus Lockyear

Wake Forest University

      "Expo Fascism?: Architecture, Atavism, Empire, and Economics in
the late 1930s"



Lisa Yoneyama

University of California at San Diego

      "Fascism Today?: 'Comfort Women' Memories and the State of
Emergency"



<underline>Respondent</underline>

Takashi Fujitani

University of California at San Diego




<bold>Roundtable Discussion

</bold>3:30 - 5:30 pm



<underline>Moderator</underline>

Carol Gluck

Columbia University



<underline>Panelists</underline>

Harry Harootunian

New York University


Marilyn Ivy

Columbia University


Lydia Liu

University of California at Berkeley


Dennis Washburn

Dartmouth College

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