Fwd: CONF: "Reproduction in Modern Japan"

[Aaron Gerow]

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> From: Allison Alexy <allison.alexy at yale.edu>
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> CONFERENCE ANNOUNCEMENT
>
> REPRODUCTION in Modern Japan
>
>
> October 8 - 10, 2004
> Yale University
> New Haven, Connecticut
>
> Sponsored by the Council on East Asian Studies at Yale University
>
> Organized by Allison Alexy, Ph.D. candidate in Anthropology, Yale 
> University
>
>
> Political, academic, and popular concerns in Japan have repeatedly 
> linked
> social and biological reproduction.  From rhetoric connecting strong 
> babies
> with a strong nation-state to current discourse about how delayed 
> parenthood
> is selfish, patterns of sexual reproduction have been used to describe 
> the
> state of Japanese society.
>
> Reproduction also thrives as a trope within discourses that are not
> reducible to social or biological projects.  Cultural production in 
> modern
> Japan involves numerous interrelated concepts concerning reproduction
> including, but not restricted to, the institutional reproduction of 
> artistic
> competency within the iemoto system, notions of presence within visual 
> or
> literary representation, and the widespread conception of Japanese 
> people as
> adept cultural copiers, who tweak and reproduce foreign ideas and 
> forms.
>
> To investigate how various theories and practices of reproduction 
> converge
> in modern Japan, there will be a conference at Yale University in 
> October
> 2004.
>
> This conference will include three panels, a keynote address by Dr. 
> Hirokazu
> Miyazaki, (Anthropology, Cornell University), and a simultaneous movie
> showing of "Ringu", directed by Hideo Takata, and "The Ring", directed 
> by
> Gore Verbinski.
>
> A detailed schedule of the conference is available at:
>
> <http://www.yale.edu/ycias/ceas/reproduction.html>
>
> The conference is free and open to the public, but REGISTRATION IS 
> REQUIRED
> BY MONDAY, OCTOBER 4, 2004.
>
> For more information and to register for this event, please contact 
> Anne
> Letterman at the Council on East Asian Studies (Telephone: 
> 203-432-3428;
> Fax: 203-432-3430 or Email: anne.letterman at yale.edu).  For 
> registration,
> please provide your name, title, institutional affiliation, address,
> telephone, fax, email, and specify which events you plan to attend.