National Culture Revisited: Symposium in Nagoya
FUJIKI Hideaki
hfuji
Tue Oct 18 02:14:19 EDT 2005
Open Symposium hosted by Nagoya University
"National Culture Revisited: Everyday Lives and Public Spheres in Imperial
Japan"
???Admission Free
???Simultaneous Interpretation (Japanese/English) Offered
Purpose:
This symposium is part of a project that re-inquires about the
relationship between everyday lives and public spheres in modern and
contemporary Japan. As its first stage, this project aims to discuss issues
of Japanese subjectivity in prewar Japan, reconsidering its relation to
diverse cultural aspects, including the media, literature, intellectual
thoughts, education, and physical bodies. We will shed light not only on the
socio-economic structure of the nation-state, but also on such performative
phases as senses, values, acts, and culture in people???s everyday lives. In
so doing, we intend to analyze people's involvement with the state.
There have been two remarkable trends in post-war discussions on the nation.
One is what can be called the "discourse of people as victims." According to
this view, the state duped people and was responsible for guiding them to
war. The other trend can be called the "discourse of people as accomplices,"
which argues that ordinary people actively helped achieve nationalistic and
imperialistic aspirations. Despite their differences, however, both of these
trends have assumed a binary opposition between the state and its people and
have concentrated on judging whether people have resisted or complied
vis-??-vis the state. Certainly, the nation-state, as both an imaginative
category and a system, is likely to integrate people repressively,
homogeneously, and rigidly. But, attempts to escape from this framework are
unrealistic. Thus, we need to ask how we can deal with and make use of this
category and system, rather than only how we can oppose it. Our symposium,
we hope, will encourage participants to reconsider this inquiry in terms of
culture and everyday life. How is it possible for the nation-state to
promote and guarantee people's diversity, fluidity, and self-determination?
Did certain attempts and practices do so in the past? If they did, how were
they realized? If not, what were the obstacles? How were culture and
everydayness related to the situations? How did the formation and
transformation of public spheres???not simply face-to-face communications, but
complex social relations that take place in various sites including media,
local communities, workplaces, and schools???concern people's activities
vis-??-vis the nation-state? Above all, how did people historically interact
with the state, and how was culture involved?
The main focus of this symposium is on the early twentieth century,
which can be seen as the initial stage of Japanese "democracy," while
putting into perspective the 1930s and the first half of the 1940s, when
nationalism and militarism dominated more powerfully. Rather than conducting
exhaustive examinations, our discussion will be grounded in the problematics
that presenters and commentators raise.
Time:
2:00pm-7:00pm, Sunday 13 November, 2005
Place:
Aichi Arts Center 12th floor, Art Space A
??????5 minutes from Sakae Station on Higashiyama and Meijo Lines
??????1-13-2 Higashi Sakura, Higashi-ku, Nagoya, Japan
??????Phone: (052)971-5511 Website: http://www.aac.pref.aichi.jp/
Keynote Speakers:
Harry Harootunian (New York University, US), "Time, Experience and the
Specter of Fascism: Temporalizing Space, Spatializing Temporality"
Park Yuha (Sejong University, Korea), "The Individual and the State in the
1910s: What Soseki's Individualism Tells"
Roundtable Discussion:
Harry Haroounian
Park Yuha
Yoshimi Shunya (University of Tokyo)
Peter B. High (Nagoya University)
Tsuboi Hideto (Chair, Nagoya University)
Principal Commentators:
Kitano Keisuke (Niigata University)
Nishikawa Yuko (Kyoto Bunkyo University)
Sano Masato (Tohoku University)
Barbara Sato (Seikei University)
Organizers (Nagoya University):
Tsuboi Hideto (Chair)
Fujiki Hideaki
Fukuda Mahito
Peter B. High
Ito Akihiro
Kawada Minoru
For further information, please contact:
Fujiki Hideaki, Graduate School of Letters, Nagoya University
jculture at lit.nagoya-u.ac.jp
This event is part of the "Modern Japanese Studies Project Reconsidering
Relationships between Everyday Lives and Public Spheres in Modern Japan,"
funded by a Grant under the President's Discretion at Nagoya University,
2005.
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