Eleventh Asian Studies Conference Japan, June 23-24 2007

[Jonathan M. Hall]

The Eleventh Asian Studies Conference Japan (ASCJ) will be held on  
June 23-24, 2007, at the Shirokane campus of Meiji Gakuin University,  
Tokyo.  For the conference schedule, please see: http:// 
www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~ascj/2007/   Below are the panels that seemed  
of especial interest to those of us in film and media studies.  And  
sure enough, there are some KineJapan members presenting!

Session 10: Room 1456
Visualizing Asian Modernity: Reality and Fantasy in Japanese and  
Chinese Films
Organizer / Chair: Esther Yau, Occidental College
1) Naomi Ginoza, Tsurumi University
Japanese Women as Ideological Icons: Japan's 1930s for Women
2) Esther Yau, Occidental College
Relentless Landscapes and the Crisis of Vision in Chinese Cinema:  
1947 to 1948
3) Tze-Yue G. Hu, University of Oklahoma
Animating for "Whom" in the Aftermath of a World War?
4) Hsiu-Chuang Deppman, Oberlin College
Screening Taipei with Love: A Comparative Reading of Chen Yuhui's and  
Chen Kuo-fu's "The Personals"
Discussant: Michael Bourdaghs, University of California, Los Angeles

Session 15: Room 1453
Individual Papers: Images and Reception in East Asia
Chair: James Farrer, Sophia University
1) Joyleen Christensen, The University of Newcastle
"Pan-Asian Andy": Andy Lau Tak-Wah Between Local and Global Cinema
2) Dinah Roma-Sianturi, De La Salle University
The Aesthetics of Nostalgia in Contemporary Travel Narratives on Japan
3) Shuk Ting Yau, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Nostalgia and Anticipation: A Case Study of Contemporary Japanese  
Melodrama
4) Nana Okura, Yale University
Cultural Heroes or Social Shame? Recontextualizing Popular Reception  
of the Japanese Hostages
5) Setsuko Buckley, Whatcom Community College
Teacher Perceptions on Teaching Moral Values in Japan

Session 17: Room 1456
Visual Connections of East Asia: Views and Visions
Organizer / Chair: JungBong Choi, New York University
1) Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano, Carleton University
Blood and Bone: Traffic in the Ethnic Film
2) JungBong Choi, New York University
Ennobling the Savage and Savaging the Noble: Biopolitics of Yon Sama
3) Jooyeon Rhee, York University
Na Un-Kyu's Film Arirang and the Making of a National Narrative in  
South and North Korea
Discussant: Ayako Saito, Meiji Gakuin University

Session 26: Room 1457
Cultural Data: New Media and Visual/Print Culture in Postmodern Japan
Organizer / Chair: Marc Yamada,  Brigham Young University
1) Jennifer Prough, Valparaiso University
Shojo Manga in Cyberspace: The Shojo Manga Industry and New Media  
Competition
2) Marc Yamada,  Brigham Young University
Database Consumption and "Animalized" Subjects in Kobayashi Kyoji's  
Fiction
3) Ko Lun Chen, National Chiao Tung University
Un-working Inclination: An Open Identity in Murakami Haruki's A Wild  
Sheep Chase
Discussant: Kukhee Choo, University of Tokyo



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