Fwd: 13th Asian Studies Conference Japan, June 20-21, 2009

[Aaron Gerow]

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> Date: Mon, 25 May 2009 15:04:47 +0900
> From: Michael Watson <watson at k.meijigakuin.ac.jp>
> Subject: 13th Asian Studies Conference Japan, June 20-21, 2009
>
> The thirteenth annual meeting of the Asian Studies Conference Japan  
> (ASCJ) will be held on the Yotsuya campus of Sophia University on  
> Saturday and Sunday, June 20-21, 2009. ASCJ is a regional  
> conference of the Association for Asian Studies (AAS).
>
> Michael Watson, ASCJ President
> ===================
> 13th Asian Studies Conference Japan, June 20-21, 2009. (Cross- 
> posting welcome.)
>
> The conference features 47 sessions (panels, roundtables, and  
> individual papers) on a wide range of subjects. All sessions are  
> conducted in English. For a full list of speakers and paper titles,  
> see the program:
> http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~ascj
>
> This year ASCJ is pleased to welcome Robert Buswell of the Center  
> for Buddhist Studies, UCLA, Past President of the Association for  
> Asian Studies (2008-09). Professor Buswell will give the keynote  
> address on Saturday, June 20. The title of his talk is: "Korean  
> Buddhism in East Asian Context."
>
> Online registration will end on June 10:
> http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~ascj/register/
> For those who register online, the conference fee is 4,000 yen  
> (2,000 yen for graduate students). This can be paid by credit card  
> or by domestic bank transfer. After June 10, registration must be  
> done at the conference at the onsite rate of 5,000 yen. The  
> reception fee is 3,000 yen.
>
> Registration and distribution of materials will open at 9:15 a.m.  
> on June 20. The conference will begin promptly at 10:00 a.m. Please  
> address inquiries to the Executive Committee at: ascj20xx at gmail.com.
>
> SATURDAY JUNE 20
> 9:15- Registration
> 10:00 A.M.-5:30 P.M. Sessions 1-24
> 5:45 P.M.-6:30 P.M. Keynote Address
> 6:40 P.M.-8:20 P.M.  Reception
> SUNDAY JUNE 21
> 9:15- Registration
> 9:30 A.M.-9:50 A.M. ASCJ Business Meeting
> 10:00 A.M.-5:15 P.M. Sessions 26-47
>
> SATURDAY JUNE 20, 10:00 A.M.-12:00 NOON
>
> Session 1
> Discovering Diversity within Filipino Communities in Modern Japan,  
> Organiser/Chair: Mariko Iijima, Sophia University
> Discussant: Shun Ohno, Kyushu University
>
> Session 2
> City, School, Enterprise, and Government: the Changing Landscape of  
> East Asian Societies in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
> Organizer/Chair: De-min Tao, Kansai University
> Discussant: Masato Kimura, Shibusawa Ei$B(Bichi Memorial Foundation
>
> Session 3
> Old Responsibilities Never Die; They Just Fade Away? Approaching  
> War Responsibility in Modern and Contemporary East Asia
> Organizer: May-yi Shaw, Harvard University
> Discussant: Katsumi Nakao, J. F. Oberlin University
>
> Session 4
> Microhistorical Approaches to Understanding Japanese Modernity
> Organizer/Chair: Atsuko Aoki, Brown University/Rikkyo University
> Discussant: Mark E. Caprio, Rikkyo University
>
> Session 5
> An Apology for "Drop Dead Cute ": The Global Context of Japanese  
> Contemporary Popular Culture and Aesthetics
> Organizer/Chair: Dong-Yeon Koh, The Korea National University of Arts
> Discussant: Marie Thorsten, Doshisha University
>
> Session 6
> Individual Papers on Asian Politics and History
>
> Session 7
> Un-(dis-)covering Bodily and Linguistic Spaces in Oba Minako and  
> Tawada Yoko$B(Bs Oeuvre
> Organizer/Chair: Danuta Lacka, University of Tokyo
> Discussant: Yoichi Komori, University of Tokyo
>
> Session 8
> Individual Papers on Japanese Culture and History
>
> SATURDAY JUNE 20, 1:15 P.M.-3:15 P.M.
>
> Session 9
> Gender and Migrants of Japanese Ancestry in Japan
> Organizer: Hugo Cordova Quero, Center for Lusophone Studies, Sophia  
> University
> Chair: Alberto Fonseca Sakai, Josai International University
> Discussant: Keiko Yamanaka, University of California at Berkeley
>
> Session 10
> Culture, Tradition and Challenges in Japanese Music Education
> Organizer/Chair: Mari Shiobara, Tokyo Gakugei University
> Discussant: Hiroki Ichinose, Tokyo Gakugei University
>
> Session 11
> Forgotten Words: Revisiting Colonial Indonesian Literature
> Organizer/Chair: Nobuto Yamamoto, Keio University
> Discussant: Caroline Sy Hau, Kyoto University
>
> Session 12
> Conceptual Change and State Formation in Early Modern and Modern Japan
> Organizer/Chair: Doyoung Park, University of Illinois at Urbana- 
> Champaign
> Discussant: Yuri Kono, Tokyo Metropolitan University
>
> Session 13
> Individual Papers on Contemporary Japanese Cultural Production
>
> Session 14
> Economics, Security, and Leadership: Northeast Asian Integration in  
> the Post-Cold War Era
> Organizer/Chair: Joel R. Campbell, Kansai Gaidai University
>
> Session 15
> Soseki$B(Bs City
> Organizer: Dan O$B(BNeill, University of California at Berkeley
> Chair: Angela Yiu, Sophia University
> Discussant: Kyoko Kurita, Pomona College
>
> Session 16
> Intersections of Religion and Literature in Pre-modern Japan
> Organizer/Chair: Molly Vallor, Stanford University/Rikkyo University
> Discussant: Haruko Wakabayashi, Historiographical Institute, the  
> University of Tokyo
>
> SATURDAY JUNE 20, 3:30 P.M.-5:30 P.M
> Session 17
> Education and the New Second Generation of Immigrants in Japan: The  
> Case of Japanese Brazilian Migrants
> Discussant: Yoshikazu Shiobara, Keio University
>
> Session 18
> Contested Identity: Gender, Nation and "Chineseness " in Ming-Qing  
> Fiction and Drama
> Organizer/Chair: Fumiko Joo, University of Chicago/University of Tokyo
> Discussant: Yasushi Oki, the University of Tokyo
>
> Session 19
> Individual Papers on Asian Cultural History
>
> Session 20
> Changing Conceptions of the Enduring in Edo Japan
> Organizer: Yulia Frumer, Princeton University
> Chair: William Fleming, Harvard University
> Discussant: Kate Wildman Nakai, Sophia University
> Session 21
> Meaning Behind Eating in Contemporary Japan
> Organizer/Chair: Chrissie Tate Reilly, Monmouth University
> Discussants: Elizabeth Andoh, independent scholar
>
> Session 22
> Postwar Social Movements across Japan and the United States:  
> Connections and Conflicts
> Organizer: Yuko Kawaguchi, University of Tokyo
> Discussant: Yosuke Nirei, Indiana University South Bend
>
> Session 24
> Parodic Positions in the Japanese Literary Tradition
> Organizer: Marc Yamada, Brigham Young University
> Chair: Jack Stoneman, Brigham Young University
> Discussant: Indra Levy, Stanford University
>
> Session 25
> Performing Texts: Interaction and Interpretation in Medieval Ritual  
> Practices
> Organizers: Benedetta Lomi, SOAS, Fumi Ouchi, Miyagi Gakuin University
> Discussant: Fabio Rambelli, Sapporo University
>
> KEYNOTE ADDRESS
> "Korean Buddhism in East Asian Context "
> Robert Buswell
> President of the Association for Asian Studies (2008-09)
> Center for Buddhist Studies, UCLA
> 6:10 P.M.-6:55 P.M.
>
> RECEPTION: 7:00 P.M.-8:40 P.M.
>
> SUNDAY JUNE 21, ASCJ Business Meeting, 9:30 A.M.-9:50 A.M.
>
> SUNDAY JUNE 21, 10:00 A.M.-12:00 A.M.
>
> Session 26
> Pan-Asianism: A Documentary History of an Ideology
> Organizer: Dick Stegewerns, Oslo University
> Chair: Sven Saaler, Sophia University
> Discussant: Christopher W.A. Szpilman, Kyushu Sangyo University
>
> Session 27
> Redrawing the Map: Displacement and Geography in Song-Yuan Literary  
> and Visual Discourses
> Organizer: Shuen-fu Lin, University of Michigan
> Chair: Benjamin Ridgway, Valparaiso University
> Discussant: Lara Blanchard, Hobart and William Smith Colleges
>
> Session 28
> All for the Empire: Our Learning, Our Body, Our Labor, and All!
> Organizer/Chair: Helen Lee, Yonsei University
> Discussant: Leslie Winston, Waseda University
>
> Session 29
> Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Women$B(Bs Schools as Sites of  
> International Exchange
> Organizer: Sally A. Hastings, Purdue University
> Chair: Anne Walthall, University of California Irvine
> Discussant: Anne Walthall, University of California Irvine
>
> Session 30
> Japan and the Soviet Specter: Reconsidering the Image of the Soviet  
> Union in Japanese Politics and Foreign Policy
> Organizer: Akira Watanabe, Keio University
> Chair: Shingo Yoshida, Keio University
> Discussant: Mizuki Chuman, Keio University
>
> Session 31
> Conceptions, Modes and Structures of Noh in Films, Objects, Poetry  
> and Music
> Organizer: Pia Schmitt, Waseda University
> Chair: Judy Halebsky, Hosei University
> Discussants: Susan Blakeley Klein, University of California
> Reiko Yamanaka, Institute of Nogaku Studies, Hosei University
>
> Session 32
> Competitive Collaboration in Haute Finance: Japan and the West in  
> the Interwar Period
> Organizer/Chair: Katalin Ferber, Waseda University
> Discussant: Kobayashi Hideo, Waseda University
>
> SUNDAY JUNE 21,  1:00 P.M.-3:00 P.M
>
> Session 33
> Individual Papers on Gender in Asia
>
> Session 34
> Over One Thousand Years of Koshiki: Points of View on the History  
> and Performance of a Buddhist Ritual Genre
> Organizer/Chair: Michaela Mross, Komazawa University
> Discussant: Niels Guelberg, Waseda University
>
> Session 35
> How Japan Works: Patterns of Diversification in the Labor Market
> Organizer/Chair: Volker Elis, German Institute for Japanese Studies  
> (DIJ)
> Discussant: Yukiko Yamazaki, Tokyo University
>
> Session 36
> Border Crossing, Social History, and Japan$B(Bs Foreign  
> Relations during the Early 20th Century
> Organizer/Chair: Evan Dawley, U.S. Department of State
> Discussant: William Steele, International Christian University
>
> Session 37
> Producing Japanese Visual Modernity, 1920s-1930s
> Organizer: Kari Shepherdson-Scott, Duke University
> Chair: Chinghsin Wu, University of California, Los Angeles
> Discussants: Nancy Lin, University of Chicago; Olivier Krischer,  
> University of Tsukuba
>
> Session 38
> Individual Papers on Showa Culture
>
> Session 39
> Representations of Travel and Cultural Otherness in Japanese Arts  
> and Literature
> Chair/Organizer: Robert Tierney, University of Illinois at Urbana  
> Champaign
>
> Session 40
> Buddhism and Local Modernization
> Organizer/Chair: Alexandre Benod, University of Lyon 3 (IETT)/Keio  
> University
> Discussant: Yoshihide Sakurai, Hokkaido University
>
> SUNDAY JUNE 21,  3:15 P.M.- 5:15 P.M
>
> Session 41
> Reorienting Transcendence: Religion in Modern Japan
> Organizer/Chair: Viren Murthy, University of Ottawa
> Discussant: Nakajima Takahiro, the University of Tokyo
>
> Session 42
> Individual Papers on Migration and Gender
>
> Session 43
> The Diplomacy of the Gaimudaijin: Socio-Political Changes in  
> Japanese Foreign Policy from the Manchurian Incident to Pearl Harbor
> Organizer/Chair: Tosh Minohara, Kobe University
> Discussant: Haruo Iguchi, Nagoya University
>
> Session 44
> Reflection of Modern China in Foreign Eyes: A Study of Journals,  
> Novels, Critics from the Perspective of Cultural Interaction and  
> Cross-Culture Understanding
> Organizer/Chair: Chen Yu, Kansai University
> Discussant: Jian Zhao, Tokiwakai Gakuen University
>
> Session 45
> Wishes and Choices in Life and Living: Family, Home and Work in  
> Changing Japan
> Organizer/Chair: Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt, German Institute for  
> Japanese Studies, DIJ
> Discussant: Glenda Roberts, Waseda University
>
> Session 46
> The War of Another: Natsume Soseki, Shiga Naoya, Shimazaki Toson
> Organizer: Chien-Hui Chuang, Osaka University
> Chair: Irina Holca, Osaka University
> Discussant: George Sipos, Chicago University/Ritsumeikan University
>
> Session 47
> Explored, Exploited, and Exposed: Mapping Histories and Traditions  
> of Mountaineering in Japan
> Organizer: David Fedman, Hokkaido University of Education
> Chair: Takehiro Watanabe, Sophia University
> Discussant: Karen Wigen, Stanford University
>
> For a full list of speakers and paper titles, see the online program:
> http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/~ascj
> ===================
>