1952-2012 The American Legacy in Japan sixty years after the Occupation

[Roberta Novielli]

International Conference

1952-2012
The American Legacy in Japan sixty years after the Occupation
 
Auditorium Santa Margherita Venice
3-4 May 2012
 
3 May (Thursday)
 
10.30-13.00: Special Screening: Sayonara (1957) directed by Joshua Logan
 
14.00-14.30: Opening Ceremony
 
14.30-15.50: Occupation, Occupations
Chair: Marcello FLORES (University of Siena)
Akira IRIYE (Harvard University) “The U.S. Occupation of Japan: A Transnational Perspective”
         George BLAUSTEIN (Amsterdam University) “Redeemer Nation/Remedy Nation: American Studies and Military Occupation”
         Ilaria POGGIOLINI (University of Pavia) "The Price of Defeat and Occupation: Italy and Japan"
 
15.50-16.20: Coffee break
 
16.20-17.40: Exporting Democracy: A Comparative Perspective
           Chair: Glenn D. HOOK (The University of Sheffield)
Franco MAZZEI (University of Naples “L’Orientale”) “Japan’s Post-war Democratization: Endogenous and Exogenous Factors”
            Giovanni BERNARDINI (Italian German Historical Institute- FBK) "Occupation, Americanization, Westernization: Lessons from the German Case?"
           Federico ROMERO (European University Institute) "Neoconservative Fantasies and the Japanese Analogy"
 
17:40-19.00: America’s Echoes in Japan, Japan’s Echoes in America
 Chair: Giorgio AMITRANO (University of Naples “L’Orientale”) “
 Roberta NOVIELLI (Ca’ Foscari University) “In the Realm of Signs: Hybridism in Japanese Everyday Life"
  Federica CARLOTTO  (Ca’ Foscari University) “Towards the Emergence of Mass Fashion in Post-war Japan: Assessing the Nature and theExtent of the American influence”
  Alide CAGIDEMETRIO (Ca’ Foscari University) “Love among the Ruins: American Fictions of Occupied Japan in the 1950s”
        
 
4 May (Friday)
9.30-10.50: The Early Decades of Post-war Japan
         Chair: Ronald DORE (London School of Economics)
         Kyoko HIRANO (Temple University Japan Campus) “The Emperor and Kissing: The US Occupation Censorship on Japanese Cinema”
         Michael MOLASKY (Hitotsubashi University) “Tale of Two Cities: The Occupation's Legacy in Tokyo's Western Suburbs”
         Giorgio AMITRANO (University of Naples “L’Orientale”) “Glimpses of Unfamiliar America: The Occupation's Legacy in Japanese Literature”
 
10.50-11.10: Coffee break
 
11.10-12.30: Security and Geopolitics in Asia and the Pacific
Chair: Franco MAZZEI (University of Naples “L’Orientale”)
            Ronald DORE (London School of Economics) “The Occupation Institutionalized and Getting Ready for Imperial Consolidation: Japan 1950-51”
            Glenn D. HOOK (The University of Sheffield) “Counting Decades, Counting Costs: America’s Military Legacy in Okinawa”
            Noemi LANNA (University of Naples “L’Orientale”) “Reconciling Asianism with Bilateralism: Japan and the East Asia Summit”
 
14.00-15.20: Japan's Path of Economic Development
            Chair: Federico ROMERO (European University Institute)
            Carlo CARRARO (Ca’ Foscari University) “The Sustainability of Japan's Economic Development”
            Carlo FILIPPINI (Bocconi University) “Invisible Hand or Visible Fist?”
Duccio BASOSI (Ca’ Foscari University) “From Reconstruction to Uneasy Partnership: Japan-US Economic Relations"
 
15.20-15.40: Coffee break
 
15.40-17.00: The Memory of Occupation in Japan and in the U.S.
         Chair: Michael MOLASKY (Hitotsubashi University)
         Marcello FLORES (University of Siena) “Occupier, Occupied: The Double Reality of Japanese Identity after World War II”
         Alan NADEL (University of Kentucky) "The Americanization of Difference in the 1950s: Sayonara and Teahouse of the August Moon"
         Rosa CAROLI (Ca’ Foscari University) “Cleavages of Memory in Japan: The Occupation”
 
 
17.00-19.30
         Eugenio DE ANGELIS (Ca’ Foscari University) “Quoting the Past: Setouchi shonen yakyu dan”
         Special Screening: Setouchi shonen yakyu dan (MacArthur’s Children, 1984) directed by Shinoda Masahiro”
 
19.30: Closing remarks
 
 
The event is organized by the School of International Relations in collaboration with Ca’ Foscari Cinema and the
Department of Linguistic and Comparative Cultural Studies


Maria Roberta Novielli 
Associate Professor 
Rector's Delagate for Cinema Activities 
Ca' Foscari University - Venice 
Ca' Foscari Cinema
Ca' Foscari Short Film Festival 
Dipartimento di Filosofia e Beni Culturali 
Palazzo Malcanton-Marcorà 
Dorsoduro 3484/d 
30123 Venice - Italy 
cafoscarishort.unive.it
cafoscaricinema.unive.it

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