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Methods and Metaphors in Japanese Studies
The Second Japan At Chicago Conference
May 20-21, 2004
Held at International House
1414 East 59th Street
The University of Chicago
This Conference is made possible through the generous support of The Japan Committee of the Center for East Asian Studies and the Department of History, University of Chicago.
Thursday, 20 May
9:00 a.m – 11 a.m.
NATION(S)
Alexis Dudden
Connecticut College
With Sorrow and Regret: The History of Apology between Japan, Korea and the United States
Douglas Howland
University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
Constructing a Modern State in Japan: Sovereignty, International Law, and Diplomacy
James Ketelaar
University of Chicago
National History and the Event Horizon: Ezo, A Case Study
Sho Konishi
Harvard University
Reorienting Progress: The Meiji Ishin and Japanese-Russian Transintellectual Relations
11 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
GENDER(S)
Susan Burns
University of Chicago
Reflections on 'Edo as Method'--Gender, Sexuality, and the Un-modern Body
Sally Hastings
Purdue University
Women and the Politics of Compromise, 1945-1974
Richard Reitan
University of Washington
The Ethics of Gender
12:30 p.m. 2 p.m. Lunch
2:00 p.m to 4:00 p.m.
PRE MODERN(S)
Katsuya Hirano
Indiana University – South Bend
Reconsidering Histories of Popular Culture: Late Edo
Ikumi Kaminishi
Tufts University
Art History: Now and Then
Tom Looser
McGill University
Dialectics, Perspective, and the Movement of History: The Early Modern Origins of Japan
Derek Wolff
Harvard University
Japan Unbound: Tokugawa Space and the Making of Modern Japan
4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.
MEIJI(S)
Kevin Doak
Georgetown University
Writing the Nation, Re-stating Japan: Modern Japan as Unfulfilled Promise
Stefan Tanaka
University of California San Diego
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Umemori Naoyuki
Waseda University
The Itinerary of Discipline: The emergence of the modern police system in Meiji Japan
Friday, 21 May
9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
POLITICAL CULTURE(S)
Gerald Figal
Vanderbilt University
Let’s Get Physical: Archives and Artifacts in Okinawa
J. Victor Koschmann
Cornell University
The Dark Side of Subjectivity (shutaisei): Mobilization, Agency and
the Ambivalence of Modernity
William Marotti
Columbia University
Japan in the Global 1960s: the Politics of Culture and Performance
Christopher Nelson
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
The Classroom of the Everyday: Ethnographic Storytelling and Nativist Ethnology in Post War Japan
11:30 a.m. to 1 :00 p.m. Lunch
1:00 p.m. to 3:30 p.m.
POST WAR(S)
Sharon Hayashi
Independent Scholar
New Media for New Social Movements
Yoshikuni Igarashi
Vanderbilt University
Circa 1973 Japan: The End is Near
Thomas Lamarre
McGill University
Serial Histories: Japan and Animation
Mark Lincicome
Holycross
Revisiting the Continuity/Discontinuity Debate: Comparing Educational Reform Movements in Twentieth-Century Japan
Julia Thomas
University of Notre Dame
Photography, Reality and Democracy in Occupied Japan
3:30 p.m. 4:30 p.m.
BEGINNING(S)
Harry Harootunian
New York University
Getting Out of Japan: Spatial Hegemony, Temporal Strategy
Tets Najita
University of Chicago
Jibunshi and Rekishi
4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. Reception Open to the Public
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