Conference Announcement

H-Japan Editor (j-edit@h-net.msu.edu)
Thu, 21 Mar 1996 19:56:50 -0500

H-JAPAN
March 21, 1996

From: Doug Slaymaker
dslaym@service1.uky.edu

***** Conference Announcement *****
**The Japanese City Revisited**

Second Conference Exploring the Japanese Urban Experience
Friday March 29, 1996
University of Kentucky
Student Center Room 231

9:30 am Opening Session, Japan Studies Chair: P.P. Karan
Welcome: Dr. Richard Edwards, Dean, University of Kentucky College
of Arts and Sciences

Session chair: Kristin Stapleton, History, University of Kentucky

9:45 Cotton Mather, New Mexico Geographical Society
Geographic Research on Japanese Cities
Discussant: Todd Stanford, Geography, Eastern Kentucky University

10:45 Ted Gilman, Union College, Schenectady, NY
Political Research on Japanese Cities
Discussant: Ernest Yanarella, Political Science, University of Kentucky

lunch break

Session chair: Greg Waller, English, University of Kentucky

1:30 Richard Child Hill and Kuniko Fujita, Michigan State University
Urban Economic Development Strategies: Industrial Districts in Japan
Discussant: Larry Burmeister, Agricultural Rural Sociology,
University of Kentucky

2:30 Bill Burton, University of Washington
Late Meiji Era Tokyo as Seen in Natsume Soseki's To the Spring
Equinox (1912)
Discussant: Doug Slaymaker, Russian and Eastern Studies,
University of Kentucky

4:00 Adjourn

Organized by the University of Kentucky College of Arts and Science and the
Japan Studies Committee

___________________
Doug Slaymaker Phone: 606-257-9139
University of Kentucky fax: 606-257-3743
Russian and Eastern Studies
1055 Patterson Office Tower
Lexington KY 40507-0027

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