Friday
Geballe Room, Townsend Center, Stephens Hall
MEMORY: SUBJECTS, OBJECTS, AND OBJECTIVES (2:15-3:45p)
Discussant: Alan Tansman, UC Berkeley
Geballe Room, Townsend Center, Stephens Hall
MEMORY: SUBJECTS, OBJECTS, AND OBJECTIVES (2:15-3:45p)
Discussant: Alan Tansman, UC Berkeley
- Sebastian Peel, UC Berkeley | Tiger Hunting and Long Sleeved Courtiers: Historical Memory and Toyotomi Hideyoshi’s Invasions of Korea
- Pedro Bassoe, UC Berkeley | Invisible Bridges and Empty City Centers: Izumi Kyōka, Komura Settai, and the Art of Nihonbashi
- Daryl Maude, UC Berkeley | Queerly Remembered: Historical Mediations of Mishima Yukio
Break (3:45-4:00p)
KEYNOTE SPEAKER (4:00-5:00p)
Professor Susan Burns, Department of History, University of Chicago
Marketing Health, Marketing Modernity: Advertising Pharmaceuticals in the Japanese Empire
Reception (5:00-6:00p)
KEYNOTE SPEAKER (4:00-5:00p)
Professor Susan Burns, Department of History, University of Chicago
Marketing Health, Marketing Modernity: Advertising Pharmaceuticals in the Japanese Empire
Reception (5:00-6:00p)
Saturday - Room #1
Heynes Room, Faculty Club
FAMILY AND EMPIRE (10:45-12:00p)
Discussant: Susan Burns, University of Chicago
Break (12:00-12:15p)
BODIES (12:15-1:30p)
Discussant: Karen Nakamura, Yale University
Break with refreshments (1:30-2:00p)
IMAGINARIES AND COMMODIFICATION (2:00-3:15p)
Discussant: Nelson Graburn, UC Berkeley
Break (3:15-3:30p)
PERFORMING THE SUPERNATURAL (3:30-4:45p)
Discussant: Kyu Hyun Kim, UC Davis
Closing Remarks: Steve Vogel, CJS Chair, UC Berkeley (5:00-6:00p)
Reception
Saturday - Room #2
Howard Room, Faculty Club
SILENCE AND SOUND (10:45-12:00p)
Discussant: Paul Roquet, Stanford University
Break (12:00-12:15p)
DICHOTOMIES AND DIALECTICS (12:15-1:30p)
Discussant: H. Mack Horton, UC Berkeley
Break with Refreshments 1:30-2:00p
PUBLIC OPINION (2:00-3:15p)
Discussant: Steve Vogel, UC Berkeley
Break (3:15-3:30p)
ATMOSPHERE (3:30-4:45p)
Discussant: Jim Reichert, Stanford University
Closing Remarks and Reception (5:00-6:00p)
Steve Vogel, CJS Chair, UC Berkeley
Heynes Room
Heynes Room, Faculty Club
FAMILY AND EMPIRE (10:45-12:00p)
Discussant: Susan Burns, University of Chicago
- Andrea Horbinski, UC Berkeley | A Children’s Empire: The Club Magazines and the Prewar “Media Mix”
- Alison Miller, University of Kansas | Mass Media Monarchy: The Image of Empress Teimei in Taishō Period Newsmedia
- Emily Barrass Chapman, University of London | The Imperial Household as a Family Photographed
Break (12:00-12:15p)
BODIES (12:15-1:30p)
Discussant: Karen Nakamura, Yale University
- Marguerite V. Hodge, UC San Diego | Mediating the Body: Anatomical Models and Images in Early Modern Japan
- Shelby Oxenford, UC Berkeley | Encountering the War in Postwar Japan: Ōe Kenzaburō’s “Lavish Are the Dead”
- Caitlin Casiello, Harvard University | Drawing Sex: Pages, Bodies, and Sighs in Japanese Adult Manga
Break with refreshments (1:30-2:00p)
IMAGINARIES AND COMMODIFICATION (2:00-3:15p)
Discussant: Nelson Graburn, UC Berkeley
- Saeedeh Asadipour, University of Cincinnati | Beato, Photography of Japanese Woman and Nineteenth Century Commodity Culture
- Irene González, University of London | Imaging Prostitution in Post-Occupation Japanese Melodrama (1952-1964)
- Michelle Ho, Stony Brook University | Black Face, Bihaku Skin: Consuming Femininity and Racial Otherness in Japanese Advertising
Break (3:15-3:30p)
PERFORMING THE SUPERNATURAL (3:30-4:45p)
Discussant: Kyu Hyun Kim, UC Davis
- Michael E. Crandol, University of Minnesota | Hello Kitty from Hell: Vernacular Modernism in Prewar Japanese Horror Film
- Jon Pitt, UC Berkeley | Supernatural Subversions of Pre-Modern Nostalgia: Ichikawa Kon’s Taketori monogatari and Takahata Isao’s Kaguya Hime no Monogatari
- Matthew Chudnow, UC Irvine | Female-Spirit Noh and ‘The Lotus Sutra’: ‘Tamakazura’ and ‘Bashō’
Closing Remarks: Steve Vogel, CJS Chair, UC Berkeley (5:00-6:00p)
Reception
Saturday - Room #2
Howard Room, Faculty Club
SILENCE AND SOUND (10:45-12:00p)
Discussant: Paul Roquet, Stanford University
- Noémie Adam, London School of Economics and Political Science | Drumming Out Resistance in Japan: How the Burakumin Identity is Erased through Policy-Making and Written Back through Music
- Edwin K. Everhart, UCLA | Yamaura’s Kesen: Nation, Class, and Tōhoku Language in/as Media
- Mia Lewis, Stanford University | Rumble, Race, and Crash: Space and Movement through Sound Effects in Akira, American Flagg, and Tsubasa
Break (12:00-12:15p)
DICHOTOMIES AND DIALECTICS (12:15-1:30p)
Discussant: H. Mack Horton, UC Berkeley
- Margi Burge, UC Berkeley | Re-Negotiating Literary Boundaries: The Wa-Kan Dialectic in the Shinsen Man’yōshū
- Christopher Lowy, University of Washington | The Architecture of Script: Rethinking Ruby and Its Relationship to Written Japanese
- Matthew Mewhinney, UC Berkeley | The Burden of Female Talent: The Kanshi of Ema Saikō
Break with Refreshments 1:30-2:00p
PUBLIC OPINION (2:00-3:15p)
Discussant: Steve Vogel, UC Berkeley
- Joonbum Bae, UCLA | Impossible Allies?: Korean views of Japan in a Changing World Order
- Joshua A. Williams and Douglas Miller, University of Washington | Netizens Decide 2014? A Look at Party Campaigning Online
Break (3:15-3:30p)
ATMOSPHERE (3:30-4:45p)
Discussant: Jim Reichert, Stanford University
- Nora Usanov-Geissler, Freie University Berlin | Depicting Transport in a Transportable Medium: The Politics of Patronage in Japanese Nanban Byōbu
- Magdalena Kolodziej, Duke University | Between Shinkyo and Tokyo: Maeda Seison’s Viewing Painting and the Fine Arts of the Japanese Empire
- Stephanie M. Hohlios, University of Utah | Picture-Storytelling: Heroes of Disruption in Kurama Ko-tengu and the Postwar Japanese Public Sphere
Closing Remarks and Reception (5:00-6:00p)
Steve Vogel, CJS Chair, UC Berkeley
Heynes Room