25th Anniversary Japan Studies Association Conference
3-5 January 2019, Honolulu, Hawai'i
Happy New 2019 Year and Welcome to Hawai'i!
Thursday, 3 January 2019
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8:30-11:00 am
1:00-4:00 pm 1:00-2:15 pm |
JSA Board Meeting
Room: Lokahi 2, 2nd floor Conference registration Table outside Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor Panel 1: Relating to the Outside World, Relating to Oneself Room: Lokahi 1, 2nd floor Chair: Sean O’Reilly, Akita International University Jemma Kim, Meiji University: Japan and TPP: Implications for the Asia-Pacific Economic Order Jennifer Welsh, Lindewood University-Belleville: Okinawa as a Crossroads: Connections and Perceptions from Satsuma to USCAR Yoko Tsukuda, Seijo University: Representation of Japanese Americans in Japanese Media: The case of Futatsu no Sokoku and Sanga Moyu Panel 2: Reading, Seeing, Understanding in Japanese Texts Room: Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor Chair: Andrea Stover, Belmont University Lisa Rogers, Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts: Women in Japan: A critical examination of marginalized women in academic works Anri Yasuda, George Washington University: Watery Maidens in Late-Meiji Literary Imaginations: Ogai’s Marie and Sōseki’s Nami Noriko Asato, University of Hawaii: Ardent Love Woven into a Bookmark: Reading Japanese Readers in Prewar Hawaiʻi Panel 3: Encountering Japan Beyond Japan Room: Lokahi 3, 2nd floor Chair: Paul Dunscomb, University of Alaska Anchorage William Matsuda, Sichuan University: Modern Imaginings of the Fuzhou Ryūkyūkan Andrew Wertheimer, University of Hawaii Manoa: Embracing National Language and Transnational Identity: Issei Activism and The Short Life of Honolulu’s Toyo Bunko, 1936-1941 Chad Denton, Yonsei University: A French “Civilizing Mission” in Meiji Japan: Prosper Fortuné Fouque and the Revue Française du Japon, 1843-1906 |
2:15-2:30 pm Coffee/tea break: Outside Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
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2:30-3:45 pm
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Panel 4. Collaboration Across Cultures
Room: Lokahi 1, 2nd floor Chair: Noriko Asato, University of Hawaii Kelly McEnany, Asheville-Buncombe Tech CC, and Yoko Tsukuda, Seijo University: Online teaching collaboration between US and Japan: the case of Asheville and Seijo Naadiya Hasan, Hiroko Hirakawa, Guilford College: Remembering Transnationally: Aspirations and Challenges in Developing an Ethical Study Abroad Program at a Liberal Arts College Panel 5. To Seek, To See, To Find, To Create a Place Room: Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor Chair: Jennifer Welsh, Lindeville University-Belleville David Odo, Harvard Art Museums: Place, Image, Identity: Nagasawa Shinichiro’s Photographs of the Ogasawara (Bonin) Islands Patrick Foss, Tokyo Medical and Dental University: The “Ghost Roads” of Alan Booth: Walking into the Unknown in Looking for the Lost Yuki Ohsawa, Josai International University: Anime Tourism in Oarai and Kamogawa--How Pilgrimage sites Shine or Fade in Rural Japan |
3:45-4:00 pm Coffee/tea break: Outside Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
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4:00-5:15 pm
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Special Plenary Roundtable Session
From Hokkaido to Okinawa--Tips, Trips, and "Talking Story" from decades of Study Abroad to Japan Room: Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor Kathryn Ibata-Arens, DePaul University, Laura Kina, DePaul University, Anna Ninoyu, Illinois Institute of Technology, Emer O’Dwyer, Oberlin College, Jennifer Pippin, Michigan State University, Roger W. Purdy, John Carroll University, Ethan Segal, Michigan State University, Curtiss Takada Rooks, Loyola Marymount University. |
5:30-7:00 pm Conference meet and greet
Meet in conference hotel reception gallery (in the lobby) for a welcome drink
7:00 pm -- Dinner on your own
Meet in conference hotel reception gallery (in the lobby) for a welcome drink
7:00 pm -- Dinner on your own