25th Anniversary Japan Studies Association Conference
3-5 January 2019, Honolulu, Hawai'i
Friday, 4 January 2019
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8:30am -- 2:30pm
8:30-8:50 pm 9:00-9:50 am |
Conference registration
Table outside Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor Opening Remarks, President of JSA Joe Overton Room: Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor Plenary Session Keynote Address: Andrew Gordon, Harvard University "Remembering Japan’s 2011 Disaster: The Challenge and Opportunity of Digital Archives.” Room: Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor |
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10:00-11:15 am
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Panel 7: Images and Imaginings in Japanese Film
Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor Chair: Kelly McEnany, Asheville-Buncombe Tech CC Sean O’Reilly, Akita International University: An Onna Nobunaga Concerto at the Honnoji Hotel: How Recent Japanese Cinema Has Humanized Oda Nobunaga Yuko Shibata, Meiji Gakuin University: Japanese Nuclear Films and the End of the Cold War: Kurosawa and Imamura Masahide Kato, University of Hawaii at West O’ahu: Nakamura Ryugo’s cinema and the emerging generation of Uchina consciousness Panel 8: Hard and Soft Realities in Japanese Relations Room: Lokahi 1, 2nd floor Chair: Steve Corbeil, University of the Sacred Heart Ivan Gonzalez Pujol, Universitat Oberta de Catalunya/Senshu University: The hedging strategy as a response to the uncertainty: the case of Japan Anand Rao, SUNY Geneseo: Soft Power, Hard Gains: Japan's New "Rich Nation, Strong Army?" Wade Huntley, Naval Postgraduate School: Getting Left Behind? Japan and Korean Peninsula Diplomacy in 2018 Panel 9: Japanese Pedagogy Room: Lokahi 3, 2nd floor Chair: Patrick Foss, Tokyo Medical and Dental University Risa Ikeda, Yamaguchi University: Inhibition in English language learning: A case study of Japanese university students in the Philippines Giancarla Unser-Schutz, Sam Rose, Rissho University, Beni Kudo, Rissho University: The realities of global talent in Japan: Educational policies for internationalization on the ground at a mid-tier university |
11:15-11:30 am Coffee/tea break: Outside Pua Melia Ballroom
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11:30am -- 12:45pm
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Panel 10: Empire and Aftermath
Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor Chair: Dawn Gale, Johnson County Community College Nathan Hopson, Nagoya University: Ingrained Habits: American Wheat Promotion and the Transformation of Japanese Nutrition Science and National Diet, 1954-1960 Isaac Chun Kiang Tan, Columbia University: Science and Empire: Tracing the Imprint of Dactylography in Manchuria, 1924 – 1945 Reed Knappe, Harvard University: Imperial Entropy: Wartime Japan and the Collapse of Fossil Fuel Civilization Panel 11: (Lion) Dogs and Cats, Living Together! Room: Lokahi 1, 2nd floor Chair: Susan Castro, Wichita State University Barbara Mason, Oregon State University: Cats in Japanese Fine Arts all the way to Kawaii Susan Mason, California State University. Los Angeles: Why is the Isle of Dogs Set in Japan? Barbara Lass, City College of San Francisco: Smiling Vegetables, Happy Cows, and Lovable Lion Dogs: Kawaii (cute) and Okinawan Identity Panel 12: Subjects of Empire, Subjects to Empire Room: Lokahi 3, 2nd floor Laurence Mann, University of Oxford Chad Diehl, Loyola University Maryland: Embodying Japanese Empire: Tattooing and Judo in Colonial Taiwan Tomoki Kimura, University of Hawaii at Manoa: Resituating Colonial Ambivalence and Hybridity: Masculinity, Body, and Language in Nakajima Atsushi’s “Toragari” Maggie Ivanova, Flinders University: Outsider Within: Performativity in Min Jin Lee’s Pachinko |
12:45-1:45 pm Lunch: Pick up Outside Ballroom; eat in Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
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2:00-3:15 pm
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Panel 13: New Life in Ancient Arts
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor Chair: Barbara Lass, City College of San Francisco Susan Castro, Wichita State University and Bob Feleppa, Wichita State University: Kant’s reply to Zeami: Sarugaku, sensus communis, and perpetual peace Laurence Mann, University of Oxford: Contours of rhyme in Eastern Old Japanese: Man’yōshū, Book XX Susan Scott, McDaniel College: Understanding Pictorial Space in the Twelfth-Century Illustrations to the Tale of Genji Panel 15: Encountering the Extraordinary Everyday Room: Lokahi 3, 2nd floor Chair: Chad Diehl, Loyola University Maryland Ian Roth, Meijo University: The Roninsei Journey Toshiro Goji, Hiroshima University: Experiences of Everyday Cultural Difference by Foreign Employees in Japan who Graduated from a Japanese University Paula Behrens, Community College of Philadelphia: Streets, Corners and Storefronts: The Semi-public Zones in Traditional Japanese Neighborhoods in the Modern City |
3:15-3:30 pm Coffee/tea break: Outside Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
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3:30-4:45 pm
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Panel 16: Strange Juxtapositions in Japanese Arts
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor Chair: Thierry Rakotobe-Joel, Ramapo College of New Jersey Marta Rodriquez, University of Houston: Experimentation in Japanese Architecture: From Kazuo Shinohara to Junya Ishigami Elaine Gerbert, University of Kansas, Into the Cave Tanya Barnett, University of Hawaii at Manoa: Erasure as Self-Fashioning: Reading Intentionality and Performance in Miyazawa Kenji’s Bungoshikō ippyappen Panel 17: Teachable Moments and Necessary Lessons, History and Memory Room: Lokahi 1, 2nd floor Chair: Paula Behrens, Community College of Philadelphia Kimiko Akita, Aichi Prefectural University, Rick Kenney: “Yasukuni Shrine and the Ethics of Community” Barbara Seater, Raritan Valley Community College: “To Undo a Mistake is Always Harder Than Not to Create One Originally": Memorials and Monuments to Interned Japanese-Americans Koichi Mera, University of Southern California: Teaching "Comfort Women" at American Universities |
5:30 pm Meet in hotel lobby at 5:30 pm for a 5:45 pm sharp departure.
Conference dinner with entertainment at Kapi’olani Community College.
See maps on p. 18 of the print conference program, if not travelling with the group.
Dinner starts at 6:30 pm.
Conference dinner with entertainment at Kapi’olani Community College.
See maps on p. 18 of the print conference program, if not travelling with the group.
Dinner starts at 6:30 pm.