Saturday, January 07
8:30am-2:30pm
Conference registration
Table outside Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
8:45-9:45am
Keynote Address
Victoria Bestor, Executive Director
North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources
"Doing it Digitally: Creating Curriculum and Course Projects using Digital Tools"
Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
Introduction: Fay Beauchamp, JSA Vice President
9:45-10:00am
Coffee/tea break: Pua Melia Ballroom
10:00-11:30am
Panel 16. Representations of Japan’s Postwar: Unstable Images and Contested Narratives
Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
Chair and discussant: Victoria Bestor, NCC
Dan Abbe, University of California Los Angeles
“Amateur Interventions: Re-Thinking ‘Protest Photography’ through Matsuyama Tazuko and Akagi Shūji”
Maggie Mustard, Columbia University
“Threatening Legibility in Kawada Kikuji’s Chizu (The Map)”
Mariko Takano, University of California Los Angeles
“Yoshimoto Takaaki’s Representational Scheme against Literary Criticism”
Sarah Walsh, University of California Los Angeles
“Completing Modernity: Bunka no jidai and the Attempt to Put the Postwar to Rest”
Panel 17. Okinawa in Perspective: Musical, Fictional and Trans-Pacific Cultural Spaces
Room: Lokahi 1
Chair: Maggie Ivanova, Flinders University
James E. Roberson, Kanazawa Seiryō University
“Swinging and Rocking the Keystone: Women Performers and the Gendered Colonial Modernity of Jazz and Rock in Postwar Okinawa”
Nobue Suzuki, Chiba University
“Empires, Colonial Modernity and Twilights of Memory in the Trans-Pacific Cultural Space: Filipino Musicians in Mainland Japan and Okinawa”
Oliver E. Kuehne, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
“Okinawa-Literature vs. Okinawa-Fantasy? Contemporary Okinawan Fiction between Postcolonial Memory, Neo-Imperialist Resistance and ‘Postmodern’ Fantasy”
Panel 18. Crossing Imperial Boundaries: Japan’s Empire in the World, America’s Empire in Japan
Room: Lokahi 3
Chair and discussant: Jon Davidann, Hawai’i Pacific University
Paul Behringer, American University
“On Behalf of Civilization: The Hunchun Massacre and Japan’s Siberian Intervention”
C. Clare Hudson, Georgetown University
“‘The Isle of the Lost’: The Japanese Occupation of Northern Sakhalin, 1920 – 1925”
Abhishek Nanavati, Georgetown University
“Hygienic Empire: Disease, Night Soil, and Hydroponic Vegetables in Occupied Japan, 1945 – 1960”
Christopher A. Shinn, Howard University
“Aryans of the East: Japanese Imperialism and the Shadow of Whiteness”
11:45am-12:45am
Lunch in Pua Melia Ballroom and stretch time
Conference registration
Table outside Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
8:45-9:45am
Keynote Address
Victoria Bestor, Executive Director
North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources
"Doing it Digitally: Creating Curriculum and Course Projects using Digital Tools"
Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
Introduction: Fay Beauchamp, JSA Vice President
9:45-10:00am
Coffee/tea break: Pua Melia Ballroom
10:00-11:30am
Panel 16. Representations of Japan’s Postwar: Unstable Images and Contested Narratives
Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
Chair and discussant: Victoria Bestor, NCC
Dan Abbe, University of California Los Angeles
“Amateur Interventions: Re-Thinking ‘Protest Photography’ through Matsuyama Tazuko and Akagi Shūji”
Maggie Mustard, Columbia University
“Threatening Legibility in Kawada Kikuji’s Chizu (The Map)”
Mariko Takano, University of California Los Angeles
“Yoshimoto Takaaki’s Representational Scheme against Literary Criticism”
Sarah Walsh, University of California Los Angeles
“Completing Modernity: Bunka no jidai and the Attempt to Put the Postwar to Rest”
Panel 17. Okinawa in Perspective: Musical, Fictional and Trans-Pacific Cultural Spaces
Room: Lokahi 1
Chair: Maggie Ivanova, Flinders University
James E. Roberson, Kanazawa Seiryō University
“Swinging and Rocking the Keystone: Women Performers and the Gendered Colonial Modernity of Jazz and Rock in Postwar Okinawa”
Nobue Suzuki, Chiba University
“Empires, Colonial Modernity and Twilights of Memory in the Trans-Pacific Cultural Space: Filipino Musicians in Mainland Japan and Okinawa”
Oliver E. Kuehne, University of Erlangen-Nuremberg
“Okinawa-Literature vs. Okinawa-Fantasy? Contemporary Okinawan Fiction between Postcolonial Memory, Neo-Imperialist Resistance and ‘Postmodern’ Fantasy”
Panel 18. Crossing Imperial Boundaries: Japan’s Empire in the World, America’s Empire in Japan
Room: Lokahi 3
Chair and discussant: Jon Davidann, Hawai’i Pacific University
Paul Behringer, American University
“On Behalf of Civilization: The Hunchun Massacre and Japan’s Siberian Intervention”
C. Clare Hudson, Georgetown University
“‘The Isle of the Lost’: The Japanese Occupation of Northern Sakhalin, 1920 – 1925”
Abhishek Nanavati, Georgetown University
“Hygienic Empire: Disease, Night Soil, and Hydroponic Vegetables in Occupied Japan, 1945 – 1960”
Christopher A. Shinn, Howard University
“Aryans of the East: Japanese Imperialism and the Shadow of Whiteness”
11:45am-12:45am
Lunch in Pua Melia Ballroom and stretch time
1:00-2:30pm
Panel 19. Crossing Borders and Mixing Cultures: A Reconsideration of Intertextual, Interracial, and International Relationships
Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
Chair: Ron Loftus, Willamette University
Jennifer L. Welsh, Lindenwood University-Belleville
“Southern Barbarians and Noble Princes: Cross-Cultural Fascination between Europe and Japan in the Early Modern Period”
Rena Heinrich, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Half Butterfly, Half-Caste: Sadakichi Hartmann and the Mixed-Japanese Drama Osadda’s Revenge”
Barbara Seater, Raritan Valley Community College
“Remembering and Forgetting: The Firebombings of Tokyo and Dresden Compared with the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki”
Panel 20. Interdisciplinary and Multimodal Research Trajectories
Room: Lokahi 1
Chair: Jeremy Rapport, The College of Wooster
Michael Charlton, Missouri Western State University
“Fast Food Devil: The Devil Is a Part-Timer! and Representations of the Japanese Economy”
Hanae Kurihara Kramer, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
“Listening to the Past: Japanese Audio Recordings from the Early Twentieth Century”
Paul Dunscomb, University of Alaska Anchorage
“‘When You Come to the Fork in the Road, Take It.’ The Crisis in Japanese Professional Baseball and the Nature of Change in Heisei Japan”
Panel 21. Japan’s Rural Communities: Historical, Political and Aesthetic Perspectives
Room: Lokahi 3
Chair: Ronnie Littlejohn, Belmont University
Ariel Acosta, New York University
“Radicalizing the Commune: The Debate between Agrarianists and Anarchists in Early Shōwa Japan”
Nicole Freiner, Bryant University
“Japan’s Sacred Rice Farmers”
David Jones, Kennesaw State University
“A Scarecrow World”
2:30-2:45pm
Coffee/tea break: Pua Melia Ballroom
Panel 19. Crossing Borders and Mixing Cultures: A Reconsideration of Intertextual, Interracial, and International Relationships
Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
Chair: Ron Loftus, Willamette University
Jennifer L. Welsh, Lindenwood University-Belleville
“Southern Barbarians and Noble Princes: Cross-Cultural Fascination between Europe and Japan in the Early Modern Period”
Rena Heinrich, University of California, Santa Barbara
“Half Butterfly, Half-Caste: Sadakichi Hartmann and the Mixed-Japanese Drama Osadda’s Revenge”
Barbara Seater, Raritan Valley Community College
“Remembering and Forgetting: The Firebombings of Tokyo and Dresden Compared with the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki”
Panel 20. Interdisciplinary and Multimodal Research Trajectories
Room: Lokahi 1
Chair: Jeremy Rapport, The College of Wooster
Michael Charlton, Missouri Western State University
“Fast Food Devil: The Devil Is a Part-Timer! and Representations of the Japanese Economy”
Hanae Kurihara Kramer, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
“Listening to the Past: Japanese Audio Recordings from the Early Twentieth Century”
Paul Dunscomb, University of Alaska Anchorage
“‘When You Come to the Fork in the Road, Take It.’ The Crisis in Japanese Professional Baseball and the Nature of Change in Heisei Japan”
Panel 21. Japan’s Rural Communities: Historical, Political and Aesthetic Perspectives
Room: Lokahi 3
Chair: Ronnie Littlejohn, Belmont University
Ariel Acosta, New York University
“Radicalizing the Commune: The Debate between Agrarianists and Anarchists in Early Shōwa Japan”
Nicole Freiner, Bryant University
“Japan’s Sacred Rice Farmers”
David Jones, Kennesaw State University
“A Scarecrow World”
2:30-2:45pm
Coffee/tea break: Pua Melia Ballroom
2:45-3:45pm
Note: 60-min panels
Panel 22. Readings from a Forthcoming Book on Taoka Reiun (1870-1912) and from Marie Kondo’s The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up (2014) and Spark Joy (2016)
Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
Chair: Andrea Stover, Belmont University
Ron Loftus, Willamette University
“From Taoka Reiun and New Interventions in Late Meiji History”
Susan Mason, California State University, Los Angeles
“An Animist Perspective: A Staged Reading of Passages from Marie Kondo’s The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up (2014) and Spark Joy (2016)”
Panel 23. Medieval Poetics and Aesthetics
Room: Lokahi 1
Chair: Michael Stern, Community College of Philadelphia (TBD)
Lina Nie, Harvard University
“Across the Boundary: Kanshi in Heian Court Literature”
Fusae Ekida, Murray State University
“Kenshō’s Contribution toward Medieval Poetics”
Panel 24. Murakami Haruki in Comparative Perspectives
Room: Lokahi 3
Chair: Stacia Bensyl, Missouri Western State University
Jonathan Dil, Keio University
“Murakami Haruki and the Great Fitzgerald”
Patricia Welch, Hofstra University
“Questing for Color: Tsukuru Tazaki’s Pilgrimage in the Context of Murakami Haruki’s Work”
3:45-4:00pm
Coffee/tea break: Pua Melia Ballroom
4:00-4:45pm
Business Meeting and Closing Remarks
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom
Chair: Joseph Overton, JSA President
Dinner on your own
Note: 60-min panels
Panel 22. Readings from a Forthcoming Book on Taoka Reiun (1870-1912) and from Marie Kondo’s The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up (2014) and Spark Joy (2016)
Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
Chair: Andrea Stover, Belmont University
Ron Loftus, Willamette University
“From Taoka Reiun and New Interventions in Late Meiji History”
Susan Mason, California State University, Los Angeles
“An Animist Perspective: A Staged Reading of Passages from Marie Kondo’s The Life Changing Magic of Tidying Up (2014) and Spark Joy (2016)”
Panel 23. Medieval Poetics and Aesthetics
Room: Lokahi 1
Chair: Michael Stern, Community College of Philadelphia (TBD)
Lina Nie, Harvard University
“Across the Boundary: Kanshi in Heian Court Literature”
Fusae Ekida, Murray State University
“Kenshō’s Contribution toward Medieval Poetics”
Panel 24. Murakami Haruki in Comparative Perspectives
Room: Lokahi 3
Chair: Stacia Bensyl, Missouri Western State University
Jonathan Dil, Keio University
“Murakami Haruki and the Great Fitzgerald”
Patricia Welch, Hofstra University
“Questing for Color: Tsukuru Tazaki’s Pilgrimage in the Context of Murakami Haruki’s Work”
3:45-4:00pm
Coffee/tea break: Pua Melia Ballroom
4:00-4:45pm
Business Meeting and Closing Remarks
Room: Pua Melia Ballroom
Chair: Joseph Overton, JSA President
Dinner on your own