Thursday, January 05
8:30-11:30am
JSA Board Meeting
Room: Lokahi 2, 2nd floor
1:00-4:00pm
Conference registration
Table outside Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
2:00-2:10pm
Presidential address and welcome
Prof. Joseph Overton, JSA President
Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
2:15-3:45pm
Panel 1. Japan and South America: The Routes of Family Roots
Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
Chair: Stacia Bensyl, Missouri Western State University
Richard Cappellino, Kaua’i Community College, University of Hawai’i System
“A Culture Within, A World Apart: Brazil through the Eyes of a Japanese Immigrant”
Teresa Rinaldi, National University – cancelled
“Juan Forn’s María Domecq: Recreating Japan’s Past and Argentina’s Present”
Shannon Welch, University of California, Dan Diego
“Japanese-Brazilian Female Migrants and the Forgotten: Representations of Gender Hierarchy and Ethnic Hegemony in ‘Natsuyo’ and Sonhos Bloqueados”
Panel 2. Presence and Absence in Japanese Landscape Imagery
Room: Lokahi 1
Chair and discussant: Kazuko Kameda-Madar, Hawai’i Pacific University
Pauline Ota, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa and DePauw University
“Seen and Unseen Collaborations across Social Boundaries in Maruyama Ōkyo’s Amusements of the Four Seasons of Kyoto”
Karen Fraser, University of San Francisco
“Fragmentary Views: Photographic Close-up as Poetic Metaphor in Taisho-Era Art Photography”
Mara Miller, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
“Commemorating the Vanished Landscape: Seen and Unseen Collaborations across Social, Temporal and Geographic Boundaries in the Guardians Series of Reiko Mochinaga Brandon”
Panel 3. Shrieking with Laughter… or Horror
Room: Lokahi 3
Chair: Maggie Ivanova, Flinders University
Elaine Gerbert, University of Kansas
“Some Socio-Psychological Aspects of Laughter in Japan”
David Humphrey, University of Notre Dame
“Shattering the Everyday: Konto 55-gō and the Comedy of the late 60s”
Michael Crandol, Indiana University
“Putting the ‘Vamp’ in ‘Vampire’: The Star System in Early Japanese Horror Cinema”
3:45-4:00pm
Coffee/tea break: Pua Melia Ballroom
Panel 4. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Women and Gender
Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
Chair: Linda Lindsey, Washington University
Kristin Roebuck, Cornell University
“The Bloody Business of Purity: Chastity Suicide, Eugenic Abortion and the Collapse of the Japanese Empire”
Jeniece Lusk, American University of Sharjah - cancelled
“Awareness and Attitudes toward the Intersex Among Japanese Millennials”
Maggie Ivanova, Flinders University
“Mothers-in-Law in Postwar Japanese Film”
Panel 5. Reorientations and Transformations in Japan’s Foreign Policy, Political Economy and Tourist Market
Room: Lokahi 1
Chair: Paul Dunscomb, University of Alaska, Anchorage
David Adebahr, Kyoto University
“Counterbalancing Emerging Risks: On the Significance of Strategic Adjustment in Japan’s Foreign Policy towards Southeast Asia”
Kristi Govella, University of California Berkeley
“Gaining Access: The Evolving Role of Foreign Firms in Japan”
William Nitzky, California State University, Chico
“Changing Travel in Japan: The Impact of Chinese International Travelers”
Panel 6. On Art, Architecture and Design: Traditional and Contemporary Perspectives
Room: Lokahi 3
Chair: Barbara Mason, Oregon State University
Holly Jin, Independent Scholar - cancelled
“Murakami’s Time Bokan and 500 Arhats: Aestheticizing Buddhist Responses to Disaster in the Superflat Movement”
Michael Stern, Community College of Philadelphia
“The Bearable Lightness of Being: Toyo Ito and Contemporary Japanese Architecture”
Yuka Hasegawa, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
“Tōjisha Talk at the BankART School”
6:30-7:30pm
Conference meet and greet
Meet in conference hotel lobby for welcome drinks
Dinner on your own
JSA Board Meeting
Room: Lokahi 2, 2nd floor
1:00-4:00pm
Conference registration
Table outside Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
2:00-2:10pm
Presidential address and welcome
Prof. Joseph Overton, JSA President
Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
2:15-3:45pm
Panel 1. Japan and South America: The Routes of Family Roots
Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
Chair: Stacia Bensyl, Missouri Western State University
Richard Cappellino, Kaua’i Community College, University of Hawai’i System
“A Culture Within, A World Apart: Brazil through the Eyes of a Japanese Immigrant”
Teresa Rinaldi, National University – cancelled
“Juan Forn’s María Domecq: Recreating Japan’s Past and Argentina’s Present”
Shannon Welch, University of California, Dan Diego
“Japanese-Brazilian Female Migrants and the Forgotten: Representations of Gender Hierarchy and Ethnic Hegemony in ‘Natsuyo’ and Sonhos Bloqueados”
Panel 2. Presence and Absence in Japanese Landscape Imagery
Room: Lokahi 1
Chair and discussant: Kazuko Kameda-Madar, Hawai’i Pacific University
Pauline Ota, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa and DePauw University
“Seen and Unseen Collaborations across Social Boundaries in Maruyama Ōkyo’s Amusements of the Four Seasons of Kyoto”
Karen Fraser, University of San Francisco
“Fragmentary Views: Photographic Close-up as Poetic Metaphor in Taisho-Era Art Photography”
Mara Miller, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
“Commemorating the Vanished Landscape: Seen and Unseen Collaborations across Social, Temporal and Geographic Boundaries in the Guardians Series of Reiko Mochinaga Brandon”
Panel 3. Shrieking with Laughter… or Horror
Room: Lokahi 3
Chair: Maggie Ivanova, Flinders University
Elaine Gerbert, University of Kansas
“Some Socio-Psychological Aspects of Laughter in Japan”
David Humphrey, University of Notre Dame
“Shattering the Everyday: Konto 55-gō and the Comedy of the late 60s”
Michael Crandol, Indiana University
“Putting the ‘Vamp’ in ‘Vampire’: The Star System in Early Japanese Horror Cinema”
3:45-4:00pm
Coffee/tea break: Pua Melia Ballroom
Panel 4. Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Women and Gender
Pua Melia Ballroom, 2nd floor
Chair: Linda Lindsey, Washington University
Kristin Roebuck, Cornell University
“The Bloody Business of Purity: Chastity Suicide, Eugenic Abortion and the Collapse of the Japanese Empire”
Jeniece Lusk, American University of Sharjah - cancelled
“Awareness and Attitudes toward the Intersex Among Japanese Millennials”
Maggie Ivanova, Flinders University
“Mothers-in-Law in Postwar Japanese Film”
Panel 5. Reorientations and Transformations in Japan’s Foreign Policy, Political Economy and Tourist Market
Room: Lokahi 1
Chair: Paul Dunscomb, University of Alaska, Anchorage
David Adebahr, Kyoto University
“Counterbalancing Emerging Risks: On the Significance of Strategic Adjustment in Japan’s Foreign Policy towards Southeast Asia”
Kristi Govella, University of California Berkeley
“Gaining Access: The Evolving Role of Foreign Firms in Japan”
William Nitzky, California State University, Chico
“Changing Travel in Japan: The Impact of Chinese International Travelers”
Panel 6. On Art, Architecture and Design: Traditional and Contemporary Perspectives
Room: Lokahi 3
Chair: Barbara Mason, Oregon State University
Holly Jin, Independent Scholar - cancelled
“Murakami’s Time Bokan and 500 Arhats: Aestheticizing Buddhist Responses to Disaster in the Superflat Movement”
Michael Stern, Community College of Philadelphia
“The Bearable Lightness of Being: Toyo Ito and Contemporary Japanese Architecture”
Yuka Hasegawa, University of Hawai’i at Mānoa
“Tōjisha Talk at the BankART School”
6:30-7:30pm
Conference meet and greet
Meet in conference hotel lobby for welcome drinks
Dinner on your own
