The 2nd Japan Studies at the University of Chicago and the University of Tokyo
| Date and time: | October 9, 2015 (Fri.), 8:00AM-3:30PM |
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| Venue: | Social Science Building, John Hope Franklin Room (Rm 224), The University of Chicago |
| Language: | English, Japanese |
Schedule
October 8th (Thurs.), 2015
| 17:00-19:30 | Opening Reception |
| Tea Room, 2nd Floor, Social Science Building, University of Chicago |
October 9th (Fri.), 2015
| John Hope Franklin Room (Rm 224), Social Science Building | |
| 8:30-8:45 | Yijiang Zhong “Chicago’s Japan; Tokyo’s Japan” |
| 8:20-8:30 | Welcoming Remarks |
| 8:30-8:45 | Yijiang Zhong “Chicago’s Japan; Tokyo’s Japan” |
| 8:45-10:00 | PANEL ONE
Jun Hee Lee (UChicago): “The Best and the Rest: Asia’s Place in the Utagoe Movement, 1950s-60s” Hirai Yuka (UTokyo): “Sensuality without Sexuality? Gender and Body in Kawabata Yasunari” Tessa Handa (UChicago): “Art Postcards in Late Meiji Japan: Fujishima Takeji’s 1905 Series” |
| 10:00-11:00 | PANEL TWO
Sakihama Sana (UTokyo): “Revisiting Asianism in the context of Okinawa: Kawamitsu Shin’ichi” Carly Buxton (UChicago): “SCAP-nese Americans: Nisei as Turncoats, Translators, and Testimonies in Occupation Japan” |
| 11:00-11:15 | Coffee Break |
| 11:15-12:15 | PANEL THREE
Ikeda Maho (UTokyo):“Local Self-government in Edo-Tokyo” Paride Stortini (UChicago): “East and West of the Tsukiji Honganji” |
| 12:15-13:30 | Lunch |
| 13:30-14:30 | PANEL FOUR
Aliz Horvath (UChicago): “The Dainihonshi and the Dynamics of Change” Kawamura Satofumi (UTokyo): “Asianism and National Polity: Kishi Nobusuke and Wartime Japan” |
| 14:30-15:15 | General Discussion |
| 15:15-15:30 | Concluding Remarks |
| Co-sponsored by: | The Committee on Japanese Studies Center for East Asian Studies The University of Chicago & The Global Japan Studies Network (GJS) of the University of Tokyo |
| Contact： | gjs[at]ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp |