Berkeley Japan Studies
Graduate Conference 2014:
Ecology x Space
Friday + Saturday
May 2-3, 2014
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Organized by the
Center for Japanese Studies,
University of California, Berkeley
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Supported by the Japan Foundation
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About
UC Berkeley's Center for Japanese Studies, with support from the Japan Foundation, is pleased to announce its first annual graduate student conference. This conference brings together prominent scholars and graduate students from all disciplines in the field of Japanese Studies to discuss the concepts of ecology and space from pre-modern times to the present. Space here not only connotes the physical, but also how one views one’s position relative to others and to objects in the world. Resisting the objectification of nature as mere symbol or metaphor, the concept of ecology insists on new modes of reading, writing, and thinking about the material environment that connects the human to the organic world. The international dimensions of ecological questions are particularly suited to considering Japan within the broader fabric of the global environment. Within this general thematic area, we encourage submissions from a variety of disciplines that address diverse substantive topics, including comparative or cross-disciplinary studies on issues such as: natural disaster, geopolitics, human geography, agriculture, urban space and ecology, architecture and the environment, film and visual art, literary ecocriticism, environmental aesthetics, environmental history and soundscape and affect studies.
Conference organizers: Benjamin Bartlett (Political Science), Lisa Reade (East Asian Languages and Cultures), Kerry Shannon (History)
Conference organizers: Benjamin Bartlett (Political Science), Lisa Reade (East Asian Languages and Cultures), Kerry Shannon (History)