Schedule
Friday, May 2
3335 Dwinelle Hall
4:00-4:20 Registration
4:20-4:30 Opening remarks
4:30-6:00 PM Keynote Speech
Saturday, May 3
International House (Ida/Robert Sproul Room)
9:30-10:40 Panel One
10:50-12:10 Panel Two
12:10-1:10 Lunch Break
1:20-2:40 Panel Three
2:50-3:50 Panel Four
4:00-5:20 Panel Five
5:30 Conclusion
3335 Dwinelle Hall
4:00-4:20 Registration
4:20-4:30 Opening remarks
- Professor Steve Vogel, Chair, Center for Japanese Studies
4:30-6:00 PM Keynote Speech
- Professor Christine Marran, Department of Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Minnesota, "Literature Without Us: Theorizing the Human in Contemporary Japanese Fiction"
Saturday, May 3
International House (Ida/Robert Sproul Room)
9:30-10:40 Panel One
- Brian Hurley, UC Berkeley, “Racialized Ecologies: Envisioning Race Politics Through the Works of Novelist Tanizaki Jun’ichirō, Photographer Ken Gonzales-Day and Poet Bob Dylan”
- Rika Hiro, USC, “Space for the Wounded: Tezuka Osamu’s Ode to Kirihito and Japan’s Ecological Crisis”
- Shelby Oxenford, UC Berkeley, “Responding to 3.11: Trauma, Home, and Body in Selected Works of the Tôhoku Earthquake”
- Panel Discussant: Professor Alan Tansman, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley
10:50-12:10 Panel Two
- Deirdre Martin, UC Berkeley, “Explaining Intelligence Trajectories: The Japanese Case”
- Dustin Wright, UC Santa Cruz, “Dispossession and Anti-Base Struggle in Cold War Tachikawa”
- Brad Holland and Chika Ogawa, Harvard, “Order, Inter-Regional Mobility, and Legalized Vengeance Killing in Tokugawa Japan”
- Panel Discussant: Professor Steven Vogel, Political Science, UC Berkeley
12:10-1:10 Lunch Break
1:20-2:40 Panel Three
- Michael Craig, UC Berkeley, “Something Between Geometry and Ecology: Ballistic Spatiality in Japanese ‘Bullet Hell’ (Danmaku) Shooting Games”
- Xindi Qin, Yale, “The Super-Feminine and the Feminine-Masculine Mixture: An Examination of Pleasure and Desire of Male Anime Consumer in Japan”
- Aaron Jasny, Washington University, “A Folklore of the Feminine: Nature, Folklore, and Community in Ohba Minako and Tsushima Yūko”
- Panel Discussant: Paul Roquet, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Stanford University
2:50-3:50 Panel Four
- John Leisure, UCLA, “Vertical Resilience: High-Rise Structures and Resource Network Interaction at Nishi-Shinjuku, Tokyo, Japan”
- Bonnie McClure, University of Washington, “Religious Cosmologies in Heian and Medieval Waka”
- Panel Discussants: Professor Dana Buntrock, Architecture, UC Berkeley / Brendan Morley, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley
4:00-5:20 Panel Five
- Justus Watt, UC Berkeley, “Woodblock Prints and Spatial Imagination: Meiji Popular Culture and the Re-imagination of East Asian Geo-Political Conceptions”
- Jooyeon Hahm, University of Pennsylvania, “Pleasure Quarters: Creation of the Ambiguous Colonial Frontier in Korea, 1876—1945”
- Michael Thornton, Harvard University, “A Capitol Orchard: Botanical Networks and the Production of Urban Space in Meiji Sapporo”
- Panel Discussant: Professor Dan O’Neill, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC Berkeley
5:30 Conclusion