The annual meeting of this year has ended sucessfully. The 34th annual meeting will be on June 3-4, 2000, in Tezukayama University.

** presentations in English
Taisho University International Center, Prof. Kenji Suzuki
3-20-1 Nishi-sugamo, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 170-8470
Tel/Fax: 03-5394-3039

June 5 (Saturday)
10:00-12:30  Presentation of Papers A

Chair: Keiko Beppu (Matsuyama Shinonome College)
Papers:
Junko Kanazawa (Waseda University)
"A Poet and the Civil War: Emily Dickinson"

 Masaaki Kusano (Nara Medical University)
"Lafcadio Hearn: The Mainspring of His Writing"

Tsuyoshi Ishihara (Kyoto University)
"Between the Modern and the Pre-modern: Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad"

Satoru Takashina (Akita Prefectural University)
"The Choice of F. Harper, a Black Woman in the 19th Century"


10:00-11:15  Presentation of Papers B
 

Chair:  Shinichi Shigihara (Tezukayama University)
Papers:
Jon Reed (Sanyo Gakuen University)
 **"Name of the Father: Freud, Lacan, the American Pornographic Film and Lite Beer from Miller"

Mutsuko Hoshino (University of Tsukuba)
 "Yasuo Kuniyoshi and Katherine Schmidt: The Image of Women in the 1930s"


11:15-12:30  Presentation of Papers C
 

Chair:  Ryo Yokoyama (Kobe University)
Papers:
Tomoko Yagyu (Keio University)
"The Management Conditions of Planters in the Chesapeake Bay Area: An Analysis of Accounting
Records in the Antebellum Period"

Yasuo Sakakibara (Professor Emeritus, Doshisha University)
Kazusei Kato (Kansai Gaidai University, Junior College Division)
** "'Intermodalism': Could It Become the Established Principle in American Transportation in the 21st
Century?"


10:00-12:30  Presentation of Papers D
 

Chair:  Koji Takenaka (Tohoku University)
Papers:
William Clark (Temple University Japan)
** "Nisei Daughter/Sansei Son: Structure of Memory in Japanese American Autobiography"

Risako Ide (Chung-Ang University, Korea)
"'Small Talk': The Sense of Self and the Image of Community in America"

Zeng Wing (International Christian University)
"Conflicts and Cooperation: The Diverse Chinese American Communities"

Yumiko Mizuno (Hitotsubashi University)
"'Traditional Culture' in Native American Educational Reform in the 1930s"
 
 

10:00-12:30  Presentation of Papers E
 
Chair: Koji Terachi (Kyoritsu Women's University)
Papers:
Hiroo Nakajima (Osaka University of Foreign Studies)
"The Monroe Doctrine and US Diplomacy Toward Latin America, 1824-1828"

David Zmijewski (Baika Women's University)
** "A Kingdom for the Taking: Political Intrigue in the Sandwich Islands"

John R. Wennersten (Tokiwa University)
**"Cosmopolitan Elites, Citizenship, and Democracy's Future: The Expatriate Future"

K. Sandra Lucore (University of Tokyo)
** "The Sleeping Faun: Harriet Hosmer's Spirit of the Antique"


12:40-13:30  Lunch/Board and Trustees Meeting

13:40-14:10  General Assembly

14:15-15:00  Presidential Address

Janice Radway (ASA President; Duke University)
** "What's in a Name?: Rethinking the 'American' in American Studies for the Twenty-First Century"

Chair: Hiroko Sato (JAAS President; Tokyo Woman's Christian University)

15:00-17:30  Symposium: "Is a Comprehensive View of America Possible?"
 

Chair:  Kenji Suzuki (Taisho University)
Panelists: Jun Furuya (Hokkaido University)
"'The American Century' and American Studies"
Shoko Ito (Hiroshima University)
"Is Ecological Conversion (Awakening and Return to the Earth) Possible?"
Katsuro Nakano (Hokkaido University)
"The Intersection of Historical Studies and Real Politics"
Yasuo Endo (University of Tokyo)
 "Is a Comprehensive Approach to Area Studies Possible?"
Comments: Shunsuke Kamei (Gifu Women's University)


17:40-      Reception

June 6 (Sunday)
10:00-12:30  Session A: "On the American President"
 

Chair: Hiroshi Fujimoto (Aichi University of Education)
Papers:
Kyoko Kimpara (Chiba University)
 "The President and Impeachment"

Haruya Anami (Aichi Prefectural University)
"Multiple Dimensions and the Paradox of the Post-modern Presidency: The Present Status of
 'Presidential Studies' and Clinton"
"What Have the American People Wanted in the President?:The Image of the President in Films and Novels"
Comments: Takeshi Igarashi (University of Tokyo)


10:00-12:30  Session B: "Culture Wars"
 

Chair: Hideyo Naganuma (Tsuda College)
Papers:
Machiko Takayama (Edogawa University)
"On Culture Wars: The Case of Mormons"

Masaki Kawashima (Nanzan University)
"Revisiting African American Politics, Economy, and Cultural Conflict since the Black Power Movement:
Between 'PC' and the 'Underclass'"

Kumiko Shindo (Toyo Eiwa Women's University)
 "Culture Wars from the Gender Perspective"
 

10:00-12:30  ** Workshop A: "Globalization and American Studies:Ethnicity"
 
Chair: Hiroshi Yoneyama (Ritsumeikan University)
Papers:
Elaine Kim (University of California, Berkeley)
"Counter-Memory in Contemporary Korean American Literature"

Brian Hayashi (Kyoto University)
 "Nationalism and Women: The Case of Japanese Americans, 1900-1942"

Yujin Yaguchi (University of Tokyo)
"Community, Memory, and Ethnic History Museums in the Age of Globalization: Revisiting 'From Bento to
Mixed Lunch'"
Comments: Norio Akashi (University of Tsukuba)


12:30-14:00  Group Meetings

1. Asian American Studies (Daizaburo Yui, Chair)
2. Universities in the U.S. (Sanehide Kodama, Chair)
3. Blacks in the American Continent (Shinobu Uesugi, Chair)
4. U.S. Women's History, Gender Studies (Fusako Ogata, Chair)
5. Japan-U.S. Relations (Kazumi Fujimoto, Chair)
6. American Studies Textbooks (Shigeki Yano, Chair)
7. American Politics (Shigehiro Yuasa, Chair)
8. Early America (Naoki Onishi, Chair)
14:20-16:50  Session C: "American Society and the New Media"
 
Chair:  Motoo Sakurai (Taisho University)
Papers:
Naoto Okude (Keio University)
"American Dream and Cyberspace: On the Homestead Act on the Digital Frontier"

Masashi Shimakawa (Rikkyo Jogakuin Junior College)
"The Internet as a People's Media"

Yoneyuki Sugita (Osaka University of Foreign Studies)
"Impact of the Information Revolution on American Medical Care Systems"


14:20-16:50  Session D: "Multiculturalism and American Literature"
 

Chair: Yoshiko Takita (University of Tokyo)
Papers:
Nobuo Kamioka (Meiji University)
 "On Recent Novels"

Tadashi Uchino (University of Tokyo)
"The Horizon of Queer Politics: The 'Bodies' of Tim Miller and Karen Finley"

Junko Furomoto (Nara Women's University)
"Old Women of the Caribbean"
Comments: Kazuko Takemura (Ochanomizu University)


14:20-16:50  ** Workshop B: "Globalization and American Studies:Gender"
 

Chair: Natsuki Aruga (Saitama University)


Papers:

Beth Bailey (University of New Mexico)
"Gender and the Globalization of American Studies"

Yuko Takahashi (Tsuda College)
"Gendered Americanization: The First Japanese Women Students in the U.S. and 'Civilization'"

Hoonsung Hwang (Dongguk University)
"Three Fragile Females' Suicidal Gesture to Shatter the Male Mirror: A Postcolonial Reading of
Machinal, The Debutante Ball, and Sarita"

Keiko Ikeda (Doshisha University)
"De-centering America in American Studies"
 


 
 
 
 
 

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