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THE
JAPANESE ASSOCIATION FOR AMERICAN STUDIES THE
34th ANNUAL MEETING, JUNE 3-4, 2000 |
THE 34th ANNUAL MEETING, JUNE 3-4,
2000
The annual meeting of this year has ended successfully. The 35th annual meeting will be on June 2-3, 2001, in Aichi Prefectural University.
Place: Tezukayama University (7-1-1, Tezukayama, Nara-shi 631-8501)
Contact: Tezukayama University Cultural Sciences Department
June 3
(Saturday)
10:00-12:10 Presentation of Papers A (Rm.
J101)
Chair: Masugi Shimada (Kyoto
University)
Papers:
Yumi Hiratai (Sapporo Gauin University)
“The US Federal System and the Problem of National Evils”
Masayosi Matsumura (Nihon University)
“Public Opinion in US Diplomacy: The Case of the Zimmermann Telegram”
Kaoru Kojima (Keio University)
“NATO’s Multilateral Nuclear Strategy: The Issue of Control”
Yasukichi Yasuba (Osaka Gakuin University)
“Reevaluating Reaganomics”
10:00-12:10 Presentation of Papers B (Rm.
J102)
Chair: Sanehide Kodama (Doshisha Women’s
University)
Papers:
Yorimitsu Hashimoto (Lancaster University)
“The ‘Yellow Peril’ in Jack London’s ‘The Unparalleled Invasion’ and Its Historical Position”
Joshua Dale
(Tokyo Gakugei University)
**”Reeling through the Ginza: Castration and Complicity in Cross-Cultural Relations”
Hideyo Konagaya (Siebold University of
Nagasaki)
“Taiko Performance: The Japan Cultural Arts Center in Los Angeles and Public Folklore”
Nobuo Kazashi (Hiroshima City University)
“The Prophetic Pragmatism of Cornel West: Public Happiness and the Tragic”
10:00-12:10 Presentation of Papers C (Rm.
J103)
Chair: Hiroshi Tsunematsu (Kyoto Women’s
Univeristy)
Papers:
Keiko Araki (Keio University)
“The Garvey Movement as an International Social Movement: Issues Surrounding the ‘Back to Africa’ Campaign”
Naoko Masuda (University of Tsukuba)
“The Return from the Concentration Camp: The ‘Reconstruction’ of Japanese Americans”
Miya Suga (International Christian University)
“Examining the Immigration Law Reform Process, 1952-1965”
10:00-12:10 Presentation of Papers D (Rm.
J104)
Chair: Ken Chujo (Obirin
University)
Papers:
Sachiko Hishida (University of Tsukuba)
“Strategies of Black Women in Support Activities for the Rosa Lee Ingram Trial of 1948”
Sumiko Fujikura (Poole Galuin University)
“The Image of the American Family as I Saw It”
Tsuyako Nakamura (Doshisha University)
“Women’s Labor in the US and the Corporate Childcare System”
12:30-13:20 Lunch/Outgoing Board and
Trustees Meeting (3F Large Conference Room)
13:30-15:00 **Presidential Addresses (Rm.
J202)
Mary C. Kelley (ASA President, Dartmouth
College)
“Taking Stands: American Studies at Century’s End”
Hiroko Sato (JAAS President, Tokyo Women’s Christian
University)
“Looking at the United States from Two Dimensions of ‘Otherness’”
Chair: Kensaburo Shinkawa (Ferris University)
15:10-17:40 Symposium: “East Asia and the
US: From Initial Encounters into the Future” (Rm.
J202)
Chair: Eisaku Kihira (Kyoto
University)
Panelists:Yasuo Endo (University of
Tokyo)
“Gazing at the Pacific”
Satoshi Nakano
(Hitotsubashi University)
“Democracy and the Perception of the Other: The US Political Debate on the Philippines”
Zhu Jie
(Doshisha Women’s College of Liberal Arts)
“America as Viewed from China: From Documents of the Mid-Nineteenth Century”
Izumi Hirobe (Nagoya
University)
“East Asia as Viewed from America: The Initial Encounters”
18:00-20:00 Reception (Student Hall
“Mahoroba”)
June 6
(Sunday)
9:50-12:20 Session A: "School, Family,
and Community in the United States" (Rm. J108)
Chair: Shigeo Fujimoto (Tezukayama
University)
Papers:
Setsuko Miyai (Toyo Gakuen University)
“The ‘Educational’ Philosophy and Activities of the Abolitionists: Children, Race, and Character”
Toshiyuki Omomo (Tohoku
University)
“The Development of the Autonomous Individual and Religious Diversity: One Aspect of Conflicts From the Post-bellum to the End of the Nineteenth Century”
Yumi Tsuboi (Aichi University of
Education)
“Educational Reform and the Development of School-Regional Communities in Chicago During the 1980s and 90s”
Comments: Masako (Sasamoto) Nakamura
(Obirin University)
9:50-12:20 Session B: "War an the US in
the Post Cold War Era" (Rm. J109)
Chair: Daizaburo Yui (University of
Tokyo)
Papers:
Hiroshi Matsuoka (University of Tsukuba)
“The Vietnam Syndrome Today”
Junko Nishikawa (Dokkyo University)
“The US Military Industry after the Cold War”
Tetsuya Umemoto (University of Shizuoka)
“Missile Defense and Arms Management”
Comments: Fumiko Nishizaki (Seikei
Univeristy)
Haruya Anami
(Aichi Prefectural University)
9:50-12:20 **Workshop A: "Globanization
and American Studies: Community" (Rm. J110)
Chair: Yasuo Okada (Keio
University)
Papers:
Robert Dawidoff (Claremont Graduate University)
“’Gay’ Men and the Formation of American Ideas of Community”
Kohei Kawashima (Musashi University)
“The Changing Role and Meaning of Class/Ethnic Boundaries in an Anglo Saxon Upper-Class Community: The Case of Boston Back Bay, 1850-1932”
Naoki Onishi (International Christian
University)
“Origin and Myth-making of American Community: John Winthrop’s ‘City upon a Hill’ Reconsidered”
Youn-Jin Kim (Dankook University)
“Toward the Creation of the Asian American Community: Pan Asianism in the 1960s and 70s”
12:30-13:20 Lunch/Incoming Board and
Trustees Meeting (3F Large Conference Room)
13:20-13:50 General Assembly (Rm.
J202)
14:00-16:30 Session C: "Women and Social
Reform" (Rm. J109)
Chair: Yoko Shirai (Tokyo International
University)
Papers:
Rui Kohiyama (Tokyo Woman’s Christian
University)
“From Ecumenism to Internationalism: Establishing and Supporting Seven Women’s Christian Universities in Asia”
Rumi Yasutake (California State University, Long
Beach)
“Opportunism as a Strategy: The Social Reform Movement of the Women’s Christian Temperance Union”
Fusako Ogata (Tezukayama University)
“Reforming American Academic Organizations Through US Women’s History and Gender Studies”
Comments: ** Ellen C. DuBois (University
of California, Los Angeles)
14:00-16:30 Session D: "Diaspora and
American Literature" (Rm. J110)
Chair: Fukuko Kobayashi (Waseda
University)
Papers:
Minako Baba (Kwansei Gakuin University)
“Diaspora, Holocaust, and Israel in Jewish American Literature”
Naoko Sugiyama (Saitama University)
“Diaspora as a Story: African American Writers’ Paradise”
Teruyo Ueki (Kobe Women’s University)
“The Hybridization of American Literature: Consequences of the Asian Diaspora”
Comments: Yoshiyuki Kido (Chiba
University)
14:00-16:30 ** Workshop B: "Globalization
and American Studies: Art and Culture” (Rm. L305)
Chair: Shinichi Shigihara (Tezukayama
University)
Papers:
Kyoko Nozaki (Kyoto Sangyo University)
“’Just Like Sunshine, Like Moon(light)’: The Life of Matsumi Kanemitsu, a Kibei Artist”
Michele Bogart (State University of New York, Stony
Brook)
“Norman Rockwell, Commercial Artist”
Eiko Ikui (Kyoritsu Women’s University)
“’Why Have There Been So Many Great Women Photographers?’: Photography and the Status of Art in the Nineteenth Century”
Comments: Atsushi Yoshida (Washington
University)
14:00-16:30 Caucus
Meetings
1. Universities in the US (Sanehide
Kodama, Chair) Rm. J101
2. Teaching American Studies (Shigeki
Yano, Chair) Rm. J102
3. Japan-US Relations (Kazumi Fujimoto,
Chair) Rm. J103
4. Early America (Naoki Onishi, Chair)
Rm. J104
5. Asian American Studies (Fukuko
Kobayashi, Chair) Rm. J105
6. US Economy and Economic History
(Eiichi Akimoto, Chair) Rm. J106
7. US Women’s History, Gender Studies
(Fusako Ogata, Chair) Rm. J107
8. Blacks in the American Continent
(Yasumasa Fujinaga, Chair) Rm. J108
9. American Politics (Shigeo Yuasa,
Chair) Rm. J109
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