The Japanese Association for American Studies

THE JAPANESE ASSOCIATION FOR AMERICAN STUDIES

THE 36th ANNUAL MEETING, JUNE 1-2, 2002

 

FRONT PAGE


 

SCHEDULE OF SESSIONS AND EVENTS

 

Meiji University

Surugadai Campus, Liberty Tower

1-1 Kanda Surugadai, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 101-8301

Professor HAYASHI, Yoshikatsu, Faculty of Arts and Letters

 

The annual meeting of this year has ended successfully. The 37th annual meeting will be on May 31-June 1, 2003, in Kobe University.

 

 

**presentations in English

 

June 1, Saturday

 

Timing of speakers for Presentation of Papers sessions

1st speaker       10:00 〜 10:35        2nd speaker      10:40 〜 11:15

3rd speaker      11:20 〜 11:55        4th speaker      12:00 〜 12:35

 

Presentation of papers A (Room 1106, 10th floor)

 

Chair: KUMEI, Teruko (Shirayuri College)

ARAKI, Wakako (Hitotsubashi Univ., Graduate Student)             “The Freedmen’s Bureau and its Project on Education: The Case of Port Royal, South Carolina, and its Environs”

NAKASHIMA, Tomoko (Univ. of Tokyo, Graduate Student) “The Vogue for Things Japanese in the American Decorative Arts in the Last Quarter of the Nineteenth Century”

ORIHARA, Junichi (Chiba Univ., Graduate Student) “The Americanization of “Aliens Ineligible to Citizenship”: Japanese Immigrants and the Commission of Immigration and Housing of California

YANAGISAWA, Ikumi T. (Aichi-Gakuin Univ., Graduate Research Student) “Details of the Prohibition of So-Called ‘Picture Bride’ Immigrants: A Study from Diplomatic Papers”

 

 

Presentation of papers B (Room 1113, 11th floor)

 

Chair: HAYASHI, Yoshikatsu (Meiji Univ.)

YOSHINAGA, Keiichiro (Niigata Univ.) “John Dewey on Higher Education”

HISHIDA, Sachiko (Univ. of Tsukuba, Graduate Student) “The Representation of Rosa Lee Ingram in the African American Women’s

Activities to Free the Ingrams”

KIM, Minsoo (Univ. Of Tokyo, Graduate Student) “The Pacific Pact and the Korea-U.S.-Japan Relationship”

LEE, Rika (Hitotsubashi Univ., Graduate Student)  “Rethinking Korean American Ethnicity: Korean American Studies in the 1970s-1990s”

 

 

Presentation of papers C (Room 1114, 11th floor)

 

Chair: UCHINO, Tadashi (Univ. of Tokyo)

YASUDA, Tsutomu (Meiji Univ., Graduate Student) “A Dark Satyr in a Mask: Melville’s “Benito Cereno” and Chivalry”

TSUNEYAMA, Nahoko (Keio Univ.) “Why did She Play Romeo on the 19th Century American Stage?”

TAKAHASHI, Yuichiro (Dokkyo Univ.) “The Shifting Perspectives of Performance Studies”

 

 

Presentation of papers D (Room 1116, 11thfloor)

 

Chair: IGAWA, Masago (Tohoku Univ.)

NAKAMURA, Yoshio (Kansai Univ.) “Race and Mass Culture: The Eyes of Henry James as a Fin-de-Siècle Writer”

NAKAGAKI, Kotaro (Waseda Univ.) “Columbus and The Year of 1492 in Mark Twain’s Historical Romances”

ISHIHARA, Tsuyoshi (Univ. of Texas, Graduate Student) “Ken Burns’s Mark Twain”

William Clark (Temple Univ. Japan) “Carlos Bulosan and the Immigrant Jeremiad”

 

 

12:45-13:40 Lunch/Outgoing Board and Trustees Meeting (Research Bldg, 4th Floor,

Conference Room 1)

 

 

13:50-14:50 **Presidential Addresses (Liberty Hall, Liberty Tower 1st floor, Room 1013)

Chair: NAGATA, Toyoomi (Ritsumeikan Univ.)

George J. SANCHEZ (Univ. of Southern California)

“Race and Immigration in Changing Communities of the United States”

SHINKAWA, Kensaburo (Ferris Univ.)

“A New Social Frame of Reference for American Studies”

 

 

15:30-18:00 Symposium: (Liberty Hall, Liberty Tower 1st floor, Room 1013)

“The New International Crisis and the United States: Lessons from the Terrorist Incidents of September 11, 2001”

 

Chair: YUI, Daizaburo (Univ. of Tokyo)

Comments: FURUYA, Jun (Hokkaido Univ.)

YAMAUCHI, Masayuki (Univ. of Tokyo)

            “The Islamic World and the United States”

KOKUBUN, Ryosei (Keio Univ.)

            “US-China Relations after September 11, 2001”

MORI, Koichi (Doshisha Univ.)

           “Has America's Civil Religion Changed?”

SHIMOKOBE, Michiko (Seikei Univ.)

            “Rhetorical Americanism: Hegemony and Memory”

 

18:10-20:00 Reception (Liberty Tower 23rd floor)

 

 

June 2, Sunday

 

Session A  “Paradigm Shift in American Politics?” (9:30-12:00, Room 1103, 10th floor)

 

Chair: SUNADA, Ichiro (Gakushuin Univ.)

HIROSE, Junko (National Diet Library)

“Party Politics in the U.S. Congress”

NAKANO, Hirofumi (Kitakyushu Univ.)

“The Liberal Tradition in 20th Century American Politics”

TOYONAGA, Ikuko (Kyushu Univ.)

“Globalization and the Future of American Political Society: The Rise of a New Global Strategy in the U.S. Government and its Implications”

 

 

Session BReexamination of Slavery in the American South”

(9:30-12:00, Room 1123, 12th floor)

 

Chair: AKIMOTO, Eiichi (Chiba Univ.)

SHIBUYA, Akihiko (Tokushima Bunri Univ.)

“The Traditional Interpretation of Slavery vs. Time on the Cross” 

NUMAOKA, TsutomuNiigata Sangyo Univ.

“The Plantation Management Techniques of Josiah Collins III, A North Carolina Corn Planter”

YAGYU, TomokoUniv. of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Graduate Student

“Slave Traders in the Old South: The Case of Rice C. Ballard “

 

 

** Workshop ATechnology and Society” (9:30-12:00, Room 1126, 12th floor)

 

Chair/Comments: OSHIO, Kazuto (Japan Women's Univ.)

Joshua BROWN (City Univ. of New York)

“From the Illustrated Newspaper to Cyberspace: Visual Technologies and Interaction in the 19th and 21st Centuries”

HASHIMOTO, Takehiko (Univ. of Tokyo)

“The Legacy of Efficiency: Standardization and American Society in the 19th and 20th Centuries”

SUGITA, Yoneyuki (Osaka Univ. of Foreign Languages)

“Information Technology and Modern Scientific Thought in American Healthcare”

 

 

12:10-12:50          Lunch/Incoming Board Meeting (Research Bldg., 4th Floor, Conference

Room 1)

 

13:00-13:30  General Assembly (Room 1123, 12th floor)

 

 

Session C “New York-ness in American Culture” (13:40-16:10, Room 1103, 10th floor)

 

Chair: KAMIOKA, Nobuo (Meiji Univ.)

SAITO, EijiMeiji Univ.)

“Movie-Made New York”

SASAME, KiyomiTokyo Woman's Christian Univ.

“Being a Woman, Jewish and a New Yorker”

TOTANI, YokoToyoko Gakuen Women’s College

“Disneyfication of New 42nd Street Broadway, Off- and Off-Off-Broadway Theaters after 1990”

IKUI, Eikoh (Kyoritsu Women's Univ.)

“Photographing Trauma: September 11th and the Cultural Consciousness of New York City “

 

 

Session D “Progressivism Revisited” (13:40-16:10, Room 1123, 12th floor)

 

Chair: MATSUMOTO, Yuko (Chuo Univ.)

Comments: TAKAI, Yukari (Sapporo International Univ.)

UENO, Tsuguyoshi (Kyoto Sangyo Univ.)

“Human Engineers and Labor Reform: The Emergence of a New Professional-Managerial Class, 1911-1923

HIRATAI, Yumi (Sapporo Gakuin Univ.)

“ Child Labor Regulations as a Thorny Issue on Federalism

MATSUBARA, Hiroyuki (Yokohama Kokuritsu Univ.)

“Thinking Political Culture: An Approach to the Age of Reform”

 

 

**Workshop B  “Citizenship and Participation” (13:40-16:10, Room 1126, 12th floor)

 

Chair/Comments: KUBO, Fumiaki (Keio Univ.)

Jane DESMOND (Univ. of Iowa)

“Performativity and the Limits of Citizenship: Performing Sexuality in the Public Sphere”

ABE, Juri (Rikkyo Univ.)

“It is a Good Day to Die: Native American Warrior Tradition Incorporated into American Wars”

ORUI, Hisae (Jyosai Kokusai Univ.)

“Beyond the Triple Melting Pot: African American Muslims Defined in the Moorish Science Temple of America, the Ahmadiyya Movement, and the Nation of Islam “

JEONG, Sangjun (Seoul National Univ.)

“Consumption Communities and Consumer Citizenship”

 

 

16:20-17:10 Caucus Meetings

 

1. Immigration and Ethnicity (NOMURA, Tatsuro, Chair) Room 1112, 11th floor

2. Cold War Studies (KAN, Hideki, Chair) Room 1117, 11th floor

3. Asian American Studies (KOBAYASHI, Fukuko, Chair) Room 1118, 11th floor

4. American Politics (YUASA, Shigehiro, Chair) Room 1121, 12th floor

5. Japan-U.S. Relations (KAWAKAMI,Takashi, Chair) Room 1122, 12th floor

6. U.S. Economy and Economic History (KATO, Kazusei, Chair) Room 1127, 12th floor)

7. U.S. Women's History, Gender Studies (OGATA, Fusako, Chair) Room 1128, 12th floor) 

 

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