May 31, Saturday
Timing of speakers for Presentation of Papers sessions
| 1st speaker 10:00 - 10:30 |
2nd speaker 10:30 - 1:00 |
| 3rd speaker 11:00 - 11:30 |
4th speaker 11:30 - 12:00 |
Presentation of Papers A (Room K301)
Chair: Naoki Onishi (International Christian Univ.)
| Masami Usui (Doshisha Univ.) |
"Victoria N. Kneubuhlfs Search for Local Drama in Contemporary Hawai'i" |
| **Wuming Zhao (Doshisha Univ., Graduate Student) |
"Cross-Class Gender Relationship in
Pretty Woman and Keshin "
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| **Joshua Paul Dale (Tokyo Gakugei Univ.) |
"Living Under a Cloud: The Mushroom Cloud Logo of an American High School"
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| **Patrick O'Brien (Hokkai Gakuen Univ.) |
"American Culture and the Image of the Airplane"
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PRESENTATION OF PAPERS B (Room K302)
Chair: Norio Akashi (Tsukuba Univ.)
| **David Zmijewski (Baika Womenfs College) |
"The Frontier of the Southwestern Humorists:
A Gender and Racial Wasteland" |
| Yoriko Ishida (Oshima National College of Maritime Technology) |
"Is the Jefferson-Hemings Affair True? --
A Difference in the Opinion of the Thomas Jefferson Foundation
and the Thomas Jefferson Heritage Society" |
| Noriko Ishiyama (Japan Womenfs Univ.) |
"American-Indian Tribes and Radioactive Waste Storage:
Struggles for Environmental Justice " |
PRESENTATION OF PAPERS C (Room K401)
Chair: Miwako Hirata (Musashi Univ.)
| Kaori Mori (Shibaura Institute of Technology) |
"Diaspora and America:
The Transformation of American Voices" |
| Go Oyagi (The Univ. of Tokyo, Graduate Student) |
"The Genesis and Development of the Japanese American Redress Movement" |
| Hiromi Kobayashi (Keio Univ., Graduate Student) |
"Public Education for Limited English Proficiency Students
in the Los Angeles Unified School District" |
| Kazuyuki Sugawara (Keio Univ., Graduate Student) |
"Urban Reform and Machine Politics in the Early 20th Century:
Civil Service Reform in New York City" |
PRESENTATION OF PAPERS D (Room K201)
Chair: Shigehiro Yuasa (Tokyo Woman's Christian Univ.)
| Shoko Kiyohara (Keio Univ., Graduate Student) |
"The Activities of Public Interest Groups
in the Telecommunications Policymaking Process in the High-Tech Age:
The Policy Process of the E-rate" |
| Takakazu Yamagishi (Johns Hopkins Univ., Graduate Student) |
"Why did the War on Poverty "fail"
-- Political Time and Presidential Leadership" |
| Taku Amano (Keio Univ., Graduate Student ) |
"The Transformation of Interest Group Politics
in Contemporary U.S. Health Policy" |
PRESENTATION OF PAPERS E (Room K202)
Chair: Kikuyo Tanaka (Kwansei Gakuin Univ.)
| Mariko Kurosawa (Senshu Univ.) |
"Rural Cemeteries in the West:
Transformation in the Picturesque Landscape" |
| Kei Tanaka (Nigata Univ.) |
"Photography and Boundaries of Race and Gender:
Japanese Picture Marriage in Early Twentieth Century Californiah |
| Toru Suzuki (Keio Univ.) |
"The Birth of Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument:
Deconstruction of the Custer Myth and Reconstruction of
Public Memory in Contemporary America" |
13:45-14:30 **Presidential Address (Room B110)
Chair: Toyoomi Nagata (Ritsumeikan Univ.)
| ASA President, Stephen H. Sumida (Univ. of Washington) |
"America at War Again: Issues of Ethnicity and Unity" |
14:40-17:30 SYMPOSIUM (Room B110)
"Aspects of Anti-Americanism"
Chair: Fumiko Fujita (Tsuda College)
| Jong Won Lee (Rikkyo University) |
"Democracy and Anti-Americanism: The Case of South Koreah |
| Hiroko Yotsunoya (Teikyo Univ.) |
"Resistance from the Backyard: The Case of Latin America" |
| Osamu Nishitani (Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies) |
"Marking the Stranger: Who Pretends to Be Whole" |
| Comment: Reiji Matsumoto (Waseda Univ.) |
17:40-19:30 Reception (University Co-op Main Dining Room)
June 1, Sunday
Session A (9:30-12:00, Room K202)
"Issues Facing American Studies in Japan"
Chair: Natsuki Aruga (Saitama Univ.)
| Eikoh Ikui (Kyoritsu Womenfs Univ.) |
"On Art History/Visual Culture" |
| Fumiko Nishizaki (Seikei Univ.) |
"Approches to American Foreign Policy" |
| Yuko Matsumoto (Chuo Univ.) |
"Beyond Exceptionalism? --
From The Viewpoint of Social History" |
| Yasuo Endo (The Univ. of Tokyo) |
American Studies since the 1950s:
What Do We Teach and Study, and Why? "
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| Comments: Daizaburo Yui (The Univ. of Tokyo),
Kazuto Oshio (Japan Women's Univ.) |
Session B (9:30-12:00, Room K201)
"Gender and American Economic History"
Chair: Eiichi Akimoto (Chiba Univ.)
| Yukako Hisada (Nagano Prefectural College) |
"Fertility Decline and the Transformation of Household Economy
in the Nineteenth-Century American North" |
| Chitose Sato (Seinan Gakuin Univ.) |
"'Feminization of the Labor Force'
in the Postwar American Economy" |
| Chieko Otsuji (Tsuru Univ.) |
"The 1996 Welfare Law in the United States:
Families, Poverty, and Race" |
**Workshop A (9:30-12:00, Room K301)
"Language and Power"
Chair and Comment: Minako Baba (Kwansei Gakuin Univ.)
| Carla Kaplan (Univ. of Southern California) |
"Taxonomic Fever:
Modernist Lessons for Challenging the New Racism" |
| Yasuhiro Katagiri (Tokai Univ.) |
"Presidential Rhetoric, Federal Power, and Black Empowerment:
John F. Kennedy in the Face of the South's Second Reconstruction" |
| Min-Jung Kim (Ewha Womanfs Univ.) |
"Language, the University, and American Studies in Korea" |
| Naoko Sugiyama (Saitama Univ.) |
"Maternal Discourse and Material Power
in Maxine Hong Kingston's
Tripmaster Monkey: His Fake Book " |
Session C (14:10-16:40, Room K202)
"The 'American Holocaust' and Literature"
| Chair/Presenter: Kenji Kobayashi (Rikkyo Univ.) |
"Manifest Destiny --
"Imperialism" and the American Renaissance" |
| Keijiro Suga (Meiji Univ.) |
"Five Hundred Years of Destruction:
Reading the Almanac of the Dead" |
| Konomi Ara (Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies) |
"American Holocaust in Toni Morrison's
Beloved " |
| Yoichiro Miyamoto (Meiji Univ.) |
"Cavalry Films and the American Holocaust:
From December 7th to September 11th" |
Session D (14:10-16:40, Room K201)
"International Comparisons of Populism"
Chair: Ryo Yokoyama (Kobe Univ.)
| Hiroshi Matsushita (Kobe Univ.) |
"Populism and Neo-populism in Latin America:
Changes in Analytic Framework" |
| Hiroaki Hasumi (Keisen Univ.) |
"The Resurgence of Populism in the Present-day United States" |
| Toru Takenaka (Osaka Univ.) |
"Populism in European History" |
| Comment: Hiroshi Okayama (The Univ. of Tokyo) |
**Workshop B (14:10-16:40, Room K301)
"Patriotism, Old and New"
Chair/Comment: Takeshi Matsuda (Osaka Univ. of Foreign Studies)
| Ramon Saldivar (Stanford University) |
"Globalization, the Post-War Transnational and Cultural Citizenship" |
| Toshihiro Minohara (Kobe Univ.) |
"The Influence of Patriotism upon American Foreign Policy" |
| Yujin Yaguchi (The Univ. of Tokyo) |
"Transnational Memories at Pearl Harbor" |
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