The Japanese Association for American Studies
JAAS: 38TH ANNUAL MEETING (JUNE 5-6, 2004)
SCHEDULE OF SESSIONS AND EVENTS
Japan Womens University
2-8-1 Mejirodai, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 112-8681
Contact: Professor Noriko Shimada
Tel/Fax: 03-5981-3556 e-mail: shimada@fc.jwu.ac.jp
**presentations in English
June 5, Saturday
Presentation of Papers sessions
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 (Hyakunenkan, Room 506)
| Chair |
Kazuko Takemura (Ochanomizu Univ.) |
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** Mikiko Tachi (Univ. of Tokyo) |
"Folk Music as a Cultural Site of Negotiation:
A Study of the Folk Music Community in Ithaca, New York,
1950s to the Present" |
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** Sheila Hones (Univ. of Tokyo), Julia Leyda (Hokkaido Univ.) |
"Geographies of American Studies" |
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Eimi Ozawa (Univ. of Tokyo, Graduate Student) |
"Body Phantoms: Spectacular Bodies in the American Female Gothic" |
PRESENTATION OF PAPERS B (Hyakunenkan, Room 505)
| Chair |
Eiichi Akimoto (Chiba Univ.) |
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Yoshio Nakamura (Nagaoka Univ. of Technology) |
"The Encounter of Literary Text with Visual Media:
Nineteenth-Century American Writers and Photography" |
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Asako Nobuoka (Univ. of Tokyo, Graduate Student) |
"Photographing Wildnessf:
Wildlife Photography in the Discourse of American Environmentalism" |
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Akiyo Nishimura (Yokohama City Univ.) |
"King Lear's Choice: Man and Nature in Jane Smiley's A Thousand Acres"
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Yasukichi Yasuba (Osaka Gakuin Univ.) |
"Is the Land Availability Thesis Still Valid for Explaining
the High and Declining White Fertility Ratio in the United States, 1800-1860" |
PRESENTATION OF PAPERS C (Hyakunenkan, Room 504)
| Chair |
Shiro Yamada (Doshisha Univ.) |
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Takafumi Ishikawa (Hokkaido Univ., Graduate Student) |
"Negotiations for Dissolving the Franco-American Alliance
and the Emergence of Presidential Power" |
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Kumiko Koyama (Nagasaki Univ.) |
"A Reappraisal of the 1930 Smoot-Hawley Tariff Act" |
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Toru Shinoda (Waseda Univ.) |
"History Matters: A Factor in the Revitalization of the
U.S. Labor Movement since the 1990s." |
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Masaru Nishikawa (Keio Univ., Graduate Student) |
"Vote Canvassing and Pork Barrel Politics in 1930's America:
Analyzing the 1932 Democratic Pre-Convention Campaign" |
PRESENTATION OF PAPERS D (Hyakunenkan, Room 507)
| Chair |
Konomi Ara (Tokyo Univ. of Foreign Studies) |
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Kazumi Goshima (Waseda Univ., Graduate Student) |
"The Eyes of Africa American Women Writers in the 1980s
on the Caribbean" |
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Keiko Araki (Keio Univ., Graduate Student) |
"The Garvey Movement during the Early 20th Century:
Its Internationalization beyond Pan-Africanism" |
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Shigeyoshi Yasutomi (Kaetsu Univ.) |
"War Brides and the Japanese Community: Acceptance of War Brides" |
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Yuriko Watanabe (Univ. of California, San Diego, Graduate Student) |
"Laurie AndersonUs Performance Art in the 1980s" |
13:50-15:20 **Presidential Address (Naruse Memorial Auditorium)
| Chair |
Daizaburo Yui (Univ. of Tokyo) |
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ASA President, Amy Kaplan (Univ. of Pennsylvania) |
"Violent Belongings and the Question of Empire Today" |
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JAAS President, Toyoomi Nagata (Ritsumeikan Univ.) |
"American Studies and I" |
15:30-18:00 SYMPOSIUM (Naruse Memorial Auditorium)
"War and American Society"
| Chair/Comments |
Eiichi Akimoto (Chiba Univ.) |
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Nagako Sugimori (Japan Womens Univ.) |
"From the Standpoint of the Peace Movement" |
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Takeshi Igarashi (Univ. of Tokyo) |
"Pax Americana and its New Challenges |
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Kiyohiko Murayama (Tokyo Metropolitan Univ.) |
"'The Good War' and American Writers:
From the Spanish Civil War to WWII" |
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Mitsuhiro Wada (Nagoya Univ.) |
"The Revolutionary War Revisited" |
18:20-20:30 Reception (Ofukan 4th Floor)
June 6, Sunday
Session A (9:30-12:00, Hyakunenkan, Room 505)
"The American Presidency Today"
| Chair |
Fumiaki Kubo (Univ. of Tokyo) |
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Takuya Sasaki (Rikkyo Univ.) |
"The Presidency and Modern American Diplomacy" |
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Eiji Saito (Meiji Univ.) |
"Hollywood and Washington" |
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Keiko Nitta (Hitotsubashi Univ.) |
"Hidden Faces of Adam: The Representation of 'Passing' U.S. Presidents" |
| Comments |
Ichiro Sunada (Gakushuin Univ.) |
Session B (9:30-12:00, Hyakunenkan, Room 504)
"Literature and the Idea of American Empire"
| Chair/Presenter |
Hisao Fukushi (Chuo Univ.) |
"How is Melville's Moby-Dick
'a wicked book'? " |
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Kiyomi Sasame (Tokyo Womans Christian Univ.) |
"A Community Seen through the Eyes of Women" |
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Eiko Owada (Waseda Univ.) |
"Faulkner, Modernism, Imperialism" |
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Yutaka Okazaki (Nihon Fukushi Univ.) |
Saul Bellow and Reality in America |
**Workshop A (9:30-12:00, Hyakunenkan, Room 506)
"Transmission of Culture(s)"
| Chair |
Hisako Yanaka (Kyoritsu Womens Univ.) |
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Johathan Auerbach (Univ. of Maryland) |
"Film and American Culture Before Hollywood" |
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Hideyo Konagaya (Siebold Univ. of Nagasaki) |
"Folk Traditions in Japantown:
Transmission, Emergence and Performance" |
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Rui Kohiyama (Tokyo Womans Christian Univ.) |
"Transmitting American College Womanhood to Japan:
A Case of Tokyo Woman's Christian University" |
| Comments |
Kwang-Sook Chung (Sookmyung Women's Univ.) |
Session C (14:10-16:40, Hyakunenkan, Room 505)
"What Does 'Native' Mean?"
| Chair |
Yasuo Endo (Univ. of Tokyo) |
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Juri Abe (Rikkyo Univ.) |
"Reinventing Native American Identity" |
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Hiroshi Tsunematsu (Kyoto Women's University) |
"Nativity as Citizenship: Politics and Nationality in America
at the Turn of the 20th Century" |
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Yasuko Takezawa (Kyoto Univ.) |
"'Native' and Race |
| Comments |
Yo Usuki (National Museum of Ethnology) |
Session D (14:10-16:40, Hyakunenkan, Room 504)
"150 Years of Japan-US Relations"
| Chair |
Yoshiko Takita (Univ. of Tokyo) |
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| Yuko Takahashi (Tsuda College) |
"A History of U.S.-Japanese Cultural Exchange
and Representations of Gender" |
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Yoshikatsu Hayashi (Meiji Univ.) |
"A Hundred-Fifty Years of Japanese-American Relations
from the Viewpoint of American Scholars" |
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Osamu Ishii (Meiji Gakuin Univ.) |
"Economic Aspects of Japan-U.S. Relations" |
| Comments |
Daizaburo Yui (Univ. of Tokyo) |
** Workshop B (14:10-16:40, Hyakunenkan, Room 506)
"Gateless or Gated? New Social Stratification in American Society"
| Chair |
Kohei Kawashima (Musashi Univ.) |
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Marita Sturken (Univ. of Southern California) |
"The Selling of Preparedness:
American Society in the New Age of Terror" |
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Jo-Young Shin (Daejin Univ.) |
"The New Class Dimensions in American Society
Made Visible by the Amherst School" |
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Natsuki Aruga (Saitama Univ.) |
"America Divided: Residential Segregation during
World War II and Now |
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Yoshiko Terao (Univ. of Tokyo) |
"Choosing Your Neighbor: How the Legal System Enables
Americans to Decide Whom to Live With"
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The Japanese Association for American Studies
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Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, University of Tokyo
3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
Tel. & Fax +81-3-5454-6163
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