Schedule
FRIDAY
OPENING REMARKS (2:00-2:10p)
Prof. Dana Buntrock, CJS Director
TRANSNATIONAL BODIES (2:10-3:40p)
Discussant: Prof. Mary Elizabeth Berry, UC Berkeley
- James Stone Lunde, UC Berkeley: Treating the Enemy, Healing the Scars: Japanese Medical Conscripts of the Chinese People's Liberation Army, 1945-1958
- Ariko Shari Ikehara, UC Berkeley: Okinawa’s America: Mixed Life and Language
- Natalia Duong, UC Berkeley: Exposing Agent Orange: Việt, Đức, and Transnational Repair
BREAK (3:40-4:00p)
KEYNOTE TALK (4:00-5:30p)
Prof. Noriko Horiguchi, University of Tennessee
Devouring Body of Empire: Eating the Other in Modern Japanese Narratives
RECEPTION (5:30-6:30p)
SATURDAY
MODERNIZING BODIES (9:30-11:00a)
Discussant: Prof. Sabine Fruhstuck, UC Santa Barbara
- Kerry Shannon, UC Berkeley: Hygiene for the Masses: Public Health and Local Praxis in Meiji Japan
- Sayaka Mihara, Keio University: Vitalism and Technology for Babies in Modernizing Japan
- Lani Alden, University of Colorado at Boulder: Building Modern Women: Fukuzawa Yukichi's Dialogues with Naturalism and Gender Equality
BREAK (11:00-11:20a)
ABSENT BODIES (11:20-12:50p)
Discussant: Prof. Noriko Horiguchi, University of Tennessee
- Lisa Reade, UC Berkeley: The Ephemerality of the Dialectic: Lafcadio Hearn's Kokoro as Transnational Love Story
- Kanako Shimizu, Jichi Medical University: Pathological Bereavement in Japan
- Mariko Takano, UCLA: Anti-life Discourse by Hanada Kiyoteru
BREAK (12:50-2:00p)
MILLENNIAL BODIES (2:00-3:30p)
Discussant: Prof. John Lie, UC Berkeley
- Shelby Oxenford, UC Berkeley: Disastrous Bodies: The Unmaking and Remaking of the Post-3.11 World in Kawakami Mieko’s “March Yarn”
- Shoan Yin Cheung, Cornell University: A Therapeutic for a New Millennium: The Birth Control Pill as “Medicine” in Contemporary Japan
- John Mark Wiginton University of Michigan: The Fire across the River: HIV/AIDS in Japan
BREAK (3:30-3:50p)
PERFORMING BODIES (3:50-5:20p)
Discussant: Prof. Joseph Sorensen, UC Davis
- Sara Klingenstein, Harvard University: One Time, One Meeting: The Transience of Gestures in Chanoyu and Zen
- Shoko Kikuta, Seijo University: Gender Roles and Responsibilities in Urban Festivals in Japan: A Case Study of Narita Gion
- Melissa Van Wyk, University of Michigan: The Curious Case of Sawamura Tanosuke III: Gender, Disability, and Performance in Bakumatsu Japan