Oct. 28 Conference Schedule:
8:00am–8:45am Coffee and Light Breakfast
8:45am: Opening Remarks, Alice Ashiwa (History Department, UCLA)
9:00am–10:20am: POLITICS OF THE EVERYDAY
"A Historical Poetics of Early Television Documentary: ‘Japan Unmasked’ and ‘Non-Fiction Theater’"
Yuta Kaminishi (University of Washington)
"Solidarity Imagined Or, Three Drunkards, Bringing the War Home: Transcending National Identity through Comedic Repetition"
Tatiana Sulovska, (UCLA)
"Aesthetics of War: Japanese War Motif Kimonos"
Klaus J. Friese (University of Zurich)
Discussant: Kenneth Shima, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures (UCLA)
10:20am–10:30am: Break
10:30am–11:50am, PORTRAYING “THE OTHER”
"Visualizing Japan’s Wartime Pan-Asianism: The Ideological Landscape in Triumphal Entry into Nanjing"
Yi Cao (Julian) (University of Chicago)
"Ready Player One and the Samurai Cybertype"
Claire Stanford (UCLA)
"Myths and Manchukuo: Grand Romanticism of Kitamura Kenjirō"
Lin Meng Walsh (Stanford University)
Discussant: Hiroaki Matsusaka, Postdoctoral Fellow Terasaki Center for Japan Studies, (UCLA)
Lunch 12:00pm–1:00pm
1:00pm–2:20pm, LITERARY REPRESENTATIONFS OF NEW CONSCIOUSNESSES
"Undifferentiated Imports: Poetics and Politics of Mori’s Juxtaposition of Literary Imaginings and Psychopathology"
Kang MinJoo (Seoul National University)
"Disability, Deviance, and Modernity in the Early Works of Edogawa Rampo"
Genevieve Hill, (University of Washington)
"Affect between Nuclearization and Personal Matters: The Emergence of a Post-Nuclear Present in the Works of Ōe Kenzaburō"
Anthony Stott (University of Chicago)
Discussant: Mariko Takano, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures (UCLA)
Break 2:20pm–2:30pm
2:30pm–3:50pm, EVENT AND PERFORMATIVITY
"What’s in a Game: Imaginings of Early-Heian Poetry Matches"
Kurtis Hanlon (University of British Columbia)
"Inscription, Before and After"
Junnan Chen (Princeton University)
"The Role of the Emperor in Postwar Japan: An Analysis of Emperor Showa’s Addresses at Parliament Openings"
Reyhan Silingar (Boğaziçi University)
Discussant: Kelly McCormick, Department of History (UCLA)
Break 3:50pm–4:00pm
4:00pm–5:30pm, Keynote Address and Q&A
“A Methodology for Studying Aesthetic Effect”
Professor Justin Jesty, Associate Professor of Japanese
(University of Washington)
5:30pm: Closing Remarks, Alice Ashiwa (History Department, UCLA)
6:00pm, Reception, Bunche 10383
Oct. 29 Workshop:
9:00am-11:30am
Led by Professor Justin Jesty
8:00am–8:45am Coffee and Light Breakfast
8:45am: Opening Remarks, Alice Ashiwa (History Department, UCLA)
9:00am–10:20am: POLITICS OF THE EVERYDAY
"A Historical Poetics of Early Television Documentary: ‘Japan Unmasked’ and ‘Non-Fiction Theater’"
Yuta Kaminishi (University of Washington)
"Solidarity Imagined Or, Three Drunkards, Bringing the War Home: Transcending National Identity through Comedic Repetition"
Tatiana Sulovska, (UCLA)
"Aesthetics of War: Japanese War Motif Kimonos"
Klaus J. Friese (University of Zurich)
Discussant: Kenneth Shima, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures (UCLA)
10:20am–10:30am: Break
10:30am–11:50am, PORTRAYING “THE OTHER”
"Visualizing Japan’s Wartime Pan-Asianism: The Ideological Landscape in Triumphal Entry into Nanjing"
Yi Cao (Julian) (University of Chicago)
"Ready Player One and the Samurai Cybertype"
Claire Stanford (UCLA)
"Myths and Manchukuo: Grand Romanticism of Kitamura Kenjirō"
Lin Meng Walsh (Stanford University)
Discussant: Hiroaki Matsusaka, Postdoctoral Fellow Terasaki Center for Japan Studies, (UCLA)
Lunch 12:00pm–1:00pm
1:00pm–2:20pm, LITERARY REPRESENTATIONFS OF NEW CONSCIOUSNESSES
"Undifferentiated Imports: Poetics and Politics of Mori’s Juxtaposition of Literary Imaginings and Psychopathology"
Kang MinJoo (Seoul National University)
"Disability, Deviance, and Modernity in the Early Works of Edogawa Rampo"
Genevieve Hill, (University of Washington)
"Affect between Nuclearization and Personal Matters: The Emergence of a Post-Nuclear Present in the Works of Ōe Kenzaburō"
Anthony Stott (University of Chicago)
Discussant: Mariko Takano, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures (UCLA)
Break 2:20pm–2:30pm
2:30pm–3:50pm, EVENT AND PERFORMATIVITY
"What’s in a Game: Imaginings of Early-Heian Poetry Matches"
Kurtis Hanlon (University of British Columbia)
"Inscription, Before and After"
Junnan Chen (Princeton University)
"The Role of the Emperor in Postwar Japan: An Analysis of Emperor Showa’s Addresses at Parliament Openings"
Reyhan Silingar (Boğaziçi University)
Discussant: Kelly McCormick, Department of History (UCLA)
Break 3:50pm–4:00pm
4:00pm–5:30pm, Keynote Address and Q&A
“A Methodology for Studying Aesthetic Effect”
Professor Justin Jesty, Associate Professor of Japanese
(University of Washington)
5:30pm: Closing Remarks, Alice Ashiwa (History Department, UCLA)
6:00pm, Reception, Bunche 10383
Oct. 29 Workshop:
9:00am-11:30am
Led by Professor Justin Jesty