We’re pleased to announce the following symposium to be held in Vancouver BC August 28-30. The symposium is free and open to the public. For updated information, please visit the UBC – Asian Studies web site at http://www.asia.ubc.ca/.
August 28-30 Symposium on Early Modern Japanese Values and Individuality
Asian Centre Auditorium & Seminar Room 604; 1871 West Mall
University of British Columbia, Vancouver BC
Co-organized by the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science and UBC – Asian Studies
Co-sponsored by the Japan Foundation
Supported by the Consulate of Japan – Vancouver
Wednesday 2013.08.28
1:00-1:30 Welcome and introductions:
Ross King, Head, UBC- Asian Studies
Seishi Takeda, Director, JSPS San Francisco
Seiji Okada, Consul General of Japan
Gage Averill, Dean of Arts
Dave Farrar, Provost and Academic Vice President
1:30-3:45 Panel #1: Chair/discussant Gregory Smits (The Penn St. Univ.), with three papers by:
Katsurajima Nobuhiro (Ritsumeikan Univ.) The Demolition of the Early Modern World Empires, and the Tokugawa history of ideas in the 19th century
Jeffrey Newmark (Univ. of Winnipeg) Nineteenth Century Legends and the Formation of Local Identity)
Minami Orihara (Univ. of British Columbia) Dilemmas of Protest in Tokugawa Villages: Trust, Promise, Cooperation)
3:45-4:00 Break
4:00-5:45 Panel #2: Chair/discussant Naoki Sakai (Cornell Univ.), with two papers by:
Isomae Jun’ichi (Nichibunken) Critique of Benedict Anderson and the Discontinuity of Tokugawa to Meiji
Daniel Botsman (Yale Univ.) Village, Self and History: On Being Individual in 19th Century Japan
5:45-6:00 Ron Toby (Univ. of Illinois) Summary comments on the day’s papers
Thursday 2013.08.29
9:15-11:30 Panel #3: Chair/discussant Anne Walthall (Univ. of California – Irvine), with two papers by:
William Brecher (Washington St. Univ.) Boys Behaving Badly: The Ethics of Childhood Disobedience in the Edo Period,
William Steele (ICU) The Unconventional Origins of Modern Japan: Mantei Oga and the Politics of Play
11:30-1:00 Break
1:00-3:15 Panel #4 Chair/discussant William Brecher (Washington St. Univ.), with three papers by:
Endo Jun (Kokugakuin Daigaku) Language, Spirits and Cosmology in Study of Kodo (Japanese Ancient Way),
Gideon Fujiwara (Univ. of Lethbridge) Merchant Intellectuals and the Restoration: The Kokugakusha Community of 19th-Century Hirosaki
Anne Walthall (Univ. of California Irvine) Ii aniki warui otōto: Sibling Rivalry in the Hirata School
3:15-3:30 Break
3:30-5:45 Panel #5: Chair/discussant James Ketelaar (Univ. of Chicago), with three papers by:
Oleg Benesch (York Univ.) Individualism Denied: Edo Samurai and Modern Historical Revisionism
Greg Smits (Penn State Univ.) New Values, New Identities: Becoming Okinawan and Japanese in 19th-Century Ryukyu
Amy Stanley (Northwestern Univ.) Vanishing Acts: Disappearing Women and their Worlds)
5:45-6:00 Ron Toby (Univ. of Illinois) summary comments on the day’s papers
6:00-6:30 Break
8:15-9:30 Keynote address by Eiko Ikegami (The New School) Revisiting Some Earlier Thoughts (at Cecil Green Park House)
Friday 2013.08.30
9:30-11:45 Panel #6: Chair/discussant Ron Toby, with three papers by:
James Ketelaar (Univ. of Chicago) Discovering Erotic Emotionality in Tokugawa Japan
Kojima Yasunori (ICU) Laughter Connects the Sacred [sei 聖]and the Sexual [sei性]: The Blossoming of Parody in the Edo Culture
Peter Nosco (UBC) The Early Modern Co-Emergence of Individuality and Collective Identity
11:45-1:00 Break
1:00-2:30 Summary discussions, next steps and conclusion
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