Conference Schedule:
DAY 1 (Nov. 12)
2:50PM-3:00PM: Opening Remarks, Katherine Capuder, History, University of California, Los Angeles
3:00PM-4:00PM: KEYNOTE SPEECH
"Gas Mask Nation: Afterimages"
Professor Gennifer Weisenfeld, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Duke University
4:00PM-4:10PM: Break
4:10PM-5:00PM: CONTINUITY AND DISRUPTION IN MODERN ARTISTIC CONSCIOUSNESS
"'Momijigari' and Matsubame-mono: The Meiji Theatre Reform of Mokuami and Danjūrō IX"
Melissa Li, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
"Base Town Literature: Racial and Sexual Tensions in the Aftermath of Japan's Defeat"
Kristin Schreiner, Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles
"Torn Between Internationalism and Japanese Tradition: Raising Consciousness of International Contemporaneity and Tōno Yoshiaki’s Struggle in Postwar Art Criticism"
Shunichiro Oka, Interdisciplinary Cultural Studies, University of Tokyo
Discussant: Yuki Ishida, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
5:00PM-5:10PM: Break
5:10PM-6:00PM: NATIONAL LEGACIES AND PERIPHERAL NARRATIVES
"Aftermaths of Internment: Legacies of Resistance Behind Barbed Wire"
Sophie Hasuo, International and Regional Studies, University of Michigan
"1968 from 1987"
Adam Manfredi, East Asian Languages and Literatures, Washington University, St. Louis
“On the Temporality of 'Looking On': Queer Futurities in post-3.11 literature”
Chiara Pavone, Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles
Discussant: Yasmine Krings, Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles
DAY 2 (Nov. 13)
3:00PM-3:40PM: LIBERATION AND PUNISHMENT IN BUDDHIST THEOLOGY
"The Aftermath of The Extinction of The Dharma: Hōnen and Non-causal Theory of Liberation in Medieval Japan"
Kentaro Ide, Religion, Princeton University
"Beyond Divine Punishment: Theodicies of Post-Disaster Japan"
Pow A. Camacho-Lemus, Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles
Discussant: Yue Eric Tojimbara, Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles
3:40PM-3:50PM: Break
3:50-4:30PM: ART AND INTIMACY IN PREMODERN STATECRAFT
"Poetizing Ministers: The Identity of the Sugawara House Through the Rise and Fall of Institutionalized Poetry Banquets in Early Heian Japan (ca 800-950)"
Dario Minguzzi, Institute of Oriental Studies, Sapienza University of Rome
"Poetic Alliances: The Contexts and Spaces of Poetry Exchange in Kagerō nikki"
Deborah Price, Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles
Discussant: Danica Truscott, Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles
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4:30PM-4:35PM: Closing Remarks, Naomi Ellis, Political Science, University of California, Los Angeles
WORKSHOP
Workshop on Imaging Disaster—Archives and Aftermaths, lead by Professor Weisenfeld