■Conferences/Symposiums The 5/11th Symposiums on Japanese Studies around the World

Observing Japan from Within -Perspectives of Foreign Sholars Resident in Japan

2003 -9-25 - 2003-3-27 The 5/11th    Symposiums on Japanese Studies around the World
Theme: Observing Japan from Within -Perspectives of Foreign Sholars Resident in Japan
Place: Nichibunken (Kyoto, Japan)
 
10:30 Welcoming Remarks
Yamaori Tetsuo
Director-General,  Nichibunken
10:30
Komatsu Kazuhiko
,  Nichibunken
10:30
James C. Baxter
,  Nichibunken
10:45 Session lA Chairman    Curriculum,Te aching,an d Methodology: Perspectives of Foreign Scholars Working in Japan
Frederik Cryns
,  Nichibunken
10:45 “The Chal1enge ofTeaching Comparative Culture to Contemporary Japanese Students"
Mark Meli
,  Kansai University
10:45 “Strategies for Teaching Liberal Arts in EngIish to Japanese University Students"
Debra J. Occhi / Stephen J. Davies
,  Miyazaki International College
10:45 “Rethinking the Three PiIlars of Academic Duties"
Jonathan Augustine
,  Kyoto Institute ofTechnology
13:30 Session lB Chairman    Curriculum,Te aching,an d Methodology: Perspectives of Foreign Scholars Working in Japan
Watanabe Masako
,  Nichibunken
13:30 “The Teaching of Musicology in Japanese Arts Universities"
Steven Nelson
,  Kyoto City University of Arts
13:30 “Teaching in Japan as a Japanologist Trained in 80th Eastern Europe and Japan"
Emilia Gadeleva
,  Shikoku University
12:30 Session 2 Chairman    Anthropology of Japan in Japan
Komatsu Kazuhik
,  Nichibunken
12:30 “The Exotic and the Familiar in Intercultural Ethnography in Japan"
James Farrer
,  Sophia University
12:30 “A Non-Japanese Conducting Field Work in a Non-Japanese Community in Japan; How I Got to the Bonin (Ogasawara) Islands"
Daniel Long
,  Tokyo Metropolitan University
15:45 Session 3 Chairman    Gender Studies in the West and in Japan
Patricia Fister
,  Nichibunken
15:45 “The Inner and the Outer Domain: Sexuality and Nation in Japanese Women's Historiography"
Andrea Germer
,  Deutsches Institut fur Japanstudien,Tokyo
15:45 “Pretexts and Contexts for Aesthetic Violence: Gender and Surrealism in the EarIy Work of Kanai Mieko"
Mary Knighton
,  Osaka University
15:45 「ドメスティック・イデオロギーから脱出する願望―田村俊子の(書く女〉と〈演じる女〉について―」
Peichen Wu
,  University of Tsukuba
10:00 Session 4 Chairman    Literature and Translation
Suzuki Sadami
,  Nichibunken
10:00 “The Role ofthe Foreign Translator:Dr uthers and Realities"
Charles De Wolf
,  Keio University
10:00 “The PubIishing Environment for Translations of Japanese Fiction in Eng1ish"
James M.Vardaman
,  Waseda University
10:00 “The Right Tool for the Job: The Application ofNarrative Theolγto Japanese Literature"
Michael Watson
,  Meiji Gakuin University
11:30 Session 5 Chairman    Media and Popular Culture
Timothy Kern
,  Nichibunken
11:30 “Can Japan Face Its Recent History? Depicting theRengo Sekigun lncident Thirty Years after the Fact"
Dick Stegewerns
,  Osaka Sangyo University
11:30 “Poetry ofthe International Avant-Garde in the Teens and Twenties"
Jeffrey Johnson
,  Michigan Center for Japanese Studies,Hikone
13:45 Session 6 Chairman    Studying Religion in Japan
David Riggs
,  Nichibunken
13:45 “Translating from a Buddhist Tradition"
Dennis Hirota
,  Chikushi Jogakuen University
13:45 “Translating Zen: What Are We Really Doing When We Do Zen Meditation?"
Jeff Shore
,  Hanazono University
13:45 "'The Wild [=crazy] Priest': Subversive Aspects of Japanese Buddhism"
Martin Repp
,  NCC Center for the Study of Japanese Religions
15:45 Session 7 Urban Space,Interior Space
Inaga Shigemi
,  Nichibunken
15:45 “Urban Space in Tokyo Narratives"
Angela Yiu
,  Sophia University
15:45 “1920年代日本婦人雑誌の住宅像と読者/The Reader and the Image of Home in 1920s Japanese Women 's Magazines"
Sarah Teasley
,  University of Tokyo
15:45 “Domestic Space: How the Family Home Affects the Behaviour ofthe Younger Generation"
Pauline Kent
,  Ryukoku University
10:00 Session 8 Continuation of Session 1 Chairman    Curriculum,Teaching,and Methodology: Perspectives of Foreign Scholars Working in Japan
Timothy Kern
,  Nichibunken
10:00 “So Far In It's Out (of Context): Problems of Presentation and Context for ln-depth Research"
Paul Berry
,  Kansai Gaidai University
10:00 “Pedagogy of Japan Studies in Japan"
Richard L. Wilson
,  lnternationaI Christian University
11:00 Session 9 Chairman    General Discussion and Summary of Conclusions
Markus Ruettennann
,  Nichibunken
11:00 Comment   
James C. Baxter
,  Nichibunken