■Conferences/Symposiums The 9/7th Overseas Symposiums

Historiography and Japanese Consciousness of Values and Norms

2002 -10-30 - 2002-11-3 The 9/7th    Overseas Symposiums
Theme: Historiography and Japanese Consciousness of Values and Norms
Co-Host: The Banff Centre, Canada
Place: Banff Centre (Calgary, Canada)
 
8:30 Keynote Speeches "Civilizations that Absolve Their Dead and Civilizations that Do Not: Differences in Historical Consciousness"
Yamaori Tetsuo
Director-General,  Nichibunken
8:30 "Self-deception in Prewar Japanese Political Thought and Historical Consciousness"
John Brownlee
,  University of Toronto
10:30 "Use and Abuse of Images in Japanese History Textbooks and the History Textbook Controversy of 2000-2001"
Inaga Shigemi
,  Nichibunken
10:30 "'Politics, Economics and Corruption' in Postwar Japan"
Michael Donnelly
,  University of Toronto
10:30 "A Memorial Day Created by the Media to Commemorate the End of the War: From 'VJ Day' to '8/15'"
Sato Takumi
,  Nichibunken
10:30 Chair and Discussant   
James Baxter
,  Nichibunken
13:45 "Nationalism and Historical Scholarship in Twentieth Century Japan"
John Brownlee
,  University of Toronto
13:45 "Japan's Failed Modernization and the Crisis of Ideology: From Emperorism to Corporation-centrism to What?"
Satoshi Ikeda
,  University of Alberta
13:45 "Twentieth-Century Representations of Chûshingura"
Henry Smith
,  Columbia University
13:45 Chair and Discussant   
James Baxter
,  Nichibunken
16:30 "Anglo-American Rivalry Over Steamship Lanes to Yokohama and Shanghai: Shifts in Historical Consciousness in the Emergence of the Global Age"
Sonoda Hidehiro
,  Nichibunken
16:30 "Saneto Keishu and the History of Early Modern Chinese-Japanese Cultural Relations"
Richard John Lynn
,  University of Toronto
16:30 "Image, Imaging and Imagination in the History of Sino-Japanese Relations"
Wenran Jiang
,  University of Alberta
16:30 "Missionaries' Treatments of Japanese History in the Early Twentieth Century"
Timothy Kern
,  Nichibunken
16:30 Chair and Discussant   
Martin Collcutt
,  Princeton University
8:00 Keynote Speech "Shiba Ryôtarô and the Revival of Meiji Values"
Sinh Vinh
,  University of Alberta
9:00 "Modern Japanese Historical Fiction about China: On Translating Shiba Ryôtarô"
Joshua Fogel
,  Institute for Advanced Study and University of California at Santa Barbara
9:00 "On Twentieth-Century Rekishi Shôsetsu"
Suzuki Sadami
,  Nichibunken
9:00 "How Literature Recalls and Narrates the Memory of War: Kazuo Ishiguro and History Description"
Nakagawa Shigemi
,  Ritsumeikan University
9:00 Chair and Discussant   
Ishii Shirô
emeritus,  Nichibunken and University of Tokyo
10:45 "Historical Expressions and Comprehensions in Visual Materials"
X. Jie Yang
,  University of Calgary
10:45 "The Turn Towards Reception: Reception History and Illustrations"
Joshua Mostow
,  University of British Columbia
10:45 "Picture Interpretation: Etoki and Engi Emaki in Premodern Japan"
Tokuda Kazuo
,  Gakushuin Women's College
10:45 Chair and Discussant   
Komatsu Kazuhiko
,  Nichibunken
13:30 "Imanishi Kinji's Natural Ethic: The Contribution of a Twentieth-Century Japanese Scientist to Ideas of 'Being in the World'"
Pamela Asquith
,  University of Alberta
13:30 "Trees of Life/Webs of Life: Importing and Resisting Historical Consciousness in Imperial Japanese Life Sciences"
Gordon McOuat
,  University of King's College and Dalhousie University
13:30 "Japan, Nature, and the History of Modernity"
Julia A.Thomas
,  University of Notre Dame
13:30 Chair and Discussant   
Sonja Arntzen
,  University of Toronto
15:15 "Archaeology, Tourism, and Japanese Historical Consciousness"
Clare Fawcett
,  St. Francis Xavier University
15:15 "Imanishi Kinji and Minakata Kumakusu"
Kawakatsu Heita
,  Nichibunken
15:15 Chair and Discussant   
Sonja Arntzen
,  University of Toronto
9:00 Keynote Speech
Inoki Takenori
,  Nichibunken
10:00 "Continuities and Discontinuities: The Politics of Love/Marriage in Prewar and Postwar Japan"
Barbara Sato
,  Seikei University
10:00 "Intersections: Women's, Children's, and Social Histories in Modern Japan"
Kathleen Uno
,  Temple University
10:00 Chair   
Patricia Tsurumi
,  University of Victoria, emerita, and University of British Columbia
11:00 "History, Ethnicity and Gender: Japanese Feminism 'Returning to Asia'?"
Ulrike Wöhr
,  Hiroshima City University
11:00 "Women's History in Japan: The Case of Takamure Itsue"
Andrea Germer
,  Deutsche Institut für Japanstudien, Tokyo
11:00 Chair and Discussant   
Barbara Molony
,  Santa Clara University
11:00 Discussant   
Patricia Tsurumi
14:00 "World Historical Events in Contemporary Japanese Theatre"
Cody Poulton
,  University of Victoria
14:00 "The Literature of Cinematic Experience and Historical Consciousness in Interwar Japan"
Thomas LaMarre
,  McGill University
14:00 "Ichikawa Kon's 'Tokyo Olympiad' as History/Historiography"
Sharalyn Orbaugh
,  University of British Columbia
14:00 Chair and Discussant   
Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit
,  Deutsche Institut für Japanstudien, Tokyo, and Free University of Berlin