PROGRAM
All times listed in MST (JST). Click presentation title for abstract.
Friday, December 3, 2021
3:00 – 3:15p (7:00 – 7:15a)
Welcoming Remarks
Cindi TEXTOR (University of Utah)
3:30 – 5:00p (7:30 – 9:00a)
Panel 1 - Inter-Asian and Transpacific Exchanges
Zainichi Chinese Media and Zainichi Koreans in Early Postwar Osaka
UNODA Shoya (Osaka University)
Langston Hughes and Kim Saryang in Exchange
Nayoung Aimee KWON (Duke University)
Discussant: SAKASAI Akito (The University of Tokyo)
5:30 – 7:00p (9:30 – 11:00a)
Panel 2 – To the Colonies and Back Again
Nakajima Atsushi: More Skeptic than Participant in Empire
Nobuko YAMASAKI (Lehigh University)
Contrapuntal Writing: Kobayashi Masaru’s “Bridge Building” and Japan’s Korean War
Nicholas LAMBRECHT (Osaka University)
Discussant: David KROLIKOSKI (University of Hawai’i at Mānoa)
7:30 – 9:00p (11:30 – 1:00p)
Panel 3 – Ethnic “Homeland” and the Cross-Straits Gaze
Standing on the Shores of Memory: Listening in to Kim Sijong’s Song of Clementine
Catherine RYU (Michigan State University)
Filming “Homeland” in South Korean and Zainichi Films on Chosŏn Schools
So Hye KIM (Korea University)
Discussant: WATANABE Naoki (Musashi University)
Saturday, December 4, 2021
1:00 – 3:00p (5:00 – 7:00a)
Panel 4 – The Transnational Imagination: Pitfalls and Potentials of Japan-Korea Solidarity
In the “Company of Treacherous Malcontents”:
Andre HAAG (University of Hawai’i at Mānoa)
Julia Hansell CLARK (University of California, Los Angeles)
“Apache” Koreans in Postwar Osaka: Figures of Indigeneity in the Postwar Transpacific
Andrew HARDING (Cornell University)
Discussant: David ROH (University of Utah)
3:30 – 5:00 (7:30 – 9:00a)
Panel 5 – Challenges in Diaspora Studies: The Position of Koreans in Japan
Beyond the Kokuhaku: Passing and the Tenacity of Confession in Zainichi Cultural Production
Nathaniel HENEGHAN (Independent Scholar)
SONG Hyewon (Osaka City University)
Discussant: Christina YI (University of British Columbia)
5:30 – 7:00 (9:30 – 11:00a)
Panel 6 – Co-opted Colonial Figures
Son Kijŏng and the Malleability of Representation
Jonathan GLADE (University of Melbourne)
Authoritative Gentleness around Colonial Children’s Compositions: On Ch’oi Ingyu’s Tuition (1940)
TOBA Koji (Waseda University)
Discussant: Ryan MORAN (University of Utah)
7:30 – 9:00 (11:30 – 1:00p)
Open Discussion