THE SIXTH TOHOKU CONFERENCE ON GLOBAL JAPANESE STUDIES
The International Graduate Program in Japanese Studies at Tohoku University is proud to announce The Sixth Annual Tohoku Conference on Global Japanese Studies. This conference will bring together scholars in Japan and scholarly audiences around the world from a range of ages, nationalities, and disciplines to exchange ideas and build possibilities for future collaboration.
CONFERENCE DATES AND VENUE
Date: 6-8 December, 2024
Venue: New Humanities Building(文科系総合研究棟) 11F Main Conference Room(大会議室)
CONFERENCE LANGUAGE
English
REGISTRATION
Not required
※For online participants only.
Please register at the link below. We will send you zoom access information later.
PROGRAM
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The Sixth Tohoku Conference on Global Japanese Studies "A sense of place: Art and Innovative methods"
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| Dec.6 (Fri.) | |||
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Session1
In Pursuit of artistic methods: In and beyond the field
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17:15-18:45
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◉ Organizer and Chair: Yosuke Washiya (Tohoku University)
Yukiko Kaneko (University of British Columbia)
Why do I hesitate to call my research data "art"?
Shawn Forde (University of British Columbia)
In the Gutter: Using Comics to Represent Self, Space, and Time in Ethnographic Research
Thorsten Gieser (Universität Koblenz)
'I just can't put it in words': Researching hunting experiences through arts-based methods in sensory
anthropology
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| Dec.7(Sat) | |||
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Session 2
The Language of History meets the History of Language: Jesuit Sources in Japanese Studies
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10:00-12:00
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◉ Organizers: Orion Klautau and Matthew Zisk (Tohoku University)
Chair: Seiji Hoshino(Kokugakuin University)
Matthew Zisk (Tohoku University)
The Significance of Early Christian Sources in Japanese Historical Linguistics
Sophie Takahashi (Ruhr-Universität Bochum）
Manuscripts to Megabytes: How the digital Jesuit Compendia Edition Empowers Historical
Alexandra Curvelo (NOVA University of Lisbon)
Japanese Visual and Material Culture in the Missionary Accounts of the 16th and 17th Centuries
Romulo Ehalt (Max Planck Institute)
Hitogaeshirei and Restitutio: Law and Theology as the Language of Japan Jesuit Letters
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Session 3
Affect, Feeling, and Nation/Society
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13:20-15:00
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◉ Organizers: Sachiko Kiyama(Tohoku Univesity), Takashi Onuki (Tohoku University)
Chair: James Tink (Tohoku University)
Fuhito Endo (Seikei University)
Affective Materiality or Material Affect: Ontology of the Invisible in British and Japanese Modern Art"
Ryan Johnson U of Tokyo/U of Melbourne
Translation and National Identity in Modern Fiction at the Midcentury"
Takashi Onuki (Tohoku University)
The Making of the “c. 23,000 B. C.” Episode in Raymond Williams’s Last Novel: “Structure of Feeling” and
Its Applicability to Japanese Studies
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Session 4
New Methodological Perspectives in Economic and Business History
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15:20-16:50
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◉ Organizer: YUKI Takenobu (Tohoku University), SAKAI Kazuho (Tohoku University)
Chair: ZHANG Tingting (Tohoku University)
Yamato Narusa ( Stanford University)
The Making of a Japanese “Holstein Island”: Milk, Silk, and Hachijō in Imperial Japan
Inoue Tatsuki (Meiji University )
The impacts of coal smoke on infant mortality: Evidence from industrializing Japan
Hasebe Hiromichi (Nihon University)
Confronting the Glorious Past: How Japanese Companies Reconstruct Their Organizational History
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Dec. 8 (Sun.)
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Japanese Studies Progress Reports (QE1)
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9:00-9:25
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Saki Sakurai | “Foot soldiers” of the Japanese Economic Empire in Davao | Graduate School of Arts and Letters |
| 9:25-9:50 | Shijie Qiu | An Anthropological Study on the Contemporary Representations of Emishi: Focusing on Public Spaces, Organizations, and Literary Works | Graduate School of Arts and Letters |
| 9:50-10:15 | Yugo Okano | Komatsu Kiyoshi (1900-1962) as an Asianist: Focusing on his Writing Activities during and after the Second World War | Graduate School of Arts and Letters |
| 10:15-10:40 | Xiaoman Xu | A Centering Theoretic Analysis of Referential Expressions and Voice in Seediq Discourse | Graduate School of Arts and Letters |
| 10:40-11:05 | Hirotaka Chen | A Historical Investigation of Semantic Change in Japanese Vocabulary Through Contact with Foreign Concepts Using Kunten Materials | Graduate School of International Cultural Studies |
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| 11:15-12:15 |
Yu Ai (Graduate School of Arts and Letters)
Being, Becoming and Belonging: Muslim women migrants in contemporary Japan
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| 13:30-14:30 |
Yota Watanabe (Graduate School of Arts and Letters)
The Constructed Invisibility of Poverty and the Life World of Toujisha: An Anthropological Study of Child Poverty in
Japan
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Students Session
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14:40-14:55
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Jiehua Xu | Soetsu Yanagi’s Philosophy of Life | Graduate School of Arts and Letters |
| 14:55-15:10 | Shogo Bamba | Anglo-Japanese Alliance and Four-Power Treaty | Graduate School of Arts and Letters |
| 15:10-15:25 | Yunshan Xue | Comparison of Natural Burial Methods in China and Japan: Focusing on Post-Mortem Rituals | Graduate School of Arts and Letters |
| 15:30-15:45 | Shu Zhang | An Anthropological Study of Omamori and Agency | Graduate School of Arts and Letters |
| 15:45-16:00 | Momoka Shibata | The Interaction between Theater and Imagery: Venice and Edo in the 18th Century | Graduate School of Arts and Letters |
| 16:00-16:15 | Yucheng Wang | Numerical Expressions in Seediq | Graduate School of Arts and Letters |
| 16:15-16:30 | Satoshi Kikumoto | Human formation theory of Merleau-Ponty's phenomenology | Graduate School of Education |
ORGANIZING COMMITTEE
WASHIYA Yosuke(Chair)
KIYAMA Sachiko
KLAUTAU Orion
YUKI Takenobu
CONTACT
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