Bodies and Structures:
Deep-mapping the Spaces of Modern Japanese History
Conference #2, December 9-10, 2016
Triangle Center for Japanese Studies
Room 3009, FedEx Global Education Center, UNC Chapel Hill
Themes: Place-making; borders and border practices; mobilities; spatial imaginaries
Program
Friday, December 9:
9:30: Opening remarks
10:00-12:00 Panel 1
Maren Ehlers, UNC Charlotte:
Status and space in Ôno domain
Simon Partner, Duke University:
Japanese guidebooks to Yokohama, 1860s
John Mertz, NC State University:
Development of Some Literary Tropes Surrounding Travel (Natsume Sôseki, Yanu Ryûkei, Tsubouchi Shôyô)
Kate McDonald, UC Santa Barbara:
Cai Peihuo, Nihon honkokumin ni atau (1928)
<General discussion>
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:30 Panel 2
Nobuko Toyosawa, Independent Scholar:
Shiga Shigetaka, Nippon fûkeiron (1894) and map: Meiji-Tokugawa continuities and discontinuities
Catherine Phipps, University of Memphis:
Signifying the East Asian landscape: reporting from the first Sino-Japanese War (Moji shinpô reports from Korea)
Paul Barclay, Lafayette College:
Japanese colonial maps of indigenous Taiwan
Shellen Wu, University of Tennessee-Knoxville:
Shing An Tunken zone: Chinese-Japanese-Soviet contestation in a nomadic Mongolian zone, 1920s-30s
<General discussion>
3:45-5:00 Roundtable (1): Theories and practices
Saturday, December 10:
10:30-12:00 Panel 3
Amy Stanley, Northwestern University:
Migration to Edo: migrant networks and communities
David Ambaras, NC State University:
Border controls, migrant networks, and people out of place between Japan and China (documents from the Foreign Ministry Archive and the press)
Michael Cronin, College of William and Mary:
Oda Makoto, “Aboji o fumu” and Cheju-Osaka migration
<General discussion>
12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 Panel 4
Fabian Drixler, Yale University:
Mapping “stillbirths” in imperial Japan
Annika Culver, Florida State University:
Oliver Austin: Photographing the rebirth of postwar Tokyo
<General discussion>