PASSING, POSING, PERSUASION:
CULTURAL PRODUCTION AND COLONIALITY
IN MODERN JAPAN
March 1-2, 2019 @ UBC
Multipurpose Room, Liu Institute
6476 NW Marine Drive
MARCH 1, 2019 (Friday)
10:00 am: Opening Remarks by Christina Yi
10:15 am-12:00 pm
Session I: Questions of Ontology, Epistemology, Language
Moderator: Ross King; Discussant: Koji Toba
Robert Tierney, “Othello in Tokyo: Performing Race and Empire in Early Twentieth Century Japan”
Shota Iwasaki, “Politics of Pronunciation: National Language, Speech Therapy, and Japanese Colonialism in Isawa Shūji’s Writings”
Joan Ericson, “Creating the Colonial ‘Japanese Child’”
12:00 pm: Lunch break
1:30-3:30 pm
Session II: Wartime Propaganda and the Racialized Body
Moderator: Steven Lee; Discussant: Andre Haag
Nathen Clerici, “Poetry to Persuade the Public: WWII Propaganda and Affect in the Aikoku Hyakunin Isshu”
Daisy Yan Du, “Plasmatic Empire: Animated Filmmaking in the Manchukuo Film Association (1937-1945)”
Kimberly Kono, “Passing in Colonial Manchuria in Murō Saisei’s Koto of the Continent”
Nobuko Yamasaki, “Ri Kōran: Race and Passing”
3:30-4:00 pm: Coffee Break
4:00–5:30 pm: Keynote Talk in Lasserre 102 (6333 Memorial Road)
Yoshiko Shimada, "Art that Makes You Uncomfortable"
5:30 pm: Wine & Cheese Open Reception in Frederic Lasserre lobby
MARCH 2, 2019 (Saturday)
10:15 am-12:00 pm
Session III: Wartime Propaganda and the Racialized Body Reconfigured
Moderator: Sharalyn Orbaugh; Discussant: Nayoung Aimee Kwon
Faye Yuan Kleeman, “A Woman for Every Tribe: Li Kōran and her Construction of Pan-Asian Femininity”
Janet Poole, “‘I Had Always Been Japanese . . . .’: Ch’oe Chaesŏ Before and After Liberation”
Ji Young Shin, “Traces of ‘Passing’ and Paradox of ‘Posing’: Literary Roundtables in Korea, Taiwan, and Japan Immediately After World War II”
12:00 pm: Lunch break
1:30-3:30 pm
Session IV: Colonial/Postcolonial Continuities in East Asia
Moderator: Ayaka Yoshimizu; Discussant: Nathaniel Heneghan
Kayoko Takeda, “Mediating Communication for the Occupying Foreign Military in Postwar Japan: Status and Stigma”
Akito Sakasai, “Kim Talsu’s Self-Censorship Between His Zainichi Compatriots and American Occupation Power”
Atsumi Nakao, “Projecting the Desired Other: Neo-Imperial Gaze and Okinawan Film”
3:30-4:00 pm: Coffee Break
4:00-5:15 pm
Roundtable Discussion: Situating Zainichi Cultural Production in the (Post)Empire
Moderator: Christina Yi
Catherine Ryu, Nobuko Yamasaki, Jonathan Glade, Cindi Textor, Shoya Unoda
5:15 pm: Closing Remarks by Sharalyn Orbaugh