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APRIL 20, 2018

                                     

 

9:45 am   Opening Remarks by Russell Lucas

                     Director of the Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities, MSU

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10:00 am   Session 1: Legality, Legislation, and the Historical Legacies of Japanese Imperialism

                       Moderator: Ethan Segal, MSU

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Christina Yi, University of British Columbia

“Passing in ‘Postwar’ Japan: On Yi Yang-ji’s ‘I Am a Korean’”

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Andre Haag, University of Hawai'i at Manoa

“In/Visibility and Im/Permeable Boundaries in Zainichi-Japanese Narrations of the 1923 Kantō Korean Massacre”

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Jimin Ha, Washington University

“Beyond Language: Reading Yi Yang-ji’s Yuhi”

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Discussants: Kirsten Fermaglich, MSU & Anna Pegler-Gordon, MSU

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12:30 pm   Lunch Break

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2:00 pm    Session 2: The Politics of Passing in Fiction and Film

                      Moderator: Marc Bernstein, MSU

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Koji Toba, Waseda University

              “Abe Kōbō and his Consciousness of Ethnicity”

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So Hye Kim, Chicago University

              "The Limits of Empathy: Documenting Zainichi Students' Honmyō Sengen”

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Nathaniel Heneghan, Murray State University

              “The Minority Machine: Alterity and Excess in the Films of Sai Yōichi"

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Discussants: Sheng-Mei Ma, MSU & Kaveh Askari, MSU

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4:30 pm     Open Discussion led by Jonathan Glade, MSU

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6:30 pm     Dinner Conversation

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APRIL 21, 2018

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10:00 am    Session 3: Passing Across Generations

                        Moderator: Naoko Wake, MSU

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Catherine Ryu, MSU

            “More than Child’s Play: Children’s Self-Fashioning in Kim Ch’ang-Saeng’s ‘Akai mi’

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Jonathan Glade, MSU

            “Revealing Difference: Marking Ethnicity in Zainichi Literature”

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Discussants: Youngju Ryu, University of Michigan & Johanna Schuster-Craig, MSU

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12:30 pm     Lunch Break

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2:00 pm      Session 4: Seeing, Hearing, Naming Otherness

                        Moderator: Nobuko Yamasaki, Lehigh University

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Nayoung Aimee Kwon, Duke University

“Politics and Poetics of Passings and Impasses: Japanophone Literature and Kim Saryang”

 

Cindi Textor, University of Utah

"'Zainichi' Literature and the Rhetoric of Color-Blindness"

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Shoya Unoda, Osaka University

“To Pass or to Come Out: On the Identity Politics of Zainichi Koreans in the late 1960s”

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Discussants: Danny Méndez, MSU & Jyotsna Singh, MSU

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4:30 pm      Open Discussion led by Christina Yi, University of British Columbia

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6:00 pm      Closing Remarks by Catherine Ryu, Symposium Program Chair, MSU

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6:30 pm      Dinner Conversation