IEAS - Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley

"History and Memory in East Asia"

DATE:Friday, April 28, 2000
TIME:8:30 am - 6:00 pm
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
FORMAT:Joint Regional Seminar
SPONSOR:Institute of East Asian Studies, Center for Chinese Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Center for Korean Studies

8:30am

Coffee

9:00-9:15am

Opening Remarks

Frederic Wakeman (Professor of History and Director, Insitute of East Asian Studies, UCB)

9:15am-10:30am

Panel I

Miryam Sas (Assistant Professor, Comparative Literature/East Asian Languages & Cultures, UCB)
"Once We Knew the Rules of the Game: On Terayama Shuji's Dramatic Experiments"

Scott North (Ph.D. Candidate, Sociology, UCB)
"Living History and the Transformation of Domestic Masculinity in Contemporary Japan"

Discussant: Andrew Barshay (Professor, History, UCB)

10:30-10:45am

Break

10:45am-12:30pm

Panel II

Patricia Berger (Assistant Professor, History of Art, UCB)
"Qianlong's Portraits as 'Sites of Memory'"

Stephen Uhalley (Research Associate, Center for Chinese Studies, UCB; Distinguished Fellow, Ricci Institute/Center for the Pacific Rim, USF)
"Remembering China's Taipings... Appropriately"

Yang Xiao (Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Chinese Studies, UCB)
"Discovering Histories in China: Liang Qichao and the Historian's Virtue of Truthfulness"

Discussant: Jeou-yi Aileen Yang (Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Chinese Studies, UCB)

12:30-2:00pm

Lunch Break

2:00-3:45pm

Panel III

Gloria Tseng (Ph.D. Candidate, History, UCB)
"The Glorious, or Not-So-Glorious, Beginnings of the Chinese Communist Revolution: The Year 1921 in the Diligent-Work-Frugal-Study Movement to France"

Allison Rottmann (Ph.D. Candidate, History, UCB)
"Finding a Place in the Past: Shanghai's 'Contributions' to the Resistance War Against Japan, 1937-1945"

Xin Liu (Assistant Professor, Anthropology, UCB)
"Three Connotations of the Utterance 'Today' in Twentieth-Century China"

Discussant: Peter Carroll (Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Chinese Studies, UCB)

3:45-4:00pm

Break

4:00-5:00pm

Roundtable & Discussion

Panel Members
Stephen H. West (Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UCB)
Gerrit Gong (Director, Asia Program, Center for Strategic and International Studies)

5:00-6:00pm

Reception

This program is funded by a grant from the International Education & Graduate Program Services, US Department of Education.
Free and open to the public

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