IEAS-Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley

The 12th Annual Bakai (バークレー大学研究大会)

DATE:Monday, October 11, 2004
TIME:1:30-6:30 p.m.
PLACE:IEAS Conference Room, 2223 Fulton St., 6th Floor
SPONSOR:Center for Japanese Studies

Schedule

1:30

BUFFET LUNCHEON

2:10

WELCOME / ANNOUNCEMENTS

2:15

"'Bowling Together': Social Networks and Social Capital of a Nepali Migrant Community in Japan"
Keiko Yamanaka, Faculty, Ethnic Studies/Institute for the Study of Social Change, UCB

2:30

"Human Resource Management in Japan and the U.S."
James Lincoln, Faculty, Haas School of Business, UCB

2:45

"Localization and Globalization of Multi-National Corporations"
Yasuyuki Motoyama, Graduate Student, City and Regional Planning, UCB

3:00

"Intrapreneurship: The Driving Force behind Japan's Innovative Economy"
Jordan Steinke, Graduate Student, Asia Pacific Studies, USF

3:15

"Three Taiwanese Funerals in Japanese Fictions: Politics of Translation in 'Ethnographic Fictions' of Colonial Taiwan"
Huei-chu Chu, CJS Visiting Scholar, Social Science, UCB

3:30

"English Language Education in Japan from an International School Perspective: A book for the Japanese general public"
Kenji Kushida, Graduate Student, Political Science, UCB

3:45

COFFEE BREAK

4:00

"Soliloquy (monologue) in Polite Discourse in Japanese"
Yoko Hasegawa, Faculty, East Asian Languages, UCB

4:15

"The Stakes of Aesthetics: Ernest Fenollosa's Theory of Art in Japan"
Namiko Kunimoto, Graduate Student, History of Art, UCB

4:30

"Performing for Self/Performing for Others: Cultural Politics of a Vietnamese New Year's Festival in a Multiethnic Community of Osaka"
Yuko Okubo, Graduate Student, Anthropology, UCB

4:45

"Teaching Responses to Hiroshima and the Holocaust"
Alan Tansman, Faculty, East Asian Lanauges, UCB

5:00

"Humanism in the Gulag: Takasugi Ichirô's Memoir of Siberian Internment, 1945-1949"
Andrew Barshay, Faculty, History, UCB

5:15

"Representation for Foreigners Or a Misrepresentation of 'Deliberative Democracy'? Consultative Bodies (shingikai) and Local-Level Political Incorporation of Foreign Residents in Japan."
Ken Haig, Graduate Student, Political Science, UCB

5:30

"Representation of the Other: Japanese Perceptions of the Ainu as Exhibited in Ainu-e"
Sarah Sutton Weems, Graduate Student, Asian Studies, UCB

5:45

"Engaged Theater and Film in Postwar Japan"
Miryam Sas, Faculty, Comparative Literature, UCB

6:00

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