ARCHITECTURE LECTURE: Go Hasegawa
September 5, 2018
Lecture
Speaker:
Go Hasegawa, Architect
In his practice, Go Hasegawa always strives to explore new possibilities and relationships between different realms and build new connections. For him it is always a thrilling adventure which is only possible by engaging with a sense of openness which is an attitude he adopts towards all domains.
GO HASEGAWA is Director of Go Hasegawa and Associates. He earned a Master of Engineering degree from the Tokyo Institute of Technology in 2002 and worked at Taira Nishizawa Architects before establishing Go Hasegawa & Associates in 2005. He has taught at Tokyo Institute of Technology, the Academy of Architecture of Mendrisio, Oslo School of Architecture and Design, University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and Harvard University Graduate School of Design (GSD). In 2015, he received his PhD in Engineering from the Tokyo Institute of Technology. Hasegawa is the recipient of numerous awards, including the 2008 Shinkenchiku Prize and 2014 AR Design Vanguard. Among the monographies are 'Go Hasegawa Works' (TOTO Publisher, 2012), ‘a+u 2017:01' (Issue n.556) and 'El Croquis - Go Hasegawa' (Issue n.191).
Co-Sponsor:
College of Environmental Design
2018 AJLS Conference: Past, Present, and Future - Evidence, Transmission, and Inheritance in Japanese Literature and Media
September 6-8, 2018
Conference/Symposium
27th Annual Meeting of the Association of Japanese Literary Studies
In Conjunction with the Kotenseki Seminar, Celebrating the 10th Anniversary of the C. V. Starr East Asian Library & Chang-Lin Tien Center for East Asian Studies
The 2018 AJLS Conference seeks to address the history and theory of Japanese literature and media with special attention given to the ways in which writers have grappled with the problems of evidence, transmission, and inheritance and how these problems continue to renew and complicate the relation between the past, present, and future.
From questions surrounding lines of hermeneutic authority in secret transmission and early textual scholarship, to the emergence of new modes of inquiry in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries based on models from late imperial China and early modern Europe, to the anxieties surrounding fears over the loss of cultural authority at various moments of rupture (both political and seismic) across the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Japanese literature has been centrally preoccupied with the past and the future—how it can be known and transmitted—as well as with anxieties over forgery, inauthenticity, and cultural loss. Questions to be addressed include the following:
• What are the different types of evidence? When does evidence need persuasion? When does it become a symptom?
• How might evidence encode reading practices? How do reading practices create evidence?
• What constitutes evidence in Buddhist texts? What is the relationship between evidence and Buddhist doctrinal truth? What is scriptural evidence?
• How do texts function as historical evidence? How do they foreshadow the future? How might evidence endure across generations and speak to the future?
The Keynote Address on September 6 and all panels on September 7-8 are open to the public. Registration is requested.
Thursday, September 6th
The afternoon Kotenseki Seminar is not open to the public
5:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. | Keynote Address (Morrison Library)
Robert Campbell, NIJL, Director General
Tales of Transmission in Nineteenth Century Japanese Literature and Visual Art
Friday, September 7th
AJLS Conference Day 1
"A" panels will be held in 180 Doe Library
"B" panels and Keynote Panel will be held in 190 Doe Library
9:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Introduction
10:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Panel 1
1:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. | Panel 2A
1:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. | Panel 2B
3:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Panel 3A
3:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Panel 3B
5:15 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. | Keynote Panel
Saturday, September 8th
AJLS Conference Day 2
"A" panels will be held in 180 Doe Library
"B" panels will be held in 190 Doe Library
9:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. | Panel 4A
9:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. | Panel 4B
11:00 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. | Panel 5A
11:00 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. | Panel 5B
1:45 p.m. – 3:15 p.m. | Panel 6
3:15 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. | Panel 7
4:45 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Closing remarks
Co-Sponsors:
C. V. Starr East Asian Library
Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures
Townsend Center for the Humanities
National Institute of Japanese Literature
https://cjs090.wixsite.com/ajls2018
Architecture Lecture: Takaharu Tezuka: Nostalgic Future
October 15, 2018
Lecture
Speaker/Performer:
Takaharu Tezuka
NOSTALGIC FUTURE
Real human life is supported by latest technologies. Our good future is depending on the respect for the wisdom from our past. We are still a part of the whole environment, yet still in the most advanced society.
ABOUT TAKAHARU TEZUKA
Architect / President of Tezuka Architects / Professor of Tokyo City University
1964 Born in Tokyo, Japan
1987 B. Arch., Musashi Institute of Technology
1990 M. Arch., University of Pennsylvania
1990-1994 Richard Rogers Partnership Ltd.
1994 Founded Tezuka Architects with Yui Tezuka
1996-2008 Associate Professor, Musahi Institute of Technology
2009- Professor, Tokyo City University
AWARDS
The Best of All, OECD/CELE 4th Compendium of Exemplary Educational Facilities (2011, Fuji Kindergarten)
Prize of Architectural Institute of Japan for Design (2008, Fuji Kindergarten)
Japan Institute of Architects Award (2008, Fuji Kindergarten) (2015, Sora no Mori Clinic)
AR Award 2004, the Architectural Review (Echigo-matsunoyama Museum of Natural Science)
Good Design Gold Prize (1997, Soejima Hospital) (2013, Asahi Kindergarten)
Global Award for Sustainable Architecture 2017
Moriyama RAIC International Prize 2017
Co-Sponsors:
College of Environmental Design
Consulate General of Japan in San Francisco
Coping with Backlash Against Globalization: National and Firm Strategies
October 18-19. 2018
Conference/Symposium
The rise of trade protectionism, authoritarianism, China, and data competition are all critical drivers of the global economy. We have seen the consequences of these drivers in the move to Brexit, the election of Trump, the promotion of rival trade and financial arrangements by the Chinese, and cyber operations that are a form of societal warfare.
The political and economic equilibria of an open trading system, relatively open immigration in Western states, and the acceptance of technological change as aggregate welfare-improving and liberalizing are all moving to disequilibrium. In this changing context, how national strategies and multinational corporations will interact, particularly with respect to technological competition, is of central importance.
This two-day conference, organized by Vinod K. Aggarwal, Jean-Marc F. Blanchard, and Steve Weber addresses these new developments in the global economy. Participants will examine empirical trends in these key drivers with an eye to analyzing their likely impact. A second topic examines how the national strategies of key global players such as China, the US, EU, and India are likely to alter the context for multinational corporations from key Asian countries such as China, India, Japan and Korea. A third theme examines the technology strategies of countries and industrial policy, particularly with respect to data competition. The conference concludes with a forum with practitioners from leading MNCs on business-government relations in a new global context.
Sponsors:
Institute of East Asian Studies (IEAS)
Mr. & Mrs. S.H. Wong Center for the Study of Multinational Corporations, Berkeley APEC Study Center (BASC)
Center for Long-term Cyber Security
MSPL Ltd
The Clausen Center
Center for Chinese Studies (CCS)
Center for Korean Studies (CKS)
Institute for South Asia Studies
Institute of International Studies
Exhibit Opening: Does Dog Have a Buddha Nature?
October 11, 2018
Exhibit
Speaker/Performer:
Liza Dalby
Come join us to help celebrate the opening of Does Dog Have a Buddha Nature?, an exhibition hosted in the lobby of Kroeber Hall in collaboration with curator Liza Dalby and the Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology at UC Berkeley.
Does a dog have buddha nature?
Jōshū replied "MU!"
Inspired by this well-known Zen kōan, the MU KORABO (Mu Collaboration) project has joined calligraphy and art produced by an international range of artists in non-conventional renditions of the traditional Asian hanging scroll and sculptures in various media.
Mu, “nothingness,” lies at the heart of Buddhism. The character for mu is a favorite of calligraphers. It can be written in many styles, ranging from straight and clear to cursive and abstract. In this project, the dog represents the seeking self. The full moon is the Buddhist symbol of enlightenment.
Co-Sponsor:
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
The Western and Questions of Indigeneity, Race and Violence in the American and Japanese Frontiers or, Two Unforgivens
November 5, 2018
Colloquium
Speaker/Performer:
Takashi Fujitani, Professor, University of Toronto
Moderator:
Andrew Barshay, Professor, UC Berkeley
This presentation juxtaposes Clint Eastwood’s critically acclaimed Unforgiven(1992) against Lee Sang-il’s “remake” (Yurusarezaru mono, 2013) of the original as a method for recasting the histories of modern Japan and the U.S. as comparable and coeval settler colonial empires. The speaker will work through the insights and absences in these films to piece together a historical narrative that challenges the nationalist and historicist understandings of the Japanese and American pasts that are commonly found in popular culture and the writings of most historians. The presentation argues that Lee’s version, set in Hokkaidō, offers a more radical and challenging exploration of key themes in political thought taken up by Eastwood -- such as the violence of law, sovereign power, the right to kill, and historical memory and accountability – while foregrounding issues of indigeneity and settler colonialism. While Eastwood’s many Westerns are well known, Yurusarezaru monois Lee’s only offering in this genre. Lee’s first film, Chong(1998, 2001), is in part based upon his own life growing up as an ethnic Korean in Japan. His more well-known films include Hula Girl (2006), The Villain (Akunin, 2010), and Rage (Ikari, 2016).
BIO
Takashi Fujitani holds the Dr. David Chu Chair in Asia Pacific Studies at the University of Toronto, where he is also Professor of History and Director of the Dr. David Chu Program in Asia-Pacific Studies. His major works include: Splendid Monarchy (UC Press, 1996; Japanese version, NHK Books, 1994; Korean translation, Yeesan Press, 2003); Race for Empire: Koreans as Japanese and Japanese as Americans During WWII (UC Press, 2011; Japanese and Korean versions forthcoming from Iwanami Shoten and Purun Yoksa); and Perilous Memories: The Asia Pacific War(s) (co-edited, Duke U. Press, 2001). He is also editor of the book series Asia Pacific Modern (UC Press). He has held numerous grants and fellowships, including from the John S. Guggenheim Foundation, American Council of Learned Societies, Stanford Humanities Center, Institute for Research in Humanities at Kyoto U, Humanities Research Institute at UC Irvine, and Social Science Research Council. During the spring quarter 2019, he will be the Paul I. Terasaki Chair in US-Japan Relations and Japanese Studies at UCLA. He is currently working on several books:Whose ‘Good War’? a Postnationalist History of WWII in the Asia-Pacific; Sovereign Remains: the Emperor and Questions of Sovereignty in Twentieth Century Japan; and Cold War Clint: Asians, “Indians” and Others in the Imaginary World of an American Icon.”
Cold War Ruins: Transpacific Critique of American Justice and Japanese War Crimes
November 6, 2018
Colloquium
Speaker/Performer:
Lisa Yoneyama, University of Toronto
The U.S.-led post-conflict transitional justice in the Asia-Pacific War’s aftermath has not only rendered certain violences illegible and unredressable. It also left many colonial legacies intact. In Cold War Ruins: Transpacific Critique of American Justice and Japanese War Crimes I argued that, much more than products of the East Asian state policies capitalizing on the anti-Japanese sentiments or the ethnonational politics of recognition in North America, the transnational efforts especially intensifying since the1990s to bring justice to the victims of Japanese imperial violence must be seen as a trace of failed justice—in particular, the failure of decolonization—under the Cold War. This presentation considers the Japanese conservative revisionism in the transpacific “Comfort Women” redress culture. Once critiqued conjunctively across the categories and geographies separated by disciplinary divides, Japan’s revisionism and the post-1990s redress culture of which it is a part can reveal the disavowed history of violence and entanglement, while pointing to the limits of pursuing justice within the bounds of Cold War formations and their structuring legacies.
Lisa Yoneyama received Ph.D. in Anthropology at Stanford University (1993) and taught Cultural Studies at Literature Department, University of California, San Diego (1992-2011), where she also directed programs for the Japanese Studies and Critical Gender Studies. She joined the University of Toronto faculty in 2011 to teach East Asian Studies and Women & Gender Studies. Yoneyama published four books: Hiroshima Traces: Time, Space and the Dialectics of Memory (University of California, 1999); a co-edited volume, Perilous Memories: Asia-Pacific War(s)(Duke University Press, 2001); Violence, War, Redress: Politics of Multiculturalism(published in Japanese, Iwanami Shoten, 2003); and most recently, Cold War Ruins: Transpacific Critique of American Justice and Japanese War Crimes (Duke University Press, 2016) which received the 2018 Best Book Award in Humanities and Cultural Studies presented by the Association for Asian American Studies. Her research has been supported by many fellowships and grants, including SSRC-McArthur Foundation Fellowship in International Peace and Security, University of California Humanities Research Institute Resident Fellowship, etc. She is currently working on a paper that revisits some of the questions she has raised in Hiroshima Traces to newly explore what she calls the “post-Fukushima epistemologies” and consider the multivalent and uneven political implications of the emergent language, knowledge, and cultural practice that seek to connect various past and ongoing nuclear injuries and their disavowals.
Workshop: Living Landscapes: Time, Knowledge, and Ecology
November 9-10
Workshop
November 9 (Fri.): 1-5PM: Rm 101, 2251 College Building (Archaeological Research Facility), UC Berkeley
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
November 10 (Sat.): 9AM-12 noon: Rm 221, Kroeber Hall, UC Berkeley (closed session; please RSVP: habu@berkeley.edu)
How can knowledge of the past be developed and transformed so that it informs understandings of the present and future? The Center for Japanese Studies at UC Berkeley presents the workshop Living Landscapes: Time, Knowledge and Ecology. This workshop invites researchers in archaeology, anthropology, agroecology, sociology and geography to explore the ways in which different forms of environmental knowledge persist through time, are manifest in landscapes, and remain relevant to contemporary sustainability challenges.
Japan, a diverse archipelago with long history of human habitation and environmental modification, rich material cultural traditions and extensive archaeological record, is a special focus area for discussion. Case studies and comparative perspectives from other field areas are also welcome, and the workshop is open to anyone with interest in material culture studies, agroecology and the cultural-ecological dimensions of contemporary sustainability challenges.
This workshop is co-sponsored by the Anthropology Department and the Archaeological Research Facility (ARF), with additional support from the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Art and Cultures (SISJAC), UK, and the Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN), Japan.
November 9 (Fri.), 2018 (Rm 101, 2251 College Building [ARF]): Abstract Page
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
1:00-1:15 Introduction and Welcoming Remarks (Junko Habu and Jun Sunseri, Anthropology, UC Berkeley)
1:15-1:40 Simon Kaner (SISJAC): Re-imagining the Shinano: Discourses of Inhabitation along Japan’s Longest River
1:40-2:00 Junko Habu: Continuity and Change in Landscape Practices: Archaeological and Ethnographic Examples from Northeastern Japan
2:00-2:20 Kevin Gibbs (Hearst Museum, UC Berkeley): Changes and Challenges in the Late Neolithic Southern Levant: Excavations in Wadi Quseiba, Jordan
2:20-2:40 Kent Lightfoot (Anthropology, UC Berkeley): Rethinking the Stewardship of Public Lands in California: New Perspectives from Ancient Landscape Management Practices
3:00-3:20 Miguel Altieri (ESPM, UC Berkeley): Restoring agro- landscapes with agroecology
3:20-3:40 Mayumi Fukunaga (Sociocultural Environmental Studies, Univ. of Tokyo): Re-wilding Aquaculture: Negotiating and Re-imagining Seascape in Collaborative Local Knowledge Production and Action in Miyako Bay, Japan
3:40-4:00 Daniel Niles (RIHN): Linking the Mental and the Material: Patterns of Environmental Knowledge
4:00-5:00 Discussion (Discussant: Lisa Maher, Anthropology, UC Berkeley)
November 10 (Sat.), 2018 (Gifford Room, 221 Kroeber Hall): Closed Session (RSVP: habu@berkeley.edu)
9:00-9:30 Introduction (Daniel Niles, RIHN)
9:30-12:00 Discussion
Co-Sponsors:
Archaeological Research Facility
Department of Anthropology
Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Art and Cultures (SISJAC)
Research Institute for Humanity and Nature (RIHN)
ZenIT: Mindful Work through Zen Meditation and Collaboration
November 9, 2018
Lecture
Speaker:
Amil Khanzada, ZenIT
CS alumnus Amil Khanzada, now Evolution Ambassador of Eiheiji Town in Japan, will talk about ZenIT, a new movement to define a style of working that is highly productive *and* peaceful, by combining Japanese Soto Zen meditation and Silicon Valley software development pairing/collaboration principles.
Industry-UCB-UEC Workshop 2018 (IUUWS 2018)
November 13-14, 2018
Conference
Workshop Day 1: November 13 (Tues)
10:30 -10:35 Opening Address:
Prof. Kazuo UCHIDA, Executive Committee Chairman of IUUWS
Department of Computer and Network Engineering, Graduate School of Informatics and Engineering, UEC
10:35 -10:45 Welcome Speech:
Prof. Masayoshi TOMIZUKA
Department of Mechanical Engineering, Associate Dean of College of Engineering UCB
10:45 -11:25 Plenary Talk:
Dr. Haruo TAKEDA
Corporate Officer, Corporate Chief Engineer, Research & Development Group, Hitachi, Ltd.
(Speech: 30min. /Q and A: 10min.)
11:25 -12:05 Keynote Talk 1
“Xilinx Adaptable Intelligence for Advanced Driver Assistance and Autonomous Systems”
Dr. Dan Isaacs
Director of Automotive Business Unit, Xilinx, US
(Speech: 30min. / Q and A: 10min.)
13:30 -14:30 Session 1 (Bio-Engineering)
13:30 -14:30 1．”Daylight-triggered, passive and sustained delivery of therapeutically-relevant doses of the glaucoma drug timolol from a contact lens” Prof. Gerard Marriott, Department of Bioengineering, UCB
13:30 -14:30 2．” Advantage of NIR bioluminescence for in vivo imaging” Dr. Nobuo. Kitada, Department of Engineering Science, UEC
14:30 -15:10 Keynote Talk 2
Mr. Goro Terumichi, CEO, ModuleX Inc. Japan
(Speech: 30min. / Q and A: 10min.)
15:10 -16:10 Session 2 (Future luminary for sustainable society)
15:10 -15:40 1. “Circadian Rhythms in Modern Society” Mr. Robert Soler, VP Human Biological Technologies and Research, BIOS lighting, US
15:40 -16:10 2. “Simulation in Daylighting Design” Prof. Susan Ubbelohde, Department of Architecture, UCB
16:10-16-20 Closing session remark:
Prof. Dana Buntrock, Dept of Architecture +Chair, Center for Japanese Studies, UCB
16:20 -16:40 Coffee Break (20min.)
16:40 -17:40 Session 3 (Semiconductor Materials and Systems) MEMS
16:40 -17:10 1．”Multi-Dimensional Gas Sensing Patterns of Graphene FETs” Ph.D candidate in Prof. L. Lin group, Berkeley Sensor and Actuator Center (BSAC) and Department of Mechanical Engineering, UCB
17:10 -17:40 2．”Micro/Nano Fabrication Environment in UEC, Plasmonic and Metamaterial Devices for Optical Sensor Applications,” Associate Professor Tetsuo Kan, Department of Mechanical Engineering and Intelligent Systems, UEC
Workshop Day 2: November 14 (Wed)
10:40 -13:20 Session 4 (Introduction of UCB and UEC Research Activities)
10:40 -11:10 1. “UCB College of Engineering, Models of International Partnerships” Anthony St. George, Ph.D., Assistant Dean, International and Corporate Partnerships College of Engineering, UCB
11:10 -11:40 2. “UEC Strategy, “D, C and I” to a Super Smart Society” Prof. Sei-ichi SHIN, Dean, School of Informatics and Engineering, UEC
12:50 -13:30 Keynote Talk 3
“Scene Application of Service Robot + AI”
Mr. Yugang Song, CEO, Suzhou Pangolin Robot Corp.,Ltd , China)
(Speech: 30min. / Q and A: 10min.)
13:30-15:00 Session 5 (Robotics and Engineering for High-Quality Life Services)
13:30-14:00 1. “Robotics Research at the University of California, Berkeley” Prof. Masayoshi TOMIZUKA, Department of Mechanical Engineering, UCB
14:00-14:30 2. “Constructing Breakthrough Technology: Human Coexistence with General Artificial Intelligence" Prof. Satoshi Kurihara, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University
14:30-15:00 3. “Developing a Mobile App for Cars" Mr. Justin Sinaguinan, Honda R&D Americas, Inc.
15:20-15:30 Closing Remarks:
Prof. Kazushi Nakano, Vice President and Member of the Board of Directors, UEC
Co-Sponsor:
Department of Mechanical Engineering (ME)
Rewriting History in the Age of #MeToo
November 13, 2018
Lecture
Speaker:
Amy Stanley, Associate Professor of History, Northwestern University
The #MeToo movement is now over a year old, but over the past few weeks its stakes have become increasingly clear, not only in American culture and politics but also in many of our intellectual lives as historians. This talk considers how the rallying call “believe women” challenges our epistemology and might lead us to a different approach to our evidence. The sources are drawn from an early nineteenth-century Buddhist temple in rural Japan, but the problem they present is familiar to both historians and feminist activists: sexual assault often causes a rupture or fracturing of conventional narrative. What do we do with the silences and changing accounts? Which stories do we tell? And, ultimately, who do we believe?
Amy Stanley is an associate professor in the Department of History at Northwestern University, where she teaches Japanese and global history. Her publications include Selling Women: Prostitution, Markets, and the Household in Early Modern Japan (University of California Press, 2012) and articles in The American Historical Review, The Journal of Asian Studies, and The Journal of Japanese Studies. She is currently at work on a new book, Stranger in the Shogun’s City: A Japanese Woman and Her Worlds, which is forthcoming from Scribner in 2020.
Co-Sponsors:
Department of History
Department of History Committee on Equity
Diversity, and Inclusion (CEDI)
History Graduate Association (HGA)
JASC and KASC 2019 Information Session
November 15, 2018
Information Session
Interested in going to Japan or Korea this summer?
Scholarships are available for UC Berkeley students attending the Japan-America or Korea-America Student Conference!
Hear more about these exciting programs from past participants.
More information on the JASC Scholarship here.
Co-Sponsor:
Center for Korean Studies (CKS)
Come on Out Japan - Information Session
November 30, 2018
Information Session
Attention students and recent graduates!
The 5th Annual Come on Out-Japan Summer Internship Program is launching and they are extending an invitation to top Universities and Japanese high school students for a cross-cultural learning experience. They will be on campus Friday, November 30 at Barrows Hall, Room 54 from 4 - 6 pm and hope to see you there! See the Facebook Event pages for further details.
They are currently seeking University students and recent graduates with native level English skills, who would be interested in coming to Japan for 6 weeks from mid-July to late August, 2019. Although this is an unpaid internship, the sponsor is providing certain expenses for each intern who participates in the six-week program. In addition to airfare, lodging, meal and transportation subsidies, the program offers optional Japanese language classes, field trips, dinner/cooking nights and at least one overnight trip. These additional opportunities are all designed to add cultural enrichment to your summer abroad experience.
This program is truly different from any other traditional teaching positions in Japan. Interns will facilitate English conversations with Japanese high school students on a variety of relevant global topics ranging from discussing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to finding their personal life missions. As mentors, interns will truly impact new students each week as well as form lifelong connections with their fellow interns.
There are no Japanese fluency requirements and they accept undergraduate, graduate and recent graduate students.
See links below for more information. If you have additional questions regarding the program, please contact Come on Out - Japan directly or via our inquiry tab on our website. You can find our application starting November 1 at www.comeonoutjapan.com!
Calligraphy Workshop: Does Dog Have a Buddha Nature? MU KORABO Exhibit
December 1, 2018
Workshop
Speaker/Performer:
Pamela Rickard
Alongside the current exhibit, Face to Face: Looking at Objects that Look at You, the Hearst Museum has prepared an accompanying exhibit in the lobby of Kroeber Hall at UC Berkeley, just outside of the Hearst’s Main Gallery. This exhibit, entitled Does Dog Have a Buddha Nature? is curated by Liza Dalby and hosted in collaboration with the Center for Japanese Studies at UC Berkeley.
The MU KORABO (Mu Collaboration) project features art by a range of international artists, joining calligraphy with unconventional renditions of the traditional Asian hanging scroll and sculptures. The exhibit is inspired by this well-known Zen kōan:
“Does a dog have buddha nature?”
Jōshū replied "MU!"
Mu, which means “nothingness”, lies at the heart of Buddhism. The character for mu is malleable and appears in many styles, ranging from straight and clear to cursive and abstract.
Related to this exhibit will be a calligraphy workshop by Pamela Rickard, which will be held on December 1st from 1-3pm. This workshop is free with museum admission.
Co-Sponsor:
Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology
CripTech: Disability and Technology in Japan and the United States: An International Symposium
December 7-8, 2018
Conference
Technology has the potential to greatly improve access and the full social participation of disabled individuals in Japan and the United States. Both countries have invested considerable sums in these directions, but often this research is being conducted separately from the key stakeholders. This symposium brings together technologists, anthropologists, educators, and other researchers who are working on the nexus of technology, access, and design in Japan together with scholars, engineers, researchers, and activists in the United States for a four-day symposium and workshop in Berkeley, California, the home of the independent living movement. The majority of the participants identify as disabled people.
For an accessible version of this information, please go to this website: http://www.disability.jp/index2.html
Friday December 7 - Conference Day One
9:15 Opening remarks: Dana Buntrock (CJS), Toru Tamiya (JSPS), and Karen Nakamura (DisStudies)
9:30 Panel 1: Neurodiversity and Technologies of Inclusion and Access
9:30 Kumagaya Shin'ichiro– Introduction to Tojisha-kenkyu (User-led Research) in Japan: Co-creating narratives within the invisible minority community
9:50 Ayaya Satsuki– Toward Inclusive Society and Culture for Autism Spectrum: Tojisha-kenkyu (User-led Research) on Social Majority and Accessible Information Design
10:10 Brent White – Technology x Mental Health Care -Why we do it, what we do, what we will be doing
10:30 Laura Harrison– Neurodivergent Co-Participatory Research
10:50 Panel discussion and Q&A
1:00 Plenaries on Inclusive Spaces and Universal Design
1:00 Yoshihiko Kawauchi– Universal Design in Japan
1:30 Aimi Hamraie*– Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability
2:00 Q&A
3:00p Deej film screening (73 minutes)
4:15 David Savarese* - listen2us.net – literacy, self-determination and interdependence for non-speakers
Saturday December 8 - Conference Day Two
9:00 Fixed Film Screening (60 min) w/ introduction by director Regan Brashear
10:00 Discussion on Transhumanism, Feminism, and Crip Futurities
Gregor Wolbring*, Liz Henry, Ian Smith | Moderator: Franky Spektor
10:45 Plenary on Disability Centered Design
Chris Downey– Universal Design and the BVI Perspective
Q&A
1:00 Plenary
Ayako Shimizu– Technology x Mental Health Care -Why we do it, what we do, what we will be doing”
Q&A
1:45 Panel 2: Care Robotics, Human-Computer Relations, and AI
1:45 Ninon Lambert- Who cares? Exploring the entanglements of interaction and care with social robots in nursing homes
2:05 Grant Otsuki*- Human-Machine Interfacing as Utopian Practice in Japan
2:25 Disscussant: Valerie Black
3:00 Panel 3: Crip Futurities
3:00 Asa Ito– Disabled person’s Interaction with objects and self-governance
3:20 Lucy Greco - Talk title TBA
3:40 Abigail Cochran– People with Disabilities' Use of On-Demand Transportation Services
4:00 Sondra Solovay- Disability Tech at the Margins: Weighing Our Options
Note: Due to unforseen circumstances, Dr. Miele is unable to attend
4:20 Discussion
5:00 Closing Remarks: Karen Nakamura (DisStudies)
* Speakers indicated with an asterisk * will be attending via teleconference or telecommunication.
Co-Sponsors:
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science
Haas Institute for a Fair and Inclusive Society
The Robert and Colleen Haas Chair in Disability Studies
Making Change Media
Immigration Policy in Japan and South Korea
December 7, 2018
Colloquium
Moderator
Keiko Yamanaka, UC Berkeley
Speakers:
Margaux Taylor Garcia, Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (URAP)
Maya Narumi, Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (URAP)
Eun Seo Yang, Undergraduate Research Apprentice Program (URAP
Himali Dixit, Nepalese Scholar
Immigration policies drastically expanded in Japan and South Korea, but the reality migrant workers face in both countries are not as promising. The general resistance of unskilled immigration and the demands of labor shortages and shrinking populations have been accommodated with ad hoc governmental policies. Under the supervision of Professor Keiko Yamanaka, Margaux, Maya and Eun Seo have been taking on research this Fall looking into the glaring contradiction between these governmental policies and working conditions. Margaux is interested in the new influx of low-skilled workers via the new TPI (Technical and Practical Interns) program, and how it was motivated by the aging population crisis Japan is currently facing. Having spent 8 years in Japan, Maya is interested in understanding the working conditions of migrant workers and the role of the Nikkei community. Eun Seo has been interested in the relationship between Nepal and South Korea since the number of Nepalese workers has rapidly increased after the implementation of the EPS (Employment Permit System). Along with the insight from Nepalese Scholar, Himali Dixit, on the history and working conditions in Nepal, Margaux, Maya, and Eun Seo will break down the similarities and differences of immigration policies, the consequences and responses, and provide insights looking forward!
Sponsors:
Institute of Research on Labor & Employment