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Sunday, March 14, 2010 |
8:30 - 10:00 am: Check In |
10:00 - Noon: Avaya Auditorium (ACES Bldg) The Anthropology of Alcohol in Japan Chair: Nathaniel Smith • Real Men Don’t Hold Their Liquor: The Performance of Drunkenness in Japan. Paul Christensen • Ah-ha! Wine, Experience and Phenomenology. Nicolas Sternsdorff • Maintaining Social Order Through Liminality. Esra Gokce Sahin • Drinking With State. Fumitaka Wakamatsu Discussant: Nathaniel Smith (Theodore C. Bestor) |
10:00 - Noon: WEL 3.502 (Welch Bldg) Identity and Ritual • Identity and the Role of Community Festivals in Urban Japan. Natalie Close • Ritual in the Historical Periodization of Osaka. Jason Erb • Beyond Tradition as Identity: “Doing Identity” – “Doing Tradition” – “Consuming Tradition.” Susanne Klien • Religious Identity and Political Activism: Soka Gakkai Members' Support for Komeito. Anne Fisker-Nielsen |
10:00 - 11:00 am: ACE 2.402 (ACES Bldg) Film: “A Miyabi Obon” by D. S. Mote A look at one family’s Obon observance. 46 minutes |
Noon - 1:30 pm: Lunch Break |
1:30 - 3:00 pm: Avaya Auditorium (ACES Bldg) Death, and After • From Social to Ecological Immortality: Ancestor Worship, Ecological Cemeteries, and Identity in Contemporary Japanese Society. Sebastien Boret • Surviving Death: Ritual Response to the Loss of Charismatic Leaders. Ewa Manek • Vitality and Pollution: Scattering Coins in Japanese Mortuary Rituals. Hyunchul Kim |
1:30 - 3:00 pm: WEL 3.502 (Welch Bldg) Social Relations • Rethinking En: From Kinship to Friendship. Hirochika Nakamaki • Inside/Outside and the Discourse of Politeness. Miki Iida • Matagi: Hunters as Intermediaries Between “Wild” and “Domestic.” Scott Schnell |
3:00 - 3:30 pm: Break |
3:30 - 5:00 pm: Avaya Auditorium (ACES Bldg) Death, and After (cont.) • Fields of Ghosts: Making Meaning of Religious Narratives, Memory and Identity in Contemporary Mutsu. Andrea De Antoni • Kuyô Egaku: Folk Visions of the Afterlife In Nineteenth Century Iwate, Rediscovered. Christopher Thompson • The Osutaka Pilgrimage: Remembering the Victims of the Flight JL123 Crash. Christopher P. Hood |
3:30 - 5:00 pm: WEL 3.502 (Welch Bldg) Women and Gender Issues • Creating a Social Space at a Tokyo Ramen Shop: An Analysis of Class and Gender in Eateries. Satomi Fukutomi • Single(woman)hood and Social Agency: Ohitorisama in Contemporary Japan. Laura Dales • “Grave” Problems? - The Legacy of Hidden Christians among Catholic Women in Tokyo. Hisako Omori |
5:00 - 7:00 pm: Free Time |
7:00 - 9:00 pm: Connally Ballroom, Etter-Harbin Alumni Center (UTX) Reception and Keynote Address • Dolores Martinez |
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Monday, March 15, 2010 |
8:30 - 9:00 am: Check In |
9:00 - 11:00 am: Avaya Auditorium (ACES Bldg) Anthropologies of the Japanese Aged Chair: Mitchell W. Sedgwick • Does Japan’s Ageing Population Really Constitute a “Crisis?” Roger Goodman • Life after “Lifetime Employment.” Mitchell W. Sedgwick • The Global and the Local: Changing Meanings of Elder Care in Japan. Brenda Jenike • Thinking about the End of Life in Japan. Susan Orpett Long Discussant: John Traphagan |
9:00 - 11:00 am: WEL 3.502 (Welch Bldg) A Discourse-Centered Approach to Japanese Culture Chair: Cyndi Dunn • Can You Wear Your Heart on Your Sleeve in Japanese? - Cognition Meets Formal and Biological Constraints in Japanese Discourse. James Stanlaw • “There Is a Squirrel in the Tree” - Spatial and Other Cognition Differences Between Japanese and English Speakers. Nobuko Adachi • Language and the Emergent Sense of Community: The Case of Nichanneru Residents in Cyberspace. Risako Ide • Institutionalized Discourse in the Workplace: Japanese “Business Manners” Training. Cyndi Dunn Discussant: Karen Nakamura |
9:00 - 10:30: ACE 2.402 (ACES Bldg) Wellness • “We Will Support You!” - Reducing Health Care Costs Through Behavioral Management in Japan. Amy Borovoy • “You Have to Have Something to Live For” - Personal Identity and Ikigai. Iza Kavedzija • Walking the Kumano Routes: Pilgrimage, Tourism or Wellness? Sylvie Guichard-Anguis |
11:00 - 11:30 am: Break |
11:30 - 1:30: Avaya Auditorium (ACES Bldg) Trajectories and Cohorts in Japan Anthropology (Roundtable) Chair: William W. Kelly & Lola Martinez • William W. Kelly • Lola Martinez • Anne Fisker-Nielsen (Dixon Wong) • Karen Nakamura • Gavin Whitelaw • Emma Cook A roundtable discussion on the changing face of anthropology in Japan over the last four decades. A brief presentation will be followed by interactive discussion between the panelists and attendees. |
1:30 - 3:00 pm: Lunch Break |
3:00 - 5:00: Avaya Auditorium (ACES Bldg) Escaping ‘Japan’: Integration, Dissidence and Location. Chair: Blai Guarne & Paul Hansen • Outsider, Insider, Lo-sider, No-sider: Religion and Belonging on a Hokkaido Dairy Farm. Paul Hansen • Religion as a Bureaucratic System: Managing Problematic Sentiment in Li Ying’s Yasukuni. Daniel White • Growing Good Citizens: Functionalism and the Role of Religion in the Early Anthropology of Japan. Elizabeth Marks • Yakiimo no jikan desu yo (It’s yakiimo time!): Difference and Estrangement in Tokyo’s Suburbia. Blai Guarne Discussant: Lola Martinez |
3:00 - 5:00: WEL 3.502 (Welch Bldg) The Japanese Home and Family: Continuity and Transformation Chair: Joy Hendry • The Exclusion of Japanese Single Women in the Housing and Family System. Richard Ronald • Single Women and the Problems of Home and Family in Japan. Lynne Nakano • “Sutekina kurashi” - Reconsidering Home and Family in Urban Japan. Anemone Platz • Older Residents in Communal Housing in Japan: Meaning of Home and Family. Maren Godzik Discussant: Joy Hendry |
3:00 - 5:00: ACE 2.402 (ACES Bldg) Ritualization and Sacrality • De-ritualization of Kankonsosai. Peter D. Ackermann • Change and Continuity in a Japanese Childhood Ritual. The Evolution of Shichigosan. Melinda Pappova • Ritual Boundary Crossing and the Emplacement of Time: Japanese Year Changing Customs Via the Anthropology of Religion. Millie Creighton • Purity and Danger in the Censorship of Videogames in Japan. William H. Kelly • Winning Souls, Hearts, and Minds: Debating Christianity and Buddhism in Omihachiman, Shiga Prefecture. Bruce White • Public Events and the Japanese Self-Defense Forces: Aesthetics, Ritual Cycles and the Normalization of Military Violence. Eyal Ben-Ari |
5:00 - 7:00 pm: Dinner Break |
7:00 - 9:00 pm: Avaya Auditorium (ACES Bldg) “Can’t Go Native?” and Long Field Engagements Chair: David W. Plath • Keith Brown • William W. Kelly • John Traphagan A media portrait of Keith Brown’s ongoing involvement in the evolution of a Japanese community. The presentation will begin with a film segment of approximately 60 minutes, followed by discussion. |
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Tuesday, March 16, 2010 |
8:30 - 9:00 am: Check In |
9:00 - 10:30 am: Avaya Auditorium (ACES Bldg) Gender Rituals and Ritualized Gender: Men, Women, and Identity in Contemporary Japan Chair: Cindi L. SturtzSreetharan • Elevator Girls: Ritualized Performances and Identity Disparities. Laura Miller • Ritualized Language in the Cinema: Gender, Class and Play in Benshi Scripts. Hideko Abe • Where Are the Passionate Kisses? - Japanese Gendered Rituals of Falling in Love in Ren'ai Dorama “Romance Dramas.” Janet S. Shibamoto-Smith |
9:00 - 10:30 am: WEL 3.502 (Welch Bldg) Japan in the International Community • Globalization and Identity. Kuniko Miyanaga • It Can Take a Village: The Continued Efficacy of Localized Place Studies in the 21st Century. John Mock • Politics, Propaganda, and Presentation of the Korea-Japan Relationship: Issues of Regional Security around the Dokdo Exhibition at the National Museum of Korea. Kyunghyo Chun |
10:30 - 11:00 am: Break |
11:00 - Noon: Avaya Auditorium (ACES Bldg) Gender Rituals and Ritualized Gender: Men, Women, and Identity in Contemporary Japan (cont.) • Kyara-ben: Ritual Homage to Soft, Cuddly Power. Debra J. Occhi • Eating Honorifics: Casual Conversations, Linguistic Rituals, and Kansai Women. Cindi L. SturtzSreetharan |
11:00 - Noon: WEL 3.502 Japan in the International Community (cont.) • Japanese in the “Ghetto at the Center of the World.” Gordon Mathews • “This Man is Bringing Shame on the Japanese People!” - Teaching “Western” Manners to Japanese Package Tourists in the 1960s. Yoshiko Nakano |
Noon - 1:30 pm: Lunch Break |
1:30 - 3:00: Avaya Auditorium Business • How Has Christianity Been Taken Into Corporate Management Ideology in Japan? - Observed in the Case of Gunze Corporation. Noriya Sumihara • We Are International but Not Japanese: A Case Study of a Japanese Information Service Company in Shanghai. Weini Tang • Formulating a Business Model with Abandoned Steam Locomotives: From a Deficit-ridden Commuters Service to a Heritage Museum. Kazunori Sunagawa |
3:00 - 3:30 pm: Avaya Auditorium (ACES Bldg) Closing Remarks |
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