Wednesday, June 20: Arrivals
Thursday, June 21:Transnational and Translocal Citizenship in a Multiethnic Empire
8:30-9:00 Coffee/Tea and Bagels
9:00-9:05 Welcoming Remarks: Sabine Frühstück (UCSB)
9:05-9:20 Introduction to the Summer Institute Schedule and Participants: ann-elise lewallen (UCSB)
9:20-10:30 Session I
9:20-9:30 Introduction of Theme: Nathaniel Smith (UCSB)
9:30-10:15 Keynote Presentation: Jennifer Robertson (U Mich)
Beyond "Japanese" Blood: Citizenship Options and Futures
10:15-10:45 Q&A for Keynote Presentation
10:45-11:00 Coffee/Tea Break
11:00-12:30 Session II: Tourism, Travel, and Images of the Other
11:00-12:00 Paper Presentations
Kate McDonald (UCSB)
Writing Labor: 'Coolies,' 'Chinese Workers,' and Japanese Travelers in Manchuria
Ryoko Nishijima (UCLA)
Comfortable Outsiders: "Western" and "Chinese" Tourist Consumption and Digital Imagining of Japan as Other
Kirsten Ziomek (Hamilton)
Locating Subaltern Subjectivities in the Formosa Hamlet at the 1910 Japan-British Exposition
12:00-12:30 Roundtable Q&A moderated by ann-elise lewallen (UCSB)
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 Session III: Self, Space, and Subjectivity in a Multiethnic Empire
1:30-2:30 Paper Presentations
Joseph Hankins (UCSD)
Intimate Differences: Sympathy and Imperial Statecraft
Hyung il Pai (UCSB)
Visualizing an Ancient Land, Near, Yet Far: The Colonial Origins of the Tourist Gaze and Re-mapping the Korean Wave
Heather Swanson (UCSC)
Imperfectly Native: Reconnecting the Fragmented Genealogies of "Wild" Salmon and "Indigenous" Peoples in Hokkaido, Japan
2:30-3:00 Roundtable Q&A moderated by David Novak (UCSB)
3:00-3:30 Coffee/Tea Break
3:30-5:00 Session IV: Mini-Workshop facilitated by Sabine Frühstück (UCSB)
Research Methods and Fieldwork Strategies
5:30-8:30 Reception
Beachside Cafe on Goleta Beach: http://www.beachside-barcafe.com/
Friday, June 22: Multiculturalism and the State
8:30-9:00 Coffee/Tea and Bagels
9:00-10:30 Session I
9:00-9:15 Introduction of Theme: Nathaniel Smith (UCSB)
9:15-10:00 Keynote Presentation: Kelly Dietz (Ithaca)
Multicultural Japan in Global Context: Locating the Subject of Sovereignty in Discourses of Difference
10:00-10:30 Q&A for Keynote Presentation
10:30-10:45 Coffee/Tea Break
10:45-12:15 Session II: "Ethnic" Activism and the Militarized Margins of Contemporary Japan
10:45-11:45 Paper Presentations
Marié Abe (Boston U)
Shaking Bodies on Shaky Ground: the Henoko Peace Music Festa and Anti-US Military Base Struggles in Okinawa
Sumi Cho (U Mich)
Appropriation in Cultural Activism: A Sexual Minority Group's Performance of Okinawan Ethnic Dance
Nathaniel Smith (UCSB)
Facing the Flag: Sacrifice and the Battle of Okinawa(ns) in Contemporary Japanese Rightist Activism
11:45-12:15 Roundtable Q&A moderated by Sabine Frühstück (UCSB)
12:15-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 Session III: Multiculturalism and Mobility
1:30-2:30 Paper Presentations
Sarah Kashani (Harvard)
Zainichi Korean Entrepreneurism and the Mobilization of Ethnic Identities in Japan
Christina Owens (UCD)
Shifting Diversity Paradigms and Japan's Racial Capitalism: Theorizing the Privatization of the
Assistant Language Teaching Industry
Silke Werth (UCSB)
Maturation Goes Global: Self and Society among Japanese Sojourners in Santa Barbara
2:30-3:00 Roundtable Q&A moderated by ann-elise lewallen (UCSB)
3:00-3:30 Coffee/Tea Break
3:30-5:00 Session IV: Mini-Workshop facilitated by Eve Darian-Smith (UCSB)
Career Development & Professionalization Skill-builder
Saturday, June 23: States of Marginality and Coexistence
8:30-9:00 Coffee/Tea and Bagels
9:00-10:30 Session I
9:00-9:15 Introduction of Theme: Nathaniel Smith (UCSB)
9:15-10:00 Keynote Presentation: Tessa Morris-Suzuki (ANU)
Semi-Citizenship and Marginality in Modern Japan
10:00-10:30 Q&A for Keynote Presentation
10:30-10:45 Coffee/Tea Break
10:45-12:15 Session II: States of Marginality: Gender, Diaspora & Intrastate Politics
10:45-11:45 Paper Presentations
Kyunghee Ha (UCSD)
Zainichi Koreans: "Quasi Refugees" at the Nexus of Multiple Nation States and Diasporas
Yeonghae Jung (Ôtsuma)
Interpreting Revisions to the 2009 Immigration Law and Post-3.11 Japanese Society from the Perspective of
Foreign Residents
ann-elise lewallen (UCSB)
Japan as (Post)colonial Settler Society: Whither Indigenous Claims in the Multicultural State?
11:45-12:15 Roundtable Q&A moderated by Joseph Hankins (UCSD)
12:15-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 Roundtable: “Framing Japan Studies” moderated by Sabine Frühstück (UCSB)
Kelly Dietz (Ithaca), ann-elise lewallen (UCSB), Tessa Morris-Suzuki (ANU), Jennifer Robertson (UMich)
3:00-3:30 Coffee/Tea Break
7:00pm- Closing dinner party at the residence of Sabine Frühstück
Sunday, June 24: Departures
Thursday, June 21:Transnational and Translocal Citizenship in a Multiethnic Empire
8:30-9:00 Coffee/Tea and Bagels
9:00-9:05 Welcoming Remarks: Sabine Frühstück (UCSB)
9:05-9:20 Introduction to the Summer Institute Schedule and Participants: ann-elise lewallen (UCSB)
9:20-10:30 Session I
9:20-9:30 Introduction of Theme: Nathaniel Smith (UCSB)
9:30-10:15 Keynote Presentation: Jennifer Robertson (U Mich)
Beyond "Japanese" Blood: Citizenship Options and Futures
10:15-10:45 Q&A for Keynote Presentation
10:45-11:00 Coffee/Tea Break
11:00-12:30 Session II: Tourism, Travel, and Images of the Other
11:00-12:00 Paper Presentations
Kate McDonald (UCSB)
Writing Labor: 'Coolies,' 'Chinese Workers,' and Japanese Travelers in Manchuria
Ryoko Nishijima (UCLA)
Comfortable Outsiders: "Western" and "Chinese" Tourist Consumption and Digital Imagining of Japan as Other
Kirsten Ziomek (Hamilton)
Locating Subaltern Subjectivities in the Formosa Hamlet at the 1910 Japan-British Exposition
12:00-12:30 Roundtable Q&A moderated by ann-elise lewallen (UCSB)
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 Session III: Self, Space, and Subjectivity in a Multiethnic Empire
1:30-2:30 Paper Presentations
Joseph Hankins (UCSD)
Intimate Differences: Sympathy and Imperial Statecraft
Hyung il Pai (UCSB)
Visualizing an Ancient Land, Near, Yet Far: The Colonial Origins of the Tourist Gaze and Re-mapping the Korean Wave
Heather Swanson (UCSC)
Imperfectly Native: Reconnecting the Fragmented Genealogies of "Wild" Salmon and "Indigenous" Peoples in Hokkaido, Japan
2:30-3:00 Roundtable Q&A moderated by David Novak (UCSB)
3:00-3:30 Coffee/Tea Break
3:30-5:00 Session IV: Mini-Workshop facilitated by Sabine Frühstück (UCSB)
Research Methods and Fieldwork Strategies
5:30-8:30 Reception
Beachside Cafe on Goleta Beach: http://www.beachside-barcafe.com/
Friday, June 22: Multiculturalism and the State
8:30-9:00 Coffee/Tea and Bagels
9:00-10:30 Session I
9:00-9:15 Introduction of Theme: Nathaniel Smith (UCSB)
9:15-10:00 Keynote Presentation: Kelly Dietz (Ithaca)
Multicultural Japan in Global Context: Locating the Subject of Sovereignty in Discourses of Difference
10:00-10:30 Q&A for Keynote Presentation
10:30-10:45 Coffee/Tea Break
10:45-12:15 Session II: "Ethnic" Activism and the Militarized Margins of Contemporary Japan
10:45-11:45 Paper Presentations
Marié Abe (Boston U)
Shaking Bodies on Shaky Ground: the Henoko Peace Music Festa and Anti-US Military Base Struggles in Okinawa
Sumi Cho (U Mich)
Appropriation in Cultural Activism: A Sexual Minority Group's Performance of Okinawan Ethnic Dance
Nathaniel Smith (UCSB)
Facing the Flag: Sacrifice and the Battle of Okinawa(ns) in Contemporary Japanese Rightist Activism
11:45-12:15 Roundtable Q&A moderated by Sabine Frühstück (UCSB)
12:15-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 Session III: Multiculturalism and Mobility
1:30-2:30 Paper Presentations
Sarah Kashani (Harvard)
Zainichi Korean Entrepreneurism and the Mobilization of Ethnic Identities in Japan
Christina Owens (UCD)
Shifting Diversity Paradigms and Japan's Racial Capitalism: Theorizing the Privatization of the
Assistant Language Teaching Industry
Silke Werth (UCSB)
Maturation Goes Global: Self and Society among Japanese Sojourners in Santa Barbara
2:30-3:00 Roundtable Q&A moderated by ann-elise lewallen (UCSB)
3:00-3:30 Coffee/Tea Break
3:30-5:00 Session IV: Mini-Workshop facilitated by Eve Darian-Smith (UCSB)
Career Development & Professionalization Skill-builder
Saturday, June 23: States of Marginality and Coexistence
8:30-9:00 Coffee/Tea and Bagels
9:00-10:30 Session I
9:00-9:15 Introduction of Theme: Nathaniel Smith (UCSB)
9:15-10:00 Keynote Presentation: Tessa Morris-Suzuki (ANU)
Semi-Citizenship and Marginality in Modern Japan
10:00-10:30 Q&A for Keynote Presentation
10:30-10:45 Coffee/Tea Break
10:45-12:15 Session II: States of Marginality: Gender, Diaspora & Intrastate Politics
10:45-11:45 Paper Presentations
Kyunghee Ha (UCSD)
Zainichi Koreans: "Quasi Refugees" at the Nexus of Multiple Nation States and Diasporas
Yeonghae Jung (Ôtsuma)
Interpreting Revisions to the 2009 Immigration Law and Post-3.11 Japanese Society from the Perspective of
Foreign Residents
ann-elise lewallen (UCSB)
Japan as (Post)colonial Settler Society: Whither Indigenous Claims in the Multicultural State?
11:45-12:15 Roundtable Q&A moderated by Joseph Hankins (UCSD)
12:15-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 Roundtable: “Framing Japan Studies” moderated by Sabine Frühstück (UCSB)
Kelly Dietz (Ithaca), ann-elise lewallen (UCSB), Tessa Morris-Suzuki (ANU), Jennifer Robertson (UMich)
3:00-3:30 Coffee/Tea Break
7:00pm- Closing dinner party at the residence of Sabine Frühstück
Sunday, June 24: Departures