Japanese Diaspora to the Americas: Literature, History and Identity
Abstracts
Abstracts can be downloaded here.
Schedule
Friday, May 3
5:30 pm
Keynote by Jeffrey Lesser (Emory)
Saturday, May 4
9:00 am – 10:30 am
Japanese Diasporic Literature in Comparative Context
Jonathan Abel (Penn State, Chair)
Facundo Garasino (Osaka)
Hideto Tsuboi (Nichibunken)
Yoshitaka Hibi (Nagoya)
10:45 am – 12:15 pm
Japanese Brazilian Literature and Print Culture
Seth Jacobowitz (Yale, Chair and Presenter)
Ted Mack (UW)
Zeli Rivas (Marshall U)
1:30 pm – 3: 00 pm
Resettling Japanese American History
Stephen Poland (Yale, Chair)
Robert Hegwood (Harvard Reischauer)
Brian Masaru Hayashi (Kent State)
Greg Robinson (UQAM)
3:30 – 5:20 pm
Immigration and Expansionism in the Japanese Empire
Eiichiro Azuma (U Penn, Chair)
Louise Young (U Wisconsin)
Andre Haag (U Hawaii)
Nayoung Aimee Kwon (Duke)
Sidney X. Lu (Michigan State)
5:30 pm
Keynote by Ignacio López-Calvo (UC Merced)
Sunday, May 5
9:00 – 10:30 am
Perspectives on Multiculturalism and Mobility
Bill Kelly (Yale, Chair)
Sarah le Baron Von Baeyer (Yale)
Ana Paulina Lee (Columbia)
Koichi Hagimoto (Wellesley)
10:45 am – 12:00 pm
Discussion Section on Methods and Archives in the Study of Japanese Diaspora
Kaoru “Kay” Ueda (Curator of the Japanese Diaspora Collection, Stanford, Co-chair)
Masako Iino (Former president and Professor Emerita, Tsuda College, Co-chair)