[csaa-forum] Symposium on Space, Place and Emotion in Modern Japan Friday 9th April 2010

[Vera Christine Mackie]

CAPSTRANS and the FACULTY OF ARTS
present a Symposium on
Space, Place and Emotion in Modern Japan
Friday 9th April 2010
Room 67.201
University of Wollongong

PROGRAM
9. 45: Coffee, registration.
10.00: Welcome: Dean of Arts, Professor Wenche Ommundsen

Panel One: 10.10~11.10
Chair: Peter Eckersall
Rowena Ward, University of Wollongong:  ‘I Don’t Want to Go Home: Returning to the Ancestral Home’
Vera Mackie, University of Wollongong: ‘Embodied Memories in Nakamoto Takako’s Diary of the Ampo Struggle’.

11.10~11.30 Morning Tea

Panel Two: 11.30~12.30
Chair: Julia Martinez
Peter Eckersall, University of Melbourne: ‘Mis-performing and Misbehaving in Chikatetsu Hiroba (Underground Plaza), 1970’
Katsuhiko Suganuma, Oita University: ‘Queer Streets in Tokyo: Counter-Hegemonic Memory and Subjugated Knowledge’

12.30~1.30 Lunch

Panel Three: 1.30~2.30
Chair: Vera Mackie
Romit Dasgupta, University of Western Australia: ‘Negotiating the Physical and Emotional Geographies of Twenty-First Century Urban Japan in Tokyo Sonata’
Alisa Freedman, University of Oregon: ‘Street Kids: Japanese Popular Cultural Fantasies of Homelessness’

Final Discussion: 2.30~3.30
Chair: Helen Kilpatrick
The final discussion will bring together the themes of the day, and provide an opportunity to reflect on interdisciplinary approaches to space, place and emotion.

3.30 Closing Comments: Associate Professor Mark McLelland, CAPSTRANS.

6.00: Dinner at a local restaurant (to be advised) at participants’ own expense.

Participation in the Symposium is free, but please advise of your attendance by April 6th (for catering purposes). For information contact Vera Mackie <vera at uow.edu.au>.
 

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