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<FONT SIZE=2>CAPSTRANS and the FACULTY OF ARTS<BR>
present a Symposium on<BR>
Space, Place and Emotion in Modern Japan<BR>
Friday 9th April 2010<BR>
Room 67.201<BR>
University of Wollongong<BR>
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PROGRAM<BR>
9. 45: Coffee, registration.<BR>
10.00: Welcome: Dean of Arts, Professor Wenche Ommundsen<BR>
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Panel One: 10.10~11.10<BR>
Chair: Peter Eckersall<BR>
Rowena Ward, University of Wollongong: ‘I Don’t Want to Go Home: Returning to the Ancestral Home’<BR>
Vera Mackie, University of Wollongong: ‘Embodied Memories in Nakamoto Takako’s Diary of the Ampo Struggle’.<BR>
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11.10~11.30 Morning Tea<BR>
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Panel Two: 11.30~12.30<BR>
Chair: Julia Martinez<BR>
Peter Eckersall, University of Melbourne: ‘Mis-performing and Misbehaving in Chikatetsu Hiroba (Underground Plaza), 1970’<BR>
Katsuhiko Suganuma, Oita University: ‘Queer Streets in Tokyo: Counter-Hegemonic Memory and Subjugated Knowledge’<BR>
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12.30~1.30 Lunch<BR>
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Panel Three: 1.30~2.30<BR>
Chair: Vera Mackie<BR>
Romit Dasgupta, University of Western Australia: ‘Negotiating the Physical and Emotional Geographies of Twenty-First Century Urban Japan in Tokyo Sonata’<BR>
Alisa Freedman, University of Oregon: ‘Street Kids: Japanese Popular Cultural Fantasies of Homelessness’<BR>
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Final Discussion: 2.30~3.30<BR>
Chair: Helen Kilpatrick<BR>
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.<BR>
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3.30 Closing Comments: Associate Professor Mark McLelland, CAPSTRANS.<BR>
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6.00: Dinner at a local restaurant (to be advised) at participants’ own expense.<BR>
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Participation in the Symposium is free, but please advise of your attendance by April 6th (for catering purposes). For information contact Vera Mackie <vera@uow.edu.au>.<BR>
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