The Regular Meeting No.134
Date: July 29th Sunday, 2018 pm3:00~
Place: Kyoto Gakuen University, Uzumasa Campus Room N305, North Building
Presentations:
Lyle De Souza (Kyoto University)
“Japanese Australian Cultural Memory and Belonging in Masako Fukui’s ‘When
Blossoms Fall’”
Daniella Kato (Kyoto Institute of Technology)
“Performing Life Visually: Memory, Language and Landscape in Two Contemporary
Japanese-American Artists”
The Regular Meeting No.133
Date: May 13 Sunday, 2018 pm3:00~
Place: Nagoya University, Bunkeisogokan Room 609
Presentations:
Hiroko Saito: "Reading A Daughter of the Samurai in the Japanese context"
Junko Kobayashi: "Reception of Shidzue Ishimoto’s Facing Two Ways (1935) in the US”
The Regular Meeting No.132
Date: March 10, 2018 pm3:00~
Place: College of Commerce, Nihon University, Kinuta Campus Bld 2, Room2303
http://www.bus.nihon-u.ac.jp/access.html
Presentations:
Mitsu Yoshida: Ethics of Remembering: Viet Thanh Nguyen's Nothing Ever
Dies and the Memory of War
Juliet S. Kono（Writer）："What's next? Writing Into Old Age."
The Regular Meeting No.131
Date: January 27, 2018 pm2:00~
Place: Kobe University Bld.A 1F Student Hall
Presentations:
Special Session: “Kazuro Shiguro and Trans-Bordering Asian British/American Literature”
Chair and Speaker: Hideyuki Yamamoto (Kobe University)
“Nagasaki as Kazuo Ishiguro’s Imaginary Home”
Speakers：
・Chin Chih Wong (National Taipei University, Taiwan)
“The Legitimacy of Japanese Imperialism in Kazuo Ishiguro's Pacific War Stories”
・Fu Chun (National Ilan University, Taiwan)
“A Postnational Reading of Shobha Rao's An Unrestored Woman”
・Takayuki Shonaka (Kyoto Junior College of Foreign Studies)
“The Marshland and Scrapped Boat in Never Let Me Go”
sDiscussant:
・Alina Elena Anton (Kobe University)
The Regular Meeting No.130
Date: November 11, 2017 pm3:00~
Place: Kobe University Bld.A 1F Student Hall
Presentations:
Takuma Furukawa
“Christianity and Pacifism in Joy Kogawa’s Gently to Nagasaki”
Alina Anton
"Faltering Feet on the Way to Mercy's Throne: The Search for Reconciliation
in Joy Kogawa's Gently to Nagasaki"
The Regular Meeting No.129
Date: July 8, 2017 pm3:00~
Place: Waseda University Building No.11 Room 604
Presentations:
Yukari Kato; Literature of Nikkei Alberta--Reading Darcy Tamayose and Hiromi
Goto
Rie Makino; The Resistance and Silence: Japanese American Responses to Herman Melville's Works
The Regular Meeting No.128
Date: May 14, 2017 pm3:00~
Place: Nagoya University, Bunkeisogokan Room 609
Presentations:
Yoshiko Ito: A Study of the Narrations of the Memories of the Relocation:
From Yoshiko
Uchida to Julie Otsuka
Yasuyo Komatsu: Yoshiko Uchida's Rinko Trilogy:The Stories of Memory Denied and Lost by Executive Order 9066
The Regular Meeting No.127
Date: March 11, 2017 pm3:00~
Place: College of Commerce, Nihon University, Kinuta Campus Bld 2, Room2303
http://www.bus.nihon-u.ac.jp/access.html
Presentations:
Yusuke Kashio: "Yoshiko Uchida's Crepe Paper Flowers -Why did she contribute to Harpers?"
Hideyuki Yamamoto: “Transnationalizing Asian American Plays: D. H. Hwang’s Theatrical Strategy
in Chinglish”
Teruyo Ueki: Two Books in the US-Japan Critical Moments: Probing Etsu Inagaki Sugimoto’s Narrative Technique in A Daughter of the Samurai(1925) and Grandmother O-Kyo(1940)
The Regular Meeting No.126
Date: January 28, 2017 pm3:00~
Place: Kobe University Bld.A 1F Student Hall
<Special Session on the JSPS research project on “Transnationality of
Asian American Literature”>
“Transnational and Polyglot Asian American Literature: Intersection of Comparative Literature and Asian American Studies”
Prof. King-Kok Cheung (Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, USA)
Chair and Discussant]: Hideyuki Yamamoto (Kobe University)
Discussant: Alina Elena Anton (Kobe University)
The Regular Meeting No.125
Date: November 12, 2016 pm3:00~
Place: Kobe University Bld.A 1F Student Hall
Presentations：
Mariko Hirano, "Japanese American Community in Hawaii in Susan Nunes' Short Stories"
Want Mori Kaori, "Mixed Voices from the 19th Century: A Comparative Analysis of Sui
Sin Far and Kathleen Tamagawa Eldridge "
The Regular Meeting No.124
Date: July 9 , 2016 pm3:00~
Place: Kyoritsu Women's University Main Building 11F Room1140
Presentations：
Emi Iijima, "Staring at The Nation with a focus on Wendy Law-Yone"
Yuko Yaguchi, "Representations of Violence in Yoko Ono’s Early
Works "
The Regular Meeting No.123
Date: May 14, 2016 pm3:00~
Place: Nagoya University, Bunkeisogokan Room 609
Presentations：
Kensuke Motoda, "All I Asking for Is My Body and Nisei Acculturation"
Mizuho Murayama, " Asian American Literature and Post Race"
Regular Meeting No.122
Date: March 12, 2016 pm3:00~
Place: Waseda University Building No.11 4F Conference Room 4
Presentations：
Misao Ikeno, Race, Language, and Culture Contested in Chang-rae Lee’s Native Speaker and Ty Pak’s “The Court Interpreter”
Ryusuke Kawai, Yamato Colony ~The men who left “Japan” in Florida
The Regular Meeting No.121
Date: January 30, 2016 pm3:00~
Place: Kobe University Bld.A 1F Student Halls (Be sure about the date and place)
Special Session: “Crossing Boundaries of Race, Language, and Culture in Asian American Literature”
Presentations：
・Anton Alina, “Does anyone even know I am here?: Julie Otsuka`s The Buddha in the Attic.”
・Hideyuki Yamamoto, “Fred Ho’s Afro-Asian Connection: His Life, Politics and Art.”
Special Discussant:
・Yu-cheng Lee (Distinguished Research Fellow, Academia Sinica, Taiwan)
The Regular Meeting No.120
Date: November 14 pm3:00~
Place: Kobe University Bld.A 1F Student Halls
Presenter: Want Mori Kaori "Mixed Voices from the 19th Century: A
Comparative
Analysis of Sui Sin Far and Kathleen Tamagawa Eldridge”
Minoru Kanda, Revisiting “Hon’yara-Do Coffee House” Poetry Reading
Movement: Kansai Folk Culture in the 1970s and 80s
The 119th Regular Meeting
Date: July 11 pm3:00~
Place: Kobe University Bld.A 1F Student Halls
Presenter: Mariko Hirano, Hula Kahiko as "literature"
Miyuki Nagaoka Kosetsu, Pain of Being Marginalized: A Malay Writer's Singapore
The 118th Regular Meeting
Date: May 17 (Sunday) pm3:00~
Place: Nagoya University Bunkei-sogo-kan 6F Room 609
Presenter: Yasuyo Komatsu, "Re-signification of 'Home' in Cynthia Kadohata's Outside Beauty"
Noriko Takada, "Reading
Janice Mirikitani's Out of the Dust:New and Selected Poems"
The 117th Regular Meeting
Date: March 14
Place: Waseda University
Presenter: Eriko Kosaka
Miyuki Daimaruya
The 116th Regular Meeting
Date: January 31
Place: Kyoto University of Foreign Studies
Presenter: Kawakami Yukiko
Furuki Keiko
The 115th Regular Meeting
Date: November pm3:00~
Place: Kobe University
Presenters:
The 114th Regular Meeting
Date: July 12, 2014 pm3:00~
Place: Waseda University Building No.9 Room 304
Presenters: Takashi Aso, "Transpacific as Transcultural Space: On
Ruth Ozeki, Aimee Phan, Mike Shinoda"
Shiho Nagai, ”Japanese American Internment and Nisei Writer Hisaye
Yamamoto: The Failure of Her Resistance in the 1940s”
The 113nd Regular Meeting
Date: May 17, 2014 pm3:00~
Place: Nagoya University Bunkei-sogo-kan 6F Room 609
Presenters: Yasuko Kase, "Bridging Trauma Theory and Disability Studies
to Read Asian American Literary Texts"
Hidemi Kishino, "Unnatural Foods in America: Rethinking Ruth
L. Ozeki’s All Over Creation"
The 112nd Regular Meeting
Date: March 8, 2014 pm3:00~
Place: Waseda University Building No.26 Room 501
Presenters: Yukiko Terazawa
Assimilation of Gojira—Reenactment and Manipulation of Memory in Gojira and Godzilla, King of
the Monsters!
Aya Kitamura
Locating “Asian Women”--in Vain: Representation, Reality and
Beyond
The 111st Regular Meeting
Date: January 26 (Sun.), 2014 pm3:00~
Place: Kyoto University of Foreign Studies Bld.1 Room132
Presenters: Minoru Kanda
Immigrants through Family History
-- First Generation Migrant Worker Risaku Kato and his Descendants
--
Rie Koike
The Self and the Community in Mukherjee's Writing"
The 110th Regular Meeting
Date: November 9, 2013 pm3:00~
Place: Kobe University Bld.A 1F Student Halls
Presenters: Mizuno Mariko
“The Issue of Language Selection in Japanese American Literary Activity
after Word War Ⅱ”
Matsumoto Yuk
The Historical Legacy of Nikkei in the Works of Hiroshi Kashiwagi
The 109th Regular Meeting
Date: July 13, 2013 pm3:00~
Place: Waseda University Bld.9 Room304
Presenters: Sahoko Tani
"A History of Japanese American Family Seen in Philip Kan
Gotanda’s Plays"
Mitsu Yoshida
Nature and Ethnicity in Maxine H. Kingston's Chinamen
The 108th Regular Meeting
Date: May 18, 2013 pm3:00~
Place: Nagoya University
Presenters: Soh Fujii
"The Dilemma of a Chinese American Ghostbuster: Kingston’s
The Woman Warrior: Memoir of a Girlhood Among Ghosts"
Naomi Matsui "Little Women" in Cynthia Kadohata's Outside Beauty
The 107th Regular Meeting
Date: March 10 (Sunday), 2013 pm3:00~
Place: Waseda University Bld.9 Room304
Presenters: Kazumi Goshima
"Visual
Bodies: Illness of being No-No Boy"
Naoko Sugiyama
Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior and the U.S. Culture of Violence:
Representing Military Women
The 106th Regular Meeting
Date: January 26, 2013 pm3:00~
Place: Kyoto University of Foreign Studies Bld.9 Room941
Presenters: Takuro Abe
Reading Kazuo Ishiguro's An Artist of the Floating
World in Its Historical Context
Nathaniel Preston
Imagining the Unseen Other: Age, Growth, and Identity in Jhumpa Lahiri's
Interpreter of Maladies
The 105th Regular Meeting
Date: November 10, 2012 pm3:00~
Place: Kobe University Bld.A 1F Student Halls
Presenters: Marika Okino
"The Encounter among Minorities in Nina Revoyr’s Southland"
Noriko Kan
"California Hotel and Casino― Inherited identity of Hawai'i's Japanese Americans"
The 104th Regular Meeting
Date: July 14, 2012 pm3:00~
Place: Waseda University Bld.9 Room 304
Presenters: Yui Shoji
"Sound of a Voice" ーDavid Henry Hwang's Gender and -Transnational
Perspective
prior to M. Butterflyー
Yoko Kurahashi
"Racial Issues in Hawaii as seen in Jessica Kawasuna Saiki's
Short Stories
The 103th Regular Meeting
Date: May 19, 2012 pm3:00~
Place: Nagoya University Bunkei-sogo-kan 6F Room 609
Presenters: Shiho Nagai
"Reaeding Hisaye Yamamoto's 'Epithalamium'"
Yuka Yoshioka
"Disguised" Music: A Strategy of Racial Subversion in
African American Performance"
The 102th Regular Meeting
Date: March 17, 2012 pm3:00~
Place: Waseda University Bld.9 Room 302
Presenters: Ryoko Nakajima
“Maxine Hong Kingston's Depiction of the Vietnam War”
Daimaruya Miyuki
"Experiences of a Nisei Woman in the US Air Force Nurse Corps
in Kiyo's Story (2009)”
The 101th Regular Meeting
Date: January 28, 2012 pm3:00~
Place: Kyoto University of Foreign Studies Bld.1 Room142
Presenters: Junko Kobayashi
Whispers in “Silent” Era: Wartime Memories Recorded in Japanese
Language Japanese American Literature, 1945-1952.
Minoru Kanda
Folk Music of Asian Americans in 1970's -- The songs of YOKOHAMA,
CALIFORNIA--
The 100th Regular Meeting
Date: November 12, 2011 pm2:00--
Place: Kobe University Bld.A 1F Student Halls
Presenters:
Book Review: A guide book for the learners on Asian American Literature
The 99th Regular Meeting
Date: July 16, 2011 pm3:00--
Place: Kobe University Bld.A 1F Student Halls
Presenters:
Marika Okino, "Land and Patriarchy in Plays by Wakako Yamauchi
and Momoko
Iko"
Takayuki Shonaka, "Kazuo Ishiguro and America"
The 98th Regular Meeting
Date: May 14, 2011 pm3:00--
Place: Nagoya University Bunkei-Sogo-Kan 6F Room609
Presenters:
Noriko Komada
War and Pacifism in Maxine Hong Kingston’s The Woman Warrior
Hidemi Kishino
"Squatting (or Crouching)" in David Mas Masumoto's Epitaph
for a Peach(1995)
The 97th Regular Meeting
Date: April 23, 2011 pm3:00-
Place: Waseda University Bld.9 Room 301
Presenters:
Yuko Yamade
History and Memories in Vietnamese Women's Writings:
A Comparative Analysis on American and French-Canadian Literature
Eriko Hara
The Evolving Role of Asian American Theater： Velina Hasu Houston’s
Plays
The 96th Regular Meeting
Date: January 29, 2011 pm3:00-
Place: Kyoto University of Foreign Studies Bld.1 Room142
Presenters:
Shiho Nagai
“Fear of Responsibility”: Hisaye
Yamamoto’s “Eucalyptus” and “A Fire in Fontana”
Sachiko Kawakami
Creating Asian Spaces through Imitating Japanese Anime: A Case of Asian
American Anime Fandom
in San Francisco
Contact us:
Kyoto University of Foreign Studies Prof. Shonaka - TEL:075-322-6092
Asian American Literature Association - TEL&Fax： 078-803-5543
The 95th Regular Meeting
Date: November 13, 2010 pm3:00-
Place: Nagoya Univeristy Bunkei-Sogo-kan 6F Room609
Presenters:
Yasuyo Komatsu
"Cremation of American Dream: Hisaye Yamamoto’s Seventeen Syllables and A Fire in Fontana”
Karen Oshima
"The Portrayal of Issei in John Okada's No-No Boy."
Contact us:
Nagoya University Prof. Nagahata - TEL:052-789-4702
Asian American Literature Association - TEL&Fax： 078-803-5543