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Practice, Ideology, and Symbolics: A Symposium in Honor of Professor Herman Ooms
When
Saturday, March 16, 2013
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Location
UCLA Royce Hall 306 (Los Angeles, CA)
Saturday, March 16, 2013
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM
Royce Hall 306
University of California, Los Angeles
340 Royce Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90095
Panel 1: Practice
-Elyssa Faison
, "Hiroshima Maidens and Bikini Islanders: Contesting War Memories and Promoting Peace in Japan and the US"
-Kate Wildman Nakai
, "Shrine, Church, and State in Prewar Japan: the Catholic Church and Shinto, 1858-1936"
-Jan Goodwin & Joan Piggott
, "On the Obe Shoen Estate Project"
Research Profile Presentations
-Emi Foulk
-Kristine Dennehy
-Bettina Gramlich-Oka
-Sally Hastings
Panel 2: Ideology
-Mark McNally
, "The Bridge to the World: Exceptionalism in 15th Century Ryukyu"
-David Eason
, "What's Love Got to Do With It? Ai, Armor, and Ideology in Early Modern Material Culture"
-Anne Walthall
, "A Tale of Two Brothers: Sibling Rivalry in the Hirata Atsutane Family"
Panel 3: Symbolics
-Se-Mi Oh
, "Kanji and Voice: Reading Surface Matters in Colonial Seoul"
-Serk-Bae Suh
, "Takahama Kyoshi's Passage to Korea"
-Todd Henry
, "Silencing Namsan's Past: The Decolonization of Public Space in Post-Liberation Seoul"
-Hiromi Mizuno
, "Technological Nostalgia and Mantetsu Central Laboratory"
Keynote Speaker:
Tom Keirstead
Directions to Royce Hall 306:
Parking Lot 5 - $11 CASH ONLY / $4 Handicapped --- From Sunset Blvd., enter north campus at Royce Dr. (between Westwood Plaza and Hilgard Ave.). Proceed straight to Parking Structure 5. Handicapped Accessible parking spaces are located on level 4 of this parking structure.
Parking Lot 4 - $11 / $4 Handicapped --- From Sunset Blvd., enter north campus at Westwood Plaza and proceed straight to the underground parking structure. Lot 4 accepts cash and credit cards. This is the only lot that will accept credit card payments within the proximity of Royce Hall.
http://maps.ucla.edu/campus/
Japan America Society is pleased to support this event