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Japan and the World Conference Schdule
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Friday, November 10, 2006


7:30 p.m.	Prof. John Dower (Weaver Chapel) Kinnison Endowed Lecture “Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, and 9-11”

Saturday, November 11, 2006

7:45 a.m.	Registration (Kuss Science Center Atrium)
8:10 – 8:15 a.m.	Welcome – Mark Erickson, President of Wittenberg University
8:15 – 9:45 a.m.	PANEL 1 Politicized Images: Japanese and World Media (Bayley Aud.) CHAIR: William Hoover, University of Toledo Urs Matthias Zachman, Japan-Zentrum der LMU München “But Monads Do Have Windows: Synchronizing Japan’s Media with the World During the Boxer Expedition, 1900” Roger Purdy, John Carroll University “Kamikaze Revisited: Media Portrayal of Suicide Fighters” Ann Sherif, Oberlin College “Red Flag, Star Spangled Banner, and Tricolore: The Japanese Press and Antinuclear Activism” COMMENT: Roy Hanashiro, University of Michigan-Flint
9:45 -10:00 a.m.	COFFEE BREAK (Hallway outside Bayley)
10:00 – 11:30 a.m.	PANEL 2: Belonging: Japanese Imperialism and its Impact (Bayley Aud.) CHAIR: Bin Yu, Wittenberg University Helen Hopper, University of Pittsburgh “Japanese and Westerners Recreate the Ainu During Early Meij" Hiroko Matsuda, The Australian National University “Colonial Modernity across the Border: People’s Movement from ‘the Frontier of the Japanese Nation’ to Colonial Taiwan” Michael Strausz, University of Washington “Remnants of Empire: Old-Comers, Nationalism, and Citizenship in Postwar Japan” COMMENT: Michael Lewis, Michigan State University
11:30 – 12:30	LUNCH (Hollenbeck Atrium & Ness) “A Tribute to Jim Huffman” – David Barry, Kristen Huffman-Gottschling
12:30 - 2 p.m.	ROUNDTABLE: Teaching East Asia and the World (Bayley Aud) CHAIR: Dennis Frost, Kalamazoo College Ria Koopmans de Bruijn, Columbia University “How much we can learn through a single document” Robert Borgen, University of California-Davis “Bad Books, Good Lessons" Sally Hastings, Purdue University “Gender, East Asia, and Global History” Michael Wert, Oberlin College “Teaching Violence: East Asia and Japan”
12:30 – 2:00 p.m.	MIDWEST JAPAN SEMINAR PANEL #1 (Science 262) Noell Wilson, University of Mississippi “Nagasaki Defense Redux: Organizational Failure in the Phaeton Incident of 1808”
2:00 – 2:15 p.m.	COFFEE BREAK (Kuss Science Center Atrium)
2:15 – 3:45 p.m.	MIDWEST JAPAN SEMINAR PANEL #2 (Science 262) Adam Cathcart, Hiram College “ The Bullets of a Defeated Nation: The Shibuya Incident of 1946”
3:45 – 4:00 p.m.	COFFEE BREAK (Kuss Science Center Atrium
4:00 – 5:30 p.m.	PANEL 3: People’s History of Japan (Bayley Auditorium) CHAIR: Amy Livingstone, Wittenberg University Owen Griffiths, Mount Allison University “War, Remembrance, and Nationalism in Japanese Children’s Media, 1921-1930” Karen Callahan, University of Alaska-Fairbanks “Birth Control as ‘Dangerous Thought’? Margaret Sanger and the Japanese Press in 1922” Jessamyn Abel, Bowling Green State University “People’s Diplomacy and the Tokyo Olympics: 1940 and 1964 COMMENT: Ronald Loftus, Willamette University
5:30 – 5:45 p.m.	Closing Comments (Bayley Auditorium) Jennifer Oldstone-Moore and Tammy Proctor
5:45 – 6:45 p.m.	RECEPTION (Hollenbeck Atrium)
6:45 p.m.	DINNER ( Ness Auditorium) (optional for fee)

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