Language: English; Admission Free; No Registration Required
March 5 (Saturday)
Place: Collaboration Room 1 (
Bld.18, 4th floor)
10:00-
Opening Remarks:
KOBAYASHI Yasuo (UTCP) and NAKAJIMA Takahiro (UTCP)
Panel A: Community in Action (10:30-12:10)
OIKE Sotaro (University of Tokyo)
“Ethos of Community, Ethos of War: On Jean-Luc Nancy’s Thought on Community”
Mohamed Omer ABDIN (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies/University of London)
“The Right to Self-determination : A New Challenge to the National Identity in African States”
KAMEDA Masumi (University of Tokyo)
“Ethnic Identity Worn on the Body: the ‘Yugoslav’ and the Minority Community”
Moderator: NAKAJIMA Takahiro (UTCP)
Panel B: Travel, Language and Modernity in Japan (13:30-15:10)
IWASAKI Shota (University of Tokyo)
“Stutter, or Other Within Self in Kojima Literature”
Timothy Unverzagt GODDARD (University of Tokyo/UCLA)
“Borders of Language, City, and Nation in the Writings of Yi Sang”
Maja VODOPIVEC (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
“Rereading Kato Shuichi: Travel as Unfinished Modernity Site”
Moderator: TAKADA Yasunari (UTCP)
Panel C: Politics of Community, Inclusion and Exclusion (15:30-17:10)
KANAHARA Noriko (University of Tokyo)
“An Ethnographic Analysis of ‘Muslim communities’ in Recent British Policies”
Peter MÜHLEDER (University of Vienna)
“Undōkai : a Cultural Performance between Nation, Community and Individual”
ELJOMA
“Bilog Boundaries”
Moderator: Ksenia GOLOVINA (University of Tokyo)
Keynote Speech: (17:20-18:20)
Professor TRINH T. Minh-ha (
University of California, Berkeley)
March 6 (Sunday)
Place: Collaboration Room 1 (
Bld.18, 4th floor)
Panel D: Thresholds in Images (11:00-12:40)
May CHEW (Queen's University)
“Forging Intimacies: Multicultural Hospitality and Haunted Interiors Within A Canadian Context”
Jeehey KIM (City University of New York)
“Photography in Between Death and Life”
Namhee HAN (Rikkyo University/University of Chicago)
“Visible or Invisible: Postwar Vision in Kurosawa Akira’s High and Low (1963)”
Moderator: Mark ROBERTS (UTCP)
Panel E: Body/Skin (14:00-15:40)
Hayley McLAREN (Hitotsubashi University)
“Living Horimono: Modes of Agency of the Tattoo and Tattooed Body”
Basia SLIWINSKA (Loughborough University)
“Transgressing the Threshold Between the Self and the Other: the Body in Genderland”
YOSHIDA Yutaka (Hitotsubashi University)
“Metonymy of Bodies, Memories of Skin: The Post-apartheid, or the Unfinished Decolonization in Zoë Wicomb’s Playing in the Light”
Moderator: UCHINO Tadashi (UTCP)
Panel F: Women and Modernities (16:00-17:40)
NIHIRA Fukumi (University of Tokyo)
“Confusion and Fusion in Migracione”
SAEKI Eiko (Rutgers University/Visiting Researcher of Waseda University)
“The Birth of Obstetrics and the Boundaries of Personhood in Japan”
SHIBAHARA Taeko (Ryukoku University)
“Writing for ‘Japanese Women’: Japanese Suffragists in the 1930s”
Moderator: ELLIS Toshiko (University of Tokyo)
March 7 (Monday)
Place: Collaboration Room 2 (
Bld.18, 4th floor)
Workshop with Professor Trinh T. Minh-ha (University of California, Berkeley)
Limited to presenters of GSC and UTCP members.
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