MEIJI UNIVERSITY
Japan + Hawai’i + South Korea + Taiwan
a Transpacific Conversation on
Asian American Literature & Asia:
Citizenship, History, Memory, Diplomacy
WHEN: December 20, 2014: 8:30~17:00
WHERE: Meiji University, Surugadai Campus, Academy Common, 2F, Room A1
Access: http://www.meiji.ac.jp/cip/english/about/campus/su_campus.html#2-1-1
Queries: contact Gayle Sato at [email protected] or 03-3296-2228
Grateful acknowledgment is made for support from:
Meiji University 2014 Special Personal Research Fund
Meiji University 2014 International Conference/Symposium Support Fund
Academic and Organizational Affiliations of speakers from Hawai’i, South Korea, and Taiwan
8:30
Doors open
9:00-9:15
Opening Remarks (Gayle K. Sato, Meiji University)
9:15-9:20
9:20-9:40
9:40-10:00
10:00-10:15
10:15-10:30
Introductions for Session 1 (Citizenship)
Yu-cheng Lee, Academia Sinica: “Critical Ha Jinism; or, Ha Jin as a Critic”
Guy Beauregard, National Taiwan University/Academia Sinica: “On Not Knowing: Reading Asian American
Literature After March 11”
Response: Wing Tek Lum, Bamboo Ridge Press
Q&A
10:30-10:40
Break
10:40-10:45
10:45-11:05
11:05-11:25
11:25-11:45
11:45-12:00
12:00-12:15
Introductions for Session 2 (History)
Te-hsing Shan, Academia Sinica: “Angel Island Revisited”
Jade Tsui-yu Lee, National Kaohsiung Normal University: “Drugging Asia: Transoceanic Imaginary of Opium
in Asian American Literature”
Juliet S. Kono, reading from Anshū: Dark Sorrow
Response: Kevin Mark, Meiji University
Q&A
12:15-13:45
Lunch Break
13:45-13:50
13:50-14:10
14:10-14:30
14:30-14:45
14:45-15:00
Introductions for Session 3 (Memory)
So-Hee Lee, Hanyang Women’s University: “History and Memory in Still Life with Rice”
Shyh-jen Fuh, National Tsing Hua University: "Remembering Home from Exile: The Philippines in Bulosan's Heart"
Response: Juliet S. Kono, University of Hawai’i Leeward Community College
Q&A
15:00-15:10
Break
15:10-15:15
15:15-15:35
15:55-16:15
16:15-16:30
16:30-16:45
Introductions for Session 4 (Diplomacy)
Pin-chia Feng, National Chiao Tung University/Academia Sinica: “Visual Memories of the Chinese Railroad
Workers in North America”
Eun-Gwi Chung, Hankuk University of Foreign Studies: “Spotting Time Place: Forms of Spatial Authority in
Asian American Poetry”
Wing Tek Lum, reading from The Nanjing Massacre: Poems
Response: Hideyuki Yamamoto, Kobe University
Q&A
16:45-17:00
Closing Remarks (Gayle K. Sato, Meiji University)
15:35-15:55