UCLA Center for Japanese Studies, Calendar of Events 2006
Topic: University Programs
Colloquium talks are held 3-5 pm Mondays at Hacienda Room at the UCLA Faculty Center unless otherwise noted.

WINTER 06

Jan 9: Colloquium with Janet R. Goodwin, Independent Scholar
Selling Songs and Smiles: Sexual Entertainment in Heian and Kamakura Japan.

Jan 30: Colloquium with Carol Gluck, History, Columbia University
After the Shipwreck: New Horizons in History Writing

Feb 6: Colloquium with Mizuko Ito, Communication, University of Southern California
Anime Fandom and Amateur Cultural Production

Feb 13: Colloquium with Thomas Rimer, 2005-2006 Paul Terasaki Chair, UCLA
Berlin in Tokyo: Senda Koreya, Brecht, Shakespeare

Senda Koreya (1904-1994) during the span of his long and active life, witnessed every vicissitude in the growing pains of the modern Japanese theatre, and his contributions did much to insure its ultimate success. His years in Germany in the 1920s led him to Marxist commitments and imprisonment in Japan during the war years, and his postwar company the Actor?s Theatre (the Haiy?za) remained in the forefront of theatrical experiments in the early decades of the postwar period.


Feb 27: Colloquium with Akiko Hashimoto, Sociology, University of Pittsburgh
Japan in the Shadow of War Memory

Mar 13: Colloquium with Max Moerman, Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Barnard Coll.
Cartographic Piety: India in the Japanese Buddhist Imagination

Mar 20: Colloquium with John Maraldo, Asian and Comparative Philosophy, University of North Florida
Philosophy in Traditional Japan - Is there Such a Thing? The Early Meiji Debate and Beyond

SPRING 06

April 3: Colloquium with Michael Como, Religion, Columbia
Disease and Astrology in Heian Japan

April 10: Nikkei Bruin Workshop “Japanese Colonial Sensibility: Bodies, Style, Korea”
9 am – 4 pm. Organized by Miriam Silverberg. Details to be announced

April 21 at Royce Hall: International Conference “ The Making of an Ancient Capital: Nara”
9 am – 5 pm. Organized by Michael Marra. Details to be announced.

April 22 at Covel Common: 12th Annual Graduate Student Symposium in Japanese Studies “Transcultural and National Signifiers: ‘Japan’ In, After, and Via Diaspora and Return” 9 am – 5 pm.

May 1: Colloquium with Alexis Dudden, History, Connecticut College
"Illegal Korea: Code to Empire"

May 8: Colloquium with Ethan Scheiner, Political Science, UC Davis
"Democracy Without Competition in Japan: Opposition Failure in One-Party Dominant State"

May 22: Colloquium with Melissa McCormick, Japanese Art and Culture, Harvard University
"Pictorial Commentary and the Medieval reception of The Tale of Genji"

June 5: Colloquium with Aaron Gerow, Film Studies, Yale University
Framing the Clown: Manzai, Violence and the Nation in Kitano Takeshi

June 12: Colloquium with David Matsumoto, Psychology, San Francisco State University
Recent Psychological Research on Japanese Culture and Personality

LA as Offshore Japan, May 12, 13
Topic: University Programs
LA as offshore Japan
Transnational Networks and Cultural Entrepreneurship across the Pacific Rim

A two-day event to launch the project
?Made In Translation: LA-Tokyo Mobility Networks and the Emergence of Offshore Japanese Cultural Industries in Art, Fashion and Food?

Funded by SSRC/Japan Foundation Abe Fellowship, UCLA Center for Japanese Studies, and International Institute

Info: Adrian Favell (afavell@soc.ucla.edu) or Misako Nukaga (mnukaga@ucla.edu)
http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/soc/faculty/favell/TokyoLA.htm



Friday 12th May LECTURE
11am-1pm Bunche 10383 (International Institute)
LAURA MILLER, Anthropology, Loyola University Chicago
?Writing Gone Wild: Japanese Girls' Orthographic Rebellion?

This talk will introduce contemporary Japanese "Girl Characters" (gyaru moji), a writing practice that originated in cell phone text messaging and email, but is now found in other girls' media. Girl Characters are a straightforward syllabic graph substitution system combined with the use of deconstructed characters. Girls are awash in script overabundance, but rather than be overwhelmed by it, it is technological bounty they exploit and embrace.

When girls play with their writing system in this way, they are doing three things. One, they are refusing to be the caretakers of beautiful calligraphy and are rejecting their role as custodians of "correct" language.

Two, their use of Girl Characters also extends the boundary of what is considered written Japanese, thereby challenging the notion of written language as a standardized and shared system.

Last, by redefining the borders of linguistic possibility, girls are demonstrating resistance to the uniformity and predictability of standardized writing and print media.

Open to public




Saturday 13th May
PROJECT WORKSHOP
"LA as Offshore Japan"
Public Policy 5391 (5th Floor Lounge)

9.30 Coffee & Donuts
9.45 Welcome
10.00 Introduction to Project ADRIAN FAVELL & MISAKO NUKAGA
10.30 Japanese LA: Demographic & Social Profile MISAKO NUKUGA
11.00 Hypotheses and Methods ADRIAN FAVELL

12.00 Lunch
2.00 The New Young Japanese LA FUMINORI MINAMIKAWA, American Studies, Kobe City University
2.45 Tea and Gender in Translation KRISTIN SURAK, Sociology, UCLA
3.30 Japanese Children in LA Schools MISAKO NUKAGA, Sociology, UCLA

Afternoon Discussants:
LAURA MILLER (Anthropology, Loyola), MIZUKO ITO (Communication, USC), TAKEYUKI TSUDA (Political Science, UCSD)

4.30 Close

All interested welcome, but please register with afavell@soc.ucla.edu

In conjunction with the International Institute Working Group: The Human Face of Global Mobility: International Highly Skilled Migration in Europe, North America and the Asia-Pacific

Now out as a book edited by Michael Peter Smith and Adrian Favell (New Brunswick: Transaction 2006)

UCLA Graduate Student Symposium, April 22
Topic: University Programs
UCLA Center for Japanese Studies presents
The 12th Annual Graduate Student Symposium in Japanese Studies

Transculturation and National Signifiers:
"Japan" In, After, and Via Diaspora and Return

Saturday, April 22, 2006
8am -5pm
Covel Commons West Coast Room

Late Yuji Ichioka, Apr. 22
Topic: University Programs
Late Yuji Ichioka, Asian American Professor of UCLA will be honored by scholars on Saturday, Apr. 22 at Senshin Buddhist Temple, 1311 W. 37th Street, Los Angeles. Contact: aascrsvp@aasc.ucla.edu, (310) 825-2974.

International symposium on the city of Nara, Apr. 21
Topic: University Programs
On Friday April 21, an international symposium on the city of Nara will be held at UCLA. The symposium with the title of “The Making of an Ancient Capital: Nara” will take place in the Downstairs Lounge at the UCLA Faculty Center from 9:30 a.m. until 6:00 p.m.

Organized by Prof. Michael F. Marra of the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, the event is sponsored by the UCLA Center for Japanese Studies and the Association for Commemorative Events of the 1300th Anniversary of Nara Heij?-ky? Capital.

Among the speakers are Mr. Tanigawa Masatsugu (executive director of the Nara Prefectural Government office), Prof. Nakanishi Susumu (President of the Kyoto City University of Arts), Prof. Terasawa Yukitada of Kei? University, and Prof. Kaya Noriko of Osaka Ky?iku Daigaku. Mr. Tanigawa and Mr. Yamashita Yasunori, project group leader of the committee celebrating the 1300th anniversary of the capital in 2010, will represent at the conference Mr. Kakimoto Yoshiya, Governor of the Nara Prefecture, who has recently bestowed on Prof. Marra the title of Goodwill Ambassador for Nara-Mahoroba.

For further information, e-mail to marra@humnet.ucla.edu.

(Japanese names appear in family name and given name order.)

Cal State University L.A. Celebrates the 30th Anniversary of its Japanese Studies Center
Topic: University Programs
Thursday, November 17, 2005, 1:30 – 3:10 p.m.

California State University, Los Angeles presents Japan Day in celebration of the 30th anniversary of its Japanese Studies Center.

CSULA Japan Day will feature a lecture, “Zen and Japanese Culture,” by Emeritus Professor Kazumitsu Kato, the founder of the University’s Japanese Studies Center. (Following the lecture will be a traditional tea ceremony at 4:20 p.m., King Hall D1054D, and a film presentation, Twilight Samurai, at 6:10 p.m., King Hall B3019.)

Cal State L.A. King Hall C4075B. The University is located at the Eastern Avenue exit, San Bernardino (I-10) Freeway, at the interchange of 10 and 710 Freeways. Public (permit dispensers) parking is available in Lot C, Lot G, or the top level of Parking Structure 2.

The Japanese Studies Center serves Cal State L.A. and the community as a source to aid faculty, students, and the general public in broadening and deepening their knowledge of Japan, its people, and culture.

The Center promotes Japanese research and academic studies and supports educational and cultural programs, seminars, guest lectures, and conferences. The office maintains a collection of basic bibliographies and essential reference materials.

For more information, call Sachiko Matsunaga, Modern Languages and Literatures Department, Cal State University L.A., at (323) 343-4230.