Programme Section 5 Anthropology and Sociology concurrent with the 17th JAWS Conference "Time and Memory"
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Thursday, September 1, 2005 |
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Session 1 (Room I)
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| Panel | Panel organiser: Rupert Cox |
| 9:00 | Ritual and Memory at Ise (Rosemary Bernard) |
| 9:30 | The performance, preservation, and construction of memory in the hanamatsuri of Aichi prefecture, Japan (Lisa Kuly ) |
| 10:00 | Sunka and nunka: Present and past as cognitive domains in the South Ryukyus (Arne Røkkum) |
Session 1B (Room II)
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| Panel | Panel organiser: Elise Edwards |
| 9:00 | Eugenic raiment: Style, personhood, and modernity in Japan (Jennifer Robertson) |
| 9:30 | Dressing the ‘Ryôsai Kenbo:’ Kappôgi and the New Female Ideal (Katarzyna Cwiertka) |
| 10:00 | JR cultures. Differences and similarities on the Japanese Railways (Christopher P. Hood) |
| 10:30 | coffee break |
Session 2A (Room I)
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| Panel | Panel organiser: Rupert Cox |
| 11:00 | Tokyo Dreaming. An investigation of the cinematic surfaces of memory in the urban space of Chris Markers film Sans Soleil (Rupert Cox) |
| 11:30 | Mnemonic monsters: Cultural memory and the agency of the absent in post-war Japan (Fabio Gygi) |
| 12:00 | Memory and identity in enka karaoke videos (William Kelly) |
Session 2B (Room II)
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| Panel | Panel organiser: Elise Edwards |
| 11:00 | Japanese Girls' school uniforms and recurrent memories of the history of female sexual servitude (Sharon Kinsella) |
| 11:30 | The fabric of the afterlife: Sacrifice and apotheosis in tokkôtai (Kamikaze) uniforms (Ellen Schattschneider) |
| 12:00 | Happi as Uniform (Fiona Graham) |
| 12:30 | JAWS lunch |
Session 3A (Room I)
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| Panel | Panel organiser: Rupert Cox |
| 14:30 | At the periphery of the nation's memory: Imaging the Abashiri prison in post-war Japan (Pia Vogler) |
| 15:00 | Remembering Sugihara, re-framing Japan in Europe: Holocaust era altruism and the politics of cultural memory (Jane Marie Law) |
| 15:30 | 'The purified past' - vernacular house preservation in Akita prefecture, Japan (Milena Markov) |
Session 3B (Room II)
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| Panel | Panel organiser: Elise Edwards |
| 14:30 | Supporter Kits, Face Painting and Sport Spectacles: Conspicuous Consumption in Late Modern Japan (Wolfram Manzenreiter) |
| 15:00 | Public Secrets: Cheerleaders’ Uniforms in Varsity-Level Japanese Athletics (Ann Herring) |
| 15:30 | Uniforms of Sport and War: Soldiers, Athletes, and Nationalism in Modern Japan (Elise Edwards) |
| 16:00 | coffee break |
Session 4A (Room I)
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| Panel | Panel organiser: Rupert Cox |
| 16:30 | Tama: Balls, beads, boulders, jewels and spirits (Edwina Palmer) |
| 17:00 | Tea objects and memory. The creation of community among elite practitioners of the Japanese tea ceremony (James Henry Holland) |
| 17:30 | A suburban palimpsest: Writing, erasing and rewriting Honmoku by Mississippi Bay (James E. Nickum) |
Session 4B (Room II)
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| Panel | Chair: Ingrid Getreuer-Kargl |
| 16:30 | The plasticity of the Japanese female body (Muriel Jolivet) |
| 17:00 | Vestis Virum Reddit. Uniform as an Indication of Social Position – Sumptuary Laws and the Bushi as Arbiter Elegantiarum (Catharina Blomberg) |
| 17:30 | Naishinshô, posh uniforms and the art of choosing a middle school in Japan (Marie H. Roesgaard) |
| 18:00 | end of the academic programme |
Friday, September 2, 2005 |
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Session 5A (Room I)
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Chair: Dolores Martinez |
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| 9:00 | The Democratic Status of a Self-governing Association (Kazunori Oshima) |
| 9:30 | Modernization and New Social Movements in Japan (Iris Wieczorek) |
| 10:00 | Hospice and Vihâra – (Buddhist) Spiritual Care for the Terminally Ill (Wolfgang Herbert) |
Session 5B (Room II)
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Chair: Scott Clark |
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| 9:00 | Japanese individualism – free relations, free employment (Wim Lunsing) |
| 9:30 | The role of networks for Japanese women on the career-track (Petra Röska) |
| 10:00 | Meritocracy in Japan - Analysis on Social Elites (Mikiko Eswein) |
| 10:30 | coffee break |
Session 6A (Room I)
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Chair: Christoph Brumann |
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| 11:00 | Creating the Memory of Majority and Ethic, Religious and National Minorities in Japanese Classrooms (Yuki Shiose) |
| 11:30 | The Landscape of Memory: Illegal migrant’s life stories in Japan through time and space (Mary Jane Garcia) |
| 12:00 | Multicultural calendars and social construction of time: A focus on the Brazilians living in Japan (Hirochika Nakamaki) |
Session 6B (Room II)
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Chair: Bruce White |
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| 11:00 | This is my dream home. The coming silver generation anticipates their living conditions (Anemone Platz) |
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Passing on Values Through Time: The Family as Context for Learning Communicative Strategies (Peter Ackermann) |
| 12:00 | The world wide exhibition hall: Japanese home pages, weblogs and photologs as sites for presenting self (Todd Holden) |
| 12:30 | Organizers: Petra Roeska, Ingrid Getreuer-Kargl, Brigitte Steger |
Session 7A (Room I)
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Chair: Brigitte Steger |
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| 14:30 | JR time and rubber time: The paradox in the Japanese conception of time (Yohko Tsuji) |
| 15:00 | Management and conceptualization of time and space in support groups for hikikomori youths (Sachiko Horiguchi) |
| 15:30 | Time Concerns and time-use of Japanese housewives in a network business (Masae Yuasa) |
Session 7B (Room II)
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| Panel | Chair: Joy Hendry |
| 14:30 | The representation of temporality in the prehistoric Japanese archipelago (Simon Karner) |
| 15:00 | Exhibiting Japan – global stages for local actors (Andrew D. Brydon) |
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Time signature in namban Lacquerware: Tangible forms of storing remembrance (Leonor Leiria) |
| 16:00 | coffee break |
Session 8A (Room I)
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Chair: n/a |
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How Japanese switch their sleep setting and attitude from waking to sleeping: Analysis of sleep habits in contemporary Japan (Megumi Kaji, Masayoshi Shigeta, Yukio Toyoda) |
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“Early to rise…” Creating the healthy, wealthy, wise and virtuous Japanese (Brigitte Steger) |
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Session 8B (Room II)
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Chair: Margarita Winkel |
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| 16:30 | The Everyday Calligrapher in Heian Japan : Toward An Archaeology of Writing Practice in Early Japanese Court Culture (Brenda Danet) |
| 17:00 | Ritual and New Cultural Phenomena reviewed in Oba Minakos Work (Daniela Tan) |
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end of the academic programme 17:30 - 18:30: JAWS business meeting (Room I) |
Saturday, September 3, 2005 |
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Sessions 9 & 10 (Room II) |
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9:00 |
Workshop on Developing Intercultural Teaching Strategies (Cooperation between VSJF, JAWS and EAJS) Organizer: Susanne Kreitz-Sandberg |
| 12:30 | end of Section 5 |
Please note that all programme information is still subject to change.
Note: Due to a change in the rhythm of the EAJS conferences, in 2005, two JAWS meetings will be held. The 16th meeting – "East meets West" – took place at the University of Hong Kong, 17-21 March 2005.