Event time:
Saturday, May 4, 2019 - 9:00am to 5:30pm
Location:
Henry R. Luce Hall, Room 202
34 Hillhouse Avenue
New Haven, CT
06520
Event description:
The Council on East Asian Studies presents a conference:
“Japanese Diaspora to the Americas: Literature, History and Identity”
9:00 am – 10:30 am: Japanese Diasporic Literature in Comparative Context
- Jonathan Abel (Penn State, Chair)
- Facundo Garasino (Osaka)
- Hideto Tsuboi (Nichibunken)
- Yoshitaka Hibi (Nagoya)
10:45 am – 12:15 pm: Japanese Brazilian Literature and Print Culture
- Seth Jacobowitz (Yale, Chair and Presenter)
- Ted Mack (UW)
- Zeli Rivas (Marshall U)
1:30 pm – 3: 00 pm: Resettling Japanese American History
- Stephen Poland (Yale, Chair)
- Robert Hegwood (Harvard Reischauer)
- Brian Masaru Hayashi (Kent State)
- Greg Robinson (UQAM)
3:30 – 5:20 pm: Immigration and Expansionism in the Japanese Empire
- Eiichiro Azuma (U Penn, Chair)
- Louise Young (U Wisconsin)
- Andre Haag (U Hawaii)
- Nayoung Aimee Kwon (Duke)
- Sidney X. Lu (Michigan State)
5:30 pm: Keynote by Ignacio López-Calvo (UC Merced)
Admission:
Free but register in advance
Open to:
General Public