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WINTER 2008:


APARC 2008 GRADUATE RESEARCH CONFERENCE

on

UPROOTING AREA STUDIES

2 February 2008, 9 AM - 5:00 PM

COWELL CONFERENCE ROOM, UCSC

This event is free and open to the public.


Please join us for this interdisciplinary conference on considering the social, political, and epistemological implications of area studies.


In addition to graduate presenters, guest  speaker Takashi Fujitani, Associate Professor of History at the University of California, San Diego, will lead a special afternoon seminar with attendees.


C O N F E R E N C  E    S C H E D U L E


9 AM          Refreshments


9:30 AM     Panel I

Dylan Ellefson, USC: Scales of Identity – from the Local to the Global: Televisual Representations of Time and Place in Miike Takashi’s Osaka Coming of Age Films

Sherwin Mendoza, UCSC: Philippine Mass Media in Times of War

James Jack, U of Hawai’i: Representations of Japanese-ness: Examining the Reception of Early Photographic Works by Kunie Sugiura


11:00 AM    Panel II

Jade Sonouchi, U of Hawai’i: Japanese American Settler and Tourist Complicities: Colonial ‘Devouring’ of Hawai’I in Haunani-Kay Trask’s Light in the Crevice Never Seen and Night is a Sharkskin Drum

Valerie Solar, UCR: Crossing Lines: Place and the Female Body in Hawaiian and Filipina Literature

Dina X. El Dessouky, UCSC: Activating Voice, Body, and Place: Kanaka Maoli and Ma’ohi Writings for Kaho’olawe and Mororua


12:30 PM    Lunch Break


1:30 PM     Panel III

Emily Scheese, UCSC: Pacific Postcolonial Ecologies: Countering US Island Militarization and Cold War Area Studies by Redefining Security

Huiyan Fu, Oxford: Haken’s Dignity: A Rising Non-Regular Labour Force in Japan


2:45 PM     Seminar with Prof. Takashi Fujitani, Associate Professor of History, UC San Diego: Subject to Choice, Labyrinth of (Un)freedom


Please email aparc.ucsc@gmail.com for the seminar reading packet

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