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