A Global Perspectives Symposium: Day One

When:
April 20, 2018 @ 9:45 am – 6:30 pm
2018-04-20T09:45:00-04:00
2018-04-20T18:30:00-04:00
Where:
B342 Wells Hall

The symposium, “The Poetics of Passing: Interrogating Self-Fashioning as the Other in Zainichi Cultural Production,” seeks to illuminate “zainichi” as a locus for theorizing the notion of passing. Since Koreans and Japanese represent different ethnic groups that cannot be differentiated racially, rethinking received notions of passing through an in-depth study of zainichi literary and visual narratives can help us further theorize hegemonic discourses on passing, as well as the consequences, effects, means, and strategies of passing (or not passing).

This two-day symposium will consist of four panels with 12 presenters, 4 moderators, and 8 discussants (detailed program here) together with an open discussion forum each day.

APRIL 20, 2018  

9:45 am   Opening Remarks by Russell Lucas

                     Director of the Global Studies in the Arts and Humanities, MSU

10:00 am   Session 1: Legality, Legislation, and the Historical Legacies of Japanese Imperialism

                       Moderator: Ethan Segal, MSU

Christina Yi, University of British Columbia

Passing in ‘Postwar’ Japan: On Yi Yang-ji’s ‘I Am a Korean’”

Andre Haag, University of Hawai’i at Manoa

In/Visibility and Im/Permeable Boundaries in Zainichi-Japanese Narrations of the 1923 Kantō Korean Massacre

Jimin Ha, Washington University

Beyond Language: Reading Yi Yang-ji’s Yuhi

Discussants: Kirsten Fermaglich, MSU & Anna Pegler-Gordon, MSU

12:30 pm   Lunch Break

2:00 pm    Session 2: The Politics of Passing in Fiction and Film

                      Moderator: Marc Bernstein, MSU

Koji Toba, Waseda University

              “Abe Kōbō and his Consciousness of Ethnicity

So Hye Kim, Chicago University

              “The Limits of Empathy: Documenting Zainichi Students‘ Honmyō Sengen”

Nathaniel Heneghan, Murray State University

              “The Minority Machine: Alterity and Excess in the Films of Sai Yōichi

Discussants: Sheng-Mei Ma, MSU & Kaveh Askari, MSU

4:30 pm     Open Discussion led by Jonathan Glade, MSU

6:30 pm     Dinner Conversation

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