General Theme:
Japanese Cultures: Diversity / Variation / Plurality
The Institute of Comparative Culture at Sophia University
Tokyo Japan, May 8-9
Conference Event Schedule:
First Session: Saturday, May 8th, 1 pm; Reception 5:30-7:30
Second Session: Sunday, May 9th, 10 am, Lunch
Third Session: Sunday, May 9th, 1 pm
* * * * * * ******SCHEDULE OF PANELS***********
PANEL ONE: EXPLORING LINGUISTIC DIVERSITY AND RESOURCES IN JAPANESE
Saturday 1-3:30
Title: Conversational Sequences as Strategic Resources on Japanese Political Discussion TV Programs
Scott Saft, Hokkaido Tokai University
Title: Exploring Voice Pitch as a Social Resource in Japanese
Yumiko Ohara, University of Hawaii at Manoa
Title: Sentence final particles as a resource for creating masculine identity: A preliminary investigation
Cindi Sturtz, University of California, Davis
Title: Resources for indexing non-linguistic gender choices
Naoko Ogawa, Kyoto Bunkyo College
PANEL TWO: MULTI-ETHNIC JAPAN Saturday, 3:30-5:30
Title: Dynamics of Japan’s New Ethnic Minority: Face, Name and Identity of Japanese-Brazilian Children in Japan
Tomoko Sekiguchi, Nagoya University
Title: Japan’s New Overseas Chinese: Image, Community and Integration
Robert Efird, University of Washington
Title: A Lesson from the Great Kobe Earthquake: Toward Multicultural Coexistence
Yasuko I. Takezawa, Kyoto University
PANEL THREE: CULTURE IN COMMUNITIES Sunday 10-12
Title: Authenticity and the Community
Ron Carle, University of Edinburgh
Title: Kyoto’s Internal Cultural Debate: Methodological Perspectives
Christoph Brumann, University of Cologne and Minpaku
Title: Shimin sanka, or the field for citizen participation, Fukui-ken
Guven Witteveen, Minpaku
PANEL FOUR, Sunday 1-3
Title: EXPRESSING INDIVIDUALITY THROUGH MATERIAL CULTURE
Title: What Cuteness, Cleanliness and Consumerism Say about the ‘Group Model’ in Japan
Brian Mc Veigh, Toyo Gakuen University
Title: The Consuming Individual and The Hidden Self: Are Young Japanese “Soft Individualists”?
John McCreery, Sophia University
Title: Love Car – Automobiles, Advertisements and Emotions
Andreas Reissland, Oxford Brooks
PANEL FIVE: THE CULTURE OF JAPANESE UNIVERSITIES Sunday 3:30-5:00
Format: General discussion- Ethnography of higher learning in Japan
Presentations by Harumi Befu, Kyoto Bunkyo University
William Bradley, Ryukoku University
Tim Fitzgerald, Aichi Gakuin University