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DESCRIPTION:The UCLA Paul I. and Hisako Terasaki Center for Japanese Studie
 s presents:\n\n<strong>Transculturation and National Signifiers: "Japan" I
 n\, After\, and Via Diaspora and Return</strong>\n12th Annual UCLA Graduat
 e Student Symposium in Japanese Studies\n\nSaturday\, April 22\, 2006\n9:0
 0AM - 5:00PM\nUniversity of California\, Los Angeles\nCovel Commons\, West
  Coast Room\nLos Angeles\, CA\n\nFor further information contact:\nJordan 
 Smith\n(310) 980-6620\n<a>oyabaka@ucla.edu</a>\n<!--break-->\n\n9:00-10:30
   Panel:  <strong>Narrative Triangulations: Japan/Japanese America/America
 </strong>\nDiscussant: Anne Sokolsky (University of Southern California)\n
 Andrew Leong (UC Berkeley) - "The City of Circular Failures: <em>Yoru ni n
 ageku</em> and Taisho Los Angeles"\nKristina Vassil (University of Michiga
 n) - "Putting Down Roots: Okina Kyuin's Declaration of an Immigrant Litera
 ture in the 1920's"\nEmily Anderson (UCLA) - "Becoming a City on a Hill: J
 apanese American Christian Narratives in Pre-World War II Los Angeles"\n\n
 10:45-12:45  Panel: <strong>(Re)presenting Japanese Arts Abroad</strong>\n
 Discussant: Morgan Pitelka (Occidental College)\nMichelle Kuhn (UCLA) - "O
 n Fine Versus Applied Arts at The World Exposition"\nLoren Kajikawa (UCLA)
  - "<em>Issei Spirit</em>: The <em>Shamisen</em> and Japanese American Ide
 ntity in the Music of Glenn Horiuchi"\nKristin Surak (UCLA) - "Culture in 
 the Flesh"\nDenis Gainty (University of Pennsylvania) - "Fighting the Marg
 in: The Greater Japan Martial Virtue Association and Center-Periphery Mode
 ls in Modern Japanese History"\n\n12:45-1:45  Break for lunch\n\n2:00-3:30
   Panel:  <strong>Transpacific Histories and Imaginations</strong>\nDiscus
 sant:  Kristine Dennehy (California State University\, Fullerton)\nZelidet
 h Maria Rivas (UC Berkeley) - "Songs from the Land of Eternal Summer: Nost
 algia in Okamatsu Kazuo's <em>Ikyou no uta</em>"\nRyan Yokota (University 
 of Chicago) - "<em>Gambateando</em>: A History of Okinawan Peruvians in Lo
 s Angeles"\nChika Shinohara (University of Minnesota) - "Subverting Japane
 se Tradition? Transculturally Produced New Images of 'Japanese Women' 1985
 -2005"\n\n3:45-4:45  Plenary Session:  <strong>"Blood Types"</strong>\nSpe
 cial Guest Speaker:  Karen Tei Yamashita (UC Santa Cruz)
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SUMMARY:12th Annual UCLA Graduate Student Symposium in Japanese Studies -- 
 April 22\, 2006
URL:/en/events/2006/04/22/12th-annual-ucla-graduate-student-symposium-in-ja
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