Hapa Japan 2013 Scholarly Conference Part 2
Hapa Japan 2013 Festival/Sawyer Seminar III Capstone Conference
Description:
9:00-10:15AM
SESSION 5 – JAPANESE-BRAZILIAN MIXED-RACE REALITIES
“Lost in Japan: Representations of Japanese-Brazilian Children”
Zelideth María Rivas (Marshall University)
“Mestiça and/or Haafu: Japanese-Brazilian Women and Their Mixed-Race Bodies Questioned in Brazil and Japan”
Tamaki Watarai (Aichi Prefectural University)
Respondent: Lily Anne Yumi Welty (UCLA)
10:15-10:30AM COFFEE BREAK
10:30-12:00PM
SESSION 6 – FILM SCREENINGS
Trailer for Mixed Match (Director, Jeff Chiba Stearns; Associate Producer, Athena Asklipiadis)
www.mixedmatchmovie.com
Screening of documentary film, Neither Here Nor There (2011) (Director, Ema Ryan Yamazaki)
www.neitherherenorthere-thefilm.com/
Screenings will be followed by discussions with filmmakers
12:00-1:15PM LUNCH BREAK
1:15-2:30PM
SESSION 7 – HAPA JAPANESE VISUAL ARTS: A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION ON ART AND IDENTITY
“Creative Identities: Transformative Hapa Japanese Artists”
Yasuko Takezawa (Kyoto University)
With Featured Artist Presentations by artists, Laura Kina and Shizu Salamando
2:30-2:45PM COFFEE BREAK
2:45-4:15PM
SESSION 8 – READING RACE: REPRESENTATIONS OF MIXED-RACE JAPANESE
“Hapa Covers: Japanese Enka and Its Mixed-Race African American Star”
Christine Yano (University of Hawaii)
“America’s Forgotten Children: Representations of American-Japanese Mixed Race Children in Post-WWII Japan”
Sayuri Arai (University of Illinois)
“Manga or Marvel?: Multiracial Japanese/American Visual Narrative in Indy Comics”
LeiLani Nishime (University of Washington)
Discussant: Cynthia Nakashima (co-editor of The Sum of Our Parts)
4:15-4:30PM CLOSING DISCUSSION
Co-Sponsored by the Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminars at USC and Kyoto University