2012 Meiji University-USC Faculty and Graduate Student Exchange

2012  January 24-25 History Department, USC
Schedule of Presentations

Kristina Buhrman   USC PhD Candidate
“Towards a Non-textual Tenmondô: Debates on Comet Forms During the Heian Period”
平安時代に於ける彗星形議論ー漢籍から離れられた天文道の微形跡

 

Clinton Godart   USC History Department
"Ishiwara Kanji, the East-Asia League, and Shôwa Utopianism"
 「昭和のユートピアー石原莞爾と東亜連盟」

 

Ito Ujitaka   Meiji University
"The End of Romantic Love in Contemporary Japanese Literature"
「現日本文学における恋愛の終焉
」

 

Matsuyama Megumi   Meiji University
"The Urban Meiji Restoration—Edo Becomes Tokyo"
「都市の幕末維新―東京奠都と江戸の改造」

 

Sasaki Ken'ichi    Meiji University
"Social and Political Structure in Sixth-century Japan, Seen from the Perspective of the Tomb Mounds"
「古墳から見た6世紀の政治社会組織」

Brett Sheehan   USC History Department
"The Dongya Corporation and the Occupation
 Developmental State, 1937-1945"
東亞公司と発展志向国家, 1937-1945

 

Takada Yukio   Meiji University
 "Modern Regional Societies in China as Seen in Terms of Education”
 「教育界から見た近代中国地域社会」

 

Anri Yasuda  USC Department of EA Languages and Cultures, Postdoctoral Fellow
“Reflecting the ‘Self’ in Foreign Images : The Shirakaba Writers’ Reception of Post-Impressionism”
輸入されたイメージに写す「自己」：白樺派の後期印象派受容

 

Schedule

1/24   in Social Sciences Building  (SOS) 250

12:30-1:30   Welcome, lunch, and introductions

1:30-2:30  K. Sasaki  

2:30-3:30  K. Buhrman

3:30-4:00 Break

4:00 -5:00  U. Ito

5:00-6:00  A. Yasuda

 

1/25   in Social Sciences Building  (SOS) 250

11:00 – 12:00 Y. Takada

12:00 – 1:00  B. Sheehan

1:00-2:00 Lunch for participants

2:00-3:00  M. Matsuyama

3:00-4:00  C. Godart

4:00 – 4:30 Break

4:30 – 5:30 General Discussion

 

Those interested in attending can contact Prof. Joan Piggott (joanrp@usc.edu) for further information.  Most talks will be in Japanese, but some English notes will be available.