Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture
Saturday, May 5th - Sunday, May 6th, 2007
403 Kent Hall
Columbia University, New York

SATURDAY, MAY 5th

9:00		Coffee
9:30		Welcoming Remarks Greg Pflugfelder (Columbia University)
9:40-11:40		Panel One
Miwako Tezuka (Asia Society)
	Imagine Again and Again: Copies of Portrait of Minamoto no Yoritomo by Yamaguchi Akira
Jordan Sand (Georgetown University)
	Chabudai at the Kodera Soy Sauce Shop, Edo-Tokyo Open-Air Museum
Amanda Mayer Stinchecum (Independent Scholar)
	Reading the Minsa: Sashes from Yaeyama
Giles Richter (Independent Scholar)
	Unfolding the N501i: A Mobile Phone as Cultural Artifact
Comments: Henry Smith (Columbia University)
11:40-1:00		Lunch Break
1:00-3:00		Panel Two
Alice Tseng (Boston University)
	Postwar Serenity and Loss in Domon Ken's Portrait of Kannon
Kim Brandt (Columbia University)
	"There Was No East or West When Their Lips Met...": Reflections on a Movie Poster for King Vidor's Japanese War Bride (1952)
Sarah Thal (University of Wisconsin)
	A Tale of Two Ema: Displays of Faith in a Changing World
Roger Purdy (John Carroll University)
	Daitôa®: Projecting Greater East Asia in Nihon Nyûsu's Production Logos
Comments: Alan Tansman (University of California, Berkeley)
3:00-4:15		Afternoon Break
4:15-6:00		Panel Three
Ken Tadashi Oshima (University of Washington)
	Mediating Modernity between East and West: Watanabe Yoshio's Photograph of the Okada House
Chelsea Foxwell (Columbia University)
	Naturalizing the Double Reading: Hawks in a Ravine by Kano Hôgai
Satow Morihiro (Kyoto Seika University)
	Death of an Author: Photography, Handwriting, and Memory in the Obituary of Natsume Sôseki
Comments: Greg Pflugfelder (Columbia University)
SUNDAY, MAY 6th
10:00		Coffee
10:30-12:30		Panel Four
Leila Wice (Portland State University)
	Whose Hakama?: Layered Meanings of Dress and the Social Fabric of Nineteenth-Century Japan
Matthew P. McKelway (Columbia University)
	The Tree of All Mothers: The Zôshigaya Gingko
Morgan Pitelka (Occidental College)
	Function, Performance, and Reproduction in the Making of "Large Sidearm" at Wakayama Castle
Comments: TBA
12:30-2:00		Lunch Break
2:00-4:00		Panel Five
Miriam Wattles (University of California, Santa Barbara)
	Kimyô zui, or, the Bizarre Lexical Play of Giga
Timon Screech (SOAS)
	On a Painting Called The Full Moon, and the Voyage of the New Year's Gift
David Lurie (Columbia University)
	The Suda Hachiman Shrine Mirror and the History of Failure
Louise Cort (Smithsonian Institution)
	A Chinese Jar and the Greening of Momoyama Ceramics
Comments: Max Moerman (Barnard College)
4:00-5:00		Afternoon Break
5:00-6:00		Wrap-up Session

THIS EVENT IS COSPONSORED BY THE WEATHERHEAD INSTITUTE AND THE DEPARTMENT OF EAST ASIAN LANGUAGES AND CULTURES AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY