JAPANESE TOPICS ARE PART OF THE INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE

FEB. 20-22 at the EAST-WEST CENTER.

Several Japan-related topics of interest to the community will be featured at the February 20-22 international graduate student conference at the East-West Center.

The sessions are free and open for attendance by the public and coverage by news media.

Among the Japan-related presentations are:

• “Change of Chinese Press and Politics: Comparison with the Japanese Case” by Shunichi Takekawa, University of Hawai’i at Manoa. 8 a.m. February 21.
• “Consuming a Japanese Live-Action TV Show in Hawaii” by Hirofumi Katsuno, University of Hawai’i. 8 a.m. Feb. 21.
• “Japanese or American? Negotiating Dichotomies in the Construction of Japanese American Identities in Japan” by Jane Yamashiro, University of Hawai’i. 8 a.m. Feb. 21.
• “Actualizing the Myth of Warrior Identity in Noh Drama” by Tim Cooper, University of Hawai’i. 2 p.m. Feb. 21.
• “Japan’s Ambiguous National Identity: From East to West and Back Again?” by Chihiro Kondo, Ritsumeikan University, Japan. 4 p.m. Feb. 21.
• “Pearl Harbor Remembered: National and Transnational Time and Space” by Mihoko Kajikawa, Cornell University. 4 p.m. Feb. 21.
• U.S.-Japan and U.S.-Korea Status of Forces Agreements: Unequal Partnerships or Enduring Alliances?” by Leif-Eric Easley, Harvard University. 8 a.m. Feb. 22.
• “How Does Self Have to Do with the Sense of Guilt & Responsibility?: Relational Self in Japan” by Miyuki Hasegawa, University of Melbourne, Australia. 10:15 a.m. Feb. 22

The event: The 2003 East-West Center International Graduate Student Conference & the 14th Annual Graduate Student Conference of the University of Hawaii School of Hawaiian, Asian and Pacific Studies.

Theme: “A Sense of Place in the Pacific and Asia: Socioeconomic, Cultural, Political and Environmental Identities.”

Featured: 21 panel sessions, with several focusing on Southeast Asia and China, and a panel on Hawaii and Oceania.

Keynote Speaker: Craig Calhoun, president of the Social Science Research Council and professor of sociology and history at New York University.

• 5:30 p.m. Thursday, February 20 at the EWC’s Hawaii Imin International Conference Center at Jefferson Hall. Opening ceremony and keynote address.

Calhoun will speak on “Cosmopolitanism is Not Enough: Culture and Community Still Matter. ” The talk is open to the public. He is the author of Neither Gods Nor Emperors: Students and the Struggle for Democracy in China; and The Question of Class Struggle.

Participation: All sessions are open to the public at no charge.

Presentations: More than 80 papers, panel and poster presentations will be given by graduate students from Hawai’i, the U.S. mainland, Europe, Australia, Indonesia, Japan, Korea, China, the Philippines, Singapore and the United Kingdom.

Session topics include the influence of media on culture, the politics of national identity, colonial issues, nationalism, performing arts, sustainable development, regionalism, aftermath of World War II, marginalized identities in Hawaii, health matters, legal issues in contemporary society, and environmental dilemmas.

Music and dance performances also will be presented.

Schedule and Additional Information: The conference web site is at Conference Information. Click on “Education” and then on “2003 East-West Center International Graduate Student Conference & SHAPS 14th Annual Graduate Student Conference: A Joint Conference.” E-mail: studentconference@EastWestCenter.org