Japan Studies Association of Canada
East Asian Council of Canadian Asian Studies Association

EAC-JSAC 2005 ALBERTA CONFERENCE PROGRAM

Connections & Identities in East Asia and Beyond
To be confirmed & updated. Please send your questions to Wenran Jiang at wenran.jiang@ualberta.ca
and copy to Stephen Speake at eacjsac@ualberta.ca

All conference activities & lunches are in Telus Centre at Univ. of Alberta, 111 St. & 87 Ave.

Thursday, Sept. 29, 2005
4:00-6:00 pm

Registration, Telus Centre

7:30-9:30 pm

Reception (Location TBA)

Friday, Sept. 30, 2005
7:30-8:30 am

Registration / Morning coffee

8:30-9:00 am

OPENING CEREMONY (Rm. 217-219)
Dr. Satoshi Ikeda, EAC-JSAC 05 Conference Co-Chair, MC
VP, Univ. of Alberta (TBA)
Dr. O. P. Dwivedi, President, CASA
Dr. Fumiko Ikawa-Smith, President, JSAC

9:00-10:15 am

PLENARY SESSION I: (Rm. 217-219)
Sixty Years Anniversary of World War II:
History, Identity, Nationalism & Reconciliation
Chair: Dr. Charles Burton, Brock Univ.
Stephen Doust, Canadian Embassy in Tokyo—The Changing
Japanese Dynamic and its Implications
Kimie Hara, Univ. of Waterloo—Japan and the “Unresolved
Problems” in East Asia
Satoshi Ikeda, Univ. of Alberta— Between Malign Oblivion andLearned Ignorance: Japanese “Management” of War CrimeMemories

10:15-10:30 am

Coffee break10:30-12:00 am
Panel A

BREAKOUT SESSIONS I
Roundtable - Promoting East Asian Studies:
Perspectives from Chairpersons (Rm. 217)
Chair: Peter Nosco, Chair, Dept. of Asian Studies, UBC
Janice Brown, Chair, Dept. of East Asian Studies, Univ. of Alberta
X. Jie Yang, Chair, Dept. of Germanic, Slavic, and East AsianStudies, Univ. of Calgary
Jan Walls, Director, David Lam Centre, Simon Fraser Univ.
Cody Poulton, Chair, Dept. of Pacific & Asian Studies
Univ. of Victoria

Panel B

Chinese/Canadian Adoptive Kinship:
Cultural, Legal, and Historical (Rm. 219)
Chair: Sara Dorow, Univ. of Alberta
Ouellette Françoise-Romaine, Université du Québec—Chinese/Canadian Adoption and the Increasing Openness ofAdoption Files
Xiaobei Chen, Univ. of Victoria—Chinese Orphans, CanadianMissionaries and Adoptive Parents: Cross-Border Love (KuaGuojie De Ai) in Historical Perspective
Sara Dorow, Univ. of Alberta—“Being Chinese”: Adoptive
Families as Immigrant Families?

Panel C

Food Culture and the Food Industry in Japan (Rm. 131)
Chair: Carin Holroyd, Asia Pacific Foundation
Matsubara, Toyohiko, Ritsumeikan—Environment-friendly
agriculture and producer-consumer network in Japan
Joe Kess and Yuko Igarashi, Univ. of Victoria— Food Fight!
Change and challenge in Japan's culinary culture
Yuko Igarashi and Joe Kess—Univ. of Victoria—A Not so-Dry
EconomyIan McPherson, Univ. of Victoria—TBA

12:00-1: 30pm

Lunch (Rm. 140)
KEYNOTE:Mark Seldon, Binghamton University
The Future of East Asian Studies: Regionaland Global Perspectives
BOOK LAUNCH:Why Japan Matters edited by Joe Kess and Helen
Lansdowne

Magnolia: Stories of Taiwanese Women by Tzeng Chingwen, and translated by Lois Stanford and Jenn-Shann
Lin
1:30-3:00 pm
Panel DBREAKOUT SESSIONS II
Roundtable - Teaching about Contemporary China:
Issues, Dilemmas, and Perspectives (Rm. 217)
Chair: Ken Foster, UBCTimothy Cheek, UBC
Ellen Judd, Univ. of Manitoba
Feng Xu, Univ. of Victoria

Panel E

Popular Culture & Identity (Rm. 219)
Chair: Joe Kess, Univ. of Victoria
Cathy Kmita, York Univ.—The Mongolian Dance Andai: TradingDance for Identity
Xu Wu, Univ. of Alberta—Crying Wedding and Dancing Funeral:
Folk Rituals as Ethnic Identities in Contemporary West Hubei
Millie Creighton, UBC.—Re-Thinking Inter-Asian Relations via
Popular Culture: Drama Tourism, Star Idols, and the Korea Boomin Japan and Other Areas of East Asia

Panel F

Health Care in East Asia (Rm. 131)
Chair: Jim Tiessen, McMaster Univ.
Wei-Ching Chang and Marie-Laure Baudet,, Univ. of Alberta—
The Tao of Feminism and Health Care in Taiwan
Taikun Ji, Univ. of Alberta—Health care and deepening rural
crisis in China.
Jim Tiessen, McMaster Univ. —Hospital Competition and Qualityin Japan

3:00-3:30 pm

Networking break

3:30-5:00 pm

BREAKOUT SESSIONS III

Panel G

Roundtable – East Asian Energy Security
Chair: Wenran Jiang, Univ. of Alberta
Saarah Shvji, Univ. of Alberta—China-Kazakasthan Relations
Zachary Devereaux, Ryerson Univ.—North Korean Nuclear Crisis

Simin Yu, Univ. of Alberta—Sino-Japanese Competition forEnergy

Panel H

Transformations in Chinese Identities: Intellectuals,
Students, and Minorities in the Modern Period (Rm.
219)
Chair: Timothy Cheek, UBCTimothy Cheek, UBC—Intellectual Identities: What Makes a'Chinese Intellectual' Chinese?
David Luesink, UBC—Transformation in regional identities:
Cheeloo Univ. and St. John's Univ. medical students/graduates asagents of regional and national identity.
Jack Hayes, UBC—Market and Ethnic Identities: Roads, theEnvironment, and Minority Identities in Northern Sichuan

Panel IThe borderless world: changing perspectives on
language and culture (Rm. 131)
Chair: Tsuneko Iwai, McMaster Univ.
Tsuneko Iwai, McMaster Univ.—Globalization and the changing
patterns of self-construals: an exploratory study of the Japanesestudents abroad
Noriko Yabuki-Soh, York Univ.—Re-examining Japaneseness:
Nihonjinron and cross-cultural manuals
Kaori Yoshida UBC—Animation and Otherness: Asia-ness andOrientalism in the Japanese Anime World
Naofumi Tatsumi, Purdue University—Cross-cultural
understanding: Proposing an intercultural communication coursewith emphasis on East Asia

6:00-8:30 pm

Conference Dinner, Faculty ClubKEYNOTES:
Professor Takeshi Hamashita
Changing Pattern of Sino-centric Regional
Order in East Asia 1805-2005

Saturday, October 1, 2005
8:00-8:30 am

Registration / Morning coffee

8:30-10:00 am

BREAKOUT SESSIONS IVPanel J

Trade and Investment in Asia (Rm. 217)

Chair: Teri Ursacki-Bryant, Univ. of Calgary
Carin Holroyd, Asia Pacific Foundation—Rediscovering
Japan: An Examination of British Columbia's Trade andInvestment Initiative for Asia
Monir Hossain Moni, Waseda Univ.— Japanese FDI in SouthAsia: Limits and Possibilities
TBA

Panel K

Constructing Identities in War and Peace--Japan andEast Asia in the Long Twentieth Century (Rm. 219)
Chair: Bill Sewell, Saint Mary’s Univ.
Shinji Takagaki, Univ. of Toronto at Mississauga—War and theMeiji Nation-Building Enterprise
Yu Chang, Univ. of Toronto— Peacetime Reflections Upon Warand East Asian Identities
Owen Griffiths, Mount Allison Univ.— Public Imagery of War,
the Nation, and Historian's Responsibilities
Bill Sewell, Saint Mary’s Univ.—Manchuria in Post-Postwar
Northeast Asia

Panel LTea and Chopsticks: Cultural Awareness as an Aid toSecond Language Learning (Rm. 214)
Chair: Lloyd Sciban, Univ. of Calgary
Cai Wei and Shu-ning Sciban Univ. of Calgary—What Has Been
Taught about Chinese Language and Culture in Chinese Language
Textbooks?
X. Jie Yang, Univ. of Calgary—Designing an On-line Database forLanguage Textbooks
Mayumi Hoshi, Univ. of Alberta—Is there such a thing as a“best” textbook?
Lloyd Sciban, Univ. of Calgary—Defining Culture within
Language Learning

Panel M

Languages Initiative –East Asian Languages in Alberta schools (Rm. 216)
Chair: John Sokolowski, Alberta Education
John Sokolowski, Alberta Education—Overview of Languages
Initiative
Jincheng Huang, Alberta Education—Chinese Language andCulture education in Alberta
Yoko Udagawa, Alberta Education—Japanese Language andCulture education in Alberta

10:00-10:30

Networking break10:30-12:00
Panel N

BREAKOUT SESSIONS VWorkshop - Introduction to Japan Studies Databases
Accessible From Canada for Free of Charge (Rm. 217)
This workshop is partially sponsored by the NCC
Tadanobu Suzuki, Librarian, Univ. of Victoria
Tomoko Goto, Japanese Librarian, UBC Asian Library

Panel O

Cultural Expression and Representation (Rm. 219)
Chair: Jennifer Jay, Univ. of Alberta
Brian Pendleton, Langara College—Space: The Final Frontier:
Ma and the Mathematics of Japanese Garden Design
Naohiro Nakamura, Queen’s Univ.—The change of culturalrepresentation of the Ainu in museum exhibition.
Anne Wu, Univ. of Toronto—Cooking as Transnational Practices

Panel P

Identity Formation & Historical Memory (Rm. 214)
Chair: Mark Driscoll, Univ. of North Carolina
Yuko Shibata, UBC—Under the Asian Face: In/Visible Canadians
Hiroko Noro, Univ. of Victoria—Hapa Japanese Canadian
identity: An exploratory study of identity formation of interracial
Japanese Canadian children
Scott Simon, Univ. of Ottawa—From Savages to Soldiers: Truku
Memories of Japanese FormosaJohn Harding, Univ. of Lethbridge – Contested Identities andBuddhism in Modern Japan: A Shikoku Case Study of Pilgrimageand Persecution

Panel QChina’s Emergence as a Global Power (Rm.216)
Chair: Ryan Dunch, Univ. of Alberta
Guoguan Wu, Univ. of Victoria— Testing China's Peaceful Rise:
Taiwan, Energy, and Human Rights Issues
Charles Burton, Brock Univ.—Chinese Foreign Policy in the Eraof Rapid Economic Rise
Iain Grant, Dalhousie Univ.— The Puzzling Case of the SinoCanadian Oil Relationship

12:00-1:30 pm

Lunch Sponsored by Business Faculty (Rm. 140)
KEYNOTE:

Mr. Jeff Kucharski, former Consul for Canadato Nagoya, Japan
Evolving Canada-Japan relations

EAC Business Meeting (Rm. 217)
1:30-3:00 pm
Panel R

BREAKOUT SESSIONS VI
Development of Japanese Corporations (Rm. 217)
Chair: Dick Beason, Univ. of Alberta
Paul Parker, Univ. of Waterloo—Connections within and beyond
Japan’s photovoltaic industry:Industrial development, national
solar energy strategies and global exports
David Edgington, UBC and Roger Hayter, Simon Fraser Univ.—
Japanese Electronics Firms in Southeast Asia and China: Patternsof Bargaining, Cultural Learning and Embeddedness
Teri Ursacki-Bryant, Univ. of Calgary—Anti-Takeover Defenses
and the Vitality of Japanese Corporations

Panel S

Identities for Women in Pre-modern Japan (Rm. 219)Chair: Sonja Arntzen, Univ. of Toronto
Caitilin Griffiths, Univ. of Toronto—Itinerant Jishu Nuns:
Members of a Mixed Gender Religious Community
Gergana Ivanova, Univ. of Toronto—Sei Shōnagon’s Makura noSōshi: in Search for the Original Text
Lianne Zwarenstein, Univ. of Toronto—Working Women: theProfessional Identities of Kamakura Female Authors
Discussant: Christina Laffin, UBC

Panel T

Education and Activism in Japanese North America(Rm. 214)
Chair: Greg Robinson, UQAM
Greg Robinson, Université du Québec À Montréal—“Forrest E.
LaViolette: Asian North American Studies Pioneer”
John Baick, Western New England College—Franz Boas and theOrigins of East Asian Studies in America
Susan Smith, Univ. of Alberta—Toku Shimomura: An Issei Woman
during World War II

3:00-3:30 pm

Networking break

3:30-5:00 pm

PLENARY SESSION II (Rm. 217-219)

Challenges and Opportunities in East Asian Studies
Dr. Yuen Pau Woo, President, Asia Pacific Foundationof Canada
5:00-5:30 pm

JSAC Business Meeting

Saturday Evening: Free

Sunday, October 2, 2005
8:30-10:00 am
Panel UBREAKOUT SESSIONS VII
Translation: Modern & Pre-modern (Rm. 217)
Chair: Sonja Arntzen, Univ. of Toronto
Shaobo Xie, Univ.of Calgary—Translating Modernity towards
Translating China
Kozue Uzawa, Univ. of Lethbridge—Problems of Selecting
Appropriate Words in Translating Tanka into English
Ewa Machotka, Gakushuin Univ.— When East meets West
Katsushika Hokusai`s Hyakunin Isshu - Intersemiotic aspects oftranslation within Japanese pre-modern art

Panel V

Literature & Education in Japan (Rm. 219)
Chair: Fumiko Ikawa-Smith, McGill Univ.
Yoko Riley, Univ. of Calgary—The Poetic Manifestations ofJapanese History
Febe Pamonag, Univ. of Alberta—‘Where are the teachers whoare to train and help the eager students?’ Tsuda Umeko and Her
American and Japanese Supporters for Women’s Education in Meiji
JapanKumiko Aoki, National Institute of Multimedia Education—Japan,Internationalization of Higher Education (or the Lack of it) inJapan

Panel W

Chinese Identities: Culture & Literature (Rm. 214)
Chair: X. Jie Yong, Univ. of Calgary
Tzuhsiu (Beryl) Chiu, Univ. of Alberta— Transcultural Chinese
identities
Rui Feng, Univ. of Alberta and Iris Xu, McNally Composite HighSchool—Chinese Identities: Lessons from the Chinese CanadianExperienceHua Li, UBC—Changing Patterns of the Bildungsroman inModern Chinese Literature

10:00-10:15 am

Coffee break

10:15-11:45 am

BREAKOUT SESSIONS VIII

Panel X

Japanese linguistics in Japanese Studies (Rm. 217)
Chair: Kaori Kabata, Univ. of Alberta
Yuki Johnson, Univ. of Toronto—Functions of the Particle Ga in
Japanese: Ga as an Object Marker
Kaori Kabata, Univ. of Alberta—Usage Patterns and Mental
Representation of Japanese Particles
Kiyoko Toratani, York Univ.—Mimetics (lost) in translation
which senses are lost in translation and what types of cognitive
operations are adopted to manage a reasonable rendition of amimetic word

Panel Y

Encounters with the Other: Re-Locating theIntertextual/Transnational in Modern Japanese
Literary Texts (Rm. 219)
Chair: Janice Brown, Univ. of Alberta
Brad Ambury, Univ. of Alberta—Transnational Encounters inModern Fiction
Ania Dymarz, Univ. of Alberta—Kurahashi and Kafka: A
Comparative Reading of Textual Worlds
Janice Brown, Univ. of Alberta—Disentangling Lyric and Nationin Modern Japanese Poetry

Panel Z

Education in Japan (Rm. 214)
Chair: Yoko Riley, Univ. of Calgary
Lloyd Scaiban and Scott Harrison, Univ. of Calgray—TheJapanese Concept of Self in Teaching Japanese as a Second
Language
Yoko Udagawa, Gakuin Univ.—Kanji for High School Programs
Mito Takeuchi, Ohio Univ.—Supplemental Education for Foreign
Residents in Japan: Challenges of “Multicultural Coexistence

11:45am-12:00 pm

Closing Remarks (Rm. 217-219)
Dr. Satoshi Ikeda & Dr. Wenran Jiang
EAC-JSAC 05 Conference Co-Chairs

12:00-1:00 pm

Lunch (Rm. 217-219)

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Please limit your presentation to 15 minutes;
Roundtable should be open and interactive;
Every room has a computer with projector for PPP, etc.;
Every room has Internet access;There are two computers with Internet access in the main lobby for email;We will distribute your paper or outline if you have with you;
We will consider the publication of the proceedings after the conference;
Please let us know if you have any special requests.

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