Activities of the Center for American Studies, 2013
[Activities mainly sponsored by the Center for American Studies]Lecture Meeting
Main Sponsor: Center for American Studies Joint Sponsor: Nagoya American Studies
Date: March 23 rd, 2013 Time: 14:00-17:00
Venue: Nagoya Campus conf. room 910, 9 th floor, Building L
Speaker: Kawasaki Akira (Executive Committee Member of PEACE BOAT)
Title: In Pursuit of Peaceful Coexistence in East Asia with Consideration of Japan-U.S. Relations
Symposium
Main Sponsor: Center for American Studies, Pacific Forum CSIS and Nagoya American Center
Joint Sponsor: Department of British and American Studies, Faculty of Foreign Studies and Graduate School of International Area Studies Date: May 21 st, 2013 Time: 15:15-16:45
Venue: Nagoya Campus conf. room 910, 9 th floor, Building L
Theme: Security in the South China Sea and the Role of the U.S.- Japan Alliance
Speaker: Ralph Cossa (Pacific Forum CSIS) Sheldon Simon (Arizona State University) Elina Noor (ISIS Malaysia)
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Nguyen Hung Son (Institute for South China Sea Studies, The Diplomatic Academy of Vietnam)
Yoichiro Sato (Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University)
Lecture Meeting
Main Sponsor: Center for American Studies Joint Sponsor: Nagoya American Studies
Date: May 25 th, 2013 Time: 14:00-17:30
Venue: Nagoya Campus conf. room 910, 9 th floor, Building L Speaker: Judy Wu (Associate Professor, The Ohio State University) Title: Eldridge Cleaver Goes to Pyongyang, Hanoi, and Peking: Third
World Internationalism and American Orientalism. Lecture Meeting
Main Sponsor: Center for American Studies
Joint Sponsor: Department of British and American Studies Date: May 27 th, 2013 Time: 9:20-10:50 Venue: Nagoya Campus room R 31, Building R
Speaker: Judy Wu (Associate Professor, The Ohio State University) Title: Studying Japanese American Internment through Digital Narratives.
Chairman: Ralph Cossa View of symposium
Lecture Meeting
Main Sponsor: Center for American Studies Joint Sponsor: Nagoya American Studies
Date: June 29 th, 2013 Time: 13:30-17:00
Venue: Nagoya Campus conf. room 910, 9 th floor, Building L
Theme: Fifty Years After: Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” Speech and JFK’s Assassination.
Speaker: Kajiwara Hisashi (Emeritus Professor, Nagoya Gakuin University) Title: King’s Dream 50 Years After.
Speaker: Matsuoka Hiroshi (Professor, Graduate School of University of Tsukuba)
Title: Still Questioning “If...”: JFK’s Assassination and the War in Vietnam.
Symposium
Main Sponsor: Center for American Studies Joint Sponsor: Nagoya American Studies
Date: December 14 th, 2013 Time: 13:30-17:30
Venue: Nagoya Campus conf. room 910, 9 th floor, Building L Theme: TPP and the Future Course of Japan-U.S. Relations.
Speaker: Ishiguro Kaoru (Professor, Graduate School of Economics, Kobe University)
Title: TPP and Agricultural Issues in Japan
Speaker: Yoshimura Ryota (Manager, International Research & Analysis Dept., Sumitomo Shoji Research Institute, Inc.)
Title: TPP in the Context of US strategy
Speaker: Ido Kazumoto (Professor, Department of Global Business, Nagoya University of Foreign Studies)
Title: Implications of the TPP issues: Suggestions from the Business World. Commemorative Photo
[Activities mainly sponsored by the Four Area Studies Centers’ Joint Research Project]
The Second Symposium of “Toward a Common Memory of the Past” Main Sponsor: Four Area Studies Centers’ Joint Research Project
Joint Sponsor: Faculty of Foreign Studies, Graduate School of International Area Studies, and Nagoya American Center
Date: February 16 th, 2013 Time: 13:30-17:30 Venue: Nagoya Campus P Room, 1 st floor, Building J
Theme: The Road to the Japan-U.S. War and the Japanese American Internment.
Speaker: Kawada Minoru (Emeritus Professor, Nagoya University) Title: The Japanese Army and the Way to the War Against the U.S. Speaker: Yamakura Akihiro (Professor, Tenri University)
Title: Japanese-Peruvian Abductees to the U.S. in Wartime and After.
The Third Symposium of “Toward a Common Memory of the Past” Main Sponsor: Four Area Studies Centers’ Joint Research Project
Joint Sponsor: Faculty of Foreign Studies, Graduate School of International Area Studies, and Nagoya American Center
Date: July 13 th, 2013 Time: 13:30 ∼ 17:30
Venue: Nagoya Campus conf. room 910, 9 th floor, Building L
Theme: In Search of “Reconciliation” in Asia: In Preparation for the 70th
Anniversary of the End of World War Ⅱ
Speaker: Wang Xiaokui (Professor, East China Normal University) Title: How Have the Nanjing Atrocities been Remembered in China? Speaker: Wada Haruki (Emeritus Professor, University of Tokyo, Former
Executive Director, Asian Women’s Fund)
Title: Postwar Pacifism and the Possibility of Reconciliation with Asia Commentator: Kim Kwangwook (Lecturer, Gifu Keizai University)
The Fourth Symposium of “Toward a Common Memory of the Past” Main Sponsor: Four Area Studies Centers’ Joint Research Project
Joint Sponsor: Faculty of Foreign Studies, Graduate School of International Area Studies, and Nagoya American Center
Date: October 12th, 2013 Time: 13:30-17:30
Venue: Nagoya Campus conf. room 910, 9 th floor, Building L Theme: In Search of a Common Memory of the Japan-U.S. War Speaker: Matsuo Fumio (Former Manager, Kyodo News Washington, D.C.
Branch Office)
Title: Bring President Obama to Hiroshima: “Reconciliation of History” that Cannot Wait, Whether Toward China, Korea, or the U.S. Speaker: Yui Daizaburo (Professor, Tokyo Woman’s Christian University) Title: How to Bridge the Memory Gap of the Japan-U.S. War.
[Activities jointly sponsored by the Center for American Studies] Lecture Meeting
Main Sponsor: Department of British and American Studies Joint Sponsor: Center for American Studies
Wang Xiaokui Wada Haruki
Date: January 8 th, 2013 Time: 15:15-16:45 Venue: Nagoya Campus, Room 21, Building B
Speaker: James M. Hoefler (Professor, Dickinson College) Title: The Imperial U.S. President and Foreign Policy [Regular Meetings of the Nagoya American Studies]
Regular Meeting in January
Date: January 26 th, 2013 Time: 13:30-17:00
Venue: Nagoya Campus conf. room 415, 4 th floor, Faculty Building 1 Speaker: Ido Kazumoto (Professor, Nagoya University of Foreign Studies) Title: Attempt to the Systematization of Foreign Currency Translation
in the U.S.
Speaker: Masaki Sho (Graduate Student, Nagoya University)
Title: The Meaning of Ogasawara Restoration in Japan-U.S. Relations. Regular Meeting in April
Date: April 27 th, 2013 Time: 14:00-17:00
Venue: Nagoya Campus conf. room 415, 4 th floor, Faculty Building 1 Speaker: Fukushima Takahiro (Part Time Assistant Professor, Nagoya
University of Foreign Studies)
Title: The Actor Affects International Relations.
Speaker: Kawauchi Nobuyuki (Professor, Chubu University)
Title: Globalization and “Imperialism”: Criticisms of the United States as a “Cultural Great Power”.
Regular Meeting in July (Book ReviewMeeting) Date: July 20 th, 2013 Time: 14:00-17:00
Venue: Nagoya Campus conf. room 415, 4 th floor, Faculty Building 1 Reviewer: Ohashi Hideko (Part Time Assistant Professor, Aichi University)
Yamamoto Akiyo (Professor, Nagoya City University)
Book: “Amerika roudou minshu no rekishi―Hataraku Hitobito no monogatari” アメリカ労働民衆の歴史―働く人びとの物語 [A History of the American Working People] by Tatsuro Nomura (Minerva Shobo, 2013)
Regular Meeting in November
Date: November 11 th, 2013 Time: 13:30-17:00
Venue: Nagoya Campus conf. room 415, 4 th floor, Faculty Building 1 Speaker: Saito Yumi (Graduate Student, Kyoto University)
Title: The Controversy of Color-blind Policy as Seen in the Resegregation of American Public Schools: A Case Study of
Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools, North Carolina.
Reviewer: University)Kusama Hidezaburo (Emeritus Professor, Aichi Prefectural Book: “Aa, hakuaimaru―sekijujibyouinsen no saigo” ああ，博愛丸― 赤十字病院船の最期 [Hakuaimaru― the End of the Red Cross Hospital Ship] by Kusama Hidezaburo
