NANZAN REVIEW OF AMERICAN STUDIES Volume 40 (2018): 139-143
Activities of the Center for American Studies, 2018
[Activities Mainly Sponsored by the Center for American Studies] Lecture Meeting
Main Sponsor: Center for American Studies
Joint Sponsor: The International Association for North American Ethnic Studies, Nagoya American Studies Association
Date: February 25th, 2018 Time: 14:00―17:00 Venue: Conference Room 51 and 52, 5th Floor, Building Q
Speaker: Jennifer L. Barker (Associate Professor, Bellarmine University) Title: Early American Movies: 1920s to 1950s
Lecture Meeting
Main Sponsor: Center for American Studies
Joint Sponsor: Department of British and American Studies and Nagoya American Studies Association
Date: July 14th, 2018 Time: 14:00―17:00
Venue: Conference Room 51 and 52, 5th Floor, Building Q
Speaker: Michael K. Honey (Professor, University of Washington Tacoma) Title: Revisiting M.L. King’s Last Crusade
Michael K. Honey Commemorative Photo Lecture Meeting
Main Sponsor: Center for American Studies
Joint Sponsor: Center for Asia-Pacific Studies, Graduate School of International Area Studies and Nagoya American Studies Association
Date: October 1st, 2018 Time: 17:00―19:00
Venue: Conference Room 51 and 52, 5th Floor, Building Q Speaker: Bruce Cumings (Professor, University of Chicago) Title: The Nuclearization and Denuclearization of Korea
Bruce Cumings Commemorative Photo
[Activities Co-sponsored by the Center for American Studies] Lecture Meeting
Main Sponsor: Four Area Studies Centers’ Joint Research Project
Joint Sponsor: Center for American Studies, Department of British and American Studies, Graduate School of International Area Studies and Nagoya American Studies Association
Title: The Vietnam War and the Representation of Trauma in Literature: An Analysis of Tim O’Brien’s In the Lake of the Woods
Speaker: Hiramatsu Ayako (Lecturer, Nanzan University)
Title: Subnational Democratization and National Consolidation of the American Deep South, 1968―1972
Hiramatsu Ayako Yamabe Shota View of lecture meeting Film Performing Event
Main Sponsor: Office for International Affairs
Joint Sponsor: Center for American Studies, Center for European Studies and Department of British and American Studies
Date: May 24th, 2018 Time: 15:15―17:15 Venue: Room Q314, 3rd Floor, Building Q Comment: Maurice Fitzpatrick (Director)
Introduction: William Purcell (Professor, Nanzan University)
Title: Documentary film “In the Name of Peace: John Hume in America”
Maurice Fitzpatrick(left) William Purcell(right)
Lecture Meeting
Main Sponsor: Department of British and American Studies
Joint Sponsor: Center for American Studies and Nagoya American Studies Association
Date: July 16th, 2018 Time: 13:30―15:00 Venue: Room G30, 1st Floor, Building G
Speaker: Michael K. Honey (Professor, University of Washington Tacoma) Title: How King Studies Relates to American Studies and World Issues
Michael K. Honey Commemorative Photo Lecture Meeting
Main Sponsor: Four Area Studies Centers’ Joint Research Project
Joint Sponsor: Center for American Studies and Nagoya American Studies Association
Date: July 20th, 2018 Time: 17:00―18:30
Venue: Conference Room 51 and 52, 5th Floor, Building Q
Speaker: Masaki Sho (Designated Assistant Professor, Nagoya University, Visiting Researcher, Center for American Studies)
Title: An Unfinished Postwar Process: The History of the Evacuees from Iwo Jima
[Regular Meetings of the Nagoya American Studies Association] Regular Meeting in March
Date: March 24th, 2018 Time: 13:30―17:00 Venue: Conference Room 910, 9th Floor, Building L
Reviewer: Hisada Yukako (Associate Professor, Aichi Prefectural University)
Book: “Funanori ga Tsunagu Taiseiyousekai―Eiryoushokuminchi Boston no Senin to Boueki no Shakaishi” 船乗りがつなぐ大西 洋 世 界 ― 英 領 植 民 地 ボ ス ト ン の 船 員 と 貿 易 の 社 会 史 [Seafarers Connected the Atlantic World: The Social History of Shipmasters, Sailors, and Trade in Colonial Boston] by Kasai Toshikazu (Koyo Shobo, 2017)
Reviewer: Miura Yoichi (Professor, Chubu University)
Book: “Kakumitsuyaku kara Okinawa Mondaie: Ogasawara Henkan no Seijishi” 核密約から沖縄問題へ:小笠原返還の政治史 [The Untold Link Between The Bonin and Ryukyu Reversions] by Masaki Sho (The University of Nagoya Press, 2017)
Regular Meeting in June
Date: June 16th, 2018 Time: 13:30―17:30 Venue: Conference Room 910, 9th Floor, Building L Speaker: Saito Yumi (Assistant Professor, Aichi University)
Title: Social Movement of African American residents in Hawai’i in the 1970s and 1980s
Speaker: Kamo Michiko (Part-time Lecturer, Meijo University)
Title: From Psychological Warfare against Japan to Occupation: A History of US Action in World War II and Post-war Japan
Film Performing Event
Date: November 10th, 2018 Time: 14:00―16:30 Venue: Conference Room 51 and 52, 5th Floor, Building Q
Title: Screening of the documentary film, And Then They Came For Us (2017, Director: Abby Ginzberg)
Comment: Yanagisawa Ikumi (Lecturer, Nagoya University of Foreign Studies)
Kobayashi Junko (Full-time Lecturer in English as a Foreign Language, Nagoya University of Foreign Studies)