Seminars 2003
Location: Japanese Studies Centre, Building 54, Monash University Clayton campus
| Semester 3 | September - November |
Thursday
27 November 2003, 3.00 pm
Manton room, Menzies Building
(11), Monash University, Clayton Campus
Masami Hiraishi - Public Administration, Kokushikan University
The Future Implications of Electronic Government
Professor Hiraishi's presentation [in Japanese] will be on the future image of electronic government, its impact on relationships between government and citizens and its power to change the nature of governance and democracy.
Sponsored by the Japanese Studies Centre and the Monash Institute for the Study of Global Movements
Tuesday 25 November 2003, 11.45am ñ 1.00 pm
Japanese Studies Centre Auditorium, Building 54, Monash University,
Clayton Campus
Professor Peter Drysdale AM, Professor
of Economics
Australia ñ Japan Research Centre, Australian
National University
Japan and East Asia: Economic Prospects and Challenges
Professor Peter Drysdale has written extensively on Asia-Pacific economic integration and international trade. He is the author of International Economic Pluralism: economic policy in East Asia and the Pacific (Allen & Unwin, 1988).Professor Drysdale is the Executive Director of the Australia-Japan Research Centre, which is responsible for an Australia-wide research program on economic relations with Japan and the Asia-Pacific, and is involved in research cooperation with economists in Japan and other countries throughout the region.
A brochure for the seminar can be downloaded here.
Thursday, November 6, 2003:
11.45am - 1.00 pm
Dr Alison Broinowski
Ambiguities: Some Japanese Accounts of Australia
Japanese and Australians have shared in an intense curiosity about each other throughout our recent histories. From Japanese reports about Australia emerge interesting suggestions about how the Japanese observe themselves. In what Japanese say about Australia, curiosity about difference and the impulse to compare are as potent as in Australian accounts of them. Early impressions of Australia remain enduringly influential for today's Japanese. It is at times when those images undergo revision that their power is most demonstrable. Such change-moments include the advent of Pauline Hanson and the Asian economic crisis, the Sydney Olympic Games, and the Tampa event. Australia has an image-problem in Japan, to which we have contributed by recent policies and by underestimating the need to change both reality and perception.
Dr Alison Broinowski has written several works on Australian/Asian relations and has edited books on ASEAN. She is author of The Yellow Lady: Australian Impressions of Asia , (Oxford University Press, 1992). Her two latest books are About Face: Asian Accounts of Australia , and Howard's War , both published by Scribe in 2003. She has worked as Cultural Attaché, Tokyo; and, as an Australian diplomat, she was Director of the Australia-Japan Foundation in 1987-88. Dr Broinowski completed her PhD entitled "Asian Representations of Australia" in 2002. She is co-patron of the Asian Association of Australian Studies and is currently a researcher for the Faculty of Asian Studies at the Australian National University.
An online paper of this seminar can be downloaded here.
Friday 17 October 2003, 1:00 - 2:00 pm
Dr Hideko Nakamura
Honorary Post-doctoral Fellow, Japanese Studies Centre
Women's Peace Activism and Global Feminism
Japanese women have contributed to the development of the peace movement since the mid-1950s. The goals and themes they have pursued during the past five decades range from opposing nuclear weapons to supporting war victims, notably the so-called 'comfort women'. One of their most significant achievements in recent years has been the International Women's War Crimes Tribunal held in December 2000. This international event was organised by women's NGOs of three countries: Japan, Korea, and the Philippines, and was one of the successful practices of global feminism.
Dr Nakamura will examine the tribunal to find why and how this event was possible, while looking at the issue of nationalism and post-colonialism. In particular, she will focus on whether global feminism can be an answer for transcending nationalism.
Friday 10 October, 2003 3:00 pm
Royall Tyler, Emeritus Professor of Japanese, Australian National University
Translating the Tale of Genji
The lecture will briefly introduce The Tale of Genji, then discuss representative challenges that face the translator of this eleventh-century Japanese masterpiece. It will close with some remarks on the relationship between translation and research.
About the speaker
Royall Tyler is a distinguished scholar of Japanese literature, well known for his translation of one of the great works of world literature, The Tale of Genji - Lady Murasaki's account of court life in Heian Japan, and widely believed to be one of the first novels.
He has taught Japanese language and culture at universities in the United States and Europe. He retired from the Australian National University at the end of 2000, and was subsequently Visiting Professor at Harvard. His previous works include Japanese Noh Dramas; Japanese Tales and French Folktales; and The Miracles of the Kasuga Deity.
In 2002 he received the US-Japan Friendship Commission Translation Prize for The Tale of Genji .
An online paper of this seminar can be downloaded here.
| Semester 2 | July - August |
Tuesday 26 August, 2003 1:00-2:00 pm
Ms Chikako Tsuruta, Associate Professor in Interpreting Studies, Department of Media Presentation, Faculty of Human & Social Science, Mejiro University
Tokyo News interpreting of the attack on Iraq in the Japanese media
Tuesday 12 August, 2003 1:00-2:00 pm
Mr Ichiro Touyama, Professor of Japanese Literature, Aichi Prefectural University
Japan Mythology of the unbroken line of Japanese Kings
Tuesday 29 July, 2003 1:00-2:00 pm
Ms Yasuko Tama, Professor
of Gender Studies, Osaka Sangyo University, Tokyo
Visiting
Researcher, Japanese Studies Centre, August 2002-July 2003.
Population policy and representations of the mother in post-war Japan
Friday 18 July, 2003 1:00-2:00 pm
Mr
Shuya Kushida, Associate Professor, Osaka University of Education
Visiting Researcher, Japanese Studies Centre, August 2002-July
2003.
'Chuui' and response: preliminary notes on interaction between child care workers and children in an after-school child care centre in Japan.
The purpose of this ongoing research is to describe, from the perspective of conversation analysis, how rules are presented and used in interactions between childcare workers and children. The seminar will focus on the sequential organization of interactions initiated by a type of speech act called "chuui" in Japanese (which can be translated into "warning", "reminding", "cautioning" and "advising", depending on the context), with a special focus on a single case.
Wednesday 16 July, 2003 1:00-2:00 pm
Dr Hermann Gottschewski Musicology Department, Humboldt University, Berlin
Gagaku
songs and school music in Meiji era Japan: the function of gagaku
in early Meiji music education
[Full abstract attached
]
About the speaker
Hermann Gottschewski studied piano at the Musikhochschule Freiburg, and Musicology, Japanese Studies and Mathematics at the University of Freiburg.He has published on musical performance, music theory, acoustics, history of Western and traditional music in Japan and is currently working on a project looking at the function of America in the cultural exchange between Japan and the West in the Meiji era (1868-1912).
| Semester 1 | March - May |
Friday 30 May (PhD kenkyuukai) 4:00-6:00 pm
Lorraine Sterry
Victorian Women Travellers in Meiji Japan
Abstract:
This work explores, through the study of selected writings of Victorian women travellers to Meiji Japan, their interpretation of Japan through social and cultural preconceptions. In establishing this context, the social messages for women in contemporary literature are discussed, together with an assessment of the role that exhibitions, artefacts and art played, not only in informing Victorians about Japan, but, together with literature and histories, in contributing to the development of stereotypes about Japan. A study of the genre of travel writing backgrounds the development of this literary form and focuses on the preferred places of women writers within this genre. The travel writing by Victorian women makes an important contribution to our understanding the developments in Meiji Japan. The view of Meiji Japan is a personal one, where the reader is drawn in to share the author's perception of Japan through her experiences and through the minutiae of the daily lives of both the writer and her subjects. By studying these discourses, we find a Japan that is not represented in either the more pedagogical, paternalistic writings by men, or through the subjective demands of official commentaries and formal histories.
Friday March 28th, 3:00-4:00 pm
NAKAMURA Kazue, Meiji University
(followed by JSC
AGM
at 4:15 and launch of
Colin Funch's Linguists in Uniform at 5:00.)
Jingi: Ethics of Fighters from Heike Monogatari to Hana no Asuka Gumi!
Abstract:
Jingi,
known to most Japanese as a moral code of Yakuza, has a long and
rich cultural background not limited to the world of crime and violence.
In this lecture, the cultural ethos represented by the term jingi
is explained with varied images and citations, from classic work,
The Tale of Heike, to popular manga characters of Chiba Tetsuya,
Tachihara Ayumji, Morimoto Kozueko, and Takaguchi Satosumi. Whether
Samurai, Kumicho (the boss of Yakuza family), Anesan (the big sister/wife
of the boss) or Bancho (the boss of students), the characters depicted
in these stories are fantastic ideals for the general reader. Outlaw
heroes change their creeds and enemies over the course of time, from
wealthy merchants to left-wing radicals, or school teachers to ordinary
malicious students. However, one thing remains the same: they are
represented as the one who "craves to be loyal".
(The presentation will be in English.)
Friday March 21st ( JSC PhD kenkyuukai), 4:00-6:00 pm
Anthony Rausch, External PhD Candidate, School of Languages, Cultures and Linguistics. Monash University
Title of presentation: Cultural Commodities in Local Development: The Case for Rural Japan
Abstract:
The presentation is a preliminary
outline of a framework which will be used in research contextualizing
the nature of cultural commodities in local development in rural
Japan. The framework is based on a combinative consideration of place,
process and product, for which a literature review will be presented,
which leads to six potential operationalizable models for examination
of the case for the Tsugaru District of Aomori Prefecture and a principal
cultural commodity of Tsugaru, Tsugaru Nuri Lacquerware. These six
will be: culture economy and cultural districts, production characteristics
of the cultural economy and network linkages, social representation
and consumption ethics.
Tuesday March 18th, 1:00-2:00 pm
NODA Tokihiro, Professor of Japanese Linguistics,
Chuo University, Tokyo
Visiting Researcher, Japanese
Studies Centre, April 2002-March 2003.
Title of presentation: Nihongo dooshi bunkei no seiri no kokoromi: kyooshi, gakusei no tame ni (An attempt at systematizing Japanese verbal patterns, for teachers and for students)
The presentation will be in Japanese.
Enquiries: Japanese Studies
Centre (japanese.studies.centre@arts.monash.edu.au
)
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