The Affect of Difference:
A Symposium on Representations of Race and Identity under Asian Empires
Thursday: April 25, 2013
Reception: 7:30~9:00, Hanover Inn, Room TBA
Friday: April 26, 2013 (Hayward)
Panel 1: The Science of Race and the Propagation of the Imperial Subject
8:30~10:00
Chul Kim, Yonsei University
“Resistance of Depraved Bodies: Physical Anthropology and Literature in
Colonial Korea”
Gyewon Kim, Georgia State University
“Faces that Change: Physiognomy, Portraiture, and the Promise of Photography in
Colonial Korea”
Panel 2: The Inclusive Imperial Subject and the Affect of Difference
10:30~12:00
Ji Hee Jung, Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Tokyo
"Imagining an Affective Community in Asia: Japan's Wartime Broadcasting and
the Rhetoric of Inclusion"
Su Yun Kim, University of Hong Kong
“Intermarriage in Colonial Korea and Constructing Otherness”
Panel 3: “Ghostlier demarcations, keener sounds”
2:00~3:30
Angela Yiu, Sophia University, Tokyo
"Delivering Lu Xun to the Empire: the Afterlife of Lu Xun in the Works of
Takeuchi Yoshimi, Dazai Osamu, and Inoue Hisashi"
Kate McDonald, UC Santa Barbara
"Dialogue and Travelogue: Communicating the Uncanny in Japanese Travel
Accounts of Colonial Taiwan"
Panel 4: Revisioning History
4:00~5:30
Paul Barclay, Lafayette College
"The Ephemeral Empire: Japanese Picture Postcards as Sources of History”
Kari Shepherdson-Scott, Macalester College
“Race behind the Walls: Japanese Images of 1930s Urban Manchuria"
Keynote Address (Room TBA)
6:00~7:00
Tak Fujitani, Dr. David Chu Professor & Director of the Program in Asia-Pacific
Studies, University of Toronto
“The Japanese Monarchy and Modern Racism”
Saturday: April 27, 2013 (Hayward for morning sessions and afternoon rooms TBA)
Panel 5: Regimes of Sight and Sound in the Racial Imaginary
8:30~10:00
InYoung Bong
“(Dis)Embodying Racialized Sound and Space: Harbin and the Russian Diaspora
of Manchukuo in My Nightingale and Japanese Musical Film(s)”
Steven Chung, Princeton University
“Regimes Within Regimes: Film and Fashion Cultures of the Korean 1950s”
Panel 6: Fungible Identities, Political Subjects
10:30~12:00
Myeong A Kwon, Dong A University
“Infinite Political Loneliness: Thinking about the Affect of Korea from the
Colonial Period to the Post Cold War Era”
John Treat, Yale University
“Chang Hyŏkchu and the Short Twentieth Century”
Panel 7: Embodying Race
2:00-3:30
William Bridges, St. Olaf’s College
“The Reception of Little Black Sambo in Japan from the 1950s-70s”
Kim Brandt, Columbia University
“Japan the Beautiful: Local and Global Beauty Cultures in the 1950s”
Panel 8: Race and Desire as Spatial Differentiation
4:00~5:30 (Room TBA)
ann-elise lewallen, UC Santa Barbara
"Intimate Frontiers: Disciplining Ethnicity and Sexual Subjectivity in Early
Imperial Hokkaido"
Ted Mack, University of Washington
“Disdain, Desire, and Denial: Issei Representations of Race in Brazil, 1923-40”
Round Table (Room TBA)
6:00~7:30
Ann Stoler, Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor, The New School
Studies of Sentiments and Comparative Studies of Race and Empire