Asian Studies Auditorium
Welcome
9:00am – 9:30am
Opening remarks by Sharalyn Orbaugh, Head, Asian Studies, University of British Columbia
Introductory remarks by Joshua Mostow (symposium co-organizer), University of British Columbia
Session I: Land and Possession
9:30am – 11:00am
Chair: Sharalyn Orbaugh (University of British Columbia)
Possessed to Dispossess: The Long History of the Postwar Japanese Land Reform
Christopher Craig (Tohoku University)
Ownership vs. Possessory Right: A Moral-Philosophical Reflection on Geopolitical Conflicts from a ‘Real Rights’ Perspective
Hiroshi Kabashima (Tohoku University)
The Torn Rope of the Ryukyus: Land, Gender, and Dispossession in Hino Ashihei’s Chigirareta nawa
Stefano Romagnoli (Sapienza University of Rome)
Coffee break
11:00am – 11:30am
Session II: Possessed by the Past: The Long 1960s in the 1970s and Beyond
11:30am – 1:30pm
Chair: Kelly McCormick (University of British Columbia)
Student Movement and University Reform at Tohoku University in the 1970s
Satoshi Kato (Tohoku University)
Transformation of the West German Peace Movement after the 1968 Movement
Makiko Takemoto (Hiroshima City University)
Japanese Labor Movement in the 1970s and 1980s
Hiroaki Adachi (Tohoku University)
The Legacy of the Long 1960s in Italy (and Beyond) : A Case of Damnatio Memorie?
Marco Del Bene (Sapienza University of Rome)
Lunch break
1:30pm – 2:30pm
Session III: Dispossession & Language: Japanese Diaspora & Tibet
2:30pm – 4:00pm
Chair: Fuyubi Nakamura (University of British Columbia)
Haiku as Linguistic Repossession: Japanese-Language Haiku in Wartime Internment Camps
Naoko Kato (St Marks College)
Place and Becoming: Memories of a Settler Japanese Woman in Pacific Canada Who Was Dispossessed by the State
Eiji Okawa (University of the Fraser Valley)
Foreign Hands and Local Lands: On the Paradox of Possession in Nikkeijin Communities in Pre-War Philippines
Saki Sakurai (Tohoku University)
Imagining Tibet’s Dis/Possession from India: Tibetan-language Newspapers in the 1950s and 1960s
Natalia Mikhailova (Laval University)
Coffee break
4:00pm – 4:30pm
Session IV: Buddhism
4:30pm – 6:30pm
Chair: Sonja Arntzen (University of Toronto)
Possessed by Desire: Ikkyū’s Crazy Cloud Collection and Erotic Transcendence
Lorenzo Marinucci (Tohoku University)
Now You See Me, Now You Don’t: Omission of Buddhist Paraphernalia and Appropriative Manipulation of the Visual Medium in Onna daigaku takarabako
Sydney Olney (University of British Columbia)
Hercules at Nirvāṇa: The Demigod Hero in the Ultimate Scene of Self-Dispossession
Mitsuru Haga (Tohoku University)
Metropolitan Zen: The Possession of Identity and the Formation of Community in Urban Japan
Danilo D’Arpino (University of Naples L’Orientale)
Possessing Secret Knowledge: Music and Musical Instruments at the Japanese Imperial Court
Yagi Morris (McGill University)
Speakers’ Dinner
7:00pm