Activities

The JAAS Tokyo Proseminar @Sophia 2016

Date 2016.6.9 13:30-16:30
Venue Central Library 8F, L-821, Yotsuya Campus, Sophia University
Language English
Registration Previous registration is necessary. Please contact kokusai@jaas.gr.jp for the registration by June 2.
*Visitors from outside the university are kindly asked to register at the library entrance.
For Graduate Students and Researchers
Program  Chair: Kazuhiro Maeshima (Sophia University / JAAS International Committee)I. Opening Remarks  13:30pm-13:45pm Prof. Mariko Iijima (Director, IACS, Sophia University)II. First Session

(I) Changing Attitudes toward Latino Immigrants in California: Proposition 187 and Its Aftermath 13:45pm-14:20pm
Saaya Kamata (Master’s Student, Tokyo University)
Discussant: Prof. Neil Foley/Prof. Krystyn Moon

(II) The Change of Images of Zelda Fitzgerald as a Female Artist 14:25pm-15:00pm
Yuria Haba (Ph.D. Student, Tsuda College)
Discussant: Prof. Neil Foley/Prof. Moustafa Bayoumi

III. Second Session

(I) On Prof. Moustafa Bayoumi, ‟I was treated like a UPS package”: Migration in Guantánamo Diary, the American slave narrative, and the War on Terror 15:05pm-15:40pm
First Responder: Kunisuke Hirano (Ph.D. Student, University of Michigan)

(II) On Prof. Krystyn Moon, The Making of the Modern Visa and International Education, 1880s-1920s. 15:45pm-16:20pm
First Responder: Saki Miyazaki (Master’s Student, Hitotsubashi University)

IV. Closing Remarks 16:20pm-16:30pm Prof. Akiyo Okuda (Keio University / JAAS International Committee)

Guests Moustafa Bayoumi (Brooklyn College, City University of New York)
http://www.brooklyn.cuny.edu/web/academics/faculty/faculty_profile.jsp?faculty=245Krystyn Moon (University of Mary Washington)
http://cas.umw.edu/historyamericanstudies/faculty/krystyn-moon/
 Hosts  Institute of American and Canadian Studies/JAAS Japanese Association for American Studies/ASA American Studies Association/The Japanese Association of Graduate Students in American Studies Programs
  The JAAS Tokyo Proseminar @ Sophia 2016 is made possible by a generous grant from the Japan U.S. Friendship Commission.