Practice, Ideology, and Symbolics: A Symposium in Honor of Professor Herman Ooms

Saturday, March 16, 2013
9:00 AM - 6:00 PM


Royce Hall 306
University of California, Los Angeles
340 Royce Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90095


Panel 1: Practice
-Elyssa Faison, "Hiroshima Maidens and Bikini Islanders: Contesting War Memories and Promoting Peace in Japan and the US"
-Kate Wildman Nakai, "Shrine, Church, and State in Prewar Japan: the Catholic Church and Shinto, 1858-1936"
-Jan Goodwin & Joan Piggott, "On the Obe Shoen Estate Project"

Research Profile Presentations
-Emi Foulk
-Kristine Dennehy
-Bettina Gramlich-Oka
-Sally Hastings

Panel 2: Ideology
-Mark McNally, "The Bridge to the World: Exceptionalism in 15th Century Ryukyu"
-David Eason, "What's Love Got to Do With It? Ai, Armor, and Ideology in Early Modern Material Culture"
-Anne Walthall, "A Tale of Two Brothers: Sibling Rivalry in the Hirata Atsutane Family"

Panel 3: Symbolics
-Se-Mi Oh, "Kanji and Voice: Reading Surface Matters in Colonial Seoul"
-Serk-Bae Suh, "Takahama Kyoshi's Passage to Korea"
-Todd Henry, "Silencing Namsan's Past: The Decolonization of Public Space in Post-Liberation Seoul"
-Hiromi Mizuno, "Technological Nostalgia and Mantetsu Central Laboratory"

Keynote Speaker: Tom Keirstead


Directions to Royce Hall 306:

Parking Lot 5 - $11 CASH ONLY / $4 Handicapped --- From Sunset Blvd., enter north campus at Royce Dr. (between Westwood Plaza and Hilgard Ave.). Proceed straight to Parking Structure 5. Handicapped Accessible parking spaces are located on level 4 of this parking structure.

Parking Lot 4 - $11 / $4 Handicapped --- From Sunset Blvd., enter north campus at Westwood Plaza and proceed straight to the underground parking structure. Lot 4 accepts cash and credit cards. This is the only lot that will accept credit card payments within the proximity of Royce Hall. http://maps.ucla.edu/campus/


Japan America Society is pleased to support this event