Saturday, October 2, 1999 (Magnolia Room)
12:30 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Browse display area
| 1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m.
Evaluating Japanese Education |
Chair: Jonathan Goldstein (State University of West Georgia) |
| "The American Education Establishment's Depiction of Japanese Education" | Lucien Ellington (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga) |
| "Collaborative Study of School Violence in Japan and the U.S." | Jane Williams (Middle Tennessee State University) |
| Discussants: Gary DeCoker (Ohio Wesleyan University ) |
3:00 - 3:30 Break: refreshments
| 3:30 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.
Art and Literature in Early Modern Japan |
Chair: Patricia Pringle |
| "Shunga Prints-A Cultural Preparation for Comfort Women? | Linda Zatlin (Morehouse College) |
| "Evil Integrations: Tsubouchi Shoyo's Xenophobic Dream Novel of 1886" | John Mertz (North Carolina State University) |
| "Influences on the Evolution of the Japanese Tea Ceremony" | Joan O'Mara (Washington and Lee University) |
| Discussants: Janet Ikeda (Washington and Lee University)
Yumiko Hulvey (University of Florida) Joseph Murphy (University of Florida) |
| 8:00 p.m. -9:00 p.m. | |
| "Pilgrimage in Shikoku: a series of digital films" | Junko Baba and Keith Kenney (University of South Carolina) |
Sunday, October 3, 1999 (Magnolia Room)
9:30 a.m. - 10:00 a.m. Continental breakfast and short business meeting
| 10:00 a.m. - 12:00 noon
Historical Perspectives |
Chair: John Tucker (University of North Florida) |
| "The History and Symbolism of Japanese Buddhist Bells" | Steven Heine (Florida International University) |
| "Prosperous or Impoverished? Re-examining the Tokugawa Economy in Comparative Terms" | Richard Rice (University of Tennessee at Chattanooga) |
| "Maintenance and Change of Tradition: Settai Practice in Shikoku Pilgrimage" | Junko Baba (University of South Carolina)
Keith Kenney (University of South Carolina) |
| Discussants: Miriam Levering (University of Tennessee)
Mark Ravina (Emory University) Ellen Schattschneider (Emory University) |
12:00 Adjourn