Program for the Fall 2000 Meeting, Saturday and Sunday, September 23-24, 2000
Edgewater Beach Resort, Panama City Beach, Florida
Conference Center, Sabal Palm East
Saturday, September 23
10:30 a.m. -12:00 p.m. Panel 1: Japanese Linguistics
Chair: Ann Wehmeyer, University of Florida
| "The Usefulness of Japanese-English and English-Japanese Dictionaries" | Don McCreary, University of Georgia Discussant: Kiyoshi Kawahito, Middle Tennessee State University |
| "On Transitivity Alternation in Japanese and English: Distinct Lexical Items Versus Syntactic Variants" | Toru Matsuzaki, University of Florida Discussant: Junko Baba, University of South Carolina |
12:00 - 1:00 p.m. Lunch: Conference Center, Sabal Palm
East
1:00 - 3:00 p.m. Panel 2: Contemporary Japanese Society
Chair: Yoshinori Kamo, Louisiana State University
| Part A: Japan | |
| "The World of Japanese Ladies' Comics: From Romantic Fantasy to Lustful Perversion" | Kinko Ito, University of Arkansas Discussant: Linda Zatlin, Morehouse College |
| "Women's Marital Satisfaction in Japan and the
United States" (Japanese version: set your browser to detect Japanese) (English summary) |
Yoshinori Kamo, Louisiana State University Discussant: Atsuyuki Naka, University of New Orleans |
Part B: A Comparative Perspective "Married Women's Labor in East Asian Economies" Mary Brinton, Cornell University Discussant: Yutaka Horiba, Tulane University
3:00 - 3:30 p.m. Coffee Break
3:30 - 5:50 p.m. Panel 3: Japanese Literature
Chair:
| "Violating Censorship: Humor and Virulence in the Popular Writings of Baba Bunka (1718-1759)" | William J. Farge, Loyola University Discussant: John Mertz, North Carolina State University |
| "What Women Want: Fujin Kooron Tells All in 1956" | Jan Bardsley, University of North Carolina Discussant: John Mertz, North Carolina State University |
| "A Brief History of Time, Revisited" | Yumiko Hulvey, University of Florida Discussant: John Maraldo, University of North Florida |
Sunday, September 24
9:00 - 9:30 a.m. Business Meeting
9:30 - 11:30 a.m. Panel 4: Japanese Thought
Chair: Jonathan Goldstein, State University of West Georgia
| "Saigo Takamori and the Paradox of Modern Japan" | Mark Ravina, Emory University Discussant: Richard Rice University of Tennessee, Chattanooga |
| "The Physics of Terada Torahiko and a Non-Reductive Creativity" | Joseph Murphy, University of Florida Discussant: Sidney Perkowitz, Emory University |
| "Watsuji Tetsuro on Being Human and Being Ethical" | John Maraldo, University of North Florida Discussant: John Tucker, East Carolina University |
11:30 a.m. Adjourn