Rackham Building East Conference Room
10:30am - 5:30pm
Welcome Remarks | 10:30 - 10:40am
Panel 1 | U-M's Army Intensive Japanese Language School | 10:40 – 11:50am
Yoshiyuki Asahi
Associate Professor, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
Tomokazu Takada
Associate Professor, National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics
Moderator: Erin Brightwell
Assistant Professor of Pre-modern Japanese Literature, University of Michigan
Lunch (Registration Required) | Noon – 1:20pm
Panel 2 | Japanese-Americans and the Origins of Japanese Studies at Michigan | 1:30 – 2:40pm
Katsumi Nakao
Professor, J.F. Oberlin University Tokyo
Kosuke Harayama
Associate Professor, National Museum of Japanese History
Moderator: Leslie Pincus
Associate Professor of History, University of Michigan
Panel 3 | The CJS Okayama Field Station | 2:50 – 4:00pm
Hitomi Tonomura
Professor, University of Michigan
Yoko Taniguchi
Lecturer, Senshu University
Moderator: Christopher Hill
Assistant Professor of Modern Japanese Literature, University of Michigan
Panel 4 | Reflecting on the Origins of Japanese Studies at Michigan | 4:10 – 5:20pm
Ezra Vogel
Henry Ford II Professor of the Social Sciences Emeritus, Harvard University
John Campbell
Professor Emeritus, University of Michigan
Moderator: Kiyoteru Tsutsui
Associate Professor of Sociology, University of Michigan
