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The West in Japanese Imagination / Japan in Western Imagination: 150 Cultural Imagination of The IAJS Thematic Conference 2018 Panel B | Legislators, Prisoners Panel B | Warriors, Wars, Panel B | Urban Intersections: Panel B | Japanese Language and Copyrights: Law in Modern Wednesday, through Cultural Perspective ‘Japaneseness’ and ‘Israeliness’: With the Art History Dept. Tel Aviv University and Woes: Representations Architecture, Cities and the December 19th Intercultural Encounter at a Japan of Militarism in Japanese Public Space in Japan Mexico 119 Japanese Start-Up Incubator in Modernities Tel-Aviv Mexico 206 C Mexico 206 A Chair: Mika Levy-Yamamori, Tel Aviv Mexico 206 A 8:00-9:00 Registration Tamar Shain-Paz, Tel Aviv University The West in Japanese Imagination / Chair: Alon Levkowitz, Beit Berl Chair: Eran Neuman, Tel Aviv University College Chair: Danny Orbach, Hebrew University 9:00-10:00 Keynote: Tokyo-Yokohama Linguistic- Japan in Western Imagination: University of Jerusalem Panel B | Light Bulbs, Invited Behavior in Japan: A Katachi—Osamari—Nige: Notes on Michael Lucken, INALCO, Paris Landscape: A Western Replication? Telegraphs, and Water Closets: 150 Years to the Meiji Restoration Comparative Study on the Japanizing Benkei: Images of the Synthesis of Form in Japanese Kikoïne 01 Eliezer Ben-Rafael, Tel-Aviv Western Technologies in Japan Dynamic Relationship between Musashibo Benkei in Meiji Japan Architecture & Design University, and Miriam Ben-Rafael, Chair: Assaf Pinkus, Tel Aviv Independent Scholar Gilman 144 Politicians and Supporters Naama Eisenstein, Hebrew Michael Shalem, Cambridge University Ofer Feldman, Doshisha University University of Jerusalem University December 18-20, 2018 The Japanese Communication Chair: Sheldon Garon, Princeton University The David and Yolanda Katz Faculty of the Arts, The Role of Japanese Non-State Medievalism and Militarism in Between Nagasaki and Classical Greece in Japan. Style from a Western Perspective: A Linguistic Comparison Between Mexico Building, Tel Aviv University Actors in Early International Imperial Japan Tokyo: Western Influences on Why It Matters. In Praise of Light: How Lighting Japanese and Hebrew Copyright Negotiations Oleg Benesch, University of York Architecture and Memory in Two A Postcolonial Perspective Changed Japan Maayan Barkan, Hunter College, City Maj Hartmann, KU Leuven, Belgium Cities Martha Chaiklin, Hōsei University, University of New York The ‘Northern Threat’: Comparing Arie Kutz, Tel Aviv University Tokyo Prisoners as Agents of Political Media Representations of the 10:00-10:15 Coffee break How English Is Used to Change and Socio-Economic Change in Security Threats Posed by Imperial Entangled Histories of Urban Modernity Comes With a Flush: Japanese Social Practices and Tuesday, 9:50-10:15 Prizes for the Japan Meiji Japan: The Colonization of Russia in the 1890s and the Soviet Modernity: Discourses on Urban 10:15-11:45 Adaptation of Western Toilet Identity December 18th Compositions Competition Hokkaidō Threat in the 1980s Aesthetics, Memory, and Porosity Technology in Meiji Japan Gad Gershoni, Nagoya University Moderator: Lihi Laszlo, University of Pia Jolliffe, Oxford University Eitan Oren, King’s College, London in Nagai Kafū’s Hiyorigeta (Fair Panel A | Photography and Marta Szczygiel, Tokyo University Weather Clogs, 1914) Haifa Contemporary Art: From The Japanese Language Of and 8:00-9:00 Registration Capitalizing on the Western Evelyn Schulz, Ludwig Maximilians Telegraph Technologies in Japan’s Modernity to the Post-Modern About the Emperor Imaginary of Japan: The Cool 14:00-16:00 Lunch break University, Munich Struggle Against the West 10:15-11:45 Ben Ami Shillony, Hebrew University 9:00-9:20 Wine Toast with His Japan Fund and the Intellectual Mexico 212 Yulia Mikhailova, Hiroshima City of Jerusalem Excellency, the Ambassador Property Strategy Program 16:00-17:45 Western Institutions, Japanese University Panel A | The Normalization of Sophie Bisping, Heidelberg Interpretations, Global Discourses: Chair: Ayelet Zohar, Tel Aviv of Japan to Israel, Mr. Koichi University + Yale University Aiboshi, and Honorary President Gender Discourses: Mainstream University Panel A | Western Ideologies Discussing the Public Space in 11:45-12:15 Coffee break Vorsprung Durch Technik: and Social Peripheries in Japan Japan of IAJS, Professor Jacob Raz and the Japanese State: Images and Imaginaries: European Influences on the Early Gilman 223 11:45-12:15 Coffee break Distribution and Hybridization Helena Grinshpun, Hebrew Yokohama Shashin as Production 12:15-14:15 Development of Electronic Music of Western Concepts University of Jerusalem and Consumption about Japan in Japan (~1930-1969) 9:20-9:50 Opening panel Chair: Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni, Tel Aviv Moira Luraschi, Museo delle Culture Nimrod Chiat, University of Haifa University 12:15-14:00 Mexico 206 C Re-reading Arata Isozaki’s East- Panel A | Made in Israel Fastlicht Hall, Mexico Building (MUSEC), Lugano and Università West Polemics as an Approach to Japaneseness: Interaction The Quest for Modernity in Japan: Chair: Sigal Ben-Rafael Galanti, Beit dell’Insubria (Como-Varese) “Lagging 2000 Years behind Panel A | Jesuit Encounters: Understanding Some Propensities and Images of Difference and The Role of the Oyatoi Gaikokujn Greetings: Berl College Modern Women”: Okinawan of Contemporary Japanese (御雇い外国人 Moderator: Irit Averbuch, East-Asian Images and Martyrdom The West in the Japanese Similarity ) in the Scientific and Customs and the Discourse on Architecture In and Out of Japan Studies, Tel Aviv University Recycled Images: 21st Century Imagination: Riding Sacred Cows Technological Modernization of Modernity in Meiji Japan Gilman 223 Mexico 212 Edition of Fukuzawa Yukichi’s Erez Golani Solomon, Bezalel - Yasumasa Morimura’s Subversive Bakumatsu-Meiji Japan His Excellency, Mr. Koichi Aiboshi, Isabelle Prochaska-Meyer, University Chair: Renana Bartal, Tel Aviv Geography Textbook Academy of Arts and Design Act of “Cultural Occupation” Chair: Dalit Bloch, Tel Aviv University Giovanni Borriello, Tuscia University, of Vienna University Ambassador of Japan to Israel Elena Baibikov, Kobe City University Aya Louisa McDonald, University of Italy The Problem of Japanese-Jewish of Foreign Studies, Japan 17:45-18:00 Coffee break Nevada, Las Vegas Professor Emeritus Jacob Raz, LGBT Community: Hybridity of Japanese and Westerners in Historical Relationship Styles in Language 14:30-16:00 Lunch break Honorary President of the Israeli Shūsaku Endō’s Novels The Meiji Era, Hybridization, Complying with Iron and Hidemichi Tanaka, Tohoku University Association of Japanese Studies Hideko Abe, Colby College Yoshimi Miyake, Akita University 18:00-19:00 Keynote: Induction of Western Models, and Michio Hayashi, Irony: Different Angles on the Transformation of Japan the ‘International Sculptors’ Okakura Tenshin and Max S. Professor Zvika Serper, Dean, Naruse vu d’ici: The Anglo- Proselytization and Persecution: Sophia University Nordau: The Outsider Critics of Ihediwa Nkemjika Chimee, Nnamdi Symposium’ (Osaka, 1969) Faculty of the Arts, Tel Aviv University American Reception of Naruse The Mixed Origins of Fumi-e Western Civilization Azikiwe University, Nigeria Mexico 206 A Gabrielle Schaad, ETH Zurich Mikio’s Wife! Be Like a Rose! Marjolein de Raat, Leiden University Yiftach Har-gil, Heidelberg University Dr. Sigal Ben-Rafael Galanti, Chair, Michael Sooriyakumaran, Toronto Chair: Ayelet Zohar, Tel Aviv Israeli Association of Japanese (Re)writing History After the Meiji University Martyrdom in Japan and Mission Restoration University + Yale University Oriental Japonisme: Japan in Early Studies Politics of the Roman Catholic Israeli Art Mark Lincicome, Kyoto Consortium Woodblocks and Factory Women: Church Japan as Far West: Shalmit Bejarano, Hebrew University Dr. Ayelet Zohar, Tel Aviv University for Japanese Studies, Kyoto Images of Sericulture in Meiji Hisashi Yakou, Hōkkaido University An Allegorical Reading of of Jerusalem and Tel Aviv University + Yale University, Chair of the Japan Conference From a Colony to a Prefecture: Katakana Space Alison Miller, University of the South Japan’s Policy Towards Okinawa in the Meiji Era Stanislaw Meyer, Jagiellonian 19:00-22:00 Conference dinner University, Krakow King Arthur in Japan: Natsume Between East and West: Has “Happy Cherry Blossoms to Panel B | First Encounters: Panel B | Butterflies and Cranes: 18:30-19:30 Round Table: From 16:00-17:30 Sōseki and the Art of Reading Thursday, Nihonga Played a Role in the You Please”: An Examination of Portuguese and Dutch in Japan, The Opera between Noh, Meiji to Heisei: Japan in the Construction of Japanese Identity Katarzyna Sonnenberg, Uniwersytet December 20th Anti-Japanese Rhetoric Within 16-19th C. Kabuki, and Takarazuka Post-Modern World Panel A | The Iwakura Mission in France During the 1920s? Jagielloński, Krakow American Cartoons, Comics and to the USA, Western Travelers in Comedy Between 1942 and 2018 Dan David 302 Dan David 303 Kikoïne 01 Yue Yu, University of Lille and École A Witness of Edo: Aimé Humbert’s 8:00-9:00 Registration Japan du Louvre Adrian Manning, National University, Chair: Irit Averbuch, Tel Aviv Chair: Ofer Gazit, Tel Aviv University Moderator: Reut Harari, Tel Aviv Depiction of the Female Condition California Gilman 281 9:00 -11:30 University University in the Illustrated Monograph Le Opera’s Noh Japon Illustré Chair: Ehud Harari, Hebrew Panel C | Tattooing and The Evolution of Visuality: The Migrating and Transformative Michal Grover Friedlander, Tel Aviv Sigal Ben-Rafael Galanti,
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