PROGRAM
March 14
Venue: Museum of Cultural History (Historisk museum), Frederiksgate 2
09:00-17:00 Registration
OPENING SESSION (I)
Venue: The Law Faculty Lecture Room (Gamle Festsal), Karl Johans gate 47
13:30 Welcome and Introduction
Haakon Breien Benestad, Oslo University Pro-Rector
Egil Mikkelsen, Museum of Cultural History Director
Dolores Martinez, JAWS General Secretary
Arne Røkkum, Conference Convener and Organizer
Fumiko Saiga, Ambassador of Japan
14:30 Keynote Speech
Rewrapping the Message: Museums, Healing and Communicative Power
Joy Hendry, Oxford Brookes University
OPENING SESSION (II)
Venue: Museum of Cultural History, 3rd floor (Historisk museum), Lecture Room
16:00 Special Lecture
Making Scents of Smell: Incense in Japan
Brian Moeran, Copenhagen Business School
17:00 Conference Exhibition Opening and Reception
Signs of Society: Masks and Festival Banner Poles from Okinawa, Japan
Arne Røkkum, University of Oslo
19:00 Conference Dinner: Restaurant Ekebergrestauranten
March 15
Venue: Georg Sverdrups hus (University Library, Blindern, Moltke Moes vei 39)
09:00-12:00 Registration for latecomers
SESSION ONE (Classroom [undervisningsrom] 1)
09:00-10:30 Animals at the Crossroads: Material and Mental Landscapes
of Pet Loss and Pet Mortuary Rites in Contemporary Japan
Panel Organizers: Barbara Ambros, University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill and Fabienne Duteil-Ogata, University Paris X
Discussant: Mark Rowe, McMaster University
Contested Ashes in the Margins: The Necrogeography of Mortuary Rites for Pets in Contemporary Japan
Barbara Ambros, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Discrepant Attitudes and Views by Pet Owners on Their Dead “Family Members”
Noriko Niijima, University of Tokyo
New Practices, New Bodies: Urban Funerary Rites for Pets
Fabienne Duteil-Ogata, University Paris X France
10:30-10:50 Coffee break
10:50-11:20 Animals at the Crossroads: Material and Mental Landscapes
of Pet Loss and Pet Mortuary Rites in Contemporary Japan (II)
Facing Death: Pet Gravestones in Today’s Japan
Elizabeth Kenney, Kansai Gaidai University
11:20-11:50 De-materializing ie: fragmentation and diversification in the
Japanese home and family
Panel Organizer: Allison Alexy, Yale University
When I got Divorced, My Single Friends Said “Welcome Home!”
Allison Alexy, Yale University
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:00 De-materializing ie: fragmentation and diversification in the
Japanese home and family (II)
Houses on paper
Karl Jakob Krogness, University of Copenhagen
Elderly Japanese anticipating their ie when old
Anemone Platz, University of Aarhus
Constructing, Deconstructing and Reconstructing the Japanese Home:
Housing Systems, Housing Markets and Household Formation
Richard Ronald, Delft University of Technology
15:00-15:20 Coffee break
15:20-16:50 Materializing Selves – Performing Personhood through Material Culture
Panel Organizer: Philomena Keet, SOAS, University of London
Discussant: William Beeman, Brown University
Consumed by Chaos - Hoarding and Disposal in Tokyo
Fabio Gygi, University of Tokyo
Purifying Water, Purifying the Buraku
Joseph Hankins, University of Chicago
You can put it on, but can you pull it off? - Fashion and Identity in Tokyo
Philomena Keet, SOAS, University of London
16:50-17:00 Break
17:00-18:00 Materializing Selves – Performing Personhood through Material Culture (II)
“Keitai are not new!” – Just another valued portable (playful) object?
The keitai (mobile phone) in historical perspective
Philip Sawkins, Oxford Brookes University
Performing ethnicity, performing Japanese/American identity
Ayako Takamori, New York University
SESSION TWO (Classroom [undervisningsrom] 2)
09:00-10:30 Materializing Dreams: Performing Imagination through Consumer Culture
Panel Organizers: Erica Baffelli, Hosei University and Keiko Yamaki,
The Graduate University for Advanced Studies (SOKENDAI), Osaka
Discussant: Roger Goodman, Oxford University
Welcome home, master! Meido cafés, moe and Akihabara (sub)culture
Erica Baffelli, Hosei University and Keiko Yamaki,
The Graduate University for Advanced Studies
(SOKENDAI), Osaka
Bricolaging “Fordism”: The Arts and Crafts of the Custom Cars
Kazunori Sunagawa, Chuo University
Robot Dreams: The formation of self and masculine identity in Japanese techno-culture
Hirofumi Katsuno, University of Hawai’i
10:30-10:50 Coffee break
10:50-11:50 Sex in Contemporary Japan: Publicity, Performance, Participation
Panel Organizer: T.J.M. Holden, Tohoku University
The shifting material context of the Japanese love hotel
Sarah Chaplin, Kingston University
Media, Globalization, and Sexual Hearsay: How do the Japanese Learn about Sex?
Jermaine Gordon, University of Chicago
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:30 Sex in Contemporary Japan: Publicity, Performance, Participation (II)
Intimate Connections: Sexuality and Mediated Intimacy in Japan’s Teleuchi
T.J.M. Holden, Tohoku University
Japanese specificities regarding ‘sexual participation’ while doing
fieldwork in sexual anthropology
Erick Laurent, Gifu Keizai University
14:30-15:00 Body, self, and conduct in gendered spaces
Panel Chair: Dolores Martinez, SOAS, University of London
(De)Classified Drinking: alcohol, masculinity and modern Japan
Paul Christensen, University of Hawaii at Manoa
15:00-15:20 Coffee break
15:20-16:20 Body, self, and conduct in gendered spaces (II)
Medical use of mineral hot springs in Misasa Onsen
Anna Fraser, Oxford Brookes University
Myths surrounding the female body in Japan: Locating the Japanese
Perception of ‘Health’
Shiho Sato, Norwegian School of Sport Sciences
16:20-16:50 Socialization and Incorporation in a Changing Society
Panel Chair: Peter Cave, University of Hong Kong
Well-connected Individuals? Educational Reform in Japan’s Primary Schools
Peter Cave, University of Hong Kong
16:50-17:00 Break
17:00-18:00 Socialization and Incorporation in a Changing Society (II)
De-Mystifying the “Samurai Manager”: A critical examination of personal character
and transparency in the Japanese eikaiwa industry
Andrew MacNaughton, University of Hong Kong
Japan’s Role in the Second World War and in the Japanese Invasion:
The Historiographical Presentation in Japanese Junior High School Text Books
Naomi Ichihara Røkkum, University of Oslo
SESSION THREE (Classroom [undervisningsrom] 3)
09:00-10:30 Material culture in global encounters between Japan and the “West”
Panel Organizer: Davide Torsello, University of Bergamo
The European Body in Japan / the Japanese Body in Europe
Catherine Atherton, Oxford Brookes University
To what extent do Japanese images of western political systems shape the
understanding of the role of religion in politics for Soka Gakkai?
Anne Mette Fisker-Nielsen, SOAS, University of London
Distant and romantic weddings in today Japan
Melinda Pappova, University of Bergamo
10:30-10:50 Coffee break
10:50-11:50 Material culture in global encounters between Japan and the “West” (II)
Breeding cows and breeding images: The invention of wagyu beef, or “The more expensive it is, the better it tastes”
Tina Peneva, Kyoto University
Being Japanese Abroad: Identity of Japanese Wives of non-Japanese husbands living in the UK
Mao Wada, SOAS, University of London
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:00 Sensibility and Space in Japanese Organisations
Panel Organizers: Mitchell W. Sedgwick, Oxford Brookes University
Housewifery and Materiality: Domesticating Charisma in Japan today
Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni, Tel Aviv University
Pottering about with the senses: A-theoretical anecdotes
Brian Moeran, Copenhagen Business School
Collaborating Architectures of Social Relations: Taking Place at a Japanese Multinational in France
Mitchell W. Sedgwick, Oxford Brookes University
15:00-15:20 Coffee break
15:20-15:50 Sensibility and Space in Japanese Organisations (II)
“Taki Love his Fans”, “No, Taki Loves me!”: An Anthropological Study of the Female Fans of Takizawa Hideaki in Hong Kong
Dixon Heung Wah Wong, University of Hong Kong
15:50-16:50 Multi-aspects of hands (te) in Japanese culture: what hands represent
in person-to-person and person-to-materials relations
Panel Organizer: Noriya Sumihara, Tenri University
The myth and meaning of tezukuri (hand-made) in increasingly mechanized Sake brewing industry
Noriya Sumihara, Tenri University
“Tezukuri (Hand-Made)” in Hi-tech Industry: A case of a Japanese watch factory
Izumi Mitsui, Nihon University
16:50-17:00 Break
17:00-18:30 Multi-aspects of hands (te) in Japanese culture: what hands represent in person-to-person and person-to-materials relations (II)
Te wo Kakeru' Work and ‘Te ga Kakaru' Work: Transnational Work of Japanese Cabin Attendants in ‘D Airlines'
Keiko Yamaki, Graduate University for Advanced Studies
(SOKENDAI) National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka
To give a hand and to lend a hand: Focusing on volunteer activities at quake-devastated regions
Isao Hayashi, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka
Representations of “te (Hands)” in Japanese New Religions
Hirochika Nakamaki, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka
SPECIAL SESSION (Classroom [undervisningsrom] 4)
13:30-14:30 Information Search: Japanese and English Material
Naomi Magnussen, University Library, University of Oslo
March 16
Venue: Georg Sverdrups hus (University Library, Blindern, Moltke Moes vei 39)
SESSION ONE (Classroom [undervisningsrom] 1)
09:00-10:00 Categories of Movement in Time and Space
Panel Chair: Brigitte Steger, University of Vienna
Space as seen through a “spiritual lens”
Isabelle Prochaska, University of Vienna
Materialising the immaterial: clocks, bells and the timing of everyday life during the Edo period
Brigitte Steger, University of Vienna
10:00-10:30 Japanese styles captured through drama, metaphor, and lifestyle roles
Panel Chair: Mikako Iwatake, University of Helsinki
Contemporary Japan in the metaphorical mirror of Russian press
Edward Budayev, Nizhnii Tagil State Social Pedagogical Academy
10:30-10:50 Coffee break
10:50-11:50 Japanese styles captured through drama, metaphor, and lifestyle roles (II)
Kamome Shokudoo, Cultural Asymmetry and the Dialectics of Otherness
Mikako Iwatake, University of Helsinki
Not Your Grandfather’s Music: Tsugaru Shamisen’s Popularity in 21st Century Japan
Michael Peluse, Wesleyan University
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:00 Japanese styles captured through drama, metaphor, and lifestyle roles (III)
The changing consumption pattern of Japanese TV dramas in Hong Kong
Samuel Chi-Hang Wong, University of Hong Kong
14:00-15:00 Material Objects
Panel Chair: W. Sedgwick, Oxford Brookes University
Bamboo works in Japanese culture: between every day life and cultural heritage
Sylvie Guichard-Anguis, CREOPS Paris-Sorbonne /
French National Center of Scientific Research
Bast-fibre traditional textiles of Japan: ancient history and modern trends
Nadezda Maykova, Peter the Great Museum of Anthropology
and Ethnography, Russian Academy of Science
15:00-15:20 Coffee break
15:20-16:20 Material Objects (II)
New Religious Movements in Japan and their Sacred Buildings of Power
Iris Wieczorek, GIGA Institute of Asian Affairs, Hamburg
Materiality and Japanese identity: archeological artefacts and the Japanese culture debate in Tokugawa Japan.
Margarita Winkel, Leiden University
SESSION TWO (Classroom [undervisningsrom] 2)
09:00-10:30 All that You Can’t Leave Behind: Materiality while Alive, Dead, and Beyond
Panel Organizer: Hikaru Suzuki, Singapore Management University
Discussant: John Mock, Akita International University
Ikigai, Death, and What Remains
Gordon Mathews, Chinese University of Hong Kong
Beyond Consumption: How Unmarried Women in Japan Discuss their Contribution to Society, Purpose in Life, and Stake in the Future
Lynne Nakano, Chinese University of Hong Kong
‘All I want is You’: Beloved Pets and Japanese Pursuit of Wellbeing
Hikaru Suzuki, Singapore Management University
10:30-10:50 Coffee break
10:50-11:50 All that You Can’t Leave Behind: Materiality while Alive, Dead, and Beyond (II)
Consuming Old Age: Elder Services, Well-Being, and Elder Care Entrepreneurialism in Japan
John W. Traphagan, University of Texas at Austin
“Be your own Vessel!” Living Life and Changing Society the Def Tech Way: The lyrics, showmanship and ideology of Japan’s Jawaiian Popular Music Scene and how the Scene is Transforming the Lives of its Fans.
Bruce White, Dôshisha University
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-15:00 Shibusawa Keizô and the Possibilities of Social Science in Modern Japan
Panel Organizer: Wakako Kusumoto, Shibusawa Ei’ichi Memorial Foundation
Discussant: Michael Shackleton, Osaka Gakuin University
Home Movies: Filming Ethnographic Experience at the Attic Museum, 1930-37
Alan Christy, University of California, Santa Cruz
Looking for Shibusawa Keizô: An Exploration of the Junctions (or Discontinuities) among Anthropology, Folklore, and the Studies of Japan
Wakako Kusumoto, Shibusawa Ei’ichi Memorial Foundation
Thinking of Images/Thinking Through Images: Shibusawa Keizô’s Ebiki Project
Kenji Sato, University of Tokyo
15:00-15:20 Coffee break
15:20-15:50 Shibusawa Keizô and the Possibilities of Social Science in Modern Japan (II)
The Legacy of Shibusawa Keizô and His Family of Folklorists
Taro Tsurumi, Waseda University
15:50-16:50 Individual Presentationss
50 Years of the Grand Lodge of Japan
Pauline Chakmakjian, University College London
The Eco-Logic of Japanese Culture
John Esposito, Kwansei Gakuin University
SESSION THREE (Classroom [undervisningsrom] 3)
09:00-10:30 Objects of difference
Panel Organizer: Arne Røkkum, University of Oslo
Fabricating the exotic: Ryukyu koten yaki (“antique” ceramics) in a historical
perspective
Patrick Beillevaire, Japan Research Center / French National
Center for Scientific Research and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en
Sciences Sociales
Materiality Matters: Reconsidering Materiality of Lacquerware
Leonor Leiria, Oxford Brookes University
Marumunscapes: mimetic and diegetic materialization of the Ryukyuan landscape in kumiodori
Frances Marguerite Mammana, University of the Ryukyus
10:30-10:50 Coffee break
10:50-11:50 Objects of difference (II)
Japan but not quite: popular images of Okinawa in prewar Japan
Stanislaw Jan Meyer, Dept. of Japanese Studies, Jagiellonian University
Material belongings: Festival artifacts as qualifiers for society membership in the South Ryukyus
Arne Røkkum, University of Oslo
12:00-13:30 Lunch
13:30-14:00 Objects of difference (III)
Materiality and Identity Manifestation case: the Ainu in Hokkaido
Tom G. Svensson, University of Oslo
14:00-15:00 Communication and Development
Panel Chair: John Mock, Akita International University
Cell Phones in Twenty-First Century Japan as Cultural Playscape
Michal (Miki) Daliot-Bul, University of Haifa
Whither Maritime Resource Harvesting in Japan? Consolidation and Notions of Territoriality in the Coastal Zone
Alyne Delaney, North Sea Centre, Denmark
15:00-15:20 Coffee break
15:20-16:20 Communication and Development (II)
Life after Depopulation: Local Resources for Sustainable Development
John Mock, Akita International University
Natural and Artificial Lights as Part of the Japanese Landscape
Kensuke Shimizu, University of Turku
16:20-16:50 Landscapes of Identity, Community, and Difference
Panel Organizers: David Blake Willis, Soai University/Nissan Institute and
University of Oxford and Michael Shackleton, Osaka Gakuin University
Discussant: Roger Goodman, Oxford University
Satoyama and Chinju-no-mori - An Anthropology of Village Landscapes in Western Japan
Michael Shackleton, Osaka Gakuin University
16:50-17:00 Break
17:00-18:00 Landscapes of Identity, Community, and Difference (II)
Dejima: Enclaves of Difference and Place in Japan
David Blake Willis, Soai University/Nissan Institute and University of Oxford
The Affinity with Japan and the Identity Formation – a Study of the Native Taiwanese in Postwar Period
Fang Zhou, University of Hong Kong
March 17
Venue: Georg Sverdrups hus (University Library, Blindern, Moltke Moes vei 39)
SESSION ONE (Classroom [undervisningsrom] 1)
09:00-10:30 Japan and the Global: roots and branches
Panel Organizer: Merry White, Boston University
The ‘Self’ and the ‘Other’ – Japanese-Chinese Encounters in Japanese TV Dramas (2000 – 2002)
Griseldis Kirsch, University of Trier
Football in the community: Japanese ways of playing out the perils of globalization
Wolfram Manzenreiter, Vienna,
John Horne, University of Edinburgh
Japanese films in the Global
Dolores P. Martinez, SOAS, University of London
10:30-10:50 Coffee break
10:50-11:50 Japan and the Global: roots and branches (II)
Café Society in Japan: Global Coffee and Urban Spaces
Merry White, Boston University
“A Japanese in every jet”: Globalism and gendered service in the air
Christine Yano, University of Hawai’i at Mänoa
SESSION TWO (Classroom [undervisningsrom] 2)
09:00-10:30 Other Materialities: Angama Mask Performances of the Southern Ryukyus
Media Presentation
Panel Organizer: Evgeny Baksheev, The Russian Institute for Cultural Research,
Moscow
Discussion Panel: Patrick Beillevaire, Japan Research Center / French National
Center for Scientific Research and Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales
Frances Marguerite Mammana, University of the Ryukyus
Isabelle Prochaska, Department of East Asian Studies, University of Vienna
Arne Røkkum, University of Oslo
12:00-13:30 Lunch
PLENARY SESSION
13:30-15:00 Taminzoku Nihon: Multiculturalism at Minpaku
Panel Organizer: Nelson Graburn, University of California, Berkeley
Discussion Panel: Joy Hendry, Oxford Brookes University
Hirochika Nakamaki, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka
Hiroshi Shoji, National Museum of Ethnology, Osaka
Farewell Words
JAWS BUSINESS MEETING
15:00-17:00
