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University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, April 14, 2011 presented
lecture on “Psychology in Natsume Sōseki’s
Mon.”
Harvard University, Cambridge, February 25,
2011. Presented lecture on “Hearing
Things: Natsume Sōseki, William
James, and the Vagaries of Possession.”
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champagne, April 1,
2010. Presented lecture on
“Rethinking the 1946 ‘Politics and Literature” Debate in a Global
Framework: Preliminary Thoughts on the Rise of Cold War Culture in Japan
and the U.S.”
The 2009 Lansdowne Lecture, University of Victora,
British Columbia, Canada, October 5, 2009.
Presented public lecture on “Owning Up to Sōseki: Psychology,
Sociology, and the Origins of 20th Century Literature”
British Association for Asian Studies Annual
Meeting, Sheffield, UK, October 8-10, 2009. Presented lecture on “Reading Natsume
Sōseki from English: Novelistic
Desire, Theoretical Attitude, and Translation in Sanshirō”
Oxford University, Oxford, England, May 27,
2008. Presented lecture on
“The Magic Mirror of Literature:
Tsubouchi Shōyō and Natsume Sōseki’s Theories of Literature”
University of Washington, Seattle, April 21,
2008. Presented lecture on
"Ideologies and Theories of Literature: Tsubouchi Shōyō's Shōsetsu Shinzui (Essence of the Novel, 1885-6) as a Mirror for
Natsume Sōseki's Bungakuron (Theory of
Literature, 1907)."
Macalester College, St. Paul, April 15, 2008. Presented lecture on “"Distilling a
Japanese Essence: Geopolitical Impurities in the Music of Misora
Hibari"
Asian Forum, International Christian University,
Tokyo, Japan, June 4, 2007.
Presented lecture on “Working Within the System: ‘Group Sounds’ and the Commercial and
Revolutionary Potential of Noise.”
Italian School of
East Asian Studies, Kyoto, Japan,
March 29, 2007. Presented lecture
on “Ideologies of Literature and Their Critique: Tsubouchi Shōyō and Natsume
Sōseki.”
Nagano Prefectural College, Nagano, Japan, June 9,
2006. Presented lecture in Japanese on “Hiragana no Misora Hibari to katakana
no Kasagi Shizuko: Sengo kayōkyu no
sekai” (Misora Hibari in hiragana and Kasagi Shinzuko in katakana: the world of postwar popular song in
Japan).
Yale University, New Haven, February 21, 2005. Presented lecture on "The Music
Will Set You Free: Kasagi Shizuko,
Kurosawa Akira, and the Problem of Liberation in Early Postwar Japan."
UCLA Center for Japanese Studies Colloquium,
December 6, 2004. Presented lecture
on “The Thief of Hearts: Natsume Sōseki’s
Kokoro and Modern Discourses of Property.”
Columbia University, New York City, November 11,
2004. Presented lecture on “New
Horizons in Japanese History-Writing: The Dawn That Never
Comes: Shimazaki Tōson and Japanese
Nationalism.”
University of California at Santa Barbara, January
29, 2003. Presented lecture on
“"Property, Literature, and Japanese Modernity: Natsume Sōseki and the Critiques of
Sociology."
Oita Prefectural Arts College, Oita, Japan, January
19, 2001. Presented lecture in Japanese
on “Honyaku to gaikoku bunka e no rikai” (The
Nagano Prefectural College, Nagano, Japan, December
14, 2000. Presented lecture in
Japanese on “Honyaku to gaikoku bunka e no rikai” (The
University of California-Berkeley Center for
Japanese Studies Colloqium, November 11, 1999. Presented lecture on “Triangulating the
Nation: Rethinking Shimazaki Tōson’s
The Family.”
UCLA Center for Japanese Studies Colloquium, May 24,
1999. Presented lecture on
“Literary Nationalism: Rethinking
Shimazaki Tōson’s The Family.”
Southern California Japan Seminar, October 10,
1996. Presented lecture on
“Shimazaki Tōson and the Disease of Nationalism.”
Symposium
on Natsume Sōseki’s Theory of Literature, University of Tokyo, December 22,
2011. Scheduled to present paper in
Japanese on “Natsume Sōseki to ‘Sekai Bungaku’ to iu Mondai: Eigoken kara Bungakuron wo
Yominaosu” (Natsume Sōseki and the Problem of ‘World Literature’: Re-Reading Theory of Literature from the
English-Speaking World.”
Symposium
in Honor of the Late Michael Marra, UCLA, Los Angeles, November 18, 2011. Scheduled to present paper on “A Passion
for Aesthetics: Kuki Shūzō and
Michael Marra.”
Asian
Studies Conference Japan, International Christian University, Tokyo, Japan,
June 25-25, 2011. Chaired panel on
“Individual Papers in Asian Literature and Film.”
Nihon
Kindai Bungakukai, Tokyo, Japan, June 25, 2011. Presented paper in Japanese on “Seiji to
Bungaku Ronsō no Transnational na Saihyōka” (A Transnational Rethinking of the
‘Politics and Literature’ Debate).
Association
for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Honolulu, March 30-April 3, 2011. Discussant for Panel 116: “Subjectivity
and Cultural Power: Shifting Gender/Sexual/Ethnic Identities in Modern Japan. “
"In
the Mix: Asian Popular Music," Princeton University, March 25-26,
2011. Presented paper on “Working
Within the System: Groups Sounds
and the Commercial and Revolutionary Potential of Noise.”
“Rethinking Hihyō: The Politics of Literature and the
Literature of Politics in Early Postwar Japan,” University of Chicago, March 4-5,
2011. Conference organizer and
panel chair.
“Sengo hihyō shūchū kōgi”
(Workshop on Postwar Criticism), Waseda University, Tokyo, July 29-31,
2010. Presented paper in Japanese
on “Reisen bunka toshite no ‘Seiji to bungaku’ ronsō” (“The ‘Politics and
Literature’ Debate as Cold War Culture).
“Rethinking 'Hihyō': Postwar
Literary Criticism and Beyond,” Princeton University, March 24, 2010. Presented paper on “The 'Politics and
Literature Debate' in a Global Context: Preliminary Thoughts on the Rise of Cold War
Cultures.”
"Rewriting Modern and
Contemporary Japanese Intellectual History: Perspectives of Mobility and Border
Crossings," Tōhoku University, Sendai, Japan, September 25-27, 2009. Chaired panel on “Memories of Ethnic,
National and Imperial Desire.”
Natsume Sōseki
Workshop, Univesity of
California-Berkeley, June 26, 2009.
Invited participant for faculty/graduate student workshop on Natsume
Sōseki’s Sanshirō.
Association for Asian
Studies Annual Meeting, Chicago, March 26-29, 2009. Chair and disscusant for panel on “How
the 1960s Became the 1970s in Japan.”
East Asia in Motion,
International Conference, Yale University, New Haven, February 27-March 1,
2009. Presented paper on “Dancing
To/From the Other: Motion and
Japanese Popular Song, 1930s-1950s”
Association for Asian
Studies Annual Meeting, Atlanta, April 2-6, 2008. Chair and discussant for panel on
“Shimazaki Tōson Beyond Japan.”
Workshop: “Japan-China Cultural Relations,”
University of Victoria, Victoria, BC, Canada, January 24-26, 2008. Presented paper on “Japan’s Orient in
Song and Dance.”
Association for Japanese
Literary Studies Annual Meeting, Princeton University, Princeton, November 2-4,
2007. Invited participant on
featured panel; presented paper on “Owning Up To Sōseki: The Theory of
Literature vs. the Theory of Copyright.”
Association for Asian
Studies Annual Meeting, Boston, March 22-25, 2007. Participant in roundtable
session on “Bridging Asian and Asian American Studies.
Organization for Asian
Research Annual Meeting, Boston, March 22, 2007. Presented paper on “Novelistic Desire,
Theoretical Attitude, and Translating Heteroglossia: Reading NS.”
International
Symposium: Ideologies of the Modern
Novel in Japan, Konkuk University, Seoul, Korea, October 20, 2006. Presented paper in Japanese on “Bungaku
ideorogii to sono hihyō: Natsume
Sōseki Bungakuron wo chūshin ni”
(Ideologies of literature and their critique: Reconsidering Natsume Sōseki’s Bungakuron)
Symposium on Wartime and
Postwar Popular Culture and “Japan,” Nishō Gakusha University, Tokyo Japan,
October 28, 2006. Presented paper
in Japanese on “Sengo no kayōkyoku no sekaikan: Misora Hibari to Kasagi Shizuko wo
chūshin ni” (The worldview of postwar Japanese popular music: Misora Hibari and Kasagi Shizuko).
Symposium on Visuality and
International Collaboration in Research in Modern Japanese Literature Studies,
Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto, Japan, July 29-30, 2006. Invited participant in Japanese-language
roundtable session.
Association for Japanese
Literary Studies Annual Meeting, Josai International University, Tokyo, Japan;
July 1-2, 2006. Presented paper on
“The Performance of Travel: Misora
Hibari and Kasagi Shizuko’s American Tours.”
Natsume Sōseki’s Bungakuron as Literary and Aesthetic Theory. Public workshop, Princeton University,
March 17, 2006. Chaired panel with
paper presentations by Keith Vincent, Anna-Marie Farrier, and Atsuko Ueda.
Natsume Sōseki’s Bungakuron and Psychology and the Natural Sciences,
Miami, June 6, 2005. Public
Workshop hosted jointly by University of Florida and Florida International
University. Presented paper on “The
Properties of Psychology and Sōseki’s Theory
of Literature.”
Popular Culture Association
Annual Meeting, San Diego, March 23-26, 2005. Presented paper on “Za Kinkusu: Ray Davies and the Rise and Fall and
Rise of Japanese Rock and Roll.”
Natsume Sōseki’s Bungakuron as Social Theory. Workshop,
UCLA, March 14, 2005. Organizer and
participant in roundtable discussion with Joseph Murphy and Atsuko Ueda.
Translating Universals: Theory Moves Across Asia. International Conference, UCLA,
January 21-22, 2005. Co-organizer and
discussant for paper presentations by Richard Calichman, Theodore Hughes, Mark
Bradley, and Alessandro Russo.
Constructed Spaces/Contested
Places: Critical Geographies in
Korea. International Conference,
UCLA, May 14-15, 2004. Participated
in Comparative Perspectives Roundtable Discussion with Laura Nelson and Stefan
Tanaka.
Japanese Popular Music. Conference, UCLA, March 3, 2004. Organizer and presented paper on
“Kurosawa Akira, Kasagi Shizuko, and the ‘Scandal’ of Popular Culture.”
Translating Universals: Theory Moves Across Asia. Workshop, UCLA, December 13, 2003. Organizer and discussant for paper
presentations by George Dutton, JaHyun Haboush, Theodore Huters and Stefan
Tanaka.
Association for Japanese
Literary Studies Annual Meeting, UCLA, November 21-23, 2003. Presented paper on “I Am A Revolutionary
Cat: Proletarian Literature and
Natsume Sōseki.”
Association for Asian
Studies Annual Meeting, New York City, March 27-29, 2003. Presented paper on “The Never-Ending
Story: Kokoro and Contemporary Japanese Cultural
Criticism.”
Japanese Literature and Global
Modernities: Immigration,
Occupation, and Capital. Workshop,
UCLA, January 18, 2003. Organizer
and chair for workshop featuring presentations by Amano Chisa, Hibi Yoshitaka,
Nakagawa Shigemi, and Shigeki Sekiyama.
International Conference on
Monuments and Memory-Making in Japan, Singapore National University, Singapore,
July 8-10, 2002. Presented paper on
“What it Sounds Like to Lose an Empire:
Happy End and the Kinks.”
Modernity, Early Modernity
and Post-Modernity in Japan, NEH Summer Institute for College Teachers,
University of Southern California, June 17-July 17, 2002. Led session on “Natsume Sōseki and
Literary Modernization in Japan.”
Transgressing Gender: Interrogating “Gender” in Japan, 2002
Annual Graduate Student Symposium for Japanese Studies, UCLA, May 11,
2002. Discussant for panel on
“Gender as Performance.”
Sex and the Politics of
Desire: Japan, Workshop, University
of Minnesota, April 27, 2002.
Commentator for panel on “Desire 1:
Romance of Masculinity and the Nation.”
Sensibilities of
Transformation: The Linguistic Turn
and Contemporary Japanese Literature Criticism, International Conference,
UCLA. April 19-20, 2002. Conference organizer, moderator for
keynote address by Kamei Hideo.
Association for Asian Studies
2002 Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., April 4-7, 2002. Chair and organizer for panel on “A
Sensibility of Transformation:
Kamei Hideo and the Uses of Meiji Literature.”
Translating the Nation in
East Asia, Workshop, Center for Modern and Contemporary Studies, UCLA, March
8-9, 2002. Commentator for
papers by Stefan Tanaka and R. Bin Wong.
Association for Japanese
Literature Studies Annual Meeting, Boston, November 9-11, 2001. Presented paper on ”Mystery Plane:
Sakamoto Kyū and the Translations of Rockabilly.”
Multicampus Research Group
on Transnational and Transcolonial Studies Conference on “Minor
Transnationalisms,” UCLA, May 4-5, 2001.
Discussant for panel on “Historical and Racial Mediations.”
Shimazaki Tōson Association
Annual Meeting, Nagano, Japan, October 1, 2000. Invited participant in roundtable panel
on “Kokusaika no naka no Tōson” (Internationalization and Tōson).
Multicampus Research Group
on Transnational and Transcolonial Studies Workshop on "Transnational and
Transcolonial Studies," UCLA, May 6, 2000. Presented paper on “"Translation
and Minority Discourse: Sakamoto Kyū and the Transnational Pathways of
Rockabilly.
Association for Asian
Studies 2000 Annual Meeting, San Diego, March 9-12, 2000. Presented paper on “Becoming a Man: Gender and Genre in Shimazaki Tôson’s Spring.”
Japanese Hermeneutics: Current Debates on Aesthetics and
Interpretation. International Conference, UCLA, December 13-15, 1998. Commentator for panel on "Subject and
Conflict."
Empire of Readers: Book, Image and Mass Subjectivity in
Modern Japan: A Symposium in Honor
of Maeda Ai. International
Symposium, Cornell University, November 6-8, 1998. Commentator for papers presented by
UenoToshiya and Kawamura Minato.
Association for Asian
Studies 1998 Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., March 26-29, 1998. Presented paper on "The Japan That
Can 'Say Yes': Ishihara Shintarô
Meets Chage & Aska."
Japan: The Making of a Nation. 1997 UCLA Symposium for Japanese
Studies, UCLA, April 19, 1997.
Commentator for panel on "National Ideology and Modernity."
Korean Literature and World
Literature, International Conference, UCLA, November 7-9, 1996. Respondent to papers presented by Yi
Ch’ongjun and Ch’oe Yun.
Association for Asian
Studies 1996 Annual Meeting, Honolulu, April 11-14, 1996. Presented paper on "Shimazaki Tōson and
National History: Awkward
Memories."
Tōson's Literature at the Turning Point
to Modern Times Fukuoka
UNESCO Association's Eighth International Seminar on Japanese Studies, Fukuoka, Japan, September 6-7,
1994. Presented paper on
"Yoake mae to
rekishiteki jikan" (Shimazaki Tōson's Before
the Dawn and the Problem of Historical Time).
Meiji Studies
Conference Harvard
University, May 6-8, 1994. Presented paper on "Images of the Body in
Shimazaki Tōson's Broken Commandment."
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