Japanese Association for American History

The 5th Annual Conference of the JAAH
September 20-21, 2008
at Toyo Gakuen University: Hongo Campus

Day 1: September 20th (Saturday)

Symposium (13:30-17:00)
Moderator: Hirofumi Nakano (University of Kitakyushu)
American History in History Education
Panelists:
Tomochika Okamoto (University of Tsukuba)
On the Socialization Function of History Education:
Underlying Problems in History Textbooks of Japan and the United States
Yasuhiko Torigoe (Azabu High School)
Historical Teaching in USA
Daizaburo Yui (Tokyo Women’s Christian University)
Bridging over the Gaps between Research and Education in
American Historical Studies

Commentator: Yoshiyuki Kido (Hitotsubashi University)

General Meeting (17:00-18:30)
Reception (18:30-20:00)

Day 2: September 21st, 2008 (Sunday)

Independent Paper Presentations 9:30-
Session A
Moderator: Masaki Hirata (Nagoya City University)
Presentations:
Keita Okuhiro (University of Tokyo)
The Relationship between the President and the Congress
in the Period of National Emergency: With a Focus on
the First Session of Seventy-Seventh Congress (1941)
Ikuro Fujiwara (Osaka University)
U.S. Foreign Policy toward Iran during and before World War II:
Why was it shifted from Iran to Saudi Arabia?
Hiroko Abe (Tohoku University)
The Community of Mourning: The Politics of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Yusuke Nishizumi (Chuo University)
Rethinking U.S. Foreign Policy Realists: The Case of the Kosovo War

Session B
Moderator: Yusuke Goto (Waseda University)
Presentations:
Toshikazu Kasai (Nagoya University)
Sailors and the West India trade in late-17th-century British North America:
from the viewpoint of Atlantic history
Keiko Fukuda (Aoyama Gakuin University)
Abolitionism and the Health Reform Movement in Mid-19th Century America:
David Ruggles and His Utopia
Junko Miura (Hokkaido University)
Racial Politics and Americanization Policy in the Making of
"the Mexican Problem": The Case of Racial (Re)formation in Texas
Kosuke Yoshioka (Tohoku University)
The struggle to dismantle race-based affirmative action
in institutions of higher education.

Session C
Moderator: Yumi Hiratai (Sapporo Gakuin University)
Presentations:
Chizuru Nasu (Shiraishi) (Shukutoku University)
Chiori Goto (Hitotsubashi University)
Shigeo Fujimoto (Tezukayama University)

Symposium A 14:00-15:00
The World Order in Early Nineteenth Century Western Hemisphere
Moderator: Hiroo Nakajima (Osaka University)
Panelists:
Tadao Hama (Hokkai-Gakuen University)
The Haitian Revolution and the Oder of Western Hemisphere
Yoshio Higomoto (Doshisha University)
Three Revolutions in the Atlantic World and Jefferson's "Empire of Liberty
Yukari Yashima (Keio University)
Reconstruction of the Empire: Spain and Cuba in the First Half of the 19th Century

Commentator: Takeshi Fushimi (Keio University)

Symposium B 14:00-15:00
The Formation of Immigrant Communities in the Americas
Moderator: Fuminori Minamikawa (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies)
Panelists:
Akio Kitamura (Japan Women’s University)
The Transnational Network of Italian Antifascist Exiles
and the Ethnic Community in the U.S. of the Interwar Era
Yoshiko Shibata (Kobe University)
Becoming Chinese, Being Chinese:
Dimensions of Borders on Ethnic Cemetery in Jamaica
Hiroshi Yoneyama (Ritsumeikan University)
Japanese Immigrant Community and Traffic System in Los Angeles:
Thinking of Traffic System as a basis of forming and sustaining immigrant community

Commentator: Kotaro Nakano (Osaka University)

The 6th Annual Conference of the JAAH
September 19-20, 2009
Place: Nagoya University, School of Letters

Program

Day 1: September 19th (Saturday)

Independent Paper Presentations 10:30-
Session A
Moderator: Izumi Ishii (Doshisha University)
Presentations:
Kumiko Noguchi (Meiji Gakuin University)
Analysis of the Tribal Political Organization and Tribal Leadership
during the Federal Assimilation Policy Era in California
Machiko Sato (University of Shizuoka)
Freedom House and Its Liberal Internationalism
Hiroyuki Matsuda (Koshien University)
Women Telegraphers in the United States: Unknown Story of Female Workers

Session B
Moderator: Shusuke Takahara (Kyoto Sangyo University)
Presentations:
Ayako Sahara (University of California, San Diego)
Biopolitics of Operations New Life/ Arrivals: U.S. Policy on 'Indochinese Refugees'
Yoko Mukai (University of Tsukuba)
Conservativeness on Finance Committee: From the Confirming Hearing of
Welfare Reform in the Early 1970's

Executive Meeting 12:40-13:40

Symposium 14:00-17:30
The World of Labor and Working Class History
Moderator: Yumiko Moriwaki (Mie University)
Panelists:
Hidetake Yasutake (Aichi Prefectural University, Emeritus)
Development of the Slave Owners' State in America and the Politics of
Urban Laboring People: Political Economy of the Locofocos in New York City
Tatsuro Nomura (Aichi Prefectural University, Emeritus)
Dreams of Working Class Liberation: From the Knights of Labor to the I.W.W.
Yu Takeda (Nara University of Education)
Class-Consciousness, as Defined in the Areas of Life and Labor

Commentator: Ryo Yokoyama (Konan University)

General Meeting 17:30-18:30
Reception 19:00-20:30

Day 2: September 20th (Sunday)

Symposium A 10:00-12:30
Moderator: Ayako Uchida (Nagoya University)
Boundaries of Citizens: Exclusion and Assimilation of Immigrants and Native Americans
Panelists:
Fuminori Minamikawa (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies)
Beyond the Horizon of “Civic Nation”: Exclusion/Inclusion of Japanese Immigrants in the 1920s
Yumiko Nakano (Mizuno) (Nagoya University)
Citizenship and Native Americans:
Land, Natural Resources, and Politics in the Early Twentieth Century

Commentator: Akiyo Yamamoto (Nagoya City University)

Symposium B 14:00-17:00
Moderator: Takeo Mori (Fukuoka University)
Aspects of the Early Modern Atlantic World
Panelists:
Minoru Kawakita (Kyoto Sangyo University)
Periphery was not Peripheral: The British America in the Pre-Industrial History
Takeshi Fushimi (Keio University)
Mitsuhiro Wada (Nagoya University)
Money in the Early Modern Atlantic World

Commentator: Kenryu Hashikawa (University of Tokyo)

The 7th Annual Conference of the JAAH
September 18-19 2010
Place: Tokyo Woman's Christian University

Program

Day 1: September 18th (Saturday)

12:00-13:00
Executive Meeting

14:00-17:00
Symposium A: Music Beyond Borders

Moderator: Daizaburo Yui (Tokyo Women's Christian University)

Panelists:
Tatsuya Shioya (Artist)
A Peculiar Reception of Gospel Music in Japan and Its Current Situation
Yusuke Torii (Setsunan University)
Jazz and National Borders: A Japanese Canadian Experience
Shuhei Hosokawa (International Research Center for Japanese Studies)
Representing the rural: Música sertaneja as Brazil's "country " music

Commentator: Keiko Wells (Ritsumeikan University)

17:15-18:15
General Meeting

18:30-20:30
Reception

Day 2: September 19th (Sunday)

10:00-12:00
Independent Paper Presentations
Session A
Moderator: Keiichi Shoji (Josai University)
Presentations:
Shiori Nomura (Chuo University)
Transnational nationalism and the sense of American citizenship:
The National Croatian Society in the U.S.A.
Terumasa Tomita (University of Tokyo)
Union Influence on U. S. Trade Policy Making: 1997, 98, Fast-Track Authorization and China Tire Safeguards

Session B
Moderator: Ayumu Kaneko (Nagano Prefectural College)
Presentations:
Hiroaki Kanazawa (Meiji University)
Issues regarding Annexation of Hawaii represented in U.S. Political Cartoons
Noriko Hosoya (Hosei University)
Southern Liberals and the Issue of Race

14:00-17:00

Symposium B: "Urban Spaces" as Contested Terrain

Moderator: Katsuyuki Murata (Hokkaido University)

Panelists
Hiroyuki Matsubara (Yokohama National University)
Masumi Izumi (Doshisha University)
Yutaka Nakamura (Tama Art University)

Commentator: Hisako Yanaka (Kyoritsu Woman's University)

Symposium C: Aspects of the Nuclear Issue

Moderator: Ken Chujo (J. F. Oberlin University)

Panelists
Shizue Hinokawa (Takushoku University)
Masako Nakamura (University of Minnesota)
Naoki Kamimura (Hiroshima City University)

Commentator: Fumiko Nishizaki (Seikei University)