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Conference Participants Traffic and Diaspora: Political,
Economic, and Cultural February 25th &
February 26th, 2005 Bios of Conference Participants (listed by panels) Eiichiro Azuma (plenary speaker) Eiichiro Azuma is
Assistant Professor of History and Asian American Studies at the
University of Pennsylvania. He has published a number of articles
on Japanese immigrant experiences in the continental United States,
interethnic relations in the American West, and Japanese migration.
His first book, Between Two Empires: Race, History, and
Transnationalism in Japanese America, is forthcoming from Oxford
University Press in February 2005. "Authenticity" panel Christine Yano (chair of panel) E. Taylor Atkins E. Taylor Atkins,
Associate Professor of History at Northern Illinois University, is
the author of Blue Nippon: Authenticating Jazz in Japan (Duke
UP, 2001, winner of the 2003 John Whitney Hall Prize), and editor of
Jazz Planet (University Press of Mississippi, 2003). He is
currently researching Japanese colonial policies toward Korean
performing arts during the colonial era (1910-45). Ian Condry
Ian Condry is assistant professor
of Japanese cultural studies at the Massachusetts Institute of
Technology in the Foreign Languages and Literatures department. He
is currently writing a book about hip-hop in Japan based on his
Ph.D. dissertation (Yale, Anthropology, 1999). Recent publications
include "Cultures of Music Piracy: An Ethnographic Comparison of
the US and Japan" (International Journal of Cultural Studies,
2004) and "B-Boys and B-Girls: Rap Fandom and Consumer Culture in
Japan," which appears in the edited volume Fanning the Flames:
Fans and Consumer Culture in Contemporary Japan (William W.
Kelly, ed., 2004). Website:
http://iancondry.com. Jane Park Jane Park is an Assistant Professor in the Honors College and the Film and Video Studies Program at the University of Oklahoma; I received my Ph. D. in the department of Radio-TV-Film at The University of Texas at Austin, and my BA and MA in English at Brown University and the University of California, Irvine, respectively. My work focuses on the relationship between the popular representations of different racialized groups and the ways in which these groups have been and continue to be socially and politically constructed. I am currently revising my dissertation into a book tentatively titled Yellow Future: Oriental Style and Cyberpunk Cinema, which looks at the ideological role of oriental imagery in US science fiction cinema.
"Communities" panel Lili M. Kim (chair of panel) Lili M. Kim is the Luce
Assistant Professor of History and Global Migrations at Hampshire
College. A recipient of the UCLA Institute of American Cultures
Postdoctoral Fellowship and the Marion and Jasper Whiting Foundation
Fellowship, she is currently finishing up her book manuscript
entitled Resisting the Orientalization of the Enemy: The
Predicament of Korean Americans on the Homefront During World War II
(under contract from Stanford University Press). Yukiko Koshiro Yukiko
Koshiro teaches U.S.-East Asian history at American University for
2004-05. Her first book "Trans-Pacific Racisms and the U.S.
Occupation of Japan" (1999) won the Masayoshi Ohira Memorial Award
in 2001. Her most recently publication is "Eurasian Eclipse:
Japan's End Game in World War II" (American Historical Review, April
2004). Lon Kurashige Kurashige is associate
professor of history and American studies and ethnicity at the
University of Southern California, where he has taught since earning
his Ph.D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 1994. He is
author of Japanese American Celebration and Conflict: A History
of Ethnic Identity and Festival in Los Angeles, 1934-1990
(California, 2002), which won the History Book Award from the
Association for Asian American Studies). He is co-editor of Major
Problems in Asian American History (Houghton Mifflin, 2002) and
has recently returned from Japan where he was a Fulbright lecturer
in American Studies at Kyoto University. Michael Molasky Michael Molasky teaches modern Japanese literature at the University of Minnesota. His publications include /The American Occupation of Japan: Literature and Memory /(Routledge, 1999), /Southern Exposure: Modern Japanese Literature from Okinawa /(University of Hawai'i Press, 2000), and a forthcoming book written in Japanese, /Sengo Nihon no jazu bunka /[The Jazz Culture of Postwar Japan] (Seidosha, June 2005). His current research explores representations of jazz in postwar Japanese literature, film, criticism, and material culture.
"return" panel Davinder Bhowmik (chair of panel) Davinder Bhowmik is assistant professor of Japanese in the Department of Asian Languages and Literature at the University of Washington, Seattle. Her research focuses on questions of history, memory, and representation in atomic bomb fiction, and issues of language, identity, and culture in Okinawan fiction. She is currently completing a book-manuscript entitled --Writing Okinawa: Narrative Acts of Resistance and Identity--.
David Mura David Mura is a memoirist,
poet, performance artist and critic. His memoir about a year long
stay in Japan, Turning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei
(Anchor/Random), was listed as a New York Times Notable Book of the
Year and won the Josephine Miles Book Award from the Oakland PEN.
His two latest books are a book of literary criticism, Song for
Uncle Tom, Tonto & Mr. Moto: Poetry & Identity (University of
Michigan Press) and a book of poetry, Angels for the Burning
(Boa Editions Ltd.). Gary Y. Okihiro
Gary Y.
Okihiro is professor of international and public affairs and
director of the Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race at
Columbia University Joshua Hotaka Roth Joshua Hotaka Roth is an assistant professor of anthropology at Mount Holyoke College. He has written Brokered Homeland: Japanese Brazilian Migrants in Japan, published in 2002. Currently, he is starting research on risk consciousness and public spaces in Tokyo, São Paulo, and New York.
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