Japanese Arts & Globalizations

JAG May 2015 Work in Progress Event
2015-05-22 - 2015-05-24 | Lake Arrowhead, CA, United States
May 22-24, 2015
Lake Arrowhead [call for papers] [event schedule]

JAG's Works In Progress Event
2014-05-23 08:00 - 2014-05-25 17:00 (America/Los_Angeles)
May 23-25, 2014
Lake Arrowhead
[Call for Papers] | [Event Schedule]

"These Things Here and Now: Japanese Poetry in the Wake of the 2011 Disasters”
2014-04-30 17:00 - 19:00 | California State University, Long Beach, CA, United States
Jeffrey Angles, WMU
April 30, 2014
CSULB
Carl Anatol Center
[link to description]

“Out of Doubt: Japanese Art Post 3/11”
2014-03-13 17:00 - 19:00 | California State University, Long Beach, CA, United States
Gabriel Ritter, Nancy and Tim Hanley Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Dallas Museum of Art
March 13, 2014
CSULB
Academic Services Bldg. Rm. 384
[link to description]

Commensurable Distinctions: Intercultural Negotiations of Modern and Contemporary Japanese Visual Culture
2014-01-31 08:00 - 2014-02-01 17:00 | UCI – Humanities Gateway, Room 1010, 1030
A Conference of the Japanese Arts and Globalizations (JAG) Group
Organizers: Bert Winther-Tamaki & William Marotti
Dates: January 31-February 1, 2014
Location: University of California, Irvine; All events Humanities Gateway, room 1010 except Second Keynote Lecture in Humanities Gateway, room 1030
While modern Japanese art has often been assessed in terms of the uniqueness of its transformations or revisions of modern Euramerican art, the closeness of its products to transnational ideas and forms has typically been overlooked or regretted. This conference examines the critical role of relationships of convergence, similarity, or identity whether or not these relationships serve to provoke new forms of difference.
“Commensurable distinctions” operate within a globalized concept of art as distinctive visual dimensions generated by a transnational framework (format or genre), one that positions artists (and artworks, styles, movements) in relative measure to some standard presumed to have global reach or authority. Focusing on fluidity, mutations, and interstices as opposed to modes of analysis based on contained national and cultural forms, we hope to examine the compatibility and global passages of transfer and transaction that lead to situated distinctions and complex drifts. This conference will provide another take on the JAG moniker and our shared injunction to consider “Japanese Arts and Globalizations.” We invite considerations of the frameworks operative in, and generative of, the possible identification of distinguishing features of modern Japanese art as commensurate with the distinguishing features of foreign counterparts. This conference aims to forge innovative approaches to the analysis of relationships between visual culture in Japan and other regions.
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CONFERENCE SPONSORS:
Art History Department, UCI
Center for Asian Studies, UCI
Dean of Humanities, UCI
East Asian Languages & Literatures, UCI
Friends of Art History (FOAH), UCI
Japanese Arts and Globalizations (JAG)
Music Department, UCI
University of California Institute for Research in the Arts

Adachi Gen, "A Japanese Manga Artist in Occupied Indonesia; Ono Saseo and Modern Painting in East Asia"
2013-03-01 16:00 - 18:00 | Bunche Hall, Room 6275
Presented by Gen Adachi, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow
Co-hosted by the Interdisciplinary Japan Studies Group
In discussions of World War II propaganda in Japan and occupied Indonesia, the cartoon artist, Ono Saseo (1905-1954) is one of the most frequently referenced figures in relation to the increase of racial stereotypes in manga, or cartoon-style drawing. He was in Indonesia from 1942 to 1946 as a propaganda painter. This study challenges this general understanding of Ono and re-examines his work by focusing on the following three ways that we may understand the diversity of his production. First, Ono was not limited to militaristic messages in his work, but rather portrayed styles of the period with humor and fancy, inspired in part by jazz, Western films, and fashion. Second, Ono continued to produce erotic images of women even during the war, under the pretense of providing comfort for soldiers; almost all of these women were depicted as vamps who tempted or threatened men. Third, in Indonesia, he was interested in local art and established relationships with local Indonesian artists – something quite unusual at the time. There was mutual influence, but he never depicted the dark side of the war. These three points help reveal the paradoxical motives and multiple-significance of Ono’s manga works in the wartime period.
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Gen Adachi is an art historian who has written on modern Japanese avant-garde art and manga including “Avant-garde Debates Over Japanese Tradition in the 1950’s with a Focus on the Role of Isamu Noguchi,” which was published in S. Inaga (ed.). Artistic Vagabondage and New Utopian Projects, (Kyoto: International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 2011). He is currently a Post-Doctoral Research Fellowship for Young Scientists of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (2010-2013) and is an adjunct lecturer at Joshibi University of Art and Design and other universities.

JAG affiliate event: Media Histories/ Media Theories and East Asia UC Berkeley, February 7-8
2013-02-07 08:00 - 2013-02-08 17:00 | UC Berkeley
The Media Histories / Media Theories & East Asia conference will bring together prominent and emerging scholars to discuss Japanese and East Asian cross-cultural developments in media theory and culture from the early twentieth century to the present. The symposium will read East Asian film and visual arts as part of a changing media landscape in relation to commercial cinema, television, and intermedia arts as well as political, economic and cultural transformations. The conference topics include: the relation between urban space and the arts in cultural politics; reading the problems of film audience and reception; the important (and neglected) role of East Asian film and media theory and critical writings; East Asian arts movements in transnational perspective; film and visual art as a mediator of cultural/political history; avant-garde artist networks, commercial culture, and architectural transformation. The symposium aims to foster transnational and local scholarly perspectives on East Asian arts and media theory in the context of recent cross-disciplinary arguments in film and media studies.
In February 2013, UC Berkeley’s Pacific Film Archive will host “Chronicles of Inferno: Japan’s Art Theater Guild,”a retrospective of the films of Art Theatre Guild (ATG), Tokyo’s center of cinematic innovation from 1961-1988. This conference takes this opportunity, in conjunction with this film series and other events concerning Japanese arts in the 1960s, to bring together five invited media theorists from Japan, the prominent film director Hani Susumu from ATG, and 37 international scholars to discuss East Asian and Japanese cross-cultural developments in media theory and culture from the early twentieth century to the present.
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"Japanese Arts and Globalizations," April 7, 2012, Royce Hall 314, UCLA Part of the “Rethinking the Space and Place of Japan” Conference*
2012-04-07 09:00 - 19:00 | Royce Hall, 10745 Dickson Plaza, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, United States
9-10 Coffee and Check-in

9:50
Welcoming Remarks – William Marotti, UCLA
10-12
Panel One: Authenticity is Elsewhere
Bert Winther-Tamaki, UCI, “Remediation: The Dependence of Modern Asian Ink Painting on New Media”
Christine Spiker, UCI, “Exploring the Real Hokkaido: A.H. Savage Landor’s Travel Illustrations, 1893″
Michael Raine, UCB, “The filmmaker who is most like an artist: Ozu Yasujiro & the Double Bind of Situated Modernity”
Timothy Unverzagt Goddard, ” Teito Tokyo and the Cosmopolitan Imagination”
12-1:00
LUNCH, Royce 314
1:00-3:00
Panel Two: Politics is Here
Margherita Long, UCR, “Nausicaa Now More Than Ever”
Samantha Close, UCI, “Citizens of the Market”
Anne McKnight, UCLA, “Japanese Culture in/and the Study of Food Systems”
Ken Shima, UCLA, “Territorializing Journalistic Space: Miyatake Gaikotsu, Comedic Realism, & Printing the Concrete”
3:00-3:30 Coffee
3:30-4:15 Breakout Panels
4:15-5:00 Reconvening for Group Reports, Discussion
5:00-6:30
Roundtable: Assessing Japanese Arts and Globalizations: a report on the past and future of the multi-campus research group
William Marotti, UCLA
Miriam Wattles, UCSB
Marguerita Long, UCR
Bert Winther-Tamaki, UCI
Jordan Yamaji Smith, Roger Williams University, JAG Alumnus
Noriko Aso, UCSC
*Our gratitude for the support from the Nikkei Bruins and the Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies

JAG November 2011 Affiliated Event
2011-11-21 16:00 - 17:00 | UC Irvine Campus

JAG May 2011 Event
2011-05-01 08:00 - 17:00
Between Experiment, Form, and Culturalism
May 20-21, 2011
UCLA Campus [link to description]

JAG December 2010 Weekend Symposium
2010-12-03 08:00 - 2010-12-05 17:00
Performing Politics in Japan and Modern East Asia
December 3-5, 2010
UCLA Campus [link to description]
[link to Group A report]
[link to Group B report]
[link to Group C report]
[link to Group D report]

JAG May Weekend Symposium 2010
2010-05-01 08:00 - 17:00
Theories of Violence
May 14-16, 2010
UC Riverside [link to description]
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JAG May Weekend Symposium 2009
2009-05-15 08:00 - 2009-05-17 17:00
Collapsing Spaces: The Arts in the Premodern World
May 15-17, 2009
UC Berkeley [link to description]

[link to report]

International Symposium 2008
2008-11-22 08:00 - 2008-11-23 17:00
International Symposium 2008
“Count 10 Before You Say Asia”
November 22-23, 2008
Japan Foundation
Tokyo, Japan
*JAG sponsored travel awarded to Namiko Kunimoto (UC Berkeley) and Ken Yoshida (UC Irvine)
[link to Namiko Kunimoto’s report]
[link to Ken Yoshida’s report]

Fall Retreat 2008
2008-10-24 08:00 - 2008-10-26 17:00
JAG Works In Progress
October 24-26, 2008
UCLA Conference Center, Lake Arrowhead [link to schedule] [link to abstracts] [link to photos]
