Kyoto’s Imperial Modernity.
Kyoto 2022 Workshop
Schedule
Organized by Daniel Milne (Kyoto Uni) and Ran Zwigenberg (Penn State Uni) with support of the Toshiba Foundation
Dec 9 (Fri)
4:30-4:50 Project Introduction and Q&A (Online)
Presenters: Ran Zwigenberg, Daniel Milne
5:00-6:45 Panel 1: Kyoto’s Imperial Modernity in War & Peace 1 & Additional Papers (Online)
Chair: Ran Zwigenberg
Harald Fuess (Heidelb U, Online): “Kyoto and the Atomic Bomb”
Kristin Surak (London School Economics, Online): “Imperial Ghosts: Militarism in a Tea Cup.”
Oliver Moxham (U Cambridge, Online): “A City Untouched by War”
Lyman Gamberton (SOAS, Online): Just Passing Through: The Many Public Faces of Kyoto's LGBTQ Community
Dec 10 (Sat)
8:30-9:00 Coffee Time
9:00-9:30 Online Platform (So Miyagawa)
9:35-11:00 Panel 2: Tourism and Diversity in Kyoto 1
Chair: Daniel Milne
Morgan Pitelka (UNC-Chapel Hill, On Demand): “Hideyoshi’s Odoi.”
Jennifer Prough (Valparaiso U, Online): “Disembodied Kyoto.”
Alice Tseng (Boston U): “Kyoto in Reinforced Concrete”
Gloria Yang (Kyushu U): “Genus Loci in Kyoto”
11:05-11:15: Break
11:15-12:45 Panel 3: Kyoto’s Imperial Modernity in War & Peace 2
Chair: Mahon Murphy
Philip Seaton (Tokyo U Foreign Studies): “Kyoto’s Universities at War: Rethinking the (Post-)Imperial Responsibility of the Researcher.”
Till Knaudt (Kyoto U): “Under a Black Sun: Kyoto intellectuals and the 1970 Osaka Expo as space of anti-imperial and post-modern politics.”
Steven Ivings (Kyoto U): “Kyoto and the End of Empire: Repatriation and Resettlement in Kyoto City and Prefecture”
12:45-1:30 LUNCH
1:30-5:00 Fieldwork 1: Modernization and Kyodai, Gion, and Higashiyama
Mahon Murphy (Kyoto U): “Kyoto Punk and the Seibu Kodo Hall”
Daniel Milne (Kyoto U) and David Moreton (Tokushima U): “War In the City of Peace: Ryōzen Kannon and the Tourist Imaginary of Kyoto”
“Kyoto’s Gokoku Jinja.”
Cafe Break (3:15ish, 20 people. ぎおん石 075-561-2458)
Okada Mariko (Oberlin College): “A Picture Projected on Kyoto’s Geisha Quarters”
Dec 11 (Sun)
8:30-9:00 Coffee Time
9:00-10:15 Panel 4: Tourism and Diversity in Kyoto 2
Chair: Steven Ivings
Sarah Frederick (Boston U, Online): “Kyoto Map Layers: Challenges and Possibilities”
Andrea De Antoni (Kyoto U): “Districts of Discrimination”
Kathy Herland (Ritsumeikan U): “Utoro”
10:15-10:30: Break
10:30-11:45 Panel 5: Tourism and Diversity in Kyoto 3
Chair: Ran Zwigenberg
Marcin Tatarczuk (Kyoto U): “Dark Kyoto and Abe no Seimei”
Greg De St. Maurice (Keio U): “Branding of Kyoto cuisine and rural Kyoto prefecture”
Andrew Elliott (Doshisha Women’s College): “[…] so that no discomfort disturbs their travels”: Foreign Tourism and Hostility/Hospitality in Kyoto, 1870–1941
11:45-12:15 LUNCH
12:30-2:30 Fieldwork 2: Gojo and surrounds
Takagi Hiroshi (Kyoto U): “Marginalization in Modern Higashiyama: Red Light Districts, Toribeno, Discrimination”
Saito Aoi (Northwestern U): “Gojo Rakuen”
Anton Schweizer (Kyushu U.): “Toyokuni Shrine”
3:00-4:30 Fieldwork 3: Fushimi Momoyama
Ran Zwigenberg (Penn State U) & Oleg Benesch (U of York) “Transwar Fushimi: The Transformation of Kyoto’s seat of Empire.”