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 

1. Harald Fuess (Heidelb U, Online): “Kyoto and the Atomic Bomb”

2. Kristin Surak (London School Economics, Online): “Imperial Ghosts: Militarism in a Tea Cup.”

3. Oliver Moxham (U Cambridge, Online): “A City Untouched by War”

4. 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 

1. Morgan Pitelka (UNC-Chapel Hill, On Demand): “Hideyoshi’s Odoi.”

2. Jennifer Prough (Valparaiso U, Online): “Disembodied Kyoto.”

3. Alice Tseng (Boston U): “Kyoto in Reinforced Concrete” 

4. 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 

1. Philip Seaton (Tokyo U Foreign Studies): “Kyoto’s Universities at War: Rethinking the (Post-)Imperial Responsibility of the Researcher.”

2. Till Knaudt (Kyoto U): “Under a Black Sun: Kyoto intellectuals and the 1970 Osaka Expo as space of anti-imperial and post-modern politics.”

3. 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

1. Mahon Murphy (Kyoto U): “Kyoto Punk and the Seibu Kodo Hall”

2. Daniel Milne (Kyoto U) and David Moreton (Tokushima U): “War In the City of Peace: Ryōzen Kannon and the Tourist Imaginary of Kyoto” 

3. “Kyoto’s Gokoku Jinja.” 

Cafe Break　(3:15ish, 20 people. ぎおん石 075-561-2458)

4. 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 

1. Sarah Frederick (Boston U, Online): “Kyoto Map Layers: Challenges and Possibilities” 

2. Andrea De Antoni (Kyoto U): “Districts of Discrimination”

3. 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

1. Marcin Tatarczuk (Kyoto U): “Dark Kyoto and Abe no Seimei”

2. Greg De St. Maurice (Keio U): “Branding of Kyoto cuisine and rural Kyoto prefecture”

3. 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

1. Takagi Hiroshi (Kyoto U): “Marginalization in Modern Higashiyama: Red Light Districts, Toribeno, Discrimination”

2. Saito Aoi (Northwestern U): “Gojo Rakuen” 

3. 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.”