Makes me regret not learning Japanese when I had the chance (but if I had, I probably wouldn't be online, or even in New York).
For those who are interested in African American Studies or Black Studies outside the U.S.:
Japan Black Studies Association (JBSA), which was established in 1954, will hold its 52nd annual conference.
52nd Annual Conference of the Japan Black Studies Association
Date: June 24 (Sat) & 25 (Sun), 2006
Place: Campus Plaza Kyoto (Kyoto, Japan)
Day 1 (June 24) : Main Hall (2F) 14:00 to 20:45
Opening Remarks (14:00-14:15)
Black Studies in the 21st Century
KITAJIMA Gishin (President, JBSA; Yokkaichi University)
Keynote Speech (14:20-15:40) (in English)
Asianising African American Studies
LEE Yu-cheng (Director, Institute of European and American Studies,
Academia Sinica, Taiwan, R.O.C.)
Chair (& translator): YAMAMOTO Shin (Yokkaichi University)
Special Session (16:00-18:00) (in English)
African American Studies in the Global Perspective
Keith E. Byerman (Indiana State University)
Loretta G. Woodard (Marygrove College)
Georgina Dodge (Ohio State University)
Chair: MORI Aoi (Hiroshima Jogakuin University)
Banquet (18:45-20:45)
Welcome Address (in English)
KATO Tsunehiko (Vice President, JBSA; Ritsumeikan University)
Brief Speeches from Guest Speakers (in English)
Day 2 (June 25) : Conference Room #1 (2F) 9:00 to 12:40
Individual Papers (9:10-11:35)
Black Business Men and Women: Racial Consciousness, Class, and Gender in the National Negro Business League, 1900-1920
KANEKO Ayumu (JSPS Fellow, Hokkaido University)
Chair: TOMISAWA Rieko (Doshisha University)
Ethiopianism and Pauline E. Hopkins's Of One Blood
NAKACHI Sachi (Tsuru Bunka University)
Chair: ISHIDA Yoriko (Oshima National College of Maritime Technology)
White Appropriation of Black History: Commemorating Lynching and Civil Rights Movement in the 21st-Century America
SAKASHITA Fumiko (PhD Student., Michigan State University)
Chair: MATSUMOTO Noboru (Kokushikan University)
JBSA Membership Meeting (11:45-12:35)
Closing Remarks (12:35-12:40)
KUSUNOSE Keiko (Vice President, JBSA; Kyoto Seika University)
Contact: FURUKAWA Tetsushi, Secretary-general, Japan Black Studies Association
Otani University, Kyoto (Former Lecturer, Ohio University)
e-mail: [email protected]
