2010 East Asian Dialogues Conference
The Cultural Flow Between Taiwan and Japan
Dates: February 26-28, 2010
Place: Gambrell Hall 431, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina
For more information, please contact Marc Moskowitz (moskowit@mailbox.sc.edu)
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SATURDAY, February 27, 2010
10:00-10:15am, Introduction
Introductory Remarks
Mark L. Moskowitz, University of South Carolina, Conference Director

10:15-11:45am
Panel #1- Colonial Roots, Post-Colonial Memories
Andrew Morris, California Polytechnic State University, Dept. of History
"Mountain Savages and the Japanese National Game in 1920s Taiwan”

Marc L. Moskowitz, University of South Carolina, Dept. of Anthropology
“Caffeinated Values: A Brief History of Japanese adn US Coffee Shop Cultures in Taiwan”

Joseph Allen, University of Minnesota, Dept. of Literature
"Picturing the Gentleman:  Japanese Portrait Photography in Colonial Taiwan"

11:45-1:15pm Lunch

1:15-2:45pm
Panel #2- Popular Culture and its Cultural Connotations
Evan Dawley, Office of the Historian at the State Department
"Closing a Colony: The Meanings of Japanese Deportation from Taiwan after World War II"

Leo Ching, Duke University, Dept. of Literature
"(Post) Colonial Nostalgia and Postwar Anxiety: Japan, Taiwan, and the Discourse of Intimacy"

2:45-3:15pm Break

3:15-4:30pm
Panel #3- Medicine and Modernity
John Shepherd, University of Virginia, Dept. of Anthropology
“Regional and Ethnic Variation in Mortality in Japanese Colonial Period Taiwan"

Jennifer Liu, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, Dept. of Anthropology
“Colonial Medicine, Modern Medicine: Japanese Influences on Biomedical Practices in Taiwan”

Taiwain Studies Program
Center for Asian Studies
University of South Carolina
418 Gambrell Hall
Columbia, SC 29208
Phone:  803-777-0437
Fax:  803-777-9308