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SUMMARY:Japan Circa 1972: Setting The Stage For Reversion
DESCRIPTION:Please join the conversation on Okinawa\, Japan\, and the media in the years leading up to reversion. Yoshikuni Igarashi will discuss the contents of his recent book\, Japan\, 1972: Visions of Masculinity in an Age of Mass Consumerism in conversation with Drew Richardson (PhD. UCSC)\, and set the stage for a series of OMI events on the 50th anniversary of Okinawan Reversion. \nYoshikuni Igarashi is Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of Bodies of Memory: Narratives of War in Postwar Japanese Culture\, 1945-1970 (2000) and Homecomings: The Belated Return of Japan’s Lost Soldiers (Columbia\, 2016)\, and recently Japan\, 1972: Visions of Masculinity in an Age of Mass Consumerism. \nThis event is made possible by the Gilbert and Margaret Nee Fund in Asian Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/japan-circa-1972-setting-the-stage-for-reversion/
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SUMMARY:Christopher Nelson: Eisa - Drumming\, Dancing and Memory
DESCRIPTION:With the beginning of the 2020 – 2021 school term on the near horizon the OMI team is delighted to announce their next program! \nProfessor Chris Nelson (UNC Chapel Hill) will be joining OMI to discuss Eisa\, Obon\, dancing and cultural memory in contemporary Okinawa. Professor Nelson is an anthropologist who published a study of Eisa called Dancing with the Dead: Memory\, Performance and Everyday Life in Post-War Okinawa (Duke University Press\, 2008). \nOMI Director Alan Christy will lead the conversation with Professor Nelson\, exploring his study and discussing one of Okinawa’s key cultural traditions. \n \nChristopher T Nelson is an Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of North Carolina. The central theme of his research has been the transformational possibilities of everyday life. His recent book Dancing with the Dead: Memory\, Performance\, and Everyday Life in Postwar Okinawa takes up this question\, building on several years of fieldwork that he carried out in Okinawa\, Japan. Through ethnographic and archival research\, he explored traditional forms of social organization and genres of ritual and performance. He studied the work of ethnographic comedians\, whose performances weave Okinawan folk humor\, Japanese traditional monologues and improvisational storytelling into sophisticated critiques of everyday life. He also worked with the youth group from which these performers emerged. In particular\, he examined their eisaa—dance for the dead—and its mediation of social relationships. His book provides close readings of these performances\, focusing on modalities of mourning\, memoration and creative action. \nHis current research project is focused on creative actors who were able to struggle against the constraints of the modern world in order to carve out a moment for meaningful activity. While he remains committed to the possibilities of daily life\, he feels it is also important to consider those for whom the burden of the everyday becomes unbearable. His new project Listening to the Bones: The Rhythms of Life and Death in Contemporary Japan takes up this problem. It involves the study of early Okinawan ethnologists such as Iha Fuyû; an ethnography of efforts to recover the remains of the Japanese war dead; as well as a critical exploration of Okinawan photography and experimental film. He is interested in the ways in which people negotiate the vortex of local knowledge\, Japanese nativist ethnology\, western anthropology and discourses of the state.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/christopher-nelson-okinawa-memories-initiative/
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL EVENT: Photographic Memory
DESCRIPTION:On the heels of a very successful Zoom chat with writer Akemi Johnson\, the team at the Okinawa Memories Initiative is excited to kick off a monthly Community Conversation Series. \nNext up is a talk that cuts to the core of our organization: Photographic Memory. Sparked by a collection of photos taken in Okinawa in 1953 by an American Army Captain\, Dr. Charles Eugene Gail\, the Okinawa Memories Initiative is committed to exploring how photography frames historical memory. \nWhat is the relationship between a photographic image and historical memory? How might community dialogue and engagement with historical photographs deepen our understanding of the past? \nClick the button to sign up for our Zoom conversation exploring the people\, places\, communities\, and hidden memories Gail’s photos reveal. \n \nSPEAKERS \nGeri Gail\, Photographer and Daughter of Charles Gail \nLaura Gail\, Photographer and Granddaughter of Charles Gail \nShelby Graham\, Director of the UCSC Sesnon Gallery\, Mixed-Media Artist \nTosh Tanaka\, OMI Media Director\, Photographer \nWyatt Young\, OMI Exhibition Team Leader \nNirupama Chandrasekhar\, OMI Scholar \nOwen Raymond\, OMI Scholar
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-event-photographic-memory/
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL Akemi Johnson - Night in the American Village: Women in the Shadow of the US Military Bases
DESCRIPTION:Akemi Johnson is an author and journalist who’s work centers on Okinawan history and identity\, she has contributed to NPR’s All Things Considered and Code Switch\, and has written for The Guardian and The Nation. Now\, Akemi Johnson joins us to discuss her 2019 book Night in the American Village: Women in the Shadow of the US Military Bases in Okinawa\, which explores the nuanced relationship between Okinawan women and the servicemen who live on the U.S. military bases on the island. \n \nRegistration required. A Zoom link will be emailed to all registrants on May 14th.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/akemi-johnson-night-in-the-american-village-women-in-the-shadow-of-the-us-military-bases/
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