GRADUATE SCHOOL OF AMERICAN STUDIES

Graduate School seminar
1. May 16, 2007, Allison Dorsey, Associate Professor of History at Swarthmore College, U.S.A.
Black Phoenix Rising: Race, Community and Violence in a Southern City

2. June 6, 2007, Kathryn Kish Sklar, Distinguished Professor of History at Binghamton University, U.S.A.
Why Women Were So Powerful in the Creation of the American Welfare State, 1880-1930y

3.June 6, 2007, Andrew Zimbalist, Professor of Economics at Smith College, U.S.A.
Visiting Professor at Doshisha University
Spectator Sports in American Culture

4. June 15, 2007, Andrew Zimbalist, Professor of Economics at Smith College, U.S.A.
Visiting Professor at Doshisha University
The Organization and Business of American Sports

5.June 6, )2007, Linda J. Seligmann, Professor of Anthropology Director at Graduate Studies in Anthropology George Mason University
Changing Faces of American Families: Transnational and Transracial Adoption

Roundtable
June 12, 2007
Is American Studies a Discipline?
Emory Elliott (President of the American Studies Association)
Chung Hee Lee (President of the American Studies Association of Korea)
Natalia Molina (University of California, San Diego)
Younbjeen Choe (Chung-Ang University)
Viet Thanh Nguyen (University of Southern California)
Andrew Zimbalist (Smith College)

Guest Speakers, 2006

Public Lecture
July 7, 2006
Madison Nguyen, San Jose City Councilmember, California
You Must Be the Change You Wish to Seek

Graduate School Seminar
1. April 17, 2006, Mr.David Samuels, Japan Society Fellow, Contributing Editor of Harper's magazine, and Regular Contributor to the Atlantic Monthly and The New Yoker
The Man Without A Past: History and Forgetting in American Life

2. April 20, 2006, Ms.Virginia Heffernan, Cultural Critic for The New York Times
The Unblinking Eye: The Triumph of Television in American Political Life

3. April 26, 2006, Professor David Faflik, University of Arkansas
Henry David Thoreau's Walden: The Cabin on the Pond and the Urban Boardinghouse

4. May 9, 2006, Professor Kathleen S. Fine-Dare, Fort Lewis College
Bodies Unburied, Mummies Displayed: Anthropology and the Native American Repatriation Movement

5. May 10, 2006, Professor Byron Dare, Fort Lewis College
The Internet as Healer: Reinventing Memory and Brotherhood Among Vietnam Veterans in Cyberspace

6. May 15, 2006, Professor Pei-te Lien, University of Utah
Paradoxes of Asian American Politics

7. May 16, 2006, Professor Pei-te Lien, University of Utah
Transnational Politics and Asian America

8. July 3, 2006, Professor Martha Saxton, Amherst College
Women's Moral Values in Early America: Comparing Communities

9. July 7, 2006, Madison Nguyen, San Jose City Councilmember, California
Louansee Moua, Chief of Staff for the office of San Jose City Councilmember Madison Nguyen
Breaking Down the Barriers: A Conversation about Women, American Politics and Successful Strategies at the Grassroots

10. July 10, 2006, Professor Martha Saxton, Amherst College
Women's Morality and Urban Slavery: The Contradictions

11. November 15, 2006, Mr.James Shea Theege
Curator and Manager of MuseumLongfellow National Historic Site in Cambridge
On the Road: An American Traveler in Meiji Japan

12. December 12, 2006, Professor Russell Duncan
Professor of American history and politics, University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Confronting the Statue of Liberty: Mexican Transnationalism, National Security, and the 2006 U.S. Immigration Debate

13. December 5, 2006
Mr. Shigeki Hijino, Journalist
The U.S. and Japan

14. February 2, 2007, Professor SHEN Dingli, Director, Center for American Studies, Fudan University, PRC
China-U.S. Relations over the Korean Peninsula

Roundtable
June 13, 2006
American Studies and Postnationalism: Prospects and Challenges
Ji-moon Suh, President of American Studies Association of Korea
Sung Hee Park, Ewha Womans University
Karen Halttunen, President of American Studies Association
Paul Kramer, Johns Hopkins University
Curtis Marez, University of Southern California

Lunch Time Lecture
1. July 4, 2006, Gavin Whitelaw, Yale University
"Irasshaimase, Konnichiwa" The society of Japan and the Convenience Store

2. July 11, 2006, Ian Condry, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Hip Hop in Japan

Guest Speakers, 2005

Dean Hosoya and former Lt. Gov. Mazie Hirono of Hawaii during her visit to the Graduate School in May 2003.

The Graduate School, in conjunction with the Center for American Studies, maintains a very active program of visiting lecturers and guest speakers from the United States, Japan, and elsewhere. In recent years, this group has included:

International Symposium on July 9, 2005
Familiarity and Contempt US-Japan Cultural Ties in Age of Globalization

Public Lecture on June, 2005
Professor Shelley Fisher Fishkin, Stanford University
Race and the Politics of Memory: Mark Twain and Paul Laurence Dnbar

Public Lecture on November 10, 2005
Minnesota State Senator Mee Moua
From a Refugee Camp to the Minnesota State Senate: A Hmong American Woman

Public Lecture on December 13
Professor John Davis, Smith College
Music and Race: The Banjo in 19th Century American Art

2005 Graduate Seminar

1. April 18, 2005, Professor Jeffrey Meikle, University of Texas at Austin
The Arts and Crafts Movement

2. April 20, 2005, Professor Jeffrey Meikle, University of Texas at Austin
A Paper Atlantis : Postcards, Mass Art, and the American Scene

3. May 13, 2005, Professor David W. Stowe, Michigan State University
Jazz, Japan, and Sounds of Nationhood : Toshiko Akiyoshi's Roots Music

4. May 23, 2005, Professor Spencer Downing, University of Central Florida
Making the Magic Last All Night : Staying On Property at Walt Disney World

5. May 24, 2005, Professor Tom Zeiler, University of Colorado, Boulder
Losing an Empire, Gaining the World: American Cultural Exports and Globalization

6. May 27, 2005, Professor Laura Miller, Loyola University of Chicago
Mammary Mania in Japan: Selling and Consuming Body Aesthetics in Japan

7. June 1, 2005, Professor John Kasson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The Little Girl who Fought the Great Depression: Shirley Temple and 1930s America

8. June 3, 2005, Professor Joy Kasson, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Dutiful Daughters : Louisa May Alcott's Little Women

9. June 20, 2005, Mr. John Matter
The American Idea of Poetic Civilization: A Personal Reading of the Importance of Japan in the Writing of the Buddhist Poet Gary Snyder

10. July 1, 2005, Professor Richard J. Ellis, University of Birmingham
Globalizing American Studies ? Some Inter-hemispheric Considerations of American Studies Journals

11. July 5, 2005, Professor Jane Desmond, University of Iowa
Performing American Cultures: Doing Performance Studies from "Abroad"

12. July 6, 200, Professor Virginia Dominguez, University of Iowa
Suspicion, Critique, and Pursuit: The Politics of Culture in the U.S. Academy

13. October 7, 2005, Professor John Trombold, University of Portland
Reading Portland, Oregon: Narrative Claims on Place

14. October 13, 2005, Professor Mariko Takagi, Tokai Women's University
Obtaining Equality through Naturalization Rights in Postwar Hawaii

15. October 14, 2005, Professor Rumi Yasutake, Konan University
Pan-Pacific Regionalism and Transnational Women's Movements

16. October 25, 2005, Professor Fanon Che Wilkins, University of Minois at Urbana-Champaign
Global Imperatives for New Vision(s) of the Past: Black Radicalism and the Long 1960s

17. November 11, 2005, Minnesota State Senator Mee Moua
Women in Contemporary American Politics

18. December 7, 2005, Professor Barbara Brown Zikmund, Former Professor of Graduate School of American Studies, Doshisha University
Gender Matters: How Second Wave Feminism Shaped and Reshaped American Religion

Other Graduate School Events

The Graduate School has an annual orientation party, a Fourth of July party, and social events with visiting lecturers on a regular basis.