Japanese Association for American History

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The 5th Annual Conference of the JAAH
September 20-21, 2008
at Toyo Gakuen University: Hongo Campus

Day 1: September 20th (Saturday)

Symposium (13:30-17:00)
Moderator: Hirofumi Nakano (University of Kitakyushu)
American History in History Education
Panelists:
Tomochika Okamoto (University of Tsukuba)
On the Socialization Function of History Education:
Underlying Problems in History Textbooks of Japan and the United States
Yasuhiko Torigoe (Azabu High School)
Historical Teaching in USA
Daizaburo Yui (Tokyo Women’s Christian University)
Bridging over the Gaps between Research and Education in
American Historical Studies

Commentator: Yoshiyuki Kido (Hitotsubashi University)

General Meeting (17:00-18:30)
Reception (18:30-20:00)

Day 2: September 21st, 2008 (Sunday)

Independent Paper Presentations 9:30-
Session A
Moderator: Masaki Hirata (Nagoya City University)
Presentations:
Keita Okuhiro (University of Tokyo)
The Relationship between the President and the Congress
in the Period of National Emergency: With a Focus on
the First Session of Seventy-Seventh Congress (1941)
Ikuro Fujiwara (Osaka University)
U.S. Foreign Policy toward Iran during and before World War II:
Why was it shifted from Iran to Saudi Arabia?
Hiroko Abe (Tohoku University)
The Community of Mourning: The Politics of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial
Yusuke Nishizumi (Chuo University)
Rethinking U.S. Foreign Policy Realists: The Case of the Kosovo War

Session B
Moderator: Yusuke Goto (Waseda University)
Presentations:
Toshikazu Kasai (Nagoya University)
Sailors and the West India trade in late-17th-century British North America:
from the viewpoint of Atlantic history
Keiko Fukuda (Aoyama Gakuin University)
Abolitionism and the Health Reform Movement in Mid-19th Century America:
David Ruggles and His Utopia
Junko Miura (Hokkaido University)
Racial Politics and Americanization Policy in the Making of
"the Mexican Problem": The Case of Racial (Re)formation in Texas
Kosuke Yoshioka (Tohoku University)
The struggle to dismantle race-based affirmative action
in institutions of higher education.

Session C
Moderator: Yumi Hiratai (Sapporo Gakuin University)
Presentations:
Chizuru Nasu (Shiraishi) (Shukutoku University)
Chiori Goto (Hitotsubashi University)
Shigeo Fujimoto (Tezukayama University)

Symposium A 14:00-15:00
The World Order in Early Nineteenth Century Western Hemisphere
Moderator: Hiroo Nakajima (Osaka University)
Panelists:
Tadao Hama (Hokkai-Gakuen University)
The Haitian Revolution and the Oder of Western Hemisphere
Yoshio Higomoto (Doshisha University)
Three Revolutions in the Atlantic World and Jefferson's "Empire of Liberty
Yukari Yashima (Keio University)
Reconstruction of the Empire: Spain and Cuba in the First Half of the 19th Century

Commentator: Takeshi Fushimi (Keio University)

Symposium B 14:00-15:00
The Formation of Immigrant Communities in the Americas
Moderator: Fuminori Minamikawa (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies)
Panelists:
Akio Kitamura (Japan Women’s University)
The Transnational Network of Italian Antifascist Exiles
and the Ethnic Community in the U.S. of the Interwar Era
Yoshiko Shibata (Kobe University)
Becoming Chinese, Being Chinese:
Dimensions of Borders on Ethnic Cemetery in Jamaica
Hiroshi Yoneyama (Ritsumeikan University)
Japanese Immigrant Community and Traffic System in Los Angeles:
Thinking of Traffic System as a basis of forming and sustaining immigrant community

Commentator: Kotaro Nakano (Osaka University)