Keynotes
Jeffrey Lesser (Emory)–Friday
Shuhei Hosokawa (Nichibunken)–Saturday
Japanese Diasporic Literature in Comparative Context
Yoshitaka Hibi (Nagoya)
Masahiko Nishi (Ritsumeikan)
Garasino Facundo (Osaka)
Hideto Tsuboi (Nichibunken)
Prewar Japanese Brazilian Literature and Print Culture
Seth Jacobowitz (Yale)(chair)
Koichi Mori (U of Sao Paulo)
Zeli Rivas (Marshall U)
Ted Mack (UW)
Perspectives on Japanese American Literature and History
Gary Okihiro (Yale)(chair)
Brian Masaru Hayashi (Kent State)
Greg Robinson (U of Quebec)
Immigration and Expansionism in the Japanese Empire
Eiichiro Azuma (U Penn)(chair)
Andre Haag (U. Hawaii)
Robert Hegwood (Harvard Reischauer)
Nayoung Aimee Kwon (Duke)
Asian Diasporas in Latin America
Ignacio Calvo-Lopez (UC Merced)(chair)
Ana Paulina Lee (Columbia)
Koichi Hagimoto (Wellesley)
Sidney Lu (Michigan State)
Discussion Section on Methods and Archives in the Study of Japanese Diaspora
Kaoru “Kay” Ueda (Curator of the Japanese Diaspora Collection, Stanford)(co-chair)
Masako Iino (Former president of Tsuda College)(co-chair)