Saturday, October 4, 2003
Session A 9:45-11:15

A2. Portraying War: Private Memory and Public Discourse
Discussant: Professor Atsuko Sakaki

I. Nicolas Theisen (University of Michigan)
Miyazaki and the Dialectic of Memory

II. Alexandra Kanetaka-Corrin (University of Sheffield, UK)
Waging Peace: What Narratives of Peace are Being Espoused in Japan? What Perspectives are Activists Like Mr. Nagase Takeshi and Japanese Museums Articulating? Are They Representative of, or, in Opposition to, Larger Japanese "Master Narratives of Peace"?

III. Loren Waller (Kyoto Prefectural University, Japan)
Gender and Military Might - An Examination of Political Ideology in the Kojiki