2018 UC BERKELEY JAPAN STUDIES 
GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE

2:00-2:10pm     Opening Remarks: Dana Buntrock and CJS Graduate Student Conference Organizers

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2:10-3:40pm     PANEL 1 | Political Messaging of Labor

Discussant: Steve Vogel, UC Berkeley

Moderator: Benjamin Bartlett, UC Berkeley

• Frank Mondelli, Stanford University | Quotidian Labor: Narrative Political Framing in Japanese Politics and Twitter

• Shelby Oxenford, UC Berkeley | The Labor of Advertising and the Work of Memory post-3.11

• Jun Hee Lee, University of Chicago | In Chorus with Japanese Laborers: Celebrating the Miike Strike and the Laborer-Composer Ideal in the Utagoe Movement

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3:40-4:00pm     BREAK

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4:00-5:30pm     KEYNOTE LECTURE | Matter of Death in Solitary Times

Anne Allison, Duke University

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With a high aging/low birthrate population and the rate of marriage and even coupling on the decline in Japan, the primary social unit is moving from the family to the individual. As more and more Japanese live alone, they also face the prospect of death without those who once assumed the responsibility of caring for the dead. Seeing this as a limit case for sociality, the talk engages new practices in Japan that cater to mortuary self-care by the to-be-deceased themselves. When grievability itself becomes a matter assigned the individual for a future when already dead, what precisely happens to the form of the social?

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5:30-5:35pm     Day 1 Closing Remarks

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5:35-6:30pm     Reception at the Townsend Center terrace