A symposium honoring the work and legacies of Brett de Bary and Naoki Sakai.

10:00-12:00 Panel 2: “Above Critical/ism” – Christine Marran (online), Hirotaka Kasai (online), Junyoung Kim, Takayuki Tatsumi, Andre Keiji Kunigami, Rich Calichman

13:30-15:00 Panel 3: “In Theory” – Maja Vodopivec, Joseph Murphy, Yoon Jeong Oh, and Blai Guarné, John Kim
15:15-17:15 Concluding roundtable and final remarks: “Orientally Challenged” (credit to KimSu Theiler for this concept) – Brett de Bary, Naoki Sakai, Tim Murray, Minoru Iwasaki, Susan Buck-Morss, Michael Bourdaghs

This 1.5 day symposium gathers colleagues from around the globe to continue the critical work of Brett de Bary and Naoki Sakai tracing new trajectories for Japanese studies, area studies, and humanistic inquiry in general.

This in-person gathering follows on the four virtual panels Spring 2023 of the Working in the Traces of Area Studies series hosted by Brett de Bary and Naoki Sakai.

Generous co-sponsorship provided by the Cornell East Asia Program, the Cornell Department of Asian Studies, and the Rose Goldsen Lecture Series at Cornell.

Registration for this event is now closed. You can ask to be put on the waitlist be emailing SBP84@Cornell.edu

The 2023 International Studies Summer Institute (ISSI) will explore testimonies of migration. The ISSI is a professional development workshop for practicing and pre-service K–12 educators hosted annually by the Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, in collaboration with the South Asia Center at Syracuse University.

During this cross-curriculum conference, educators will engage in discussions, workshops, and lectures that explore and amplify personal narratives of migration. Professors, postdoctoral fellows and other scholars from Cornell University and Syracuse University will share their cutting-edge research on migrant experiences from across different regions of the world, including South Asia, Southeast Asia, Latin America and the Caribbean, and Sub-Saharan Africa. Speakers will focus on individual narratives, as well as systemic reasons for migration, such as politics, conflict, and climate change.

Sessions will also explore culturally responsive practices when working with migrant students and discussing migrant narratives. Teachers will gain tools for leading conversations and developing projects with their students about migrant experiences.

Teachers will leave the conference with concrete resources to use in their classrooms, a deeper awareness of how to enter into conversation with students about their own and others’ migration experiences, and an understanding of contemporary migrant experiences from across the world.

The 2023 ISSI will be applicable for elementary, middle, and high school educators from all subject areas. Participating teachers will have the option to complete a lesson plan for PD credit that incorporates content from the workshop, with the support and guidance of our outreach staff.

Conference Schedule:

8:45-9:00 Breakfast and check-in

9:00-9:15 Introductory Remarks by Rachel Beatty Riedl

9:15-10:20 Panel: "Ethical and culturally responsive engagement with migrant narratives"

Panelists: Farah Bakaari, Juhwan Seo, Rose Anderson

Moderator: Shannon Gleeson

10:20-10:30 Break

10:30-11:30 Workshop with Mary Jo Dudley, “Supporting Immigrant Families in Schools”

11:30-12:00 Networking and reflection activity

12:00-1:00 Lunch

1:00-1:45 Breakout Sessions

Focus: Project-based learning around themes of migration (same sessions offered twice)

Option 1: Nicole Thuzar Tu-Maung, “Photovoice Methodology” Option 2: Maria Gimma, “Understanding the Global Phenomenon of Migration, a Project-Based Curriculum” Option 3: Nausheen Husain, “Storytelling With Data” 1:45-1:50 Break

1:50-2:35 Breakout Sessions, repetition of above options

2:35-3:00 Break / walk to Johnson Art Museum

3:00-4:00 Workshop with Carol Hockett and Maryterese Pasquale-Bowen, “How the Light Gets In: Contemporary Art and Migration”

4:00-4:20 Introduction to Einaudi Resources with Sarah Plotkin

4:20-4:30 Closing remarks with Sarah Pattison

Sponsored by: Syracuse University, Moynihan Institute for Global Affairs, South Asia Center, Cornell University’s Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies, Southeast Asia Program, South Asia Program, Institute for African Development, East Asia Program, Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Institute for European Studies, Migrations Initiative, TST-BOCES, U.S. Department of Education Title VI Program

"Working in the Traces of Area Studies" Panel Four:

Hierarchies of Knowledge Transmission and the Developmentalist Paradigm

Thursday, May 4 at 8:00 p.m.. and in Japan's timezone, Friday, May 5 at 9:00 a.m.

The crisis of area studies obliges us to call into question the historical conditions by which the active subject and the passive object of knowledge production were initially outlined within the structure of American Settler Colonialism, and further accommodated in the discourse of the West and the Rest. In this respect, we acknowledge the close affiliation between two disciplinary formations, American studies on the one hand and area studies on the other. In this regard, the scope of area studies has neither exceeded the limits of the United States settler colonialism nor the bipolarity of the West and the Rest. However, the bipolarity of the West and the Rest is neither stable nor effective today, and the underlying developmentalism, according to which the West is supposed to be developed/advanced in knowledge production and the Rest is underdeveloped/retarded and expected to learn from the West, is unsustainable. We must find ways to remove this old developmentalist paradigm that operates in both American studies and area studies.

Speakers:

Peter Button, New YorkJie-hyun Lim, SeoulWilliam Bridges, RochesterPedro Erber, TokyoFaculty emerita hosts: Brett deBary and Naoki Sakai

This is the final panel in the four panel series co-sponsored by the Asian Studies Department and the East Asia Program.