Schedule of Events
Friday & Saturday, 5 & 6 March 2010
Youth, Labor, and Neoliberal Governmentality in East Asia Symposium
The Gold Room – University Club
Friday, 5 March 2010
9:30 am Continental breakfast available for participants
10:00 am Welcome:
Gabriella Lukacs
Host of Conference & Assistant Professor, Anthropology
Nicole Constable
Associate Dean, A&S Graduate Studies & Professor, Anthropology
Richard Scaglion
Director, Asian Studies Center & Professor, Anthropology
10:30 am Panel I:
Discussant:
Ann Anagnost – University of Washington at Seattle, Department of Anthropology, Women’s Studies
Lisa M. Hoffman – University of Washington at Tacoma, Department of Urban Studies
Serving the People: The “Work” of Philanthropy, Volunteerism, and Corporate Social Responsibility in Contemporary China
Hai Ren – University of Arizona, Department of East Asian Studies
Affective Work: Proletarianization and Neoliberal Exception
Xia Zhang – University of Pittsburgh, Department of Anthropology
One Life For Sale: Youth Culture, Labor Politics, and New Form of Work in China
12:30 pm Lunch Break
2:00 pm Panel II:
Discussant:
Nancy Abelmann – University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Anthropology
Haejoang Cho – Yonsei University – Korea, Department of Sociology
Youth, Labor and Neoliberal Governmentality of South Korea in the late 2000s
Jesook Song – University of Toronto – Canada, Department of East Asian Studies
In Between Welfare and Education for Youth: The Education Welfare Investment Priority Project in South Korea
Anne Allison – Duke University, Department of Cultural Anthropology
Precarious Sociality: Social Life—and Death—for Youth in Post- Corporate Japan
6:30 pm Reception and Dinner for Panelists and other Invited Guests
Croghan-Schenley Room, 156 Cathedral of Learning
Saturday, 6 March 2010
9:30 am Continental breakfast available for participants
10:00 am Panel III:
Discussant:
Miyako Inoue – Stanford University, Department of Anthropology
David Slater – Sophia University – Japan, Institute of Comparative Culture
The Pre-history of Neoliberal Operations of Youth Japan: Enjo Kosai
Andrea Arai – University of Washington at Seattle, Department of Anthropology
The New Limits of Labor in Recessionary Japan
Akiko Takeyama – Department of Anthropology and Department of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies, University of Kansas
Consumptive Labor and Commodity Self in Contemporary Japan
Gabriella Lukacs – University of Pittsburgh, Department of Anthropology
The Net Idols: Cute Culture, Social Factory, and Neoliberal Governmentality
in New Millennial Japan