{"id":4533,"date":"2024-07-22T12:47:37","date_gmt":"2024-07-22T03:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/gjs\/?p=4533"},"modified":"2024-07-23T10:54:33","modified_gmt":"2024-07-23T01:54:33","slug":"event-report-wasteland-now-the-end-of-pax-americana-and-area-studies-on-japan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/gjs\/news-en\/4533","title":{"rendered":"Event Report: Wasteland Now: The End of Pax Americana and Area Studies on Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Naoki Sakai explained how the \u201cRest\u201d world, including Asia, was subjectified by Western identity norms, using the concept of \u201ccivilizational transference\u201d as a clue, through the re-meaning of \u201ctransnationality\u201d and \u201cstranger\u201d in relation to internationality. Discussant Professor Eri Watanabe commented on these issues, citing examples from contemporary literature, and a lively question-and-answer session ensued, mainly among young scholars from the audience and online.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\">(Written by Hideto Tsuboi)<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-12947\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/rilas\/assets\/uploads\/2024\/05\/71156ef38eb98f2aab355e4c2ed7b1d9-610x458.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"338\" height=\"254\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-12946\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/rilas\/assets\/uploads\/2024\/05\/84732ca744e833ac2fcd9b266360a1cb-610x458.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"331\" height=\"249\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12945 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/rilas\/assets\/uploads\/2024\/05\/d47485a8780d9f3a94cf9f5270175139-e1714631296292-610x565.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"330\" height=\"306\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12944 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/rilas\/assets\/uploads\/2024\/05\/c754546e5124e903cc25f72a5dc6076f-610x562.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"327\" height=\"301\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h5>Event Overview<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Date and Time : April 30,2024, 17:00\uff5e19:30 (JST)<\/li>\n<li>Venue : Conference Rm. 1, Bldg. 33, 3rd Fl., Toyama Campus and ZoomWebinar<\/li>\n<li>Speaker : Naoki Sakai\uff08Professor Emeritus at Cornell University\uff09<\/li>\n<li>Subject Title : Wasteland Now: The End of Pax Americana and Area Studies on Japan<\/li>\n<li>Discussant : Eri Watanabe\uff08Professor at Osaka University\uff09<\/li>\n<li>Moderater : Hideto Tsuboi\uff08Professor at Waseda University\uff09<\/li>\n<li>Number of Participants : Face-to-face 123\u3000Online 126<\/li>\n<li>Sponsored by : Ryusaku Tsunoda Center of Japanese Culture<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Professor Naoki Sakai explained how the \u201cRest\u201d world, including Asia, was subjectified by Western identity nor [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4443,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[95],"tags":[113],"class_list":["post-4533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-event_report-en"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/gjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/gjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/gjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/gjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/gjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4533"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/gjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4551,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/gjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4533\/revisions\/4551"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/gjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4443"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/gjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/gjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/flas\/gjs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}