children in wartime asia -- 11/11/11 workshop

Children in Wartime Asia, 1931-1945
Friday, November 11
1:30-5:30p.m.
Hahn Building, Room 101

1:30 Greetings
Samuel Yamashita, Henry E. Sheffield Professor of History, Pomona College

1:35 Introductions
Georgia Mickey, Assistant Professor, California State Polytechnic University- Pomona

1:40 Winifred Chang, UCLA
“Preparing for the Final Exam: Wartime Patriotism in Children’s Textbooks in Colonial Taiwan”

2:20 Lily Chang, Henry Lumley Research Fellow, Magdalene College, University of Cambridge
“Adjudicating War: Juvenile Offenders in Wartime China,1937-1945”

3:35 Introductions
Hans Rindisbacher, Professor, Department of German and Russian, Pomona College

3:40 Mariko Tamanoi, Professor of Anthropology, UCLA
“Abandoned Children in Manchuria: Past and Present”

4:20 Curtis Tong, Emeritus Professor of Physical Education, Pomona College
“Writing Child of War”

5:30 Reception

This conference is sponsored and funded by the Asian Studies Program, the Department of History and The Pacific Basin Institute at Pomona College. For more information, contact Kayo Yoshikawa at the Pacific Basin Institute, telephone 607-8035 or email: kayo.yoshikawa@pomona.edu.