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Organized Panel Session

(185) The Blind Spot in Japanese History: Visual Impairment in Law, Cinema, and Medicine

Friday, March 20, 2020

Organizer(s)

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Mark Bookman

University of Pennsylvania

Chair(s)

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Osamu Nagase

Ritsumeikan University, Japan

Paper Presenter(s)

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Mark Bookman

University of Pennsylvania
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Sean O'Reilly

Akita International University, Japan
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Wei Yu Wayne Tan

Hope College

Discussant(s)

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Dennis Frost

Kalamazoo College

Participants should be aware of the following financial/non-financial relationships:

Osamu Nagase: Disclosure information not submitted.

Dennis Frost: Disclosure information not submitted.

Mark Bookman: Disclosure information not submitted.

Mark Bookman: Disclosure information not submitted.

Sean O'Reilly: Disclosure information not submitted.

Wei Yu Wayne Tan: Disclosure information not submitted.

Presentations:

Seeing a Way Forward: Blindness and the Birth of "Disability" in Modern Japan
Mark Bookman – University of Pennsylvania
Beyond Envy or Sympathy: Overcoming Tropes in the Depiction of Blindness in Japanese Blockbuster Films
Sean O'Reilly – Akita International University
Disability and Cure: The Medical Discourses of Ophthalmology in Tokugawa Japan
Wei Yu Wayne Tan – Hope College