Melek Ortabasi, assistant professor of comparative literature, presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies, held in Atlanta on April 3-6. She gave a talk titled "Teaching Children to Do Things With Words: Yanagita Kunio and the Postwar Education Debate," which dealt with the work of well known ethnologist Yanagita Kunio's work as chair of the editorial board on a series of language textbooks widely adopted in Japanese schools after WWII.
This was part of a panel she organized and chaired, on the topic of "Text, Nation and the Battle for Childhood in 20th Century Japan."
This was part of a panel she organized and chaired, on the topic of "Text, Nation and the Battle for Childhood in 20th Century Japan."
