James J. Orr
Associate Professor
East Asian
Studies Department
12A Marts
Hall
Bucknell University
Lewisburg, PA 17837
Phone: (570) 577-3388
Fax: (570) 577-3760
jamesorr@bucknell.edu
Education Background:
Ph.D.: 1996 Stanford University, History (Modern
East Asia)
M.A.: 1987 University of Washington, International
Studies (East Asia: Japan Regional Studies)
B.A.: 1979 Yale University, Economics
Recent Publications
Teaching Interests:
- Modern and Premodern Japanese History
- Remembrance of Hiroshima in Japan and the United States
- Constructions of National Identity in East Asia
- International Relations in East Asia
- Japanese History through Film
Course Information:
- Fall, 2011 courses:
- Spring 2012
Research Interests:
- Remembrance of war in constructions of national identity
- Japanese pacifism
- Historical analysis of popular culture
- Current projects:
- Victim narratives as part of popular remembrance of war in East
Asia (Japan, China, Taiwan, South Korea)
- Use of song in political mobilization in wartime and postwar
Japan
- Baseball and Self-Definition in Postwar Japanese Youth Culture
For a fuller curriculum vitae, click here .
Recent activities:
Moderator for A-Bomb Survivor Panel Discussion and Webcast, at the Japan Society of New York, May 21, 2010. See accompanying teacher's resource on using hibakusha testimony as oral history.
Guest lecture with Tom Hayden, moderated by Amy Goodman, "Reflections on Citizen Movements: Peace and Politics in the U.S. & Japan" at the Japan Society of New York, May 27, 2008. Part of the Satya Graha Forum. Podcast of talk available (begin at minute 41of the podcast).
Web links of interest:
A quote for your consideration:
"As a matter of general principle, I believe there can be no doubt that
criticism in time of war is essential to the maintenance of any kind of
democratic government. Perhaps nothing today distinguishes democratic
government in England so greatly from the totalitarianism of Germany as
the freedom of criticism which has existed continuously in the House of
Commons and elsewhere in England. Of course that criticism should not
give any information to the enemy. But too many people desire to
suppress criticism simply because they think that it will give some
comfort to the enemy to know that there is such criticism. If that
comfort makes the enemy feel better for a few moments, they are welcome
to it as far as I am concerned, because the maintenance of the right of
criticism in the long run will do the country maintaining it a great
deal more good than it will do the enemy, and will prevent mistakes
which might otherwise occur."
Sen. Robert
Taft, December 19, 1941. From The
Papers of Robert Taft (Kent, 1997), p. 303.
This page is maintained by Jim Orr, jamesorr@bucknell.edu . Last
update June 2010.