Publications/Presentations (select)
Below is a list of reviews, publications, paper presentations, panels, and workshops related to Re-Envisioning Japan: Japan as Destination in 20th Century Visual and Material Culture since 2006. Publications precede a list of select presentations.
PUBLICATIONS
Reviews
C.A. Norling and Marian Wilson Kimber, "Reviews: Digital and Multimedia Scholarship," Journal of the American Musicological Society, Vol. 74 Issue 3 (Fall 2021): 689-701 https://doi.org/10.1525/jams.2021.74.3.689
Paula Curtis, "Resource: Re-envisioning Japan," What Can I do with a B.A. in Japanese Studies? (May 2, 2018) https://shinpaideshou.com/2018/05/02/resource-re-envisioning-japan/
Book Chapters and digital publications
2023
Bernardi, J. "Animate Objects," in Recollecting Collecting: a Film and Media Perspective, ed. Lucy Fischer. Detroit: Wayne State University Press, 2023, 93-111.
J. Bernardi, "The Multidisciplinary DH Classroom: Material Culture meets Digital Curation in Re-Envisioning Japan," The Digital Orientalist, March 21, 2023. https://digitalorientalist.com/2023/03/21/the-multidisciplinary-dh-classroom-material-culture-meets-digital-curation-in-re-envisioning-japan/
2021
J. Bernardi, "Japanese Studies Spotlight: Re-Envisioning Japan: Japan as Destination in 20th Century Visual and Material Culture," June 16, 2021. Series hosted by the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Libraries (NCC) showcasing online collections available to researchers and students in Japanese studies.
2017
J. Bernardi and N. Dimmock, "Creative Curating: The Digital Archive as Argument" in Making Things and Drawing Boundaries: Experiments in the Digital Humanities, ed. Jentery Sayers. Special volume in the Debates in the Digital Humanities, Minneapolis: University of Minnestota Press, 2017, 187-197 (Manifold Open Access edition available online). This article details Re-Envisioning Japan's origins and early stages as a collaborative project. Making Things and Drawing Boundaries showcases projects that question the meaning of "making" in the humanities by mixing technology, experimental and collaborative methods, and hands-on research.
SELECT PRESENTATIONS
The earliest presentation, "Japanese Studies: Past, Present, Future" (Nagoya University, 2006) was about my decision to introduce objects from my collection in the classroom and how I developed a conceptual framework for using visual and material culture in "Tourist Japan," my course based on this project, which I taught for the first time in 2002. I refined my focus on this subject for two subsequent conferences: the first was on using material culture in the undergraduate Asian studies curriculum (Beloit, 2009), and the second focused on new approaches to teaching Japanese studies in higher education (De Paul, 2010).
Between 2009 and 2012, I spent a great deal of time huddled over a workbench in the Moving Image Department at the George Eastman Museum, inspecting amateur and educational small gauge films in their collection, including titles from Eastman Kodak's circulating Kodascope Library (films for home entertainment and education, produced between 1924-1939 but circulating in some countries as late as the 1960s) and Eastman Classroom Films (Eastman Kodak Co., Teaching Division).
The papers I gave in 2011-2012 (Columbia University, McGill University, Rikkyō University, Northeast Historic Film Archive), focused on the results of this work. All presentations that I have given since 2013 when the prototype REJ digital archive was established, have focused on Re-Envisioning Japan as an open-ended digital humanities project comprising both a physical collection and a digital environment designed through a process of collaboration and iteration to exhibit this collection. For example, in designing this site, we have prioritized creating the best possible digital surrogate for each object to emphasize its materiality, recognizing the tendency for casual or passive viewers to misinterpret these objects as merely two-dimensional images. Reiterative and collaborative prototyping also has been essential to the process of designing a framework that reflects my research and the curatorial choices that I have made in building both the collection and the digital archive. —Joanne Bernardi
2023
J. Bernardi, "Re-animating Objects: Collaborative Visualizations of Lost Landscapes, Lives, and Transcultural Encounters in 20th Century Japan." Panel participant, "Collaborative Visualizations and Visualizing Collaboration." DH 2023: Collaboration as Opportunity, Alliance of Digital Humanities Organizations Conference, Universität Graz, Austria, July 10-14, 2023.
2020
J. Bernardi, "Making as Inquiry: Teaching with Re-Envisioning Japan," faculty showcase, Cultural Heritage Objects and Exhibits Workshop, River Campus Libraries Digital Scholarship, June 20, 2020.
J. Bernardi, "Re-Envisioning Japan: Challenges and Rewards." Participant and co-organizer, joint LLC Korean and LLC Japanese since 1900 Roundtable, "Digital Humanities in Japan and Korea: Approaches and Challenges." Modern Languages Association, Seattle, January 12, 2020.
2019
J. Bernardi, "Introducing Re-Envisioning Japan." Panel presentation for the Global Digital Humanities Working Group, Central New York Humanities Corridor, University of Rochester, April 30, 2019.
2018
J. Bernardi and J. Romphf, "Re-Envisioning Japan: A Moving Image Recuperation and Digital Curation Pipeline." Lecture and demo of Mediate for "The Nitrate Touch: Domitor Pre-Conference Graduate Workshop," Rochester NY, June 12, 2018. Co-sponsored by Domitor: The Society for the Study of Early Cinema, George Eastman Museum, and the University of Rochester Humanities Center.
J. Bernardi, “Making as Inquiry: Re-Envisioning Japan as Faculty-Library Collaboration,” invited speaker, Presidential Panel, the plenary session of the Council on East Asian Libraries. Association of Asian Studies annual conference, Washington DC, March 21, 2018. (invited)
J. Bernardi, “The Resonance of Digital Space: New Critical Practices in Digital Curation,” presentation and panel chair, “Digital Approaches to Japanese Media.” Modern Language Association, New York, NY, January 4, 2018. (sponsored session, LLC Japan Since 1900)
2017
J. Bernardi, “Introducing Re-Envisioning Japan,” Global Digital Humanities Showcase. CNY Humanities Corridor, Global Digital Humanities Working Group meeting, Hamilton College, October 27, 2017.
J. Bernardi, "Archives in Between: Digital Humanities and Material Culture in Asian Studies Scholarship and Teaching," panel and workshop, Association for Asian Studies annual conference, Toronto, March 16, 2017. Panel Chair and presentation. (refereed)
J. Bernardi and J. Romphf, “Introducing Re-Envisioning Japan 2.0: Ephemeral Film Recuperation, Restoration, and Digital Curation,” Media Studies and Popular Culture, Syracuse University, February 25, 2017. (invited)
2013-2016
J. Bernardi, N. Dimmock, and J. Romphf, "Re-Envisioning Japan: Ephemeral Film Recuperation, Restoration, and Digital Curation," Panel presentation, AMIA 2016, annual conference of the Association of Moving Image Archivists, Pittsburgh, Nov. 10, 2016. Panel organizer and presentation. (refereed)
J. Bernardi, N. Dimmock, and I. Zulkarnain, "Re-Envisioning Japan: Recuperating Ephemeral Histories through Collaborative Digital Curation, DH Pedagogy, and Web-Based Publication" Panel presentation, Negotiating Borders through Digital Scholarship, Bucknell University Digital Scholarship Conference. Bucknell University, October 28, 2016. (refereed)
J. Bernardi, "Routes: 20th Century Japan in Objects, Images, and Personal Exchange,” Department of Languages, Literatures and Linguistics, Syracuse University, (April 1, 2016, invited speaker). Archives In Between: Cultural Preservation, Material to Digital. Panel organizer, moderator, and presentation, “Re-Envisioning Japan: a digital archive of material culture.” University of Rochester, February 20, 2015.
J. Bernardi, "Introducing Re-Envisioning Japan," for the panel, “Re-Envisioning Japan: a Faculty-DH Center Collaboration,” Digital Scholarship Colloquium 2014: Pedagogy and Practices, The Freedman Center for Digital Scholarship, Kelvin Smith Library, Case Western Reserve University, November 6, 2014. Panel organizer and presenter, with N. Dimmock, L. Wright, and J. Romphf, University of Rochester River Campus Libraries Digital Humanities Center. (refereed)
J. Bernardi, “Re-Envisioning Japan as Destination in 20th Century Visual and Material Culture,” 2014 International Conference on Digital Future and Mediated Society: Digital Media and Cultural Communication, Zhejiang University (China), May 25, 2014. (invited speaker)
J. Bernardi, “Re-Envisioning Japan,” University of Southern Alabama, March 25, 2013. (invited speaker)
2011-2012
J. Bernardi, “Re-Envisioning Japan,” UR Year One, University of Rochester, September 18, 2012.
J. Bernardi, “Destination Japan: Japan in Cherry Blossom Time and Japan as Seen From a Rickshaw,” Wunderkino 2: On the Varieties of Cinematic Experience, 13th Annual Northeast Historic Film Summer Symposium, Northeast Historic Film Archive, July 26-28, 2012. (refereed)
J. Bernardi, “Re-envisioning Japan in Silent Educational and Travel Films,” Asian Studies Conference Japan, Rikkyō University, June 30-July 1, 2012. (refereed)
J. Bernardi, “The Personal Collection as Alternative Archive,” The Makino Collection at Columbia: The Present and the Future of an Archive, Columbia University, November 11, 2011. (invited speaker)
J. Bernardi, “Destination Japan: Identifying Japan in 20th Century Visual and Material Culture,” McGill University, March 24, 2011. (invited speaker) “Finding Film,” guest lecture for a course taught by Professor Jane Gaines (“Film Finding”), Columbia University, February 18, 2011. (invited speaker)
2006-2010
J. Bernardi, “Tourist Japan: Identifying Japan in 20th century Visual and Material Culture,” Teaching Japan: Pedagogical Possibilities in US Higher Education, DePaul University, October 29-30, 2010. (refereed)
J. Bernardi, “Tourist Japan,” Asian Arts and Material Culture Colloquium, Beloit College, September 25-26, 2009. Freeman Colloquium on new approaches to using material culture in the Asian Studies undergraduate curriculum. (refereed)
J. Bernardi, "Nihon bunkagaku–kako, genzai, shōrai" (「日本文化学—過去、現在、将来」/Japanese Studies: Past, Present, Future). Lecture in Japanese, Nagoya University workshop, January 9, 2006, Nagoya, Japan. (invited speaker)