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FRIDAY |
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9:00-4:00 |
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Registration table open | South Wing lobby |
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7:00-10:00 |
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Continental breakfast (included with registration) | Starvine Ballroom corridor; seating in Peavine Creek Room and South Wing lobby |
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10:00-11:30 |
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Center/Periphery, Inside/Outside: Spatial Relationships in Narrative | Starvine Ballroom 1
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Monika Dix, Saginaw Valley State University “Inclusive Exclusion: A Multi-layered Reading of Religious and Spatial Practices in Medieval Buddhist Narratives”
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Tariq Sheikh, English and Foreign Languages University Hyderabad “Can The Periphery Speak: Reading Suzuki Bokushi’s Early Modern Blockbuster Hokuetsu Seppu“
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Stephen Forrest, University of Massachusetts “Inviting New Readers In: How Gōkan Made Long-form Fiction More User-friendly in Late Edo Japan”
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Kristin Sivak, University of Toronto “Inside and Outside House and Home: Servants in the Novels of Tanizaki Jun’ichiro” |
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11:30-12:45 |
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Welcome Lunch (included with registration) Dining Room |
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12:45-2:45 |
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Concurrent Panels |
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2A |
Transgressing social/national borders | Starvine Ballroom 1 |
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Edwin Michielsen, University of Toronto “Seizing/Ceasing Social Reproduction: Matsuda Tokiko, Birth Control Politics, and Proletarian Solidarity in ‘Chichi o uru'” |
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Annika A. Culver, Florida State University “Harmonizing a Multi-Ethnic ‘Manchurian Literature’: The Manchukuo Cultural Project”
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Catherine Ryu, Michigan State University “North Korea in Mind: Rethinking Japanese Literature from Zainichi Perspectives” |
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2B |
Politics/performance/belonging | Starvine Ballroom 2 |
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Gian Piero Persiani, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign “Poems to Unite and Poems to Divide: What Audience Reactions Tell Us About the Ideological Roots of Waka’s Popularity” |
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Nina Farizova, Yale University “Mathematics of Self: The Tropes of Numbers and Quantities in Kagerō nikki“
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Matthew Mewhinney, Florida State University “Crossing the Threshold: Genre, Gender and Reading in Ema Saikō’s Poetry” |
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Jyana S. Browne, University of Maryland College Park “(In)voluntary Outcasts in Chikamatsu’s Icy Blade“ |
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Jitsuya Nishiyama, University of Southern California “Inclusivity and Exclusivity in Demon Noh: Zeami’s Demon Pacifying Noh and Nobumitsu’s Demon Killing Noh” |
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Break | Seating in Peavine Creek Room and South Wing lobby |
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3:00-4:45 |
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3A |
Mixing media / Science fictions | Starvine Ballroom 1 |
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Kumiko Saito, Clemson University “Meiji-Era Science Fiction and the Discursive Location of Zōkakiron“ |
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Brian White, University of Chicago “Mixed Media: Early Japanese Science Fiction and Genre Inclusivity” |
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Anri Yasuda, University of Virginia “Matayoshi Naoki and Dazai Osamu: Rethinking Literary Masculinity” |
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3B |
Imagining exile in premodern Japanese texts: lament, social order, and consequences | Starvine Ballroom 2 |
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Beth M. Carter, Case Western Reserve University “Parting and purification: Gendered Poetic Laments of Exile in The Tale of Genji’s ‘Suma'” |
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Jeremy A. Sather, Illinois Wesleyan University “A Land Fit for Exiles: The Battle for Kyushu in the Time of the Two Courts” |
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Frank W. Clements, University of British Columbia “A Double-edged Sword: Exile and Alienation in Shugendō Communities in Tokugawa Japan” |
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Jonathan Stockdale, University of Puget Sound Discussant |
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5:00-6:00 |
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Dinner (included with registration) | Silverbell Pavilion |
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6:00-7:00 |
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Plenary Session 1 | Silverbell Pavilion Speaker: Robin LeBlanc, Washington and Lee University “Thinking About Japan Studies from the Perspective of a Scholar of Medium Privilege” |
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7:00-8:00 |
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Music Performance | Silverbell Pavilion Fareed Mahluli Quartet |
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SATURDAY |
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7:00-10:00 |
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Continental breakfast (included with registration) | Starvine Ballroom corridor; seating in Peavine Creek Room and South Wing lobby |
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9:00-4:00 |
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Registration table open | South Wing lobby |
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08:30-10:00 |
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Concurrent Panels |
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4A |
Poetry in Proximity to Power: Inclusion and Exclusion in Elite Poetic Circles of Premodern Japan | Starvine Ballroom 1 |
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Danica Truscott, University of California, Los Angeles “Banquet Poetry and the Gendering of Social and Textual Spaces in the Man’yōshū“ |
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Matthieu Felt, University of Florida “Nihongi Banquet Poetry and the Creation of a Japanese Origin Story” |
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Bonnie McClure, University of California, Berkeley “Imagined Journeys: The daiei travel poetry of Senzaishū“ |
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Malgorzata Karolina Citko, Florida State University “‘Old Words, New Heart’ and Man’yōshū in Early Medieval Poetry Contests” |
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4B |
Language of Inclusivity: Paradigm Shift in the Style of Japanese Literature in the 1980s | Starvine Ballroom 2 |
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Masaki Mori, University of Georgia “Murakami Haruki on La Petite Planète“ |
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Ikuho Amano, University of Nebraska-Lincoln “Wicked Aesthetics of Hon’ne: Hayashi Mariko’s Nonfictional Essays on Jealousy” |
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Yoshihiro Yasuhara, Carnegie Mellon University “The Poetic Montage as Bodily Experience: Tanikawa Shuntarō’s Coca-Cola Lessons and Amano Yūkichi’s Theory of Advertising” |
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Break | Seating in Peavine Creek Room and South Wing lobby |
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10:15-12:00 |
5A |
Public Education and Society: Dynamics of Social Norms in Early-Modern Japan | Starvine Ballroom 1 |
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Motoi Katsumata, Meisei University “Was Ono no Komachi a ‘Virtuous’ Woman?: Changing Ideology, Changing Interpretation” |
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Toshifumi Kawahira, Kyushu University “Kenkō’s Theory of Kōshoku” |
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Yoshiaki Murakami, Saga University “‘Classical Japanese Literature’ in the Early-Modern Period: A Study of the Commentaries on the Wakan rōeishū“ |
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Jingyi Li, University of Arizona “Confucian Funerals under the Danka System through Moral Textbooks” |
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Jonathan Zwicker, University of California, Berkeley Discussant |
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5B |
Inside / Outside Genres | Starvine Ballroom 2 |
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Ben Whaley, University of Calgary “When Your City is Your Prison: Social Withdrawal in The World Ends with You” |
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Steven Ridgely, University of Wisconsin-Madison “Matsui Shigeru’s “Quantum” Poetry and the Puzzle of Literary Algorithms”
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Lindsey Stirek, The Ohio State University “Obscenity, Art, and Manga: The Boundary-challenging Work of Rokudenashiko”
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Brian Hurley, Syracuse University “Literature/Economics/Japan” |
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12:00-1:00 |
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Lunch (included with registration) | Dining Room |
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1:00-2:30 |
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Plenary Session 2 | Starvine Ballroom I Discussion Leader: Christina Laffin, University of British Columbia “Cultivating an Inclusive Japanese Literary Studies” |
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3:00-4:30 |
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Concurrent Panels |
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6A |
The Shōjo Genre and Gendered Discursive Practices: The Rise and Decline of Girls’ Novels in Japan | Starvine Ballroom 1 |
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Wakako Suzuki, Bard College “Writing Girls: (En) gendering Childhood through Children’s Magazines, 1895-1912” |
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Hiromi Dollase, Vassar College “Teenage Love and Sex as Depicted in Junior Fiction” |
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Luciana Sanga, Northwestern University “From Girls’ Novels to Love Novels –The Case of Yuikawa Kei” |
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Yoriko Kume, Nihon University “The Countdown of Girls’ Novels is Starting” |
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David Boyd, University of North Carolina Charlotte Discussant |
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6B |
The Long Postwar in Tōhoku and Okinawa: Migration, Labor, and Exclusion | Starvine Ballroom 2 |
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Kyle Ikeda, University of Vermont “Outside the Okinawa-Japan/ Okinawa-US Binaries: Inclusivity and Exclusivity in Literature from Okinawa via Global Migration” |
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Saeko Kimura, Tsuda University “The Vulnerability of Women’s Bodies though Postwar and Post-Fukushima Literature” |
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Davinder Bhowmik, University of Washington “The Emperor and his People in Post-3/11 and Post-Reversion Okinawan Fiction” |
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Doug Slaymaker, University of Kentucky “Dead Man Dreaming: Yū Miri’s JR Ueno eki kōenguchi“ |
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Break | Seating in Peavine Creek Room and South Wing lobby |
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4:45-6:15 |
7A |
Inclusion / alienation / hegemony | | Starvine Ballroom 1 |
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Kathryn Hemmann, George Mason University “The Gentle Inclusivity of Mental Illness in Kawakami Hiromi’s ‘Summer Break'” |
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Christopher Smith, University of Florida “Giving up on Authenticity: Alienation, Estrangement, and Performance in Wataya Risa’s Insutōru“ |
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Shelby Oxenford, Randolph-Macon College “Harm and Belonging in Furukawa Hideo’s Horses, Horses, in the End the Light Remains Pure“ |
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Thomas Daniel, Purdue University “Murakami in Context: Modern Japanese Literature and the Postcolonial Thought” |
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7B |
Adaptation, translation, retelling | Starvine Ballroom 2 |
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Saida Khalmirzaeva, Gakushuin University “Old Stories, Original Retellings: The Japanese Tale of the Wicked Stepmother” |
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Patrick Carland, University of Pennsylvania “How We Speak of Who They Are: Valences of Queer Identity in English Translations of Japanese Fiction” |
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Michele Eduarda Brasil de Sá, Federal University of Mato Grosso do Sul, Brazil “Researching Adaptation: Famous Characters from Japanese Literature in the Anime Aoi Bungaku“ |
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