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International Symposium/Workshop in Japanese Literary and Visual Studies

February 28–29, 2020, Columbia University (403 Kent Hall)

Friday, February 28 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM: Registration

Symposium: Authorship, Collectivity, Community

Session 1: 9:30 AM – 10:45 AM

Haruo Shirane (Columbia U.), “Authorship and Collective Production: Orality, Text, and Canon Formation”
Akira Takagishi (U. of Tokyo), “Medieval Art, Patronage, and Inter-Contextuality”

Session 2: 11:00 AM – 12 AM

Tomi Suzuki (Columbia U.), “‘Author-Function’ in Modern Japan: From Continuum to Differentiation in Translation/Adaptation/Creation”
Hirokazu Toeda (Waseda U.), “Constructing a Portrait of the Literary God: Media and Literary Authors in Japan, 1920s-1940s”

Workshop: New Currents in Japanese Literary and Visual Studies Ⅰ

Session 1: 1:30 PM – 2:45 PM

Phuong Ngo (Columbia U.); Ekaterina Komova (Columbia U.); Ye Yuan (Columbia U.);

Session 2: 3:00 PM – 5:00 PM

Yuki Ishida (Columbia U.); Joshua Rogers (Columbia U.); Kevin Niehaus (Stanford U.);
Rihito Mitsui (Waseda U.); Taiki Tomozoe (Waseda U.)
Discussants: Hirokazu Toeda, Tomi Suzuki, Yuika Kitamura (Kobe U.)

Saturday, February 29 9:00 AM – 9:30 AM: Registration

Symposium: Mapping in Japanese Literary and Visual Culture

Session 1: 9:30 AM – 11:15 AM

Kazuaki Komine (Rikkyo U. Emeritus) (keynote speech), “Woman Who Became A Dragon: Zenmyō in East Asia: from Kōsōden (Biography of High Priest) to Kegon engi”
Yukari Tanaka (Nihon U.), “App for Strolling around Edo/Tokyo: Two Smartphone Apps—'Edo/Tokyo Monogatari’ and ‘Chiyo-Dash’—Based on the Website ‘WebGIS’”
Ryūichi Kodama (Waseda U.), “Yōkai Hikimaku Kabuki Theatre Curtain by Kawanabe Kyōsai”

Session 2: 11:30 AM – 1:00 PM

Satomi Yamamoto (Waseda U.), “Ruins as a Moment for Religious Awakening: Pure Land Buddhism in Medieval Japan, Disease, War, and Disaster”
Hiroki Takezaki (MFA, Boston, Ishibashi Curator for Japanese Art; U. Tokyo), “Gyokuen’s Orchids and the Desire to Retire: Reading the Inscription of Orchids, Bamboo, and Rock in MFA”
Matthew McKelway (Columbia U.), “After Rosetsu: Multiples, Fakes, and Questions of Authorship”

Workshop: New Currents in Japanese Literary and Visual Studies II

Session 3: 2:30 PM – 3:30 PM

Yiwen Shen (Columbia U.); Shohei Yamayoshi (Waseda U.); Eri Nonaka (U. Tokyo); Maria Yamada (Waseda U.)

Session 4: 3:45 PM – 4:30 PM

Sakuya Okazaki (U. Tokyo); Kaho Kakizawa (Waseda U.); Yeongik Seo (Columbia U.)
Discussants: Kazuaki Komine, Satomi Yamamoto, Akira Takagishi>, Matthew McKelway

Co-Organizers: Haruo Shirane (Columbia), Tomi Suzuki (Columbia), Hirokazu Toeda (Waseda), Satomi Yamamoto (Waseda); Co-sponsored by Ryusaku Tsunoda Center for Japanese Culture, Global Japanese Studies Model Unit, Waseda University Top Global University Project, supported by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology-Japan; Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, and Mary Griggs Burke Center for Japanese Art, Columbia University

Pre-registration required by Feb. 24th:

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