Announcement:AMJLS Annual Conference of Fall 2022

Date: October 22nd (Saturday), 23rd (Sunday), 2022
Venue: Doshisha University, Imadegawa Campus, Ryoshin-Kan, RYB2 (22nd), RY101, 103, 104 (23rd)

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[DAY ONE: Oct 22nd] Starts at 13:30

[Opening Address]
Reigi TANAKA

[Special Session]
Religion and Discrimination in Modern Japan: The Threshold of Difference and Publicness

Tsutomu TOMOTSUNE
A Critical Threshold of the Form of Life: Subaltern and Religion

Yosuke KOJIMA
Rethinking Weak Men in Endo Shusaku’s Work: How the Representations of Kakure Kirishitan (Hidden Christian) Transformed

Mioko SHINOZAKI
A-Bomb City, Nagasaki: Convergence of Discrimination

Bruna Lukas
Reality and Idealism, Divide and Association: Describe Life Not Defined by Settlement or Employment

[General Meeting]

[Social Hour]

[DAY TWO: Oct 23rd] 10:30-16:40

[ROOM ONE: RY104]

10:30-12:30

Takayuki OHASHI
Otoko Honzon (Male Main Character) as Hero: Interpreting the Role of Main Characters in Tsubouchi Shoyo’s Shosetsu Shinzui (The Essence of the Novel)

Kevin NIEHAUS
From Content to Phenomenology: Rethinking the Discourse of Letter in Japanese from 1900 to 1920

Qing Wang
Time in Michikusa (Grass on the Wayside): Intersection with Henri Bergson’s Time and Free Will

14:00-16:40

[Panel Presentations]

Takeshi NAKAMURA, Maria ARAI, Taku MIURA, Maki TOMINAGA, Kenji SOEDA
Visual Representations and Literature in “Sunday Mainichi” during the Prewar Period

[ROOM TWO: RY103]

10:30-12:30

Mingyuan TANG
From A Glimpse of a Certain Woman to A Certain Woman: Acquisition of the Interior with Olfaction

Daisuke MATSUBARA
Uchida Hyakken’s Neko and Shin-Seinen

Lucrezia DI MARCO
A Writing Style of Yaeko Batchelor’s Wakaki Utari Ni (For the Young Ainu): Considering the Significance of A Serialized Work

14:00-16:40

Takumi ISHIKAWA, Yuji OHARA, Yoshiyuki MAKI, Yuta WATANABE
Interpreting Postwar Culture from the Perspective of Local Media

[ROOM THREE: RY101]

10:30-12:30

Hayato YAMAMOTO
Crossing of Lament in Kobayashi Hideo and Nakahara Chuya: How Texts are Revised

Takamasa FUJIWARA
Takeda Taijyun’s Shinpan (Tribunal) and the Local Media in Shanghai: The Problems of the Policy for Residence in Japanese Concession 

Jinqi SHAO
Described Human and its Ethics in War Literature: Reading Tada Yukei’s Ajia no Suna (Sand in Asia)

14:00-15:20

Mengru LIU
Darkness and Language in the Manuscript of Mojin Shokan (Letters of Blind) by Terayama Shuji

Yuanqi SONG
When Air on the G String is Played: Taiwanese Literature in Two Languages and Periods 

[Closing Speech]

Teru SHIMAMURA