Dates: Saturday, May 25 and Sunday, May 26

Location: Komazawa University

Saturday, May 25 (1pm-6pm), Room 3-306

Opening Remarks: NAKANO Tatsuya

Special Panel: The Threshold of the Human and the Non-Human: Intersecting Expressions and Their Potentials

Speakers: YAMANE Naoko, FUJII Takashi, HAGA Kōichi, OZAWA Kyōko

General Meeting

6:30〜 Conference Dinner: Komazawa University campus. We look forward to your participation!

Sunday, May 26 (10am-4pm)

Individual presentations: Room 3-305

KINOSHITA Kyōko: The Story of a Father’s Daughter: Yoshiya Nobuko’s Chi no Hate Made (To the End of the Earth)

SANO Hinako: Tanizaki Junichirō’s Literature and Homosexuality

SERIZAWA Rika: The Influence of Fin-de-siècle Art on Tanizaki Junichirō’s Majutsushi (The Magician)

NISHINO Atsushi: Mal-Adaptation in Literature and Film: Tanizaki Junichirō’s Naomi and the Development of Its Adaptation (Visualization)

SHIMIZU Satoshi: The Makioka Sisters by Tanizaki Junichirō: From the Perspective of Tourism

Individual presentations: Room 3-311

ICHIKAWA Yumiko: Toward  “Lightness” in The Nose: Considering Henri-Louis Bergson’s Ideas and Buddhist Philosophy

LIN Yue: Review of Akutagawa Ryūnosuke’s Konan no Ōgi (The Fan of Hunan): A Study of the Relationship between Huang Ai and Huang Liu-ichi

SPOEHRLE Macha: When Azumauta and “Ryūkyū” Overlap: The Image of Okinawa in Orikuchi Shinobu’s Poetry and Commentaries on the Manyoshū

MAKI Chinatsu: Characteristics of Expressions of Perception in Miyazawa Kenji’s Works

KANAI Masaya: Uno Kōji’s Kura no Naka (Inside the Storehouse) and Rakugo

KATSUKURA Ai: Oda Sakunosuke’s Seiso (Purity): An Analysis of the Manuscript Drafts

Individual presentations, panel: Room 3-312

ISHII Kaname: Rethinking Animal Literature: How do Humans Describe “Animals” in Literature?

CIMA Igor: Japanese Literature and “Mishima Yukio” in the 1980s: Focusing on Shimada Masahiko’s Boku wa Mozō Ningen (I am a Counterfeit Human Being)

Panel: The Incompleteness of Japanese Literature around 1990: Amid the Cold War Regime and Globalism

Speakers: KAMEARI Ao, NISHIOKA Takayuki, MATSUDA Itsuki, MINEO Toshihiko, YAMANISHI Masaya, IMAI Ryoichi

Closing Remarks: KUME Yoriko