2024 Autumn Conference: Program
Dates: Saturday, October 26 and Sunday, 27 October
Location: Hiroshima University, Higashi-Hiroshima Campus, Department of Education (Classrooms to be Confirmed)
Saturday, October 26 (from 1:30 p.m.)
Opening Remarks: ARIMOTO Nobuko
Special Panel: Representations of East Asia in Modern Japanese Literature: Between “Incidents” and Literature
Speakers: KUROKAWA Sō, QI Jinying, WANG Yiyun and INDEN Masashi
Sunday, October 27 (from 10:30 a.m.)
Venue 1 (Classroom TBC)
Individual Presentations
ITŌ Hiroki: “Tokyo” Reorganized: Yamada Bimyō’s “Musashino” (Plain of Musashi) as a Guidebook
TSURUTA Natsuki: The Position of Hirotsu Ryūrō’s “Obunearashi” (Storm on a Small Boat): On the Relationship with the Crimes of Society
XU Ke: Aspects of Bunbu (Literary and Military Arts) in the Post-Russo-Japanese War Restoration Style: With a Focus on Fūryū (Refinement) and Genroku–shumi (Genroku Taste)
KOJIMA Haruna: Maitsuki Kenbunroku (Monthly News) Read at a Time when “Logic” and “Literature” Were Divided: The “Gesaku” Attitude in Transformation
KONDŌ Shiori: The Death of the Artist in Uno Kōji’s Kareki no Aru Fūkei (Landscape with Dead Trees): From Theory of Painting to Theory of Literature
Venue 2 (Classroom TBC)
Individual Presentations
Fukuda Ryō: Conflicting Desires: Mishima Yukio’s Kamen no Kokuhaku (Confessions of a Mask)
SUL Seunghoon: Sakaguchi Ango and Hanamori Yasuji’s Criticism of “Kyōso”
Panel
Representing the Reality of Empire and Immigration: Consolidation and Confusion, Hope and Disillusionment
Speakers: YAMAZAKI Yoshimitsu, OKA Erina, OKUMURA Kanako, MORIOKA Takashi
Discussant: MURATA Hirokazu
Venue 3 (Classroom TBC)
Individual presentations
OKAWADA Akira: “Ainu Literature” and the Struggle for the “Compensation Land”: from the Perspective of Mukai Toyoaki, Ishii Seiji and Harada Ryōsuke on “Organizational Hierarchies”
KATANO Tomoko: Abe Kōbō and the Nouveau Roman (New Novel): With a Focus on Moetsukita Chizu (The Ruined Map)
Closing Remarks: KUME Yoriko