Time: 18 (Sat) &19 (Sun) October

Place: Tohoku University, Kawauchi Campus (classrooms TBD)

Day 1: Oct. 18 (Sat), 13:30〜

Opening Remarks: KIMURA Toshiaki

Special Panel: War Experience and Memory at the Eightieth Year: Possibilities and Impossibilities of Transmission and Retelling

Presentations:

YAMAMOTO Akihiro: Representations of War in Contemporary Japanese Film, Anime, and Literature: With a Focus on Takahashi Hiroki’s “Yubi no Hone (Finger Bones)” and Sunakawa Bunji’s “Shōtai (Platoon)”

GOMIBUCHI Noritsugu: Distance and Sensitivity : For a Theory of War Fiction in the Post–Cold War Era

SONG Hyewon: Colonial Time and Memory: “War” in the Writings of Kim Sokpom, Kim Taeseng, and Zainichi Korean Women

Discussant: OKA Mari

Day 2: Oct. 19 (Sun), 10:00〜

Room 1 (Classroom TBD)

Individual Presentations

IMAFUJI Akihiro:  Nature in Izumi Kyōka’s “Kechō(A Bird of a Different Feather)”

ZHOU Jiazheng: Fatalism and Double Suicide: Izumi Kyōka’s Appropriation of Narrative Patterns from The Tale of Genji in Yushima Mōde (Pilgrimage to Yushima)

TAKEDA Yuki: The Emperor Renouncing His Concessions: On the Ending of Oshikawa Shunrō’s Dictated “Daiban Dōmei (The Great Barbarian Alliance)” Published in the Magazine Adventure World

SAWANISHI Yūsuke: From Akutagawa Ryūnosuke to Hori Tatsuo: Unraveling Literary Ties through Their Former Book Collections, Including “Mariya no Otsuge (The Annunciation to Mary)”

YAMAMOTO Ayumu: An Analysis of Oizumi Kokuseki’s “Tenjo no Maboroshi (The Illusion of the Celestial Maiden)”: Between Ghost Stories Presented as True Accounts (Kaidan Jitsuwa) and True Stories with Ghostly Elements (Jitsuwa Kaidan)

Room 2 (Classroom TBD)

Individual Presentations

MATSUDA Shōhei: The ‘Golden Age’ of the Detective Novel: A Discussion of the Quantitative Increase of the Genre Before and After 1930

MIYAZAKI Ryōga: Investigating Folklore: Matsumoto Seichō’s “D no Fukugō (The D Complex)” and Its Context

XIAO Xiao: Returning the Homage: On the Ambivalence of Orientalism in the English Translation of Natsuki Shizuko’s W no Higeki (The Tragedy of W)

OKANO Yūgo: Komatsu Kiyoshi’s Futsuin he no Michi (The Road to French Indochina): Colonial Representation and Narrative Strategy

GOTŌDA Izumi: Activism and the Dynamics of Expression in Buraku Kaihō Shishū (Buraku Liberation Poetry Collection): The Formation of a ‘Counter-Public Sphere’ by Discriminated Buraku Women

Room 3 (Classroom TBD)

Individual Presentations

TSUJI Shūhei: The Contemporary Significance of Bungei Ōrai (Kamakura Bunko): A Nexus of Prewar and Postwar Literature

AKUTAGAWA Hiroki: Reading Abe Kōbō’s Kabe (The Wall) as Practice of the Destruction and Recomposition of a Genre

MASUDA Itsuki: Resisting the ‘Spiritual Climate of Japan’: On Endō Shūsaku as a Christian Writer of the Wartime Generation

NISHIDA Kiriko: Hip-hop in Yamada Eimi’s Beddo Taimu Aizu (Bedtime Eyes): On the Reception of ‘Black Culture’ and a New Women’s Lib

SAKAGUCHI Ayaka: ‘Family Reconstruction’ and the Dynamics of Self-help: An Analysis of Yu Miri’s Inochi (Life)

PALAGINA Aleksandra: Seirai Yūichi’s Bakushin (Ground Zero): Urakami as Memoryscape

Closing Remarks: KUME Yoriko