Landscapes Imagined and Remembered
University of Washington
October 22 - 24, 2004
Friday, October 22
8:00-8:30 Coffee and opening remarks
8:30-10:30Landscapes of the Mind: Ideological Mapping in Premodern and Modern Texts
Jim Reichert (Stanford University), "Decadent Landscape: The Inusaka Keno/Asakeno Episode in Hakkenden"
Atsuko Ueda (Princeton University), "Ideological Landscape: Asianism (kōa) in 1880s Japan"
Michael Dylan Foster (University of California, Riverside), "Walking in the City with Natsume Sōseki: The Metaphorical Landscape in 'Koto no sorane'"
Christine Marran (University of Minnesota), "Intergalactic Landscapes and Language in Science Fiction"
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-12:00Keynote:Matsuoka Shinpei (Tokyo University), “Chūsei Nihon no fūkei o Kangaeru: Zeami no nō o kiten ni shite”
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:30Looking Back from the Margins: Re-presenting the Tōhoku Landscape in Literature and Ethnology
Hoyt Long (University of Michigan), "Provincializing 'Landscape' and Imagining the Region in Modern Tōhoku"
Kyoko Ando (Otsuma Women’s University), "Folktales and Spiritualism in The Landscapes of Miyazawa Kenji"
Melek Ortabasi (Hamilton College) "Landscape and the Lonely Traveler: Yanagita Kunio and Sugae Masumi"
2:30-3:00 Coffee break
3:00-4:30A Sense of Place: Medieval Visions of Kamakura in the Heike monogatari and Beyond
Vyjayanthi Ratnam (Cornell University), "Shifting Ground: Kamakura in the Narrative Topography of the Heike Corpus"
Elizabeth Oyler (Washington University), "Journeys of Exile in the Heike monogatari: Shigehira and Munemori in Captivity"
Michael Watson (Meiji Gakuin University), "Yoritomo's Shrine by the Sea: Narrative Functions of Tsurugaoka Hachimangu"
6:00-9:00Conference Banquet
Saturday, October 23
8:00-8:30 Coffee
8:30-10:30Individual Papers
Atsuko Sakaki (University of Toronto), "Dis-Orienting Abe Kōbō: Manchuria, Aporia, and Nomadia"
Thomas Hackner (University of Trier), "Shiga Shigetaka's Nihon fūkei-ron and Meiji Literature"
Barbara Hartley (University of Auckland), “The Violated Body asLandscape: Rupture and Mutilation in the Narratives of Kim Sa-ryang and Yi Yang-ji"
Theresa Orth (University of California, Los Angeles), "Majestic Landscape,Marginal Space: Mountains in Early Modern Japanese Literature"
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-12:00Keynote:Nakahodo Masanori (University of the Ryukyus), "Okinawa bungaku ni miru fūkei no hen’yō"
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:30Landscape as Discourse: The Seasons as Intersections between Actual and Discursive Spaces
Haruo Shirane (Columbia University), "Shifting Poetic Landscape: From Agrarian Seasons to Court Seasons"
Gian Piero Persiani (Columbia University), "Categorization by Prototype: the Heian Episteme in the Diction of the Kokinshū"
Akiko Takeuchi (Columbia University), "Taema: Intersections between Seasonal and Ritual Landscapes in Noh"
2:30-3:00 Coffee
3:00-4:30Individual Papers
Alex Bates (University of Michigan), "Viewing the Ruins: Devastated Cityscapes and the Urban Observer after the Great Kantō Earthquake"
Rachel DiNitto (College of William and Mary), "Excavating Memory in the Modern City"
Stephen D. Miller (Smith College), "Shinjuku ni-chōme and its Peripheries since the 'Gay Boom'"
Sunday, October 24
8:00-8:30 Coffee
8:30-10:30Individual Papers
Anne Commons (University of Alberta), "The Construction of Akashi as Sacred Space"
Joseph Sorensen (University of Colorado at Boulder), "Poetic Landscapes and Landscape Poetry in Heian Japan"
Christian Ratcliff (Yale University), "The Traveling Poet as Witness: Established Poets Facing New Realities in the Kamakura Period"
Cheryl Crowley (Emory University), "Yosa Buson's Imagined Landscapes: Haikai Verse and Image"
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-12:00Keynote:John Treat (Yale University), "Colonial Seoul in Japanese and Korean Fiction: Scenes from a Forgotten Landscape"
8:00-8:30 Coffee and opening remarks
8:30-10:30Landscapes of the Mind: Ideological Mapping in Premodern and Modern Texts
Jim Reichert (Stanford University), "Decadent Landscape: The Inusaka Keno/Asakeno Episode in Hakkenden"
Atsuko Ueda (Princeton University), "Ideological Landscape: Asianism (kōa) in 1880s Japan"
Michael Dylan Foster (University of California, Riverside), "Walking in the City with Natsume Sōseki: The Metaphorical Landscape in 'Koto no sorane'"
Christine Marran (University of Minnesota), "Intergalactic Landscapes and Language in Science Fiction"
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-12:00Keynote:Matsuoka Shinpei (Tokyo University), “Chūsei Nihon no fūkei o Kangaeru: Zeami no nō o kiten ni shite”
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:30Looking Back from the Margins: Re-presenting the Tōhoku Landscape in Literature and Ethnology
Hoyt Long (University of Michigan), "Provincializing 'Landscape' and Imagining the Region in Modern Tōhoku"
Kyoko Ando (Otsuma Women’s University), "Folktales and Spiritualism in The Landscapes of Miyazawa Kenji"
Melek Ortabasi (Hamilton College) "Landscape and the Lonely Traveler: Yanagita Kunio and Sugae Masumi"
2:30-3:00 Coffee break
3:00-4:30A Sense of Place: Medieval Visions of Kamakura in the Heike monogatari and Beyond
Vyjayanthi Ratnam (Cornell University), "Shifting Ground: Kamakura in the Narrative Topography of the Heike Corpus"
Elizabeth Oyler (Washington University), "Journeys of Exile in the Heike monogatari: Shigehira and Munemori in Captivity"
Michael Watson (Meiji Gakuin University), "Yoritomo's Shrine by the Sea: Narrative Functions of Tsurugaoka Hachimangu"
6:00-9:00Conference Banquet
Saturday, October 23
8:00-8:30 Coffee
8:30-10:30Individual Papers
Atsuko Sakaki (University of Toronto), "Dis-Orienting Abe Kōbō: Manchuria, Aporia, and Nomadia"
Thomas Hackner (University of Trier), "Shiga Shigetaka's Nihon fūkei-ron and Meiji Literature"
Barbara Hartley (University of Auckland), “The Violated Body asLandscape: Rupture and Mutilation in the Narratives of Kim Sa-ryang and Yi Yang-ji"
Theresa Orth (University of California, Los Angeles), "Majestic Landscape,Marginal Space: Mountains in Early Modern Japanese Literature"
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-12:00Keynote:Nakahodo Masanori (University of the Ryukyus), "Okinawa bungaku ni miru fūkei no hen’yō"
12:00-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:30Landscape as Discourse: The Seasons as Intersections between Actual and Discursive Spaces
Haruo Shirane (Columbia University), "Shifting Poetic Landscape: From Agrarian Seasons to Court Seasons"
Gian Piero Persiani (Columbia University), "Categorization by Prototype: the Heian Episteme in the Diction of the Kokinshū"
Akiko Takeuchi (Columbia University), "Taema: Intersections between Seasonal and Ritual Landscapes in Noh"
2:30-3:00 Coffee
3:00-4:30Individual Papers
Alex Bates (University of Michigan), "Viewing the Ruins: Devastated Cityscapes and the Urban Observer after the Great Kantō Earthquake"
Rachel DiNitto (College of William and Mary), "Excavating Memory in the Modern City"
Stephen D. Miller (Smith College), "Shinjuku ni-chōme and its Peripheries since the 'Gay Boom'"
Sunday, October 24
8:00-8:30 Coffee
8:30-10:30Individual Papers
Anne Commons (University of Alberta), "The Construction of Akashi as Sacred Space"
Joseph Sorensen (University of Colorado at Boulder), "Poetic Landscapes and Landscape Poetry in Heian Japan"
Christian Ratcliff (Yale University), "The Traveling Poet as Witness: Established Poets Facing New Realities in the Kamakura Period"
Cheryl Crowley (Emory University), "Yosa Buson's Imagined Landscapes: Haikai Verse and Image"
10:30-10:45 Coffee break
10:45-12:00Keynote:John Treat (Yale University), "Colonial Seoul in Japanese and Korean Fiction: Scenes from a Forgotten Landscape"