Saturday 11 January

9:30-9:40 Opening Luciana Cardi, Tomohiko Kondo

Part I: Knowledge of Greek and Roman Classics in Early Modern Japan

9:40-10:20 Akihiko Watanabe (Otsuma Women’s University)
Latin as the ‘Roman sign’: Early Modern Japanese Encounters with Humanistic Neo-Latin
10:20-11:00 Ryuji Hiraoka (Kyoto University)
The Reception of Early Jesuit Cosmology in Japan: Greco-Latin Origins and East Asian Transformations
11:00-11:40 Ichiro Taida (Toyo University)
Translation of Roman Style Poems by a Japanese Scholar in the Edo Period: Maeno Ryotaku’s Seiyo Gasan Yakubunko

Lunch

Part II: Different Approaches in Japanese Translations and Adaptations of Greek and Roman Classics

13:00-13:40 Hitoshi Yoshikawa (Seijo University)
Reception and Diffusion of Aesop’s Fables in Japan
13:40-14:20 Yasuhiro Katsumata (Kyoto University)
Abusing Plutarchan Heroes: The Reception of the Parallel Lives in Twentieth-Century Japan

Part III: Role of Greco-Roman Classics in Facing the Challenges of Western Modernity 

14:20-15:00 Tomohiko Kondo (Keio University)
The Hymn to Apollo in Meiji Japan: Performing Ancient Greek Music on Japanese Instruments

Coffee Break

15:30-16:10 Yuko Fukuyama (Waseda University)
The Reception of Greek and Roman History during the Edo and Meiji Periods
16:10-16:50 Kihoon Kim (Kongju National University)
Korean Reception of the Western Classics since Japanese Colonialism
16:50-17:30 Michael Lucken (French National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilisations (Inalco))
American Occupation and Classical Studies in Japan: An Unexpected Discrepancy [Online]

Dinner

Sunday 12 January

Part IV: Appropriating Greek and Roman Classics in Japanese Literature and Theatre

9:30-10:10 Kyoko Nakanishi (Tsuda University)
Locus Amoenus Poeticus: Adaptations of Classical Antiquity in Japanese Modern-Contemporary Poetry
10:10-10:50 Virginia Sica (University of Milan)
When Mishima Yukio Reflected in the Aegean Sea: Mediterranean Myths, Endogenous Archetypes, and Expressionist Suggestions
10:50-11:30 Tomoko Aoyama (The University of Queensland)
Reading Girls’ Fascination with Greek Antiquity in Modern Japanese Women’s Literature

Lunch

13:00-13:40 Notsu Hiroshi (Shinshu University)
Reception of Greek Tragedy in Japan: Translation and Production

Part V: Receptions in the Visual Arts and Media

13:40-14:20 Rui Nakamura (Tokai University)
The Reception of Greek Art during the Meiji Era in Japan
14:20-15:00 Ayelet Peer (Bar-Ilan University)
Apollo’s Journey Through Japanese Manga

Coffee Break

15:30-16:10 Aline Henninger and Pierre-Alain Caltot (Orleans University)
Looking East until Japan: How French Classical Studies Came to Study Classical Reception in Japan
16:10-16:50 Luciana Cardi (Kansai University)
Intersections between Contemporary Japan and the Ancient Greco-Roman World in  Yamazaki Mari’s Manga

16:50-17:30 General Discussion