Program

Room T03 (ground floor)

Session A1 – Chair: Joshua Mostow (University of British Columbia)

Yagi Morris (Fondazione 1563/THP)
“Like Drops of Sea Water”: Buddhist Metaphors of the Body and the Medieval Body Politic

Aldo Tollini (Ca' Foscari University of Venice)
"The real human body is living and dying, coming and going”: Dōgen’s vision of the human body"

Claire-Akiko Brisset (University of Geneva)
The body as a ritual medium: about the Miminashi Hōichi Story

Marianna De Carlo (University of Naples “L’Orientale”)
Whitening Hair: Private Lament and Public Plea in Sugawara no Michizane’s Kanshi Production [ONLINE] "

Dario Minguzzi (SAPIENZA University of Rome)
The Heian Court Embodied: Reading Sugawara no Michizane’s Poetry from the Sanuki Province (886-890)

Shuwen Ding (Tohoku University)
The Representation of "Kan" 漢 is Embodied in "Kokin-Wakashū”: Taking the Relevance of Chinese Poetry themed on "Tanabata"

Joshua Mostow (University of British Columbia)
Embodied Poems: Waka and the Human Figure

Elias Bouckaert (Ghent University)
Medico-religious "Five Viscera" 五臓論 Manuscripts in Edo Period Japan

Elena Follador (University of Cambridge)
Fighting Anthropomorphic Diseases in Fictional Bodies: the Case of Hashika Taiheiki

Sonia Favi (University of Turin)
The body as spectacle: foreign bodies as tourist attractions in Sekai ryokō bankoku meisho zue

Session A4 – Chair: Matilde Mastrangelo (SAPIENZA University of Rome)

Samantha Audoly (SAPIENZA University of Rome)
Like a paper doll whose body is barely visible”: Indiscernibility of Body as Want for Agency in Yoru no Nezame

Daphne Van der Molen (Leiden University)
The Rhetoric of Childbirth in Yosano Akiko’s Life Writing

Sinai Harel (Osaka University)
Exploring gendered emotional labor through the embodied narratives of Japanese women-teachers

Room T02 (ground floor)

Session B1 – Chair: Stefano Romagnoli (SAPIENZA University of Rome)

Marco Del Din (Heidelberg University / Ca' Foscari University of Venice)
Make-up, Skirts, and Sweat: An Analysis of a Drag Show in Kyoto from the Perspective of the Body [ONLINE] 

Chisato Makishima (Tohoku University)
Occupying Space and Disintegrating bodies: Drag Theatres in Tokyo

Anna-Maria Stabentheiner (University of Vienna)
Embodying Creativity: Exploring the Creative and Transformative Potential of Art Models in Tokyo"

Session B2 – Chair: Lorenzo Marinucci (Tohoku University)

Josef Kyburz (CNRS)
The perception of the human body in the light of cultural relativism

Yuhan Long (Durham University)
Calligraphy as Trace-making: Redefining Calligraphy through the Lens of Embodiment in Postwar Japan

Akihiro Ozaki (Tohoku University)
From Body Criticism to Decorativeness: Exploring Japan’s Anti-Classicism Impact on Modern European Art

Session B3 – Chair: Stefano Romagnoli (SAPIENZA University of Rome)

Ludovica Marincioni (SAPIENZA University of Rome)
Rethinking Bodies and Performing Femininity: Insights on Gender and Performance Discourses in Early 20th Century Kabuki [ONLINE] 

Federica Cavazzuti (University of Turin)
The non-conforming bodies of photography by Japanese women [ONLINE] 

Marta Ibáñez Ibáñez (University of Salamanca)
The Artistic Expression of Female Subjugation in Japanese Traditional Arts: A Study of Enchi Fumiko's Onna No Fuyu

Session B4 – Chair: Stefano Romagnoli (SAPIENZA University of Rome)

Alice Baldock (University of Oxford)
Dancing Bodies in Postwar Japan: Competing philosophies of ‘body’ through movement [ONLINE]

Mika Imono (Meisei University)
Rhythm of Noh: What could "make progress" mean in the practice of Noh Theater?

Fusako Innami (Durham University)
Dancing Trace: The Body as a Composite of Movements through Eguchi and Laban

Luciana Galliano (Independent scholar)
The Body as a Musical Instrument. Pre-Fluxus avant-garde in post-war Tokyo