Japan From Somewhere Else
Tufts University and Wellesley College
November 9-11, 2001
PROGRAMJapan from Somewhere Else
Sponsors:The Japan Foundation, Tufts University, and Wellesley College
Main Venue: Cabot Center, Fletcher School, Tufts University
Friday, November 9, 2001
12:00-1:30Registration / Reception
1:30-2:00Welcoming Remarks by Hosea Hirata and President of Tufts University
2:00-3:00Keynote Speech by Traise Yamamoto, University of California Riverside(introduction by Hosea Hirata)
3:00-5:00Panel 1: The New Japanese Literature: Transnationalism and Heterogeneity
"Poetics of Colonial Nostalgia: A case of Taiwan Manyoshu" Faye Yuan Kleeman, University of Colorado at Boulder
"Where is My Home?: Language and Identity" Keiko Nakano, John Carroll University
"Seeing Double: Yu Miri's Japan" Stephen Snyder, University of Colorado at Boulder
"Yoko Tawada and Hideo Levy: Transnational Writers of Japan" Reiko Tachibana, Pennsylvania State University
Discussant: Matthew Konigsberg, J-W Gaethe Universitat
5:00-5:30Reception
5:30-7:00Dinner (Faculty Dining Room) (hosted by Vida Johnson)
6:15-6:45Keynote Speech by Eri Yasuhara, California State University San Bernardino
7:00-9:00"Floating Weeds: the Arc of an American Japanese Aesthetic" Philip Gotanda (hosted by Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano)
Saturday, November 10, 2001
8:00-9:00Coffee and Pastries
9:00-10:00Readings by Mako Yoshikawa and Holly Uyemoto (introduction by Charles Inouye)
10:00-11:00Round table: Japanese-American Writers and Japan
Mako Yoshikawa (novelist)Holly Uyemoto (novelist)Philip Gotanda (playwright, filmmaker)Ruth Ozeki (novelist)Charles Inouye (moderator)
11:00-12:00Reading by Hiromi Ito (introduction by Hosea Hirata)
12:00-1:15Lunch
1:30-3:00Panel 3: "Japan" as Somewhere Else: "Multi-lingualism" and "Translation"
"Mystery Plane: Sakamoto Kyu and the Translations of Rockabilly"Michael Bourdaghs, UCLA
"Japan, and Globality's Somewhere Else"Tom Looser, McGill University
"Translation and the Narrative of 'Trauma' in Nakagami Kenji's Nihongo ni tsuite (On the Japanese Language)"Atsuko Ueda, University of Illinois
"Godzilla: The Monster Made in Japan" Jim Reichert, Stanford University
Discussant: Cody Poulton, University of Victoria
Evening at Wellesley
3:00-4:00Bussing to Wellesley College
4:00-5:30Readings by Ruth Ozeki (introduction by Eve Zimmerman) and Tawada Yoko(introduction by Mathew Koningsberg)
Dinner (hosted by Carolyn Morley)
Party
Bussing to hotels in Cambridge and Medford
Sunday, November 11, 2001
8:00-9:00Coffee and Pastries
9:00-11:00Panel 4: Japan as Literary Form, Heian to Now
"The Rhetoric of Taxonomy: The Pillow Books of Sei Shonagon, Peter Greenaway, and Ruth L. Ozeki"Naomi Fukumori, Ohio State University
"Merican-Jap and Modernity: Tani Joji's Popular Negotiation of the Foreign" Kyoko Omori, Ohio State University
"Nantonaku Heian, Kagirinaku Murasaki" Catherine Ryu, Michigan State University
"And There, Before My Very Eyes, Japan: Mizumura Minae Meets OrthodoxNovel"Ann Sherif, Oberlin College
Discussant: Atsuko Sakaki, University of Toronto
11:00-11:30Reading by Kyoko Mori (introduction by Mako Yoshikawa)
11:30-12:00Closing Plenary Session (Round table)
Hosea Hirata, Tufts UniversityCharles Inouye, Tufts UniversityEve Zimmerman, Wellesley CollegeCarolyn Morley, Wellesley CollegeEiji Sekine, Purdue University
12:00Closing Remarks by Charles Inouye
12:30Light lunch provided
Sponsors:The Japan Foundation, Tufts University, and Wellesley College
Main Venue: Cabot Center, Fletcher School, Tufts University
Friday, November 9, 2001
12:00-1:30Registration / Reception
1:30-2:00Welcoming Remarks by Hosea Hirata and President of Tufts University
2:00-3:00Keynote Speech by Traise Yamamoto, University of California Riverside(introduction by Hosea Hirata)
3:00-5:00Panel 1: The New Japanese Literature: Transnationalism and Heterogeneity
"Poetics of Colonial Nostalgia: A case of Taiwan Manyoshu" Faye Yuan Kleeman, University of Colorado at Boulder
"Where is My Home?: Language and Identity" Keiko Nakano, John Carroll University
"Seeing Double: Yu Miri's Japan" Stephen Snyder, University of Colorado at Boulder
"Yoko Tawada and Hideo Levy: Transnational Writers of Japan" Reiko Tachibana, Pennsylvania State University
Discussant: Matthew Konigsberg, J-W Gaethe Universitat
5:00-5:30Reception
5:30-7:00Dinner (Faculty Dining Room) (hosted by Vida Johnson)
6:15-6:45Keynote Speech by Eri Yasuhara, California State University San Bernardino
7:00-9:00"Floating Weeds: the Arc of an American Japanese Aesthetic" Philip Gotanda (hosted by Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano)
Saturday, November 10, 2001
8:00-9:00Coffee and Pastries
9:00-10:00Readings by Mako Yoshikawa and Holly Uyemoto (introduction by Charles Inouye)
10:00-11:00Round table: Japanese-American Writers and Japan
Mako Yoshikawa (novelist)Holly Uyemoto (novelist)Philip Gotanda (playwright, filmmaker)Ruth Ozeki (novelist)Charles Inouye (moderator)
11:00-12:00Reading by Hiromi Ito (introduction by Hosea Hirata)
12:00-1:15Lunch
1:30-3:00Panel 3: "Japan" as Somewhere Else: "Multi-lingualism" and "Translation"
"Mystery Plane: Sakamoto Kyu and the Translations of Rockabilly"Michael Bourdaghs, UCLA
"Japan, and Globality's Somewhere Else"Tom Looser, McGill University
"Translation and the Narrative of 'Trauma' in Nakagami Kenji's Nihongo ni tsuite (On the Japanese Language)"Atsuko Ueda, University of Illinois
"Godzilla: The Monster Made in Japan" Jim Reichert, Stanford University
Discussant: Cody Poulton, University of Victoria
Evening at Wellesley
3:00-4:00Bussing to Wellesley College
4:00-5:30Readings by Ruth Ozeki (introduction by Eve Zimmerman) and Tawada Yoko(introduction by Mathew Koningsberg)
Dinner (hosted by Carolyn Morley)
Party
Bussing to hotels in Cambridge and Medford
Sunday, November 11, 2001
8:00-9:00Coffee and Pastries
9:00-11:00Panel 4: Japan as Literary Form, Heian to Now
"The Rhetoric of Taxonomy: The Pillow Books of Sei Shonagon, Peter Greenaway, and Ruth L. Ozeki"Naomi Fukumori, Ohio State University
"Merican-Jap and Modernity: Tani Joji's Popular Negotiation of the Foreign" Kyoko Omori, Ohio State University
"Nantonaku Heian, Kagirinaku Murasaki" Catherine Ryu, Michigan State University
"And There, Before My Very Eyes, Japan: Mizumura Minae Meets OrthodoxNovel"Ann Sherif, Oberlin College
Discussant: Atsuko Sakaki, University of Toronto
11:00-11:30Reading by Kyoko Mori (introduction by Mako Yoshikawa)
11:30-12:00Closing Plenary Session (Round table)
Hosea Hirata, Tufts UniversityCharles Inouye, Tufts UniversityEve Zimmerman, Wellesley CollegeCarolyn Morley, Wellesley CollegeEiji Sekine, Purdue University
12:00Closing Remarks by Charles Inouye
12:30Light lunch provided