Technology and Japanese Literary, Film and Performance Studies
Yale University
October 15 - 17, 2010
Program, AJLS at Yale University Oct 15-17 2010All papers and panels will be presented in the Loria Center, 190 York Street, Yale University, New Haven, CT (corner Chapel/York).
Friday, Oct. 15
8:30 Registration, Entry level, Loria Center9:00 Welcome (Edward Kamens, Ann Sherif)
9:15-10:45 Panel #1, Individual Papers (chair: E. Kamens)1. Scott Lineberger (Beloit College), “Innovator and Luddite: Matsunaga Teitoku’s Selective Integration of Print Culture” 2. Regan Murphy (UC Berkeley), “Gleaning the Spoken Word from the Written Text: The Linguistic Technology behind Kokugaku Phonetic Studies”3. Stephen M. Forrest (UMass Amherst), "Tools for New Readers: The Role of Navigational Signage in Late Edo Visual-Verbal Narration"4. Dylan McGee (SUNY New Paltz), “Horologies of the Floating World: Popular Fiction in the Early Age of Mechanical Time-Keeping”
Break
11:00-12:30 Panel #2, Individual Papers (chair: J. Treat)1. Kirsten Cather (UT Austin), “Technologies of Scripting Suicide: From Mishima to Manga”2. Rachel DiNitto (William and Mary): “MuraKanye: ‘Collaboration Addiction’ or New Political Expression?”3. Bruce Baird (UMass Amherst) “Butô: The Dance of Darkness and of Cyborgs”4. Franz Prichard (UCLA), “On the Road with a Ruined Map: Towards a Critical Urban Media Practice in Fiction and Documentary After the 1964 Tokyo Olympics”
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 Panel #3, Individual Papers (chair: R. Jackson)1. Brian Dowdle (Michigan), “Technologies and Transformations of Print: Memories, Materials, and Marginalia”2. Reginald Jackson (Chicago), “The Resurrected Genji Scrolls' Rhetoric of Transparency”3. Hansun Hsiung (Harvard), “Literary Evidence, Literary Fact: On the Historical Epistemology of Modern Japanese Literature”
3:05-4:35 Panel #4, Individual Papers (chair: E. Kamens)1. Gala Maria Follaco (Naples), “独メンタリ: 近代東京を探る永井荷風の写真”2. Sarah Frederick (Boston), “Look Who’s Talking: Dialog and Visual Culture in Modern Japan”3. Shiho Maeshima (UBC), “Representing a Multicultural Empire: Technological Advancements and the Emergence of ‘Transparent’ Photo Stories in Interwar Japanese Popular Print Media”4. Kendall Heitzman (Bard), “Technology against Itself in/around Tokyo Olympiad ”
Break
4:50-6:20 Panel #5, Individual Papers (chair: J. Treat)1. Seth Jacobowitz (San Francisco St.), “Of Blank Slates and Greedy Typewriters: Writing Technology in Sôseki’s Sanshirô”2. Ann Sherif (Oberlin), “Paper and Print: Writers and Editors in Post-Disaster Publishing”3. Hisaaki Wake (Stanford), “What Is the Significance of the Stereo Player in Akiyuki’s Room?, or the Monogatari Sphere of the Echoing Chamber in Nakagami Kenji”4. Maria Roemer (Free University Berlin), “Affects and Control in the Works of Abe Kazushige”
6:30 Keynote Address I: YOSHIMI Shun’ya (University of Tokyo)“Mapping Urban Visualities in Postwar Japan: The Socio-Spatial Formation of Movie Theatres and Street-Corner TV in Tokyo, 1945-1965”
7:30 Hosted Reception for all participants (location TBA)
(8:30 Dinner, participants on their own)
9:30 Film screening of "Live/Tape" (dir. by MATSUE Tetsuaki)
Saturday Oct 16
8:30 Coffee
9:00-10:30 Panel #6, Individual Papers (chair: A. Sherif)1. Masayo Kaneko (Murray State), “Setouchi Jakuchô, The Tale of Genji, and the Techno-Literary”2. Kathryn Page-Lippsmeyer (USC), “Creating the Train Man: From Affinity Space to Fantext”3. Paola Scrollavezza (Venice), “Digito Ergo Sum: Hypermedia and Hyperreality in Taguchi Randy’s Mozaiku”4. Karen Thornber (Harvard), “Human Agency, Technology, and Environment in Japanese Science Fiction”
Break
10:45-12:15 Panel #7: “Technologies of Inscription in Heian Japan” (chair: D. Langford)1. Brian Steininger (Bates), “Performing Exegesis: Japanese Wenxuan Manuscripts”2. Heather Blair (Indiana), “Textual Reproduction and Ritual Mimesis at Itsukushima”3. David Lurie (Columbia), “Kana Were Not Invented in the Heian Period”
12:15-1:15 Lunch
1:15-2:45 Panel #8: “A Season of Media Theory: From Proletarian to Modernist and Avant-Garde Literature (1917-1941)”(chair: M. Sas)1. Satoru Saito (Rutgers), “Tanizaki Jun’ichirô and Technologies of Modernism”2. Mary A. Knighton (Washington and Lee), “The Borrowed – and Stolen – Bombs of Dadais(t) Poet Onchi Terutake” 3. William Gardner (Swarthmore), “The Politics and Poetics of Cine-Text: Yokomitsu’s ‘Formalism’ as Media Theory, and the Challenge of Kitagawa’s ‘Prose Film’”4. Miryam Sas (UC Berkeley), Discussant
2:50-4:20 Panel #9: “Machinations of the Maximized Masses : Prewar and Postwar Critical Approaches to Literature, Representation, and Media”(chair: A. Gerow)1. Adam Bronson (Columbia), “The Work of Literature in the Age of Mass-Writing: Tsurumi Kazuko, the Life-Composition Movement, and the Chinese Revolution”2. Hitomi Yoshio (Columbia), “In the Realm of the Seventh Sense: The Technospatial Imagination of Osaki Midori”3. Naoki Yamamoto (Yale), “Mechanized Reality: Itagaki Takao and Debates on the Machine Aesthetic in Late 1920s Japan”4. Nate Shockey (Columbia), “The Peripatetic Synthetic: Rethinking Postwar Literature with Hanada Kiyoteru”
Break
4:35-6:05 Panel #10: “Nostalgic Technologies in Manga and Anime”(chair: J. Treat)1. Christopher Bolton (Williams), “Reading and Other Lost Technologies in Steampunk Anime”2. Susan Napier (Tufts), “Power in the Sky: Miyazaki’s Reworking of Aerial Combat”3. Rebecca Suter (Sydney), “Swords, Crosses, and Mobile Phones in Shôjo Manga”4. Sharalyn Orbaugh (UBC), Discussant
6:15-7:15 Keynote Address II: UCHINO Tadashi (University of Tokyo)"What About Machines?: Performing ‘J-type Technology’ in Japan's Contemporary Performance Culture"
7:30 Hosted Buffet Dinner for all participants (The Golden Center, St. Thomas More Catholic Chapel and Center (268 Park St.))
Sunday Oct 17
8:00 a.m., Coffee
8:30-10:00 Panel #11: “Double Take on Text and Textuality: Limits and Possibilities of New Literary/Aural/Visual Representations in Contemporary Japan”(chair: R. Jackson)1. Shunsuke Nozawa (Chicago), “Real Nowheres, Real Nobodies: A Techno-Aesthetic of the Everyday”2. Jun Mizukawa (Columbia), “Questions of Bungaku (文学) in the Digital Era”3. Lorraine Plourde (SUNY Purchase), “Noisy Writing”4. Reginald Jackson (Chicago), Discussant
10:05-11:35 Panel #12: “Modern Japanese Literature’s Engagement of Photography as a Reproducible Art and a Medium for Mimetic Representation of Self”(chair: A. Gerow)1. Irena Hayter (Leeds), “Reproductions of the Self: Dazai Osamu”2. Tomoko Shimizu (Tsukuba), “In Between: ‘I’ Novel and ‘I’ Photo in Nobuyoshi Araki’s Photo-World”3. Atsuko Sakaki (Toronto), “Kanai Mieko/Watanabe Kanendo, The Cities of Déjà-vu or the (In)commensurability of the Text/Image”
11:40-12:00 Closing remarks (John Treat, Aaron Gerow)
Friday, Oct. 15
8:30 Registration, Entry level, Loria Center9:00 Welcome (Edward Kamens, Ann Sherif)
9:15-10:45 Panel #1, Individual Papers (chair: E. Kamens)1. Scott Lineberger (Beloit College), “Innovator and Luddite: Matsunaga Teitoku’s Selective Integration of Print Culture” 2. Regan Murphy (UC Berkeley), “Gleaning the Spoken Word from the Written Text: The Linguistic Technology behind Kokugaku Phonetic Studies”3. Stephen M. Forrest (UMass Amherst), "Tools for New Readers: The Role of Navigational Signage in Late Edo Visual-Verbal Narration"4. Dylan McGee (SUNY New Paltz), “Horologies of the Floating World: Popular Fiction in the Early Age of Mechanical Time-Keeping”
Break
11:00-12:30 Panel #2, Individual Papers (chair: J. Treat)1. Kirsten Cather (UT Austin), “Technologies of Scripting Suicide: From Mishima to Manga”2. Rachel DiNitto (William and Mary): “MuraKanye: ‘Collaboration Addiction’ or New Political Expression?”3. Bruce Baird (UMass Amherst) “Butô: The Dance of Darkness and of Cyborgs”4. Franz Prichard (UCLA), “On the Road with a Ruined Map: Towards a Critical Urban Media Practice in Fiction and Documentary After the 1964 Tokyo Olympics”
12:30-1:30 Lunch
1:30-3:00 Panel #3, Individual Papers (chair: R. Jackson)1. Brian Dowdle (Michigan), “Technologies and Transformations of Print: Memories, Materials, and Marginalia”2. Reginald Jackson (Chicago), “The Resurrected Genji Scrolls' Rhetoric of Transparency”3. Hansun Hsiung (Harvard), “Literary Evidence, Literary Fact: On the Historical Epistemology of Modern Japanese Literature”
3:05-4:35 Panel #4, Individual Papers (chair: E. Kamens)1. Gala Maria Follaco (Naples), “独メンタリ: 近代東京を探る永井荷風の写真”2. Sarah Frederick (Boston), “Look Who’s Talking: Dialog and Visual Culture in Modern Japan”3. Shiho Maeshima (UBC), “Representing a Multicultural Empire: Technological Advancements and the Emergence of ‘Transparent’ Photo Stories in Interwar Japanese Popular Print Media”4. Kendall Heitzman (Bard), “Technology against Itself in/around Tokyo Olympiad ”
Break
4:50-6:20 Panel #5, Individual Papers (chair: J. Treat)1. Seth Jacobowitz (San Francisco St.), “Of Blank Slates and Greedy Typewriters: Writing Technology in Sôseki’s Sanshirô”2. Ann Sherif (Oberlin), “Paper and Print: Writers and Editors in Post-Disaster Publishing”3. Hisaaki Wake (Stanford), “What Is the Significance of the Stereo Player in Akiyuki’s Room?, or the Monogatari Sphere of the Echoing Chamber in Nakagami Kenji”4. Maria Roemer (Free University Berlin), “Affects and Control in the Works of Abe Kazushige”
6:30 Keynote Address I: YOSHIMI Shun’ya (University of Tokyo)“Mapping Urban Visualities in Postwar Japan: The Socio-Spatial Formation of Movie Theatres and Street-Corner TV in Tokyo, 1945-1965”
7:30 Hosted Reception for all participants (location TBA)
(8:30 Dinner, participants on their own)
9:30 Film screening of "Live/Tape" (dir. by MATSUE Tetsuaki)
Saturday Oct 16
8:30 Coffee
9:00-10:30 Panel #6, Individual Papers (chair: A. Sherif)1. Masayo Kaneko (Murray State), “Setouchi Jakuchô, The Tale of Genji, and the Techno-Literary”2. Kathryn Page-Lippsmeyer (USC), “Creating the Train Man: From Affinity Space to Fantext”3. Paola Scrollavezza (Venice), “Digito Ergo Sum: Hypermedia and Hyperreality in Taguchi Randy’s Mozaiku”4. Karen Thornber (Harvard), “Human Agency, Technology, and Environment in Japanese Science Fiction”
Break
10:45-12:15 Panel #7: “Technologies of Inscription in Heian Japan” (chair: D. Langford)1. Brian Steininger (Bates), “Performing Exegesis: Japanese Wenxuan Manuscripts”2. Heather Blair (Indiana), “Textual Reproduction and Ritual Mimesis at Itsukushima”3. David Lurie (Columbia), “Kana Were Not Invented in the Heian Period”
12:15-1:15 Lunch
1:15-2:45 Panel #8: “A Season of Media Theory: From Proletarian to Modernist and Avant-Garde Literature (1917-1941)”(chair: M. Sas)1. Satoru Saito (Rutgers), “Tanizaki Jun’ichirô and Technologies of Modernism”2. Mary A. Knighton (Washington and Lee), “The Borrowed – and Stolen – Bombs of Dadais(t) Poet Onchi Terutake” 3. William Gardner (Swarthmore), “The Politics and Poetics of Cine-Text: Yokomitsu’s ‘Formalism’ as Media Theory, and the Challenge of Kitagawa’s ‘Prose Film’”4. Miryam Sas (UC Berkeley), Discussant
2:50-4:20 Panel #9: “Machinations of the Maximized Masses : Prewar and Postwar Critical Approaches to Literature, Representation, and Media”(chair: A. Gerow)1. Adam Bronson (Columbia), “The Work of Literature in the Age of Mass-Writing: Tsurumi Kazuko, the Life-Composition Movement, and the Chinese Revolution”2. Hitomi Yoshio (Columbia), “In the Realm of the Seventh Sense: The Technospatial Imagination of Osaki Midori”3. Naoki Yamamoto (Yale), “Mechanized Reality: Itagaki Takao and Debates on the Machine Aesthetic in Late 1920s Japan”4. Nate Shockey (Columbia), “The Peripatetic Synthetic: Rethinking Postwar Literature with Hanada Kiyoteru”
Break
4:35-6:05 Panel #10: “Nostalgic Technologies in Manga and Anime”(chair: J. Treat)1. Christopher Bolton (Williams), “Reading and Other Lost Technologies in Steampunk Anime”2. Susan Napier (Tufts), “Power in the Sky: Miyazaki’s Reworking of Aerial Combat”3. Rebecca Suter (Sydney), “Swords, Crosses, and Mobile Phones in Shôjo Manga”4. Sharalyn Orbaugh (UBC), Discussant
6:15-7:15 Keynote Address II: UCHINO Tadashi (University of Tokyo)"What About Machines?: Performing ‘J-type Technology’ in Japan's Contemporary Performance Culture"
7:30 Hosted Buffet Dinner for all participants (The Golden Center, St. Thomas More Catholic Chapel and Center (268 Park St.))
Sunday Oct 17
8:00 a.m., Coffee
8:30-10:00 Panel #11: “Double Take on Text and Textuality: Limits and Possibilities of New Literary/Aural/Visual Representations in Contemporary Japan”(chair: R. Jackson)1. Shunsuke Nozawa (Chicago), “Real Nowheres, Real Nobodies: A Techno-Aesthetic of the Everyday”2. Jun Mizukawa (Columbia), “Questions of Bungaku (文学) in the Digital Era”3. Lorraine Plourde (SUNY Purchase), “Noisy Writing”4. Reginald Jackson (Chicago), Discussant
10:05-11:35 Panel #12: “Modern Japanese Literature’s Engagement of Photography as a Reproducible Art and a Medium for Mimetic Representation of Self”(chair: A. Gerow)1. Irena Hayter (Leeds), “Reproductions of the Self: Dazai Osamu”2. Tomoko Shimizu (Tsukuba), “In Between: ‘I’ Novel and ‘I’ Photo in Nobuyoshi Araki’s Photo-World”3. Atsuko Sakaki (Toronto), “Kanai Mieko/Watanabe Kanendo, The Cities of Déjà-vu or the (In)commensurability of the Text/Image”
11:40-12:00 Closing remarks (John Treat, Aaron Gerow)