Performance and Japanese Literature
University of Chicago
October 18 - 19, 2013
Friday, October 18
10:00-12:00: Concurrent Panels
Mediated PerformanceModerated by Julia Adeney Thomas, Notre Dame
“Conversations with Former Selves: Terayama Shūji’s Den’en ni Shisu Project and Okada Toshiki’s Zero Cost House”Erin Lofting, Univ. of Toronto
“2.5D: Voice-Acting, Ensoulment, and Mediation”Shunsuke Nozawa, Dartmouth College
“The Optron: Light, Noise, and Design Noir in Tokyo “Lorraine Plourde, SUNY Purchase
“Vocal Capital: An Archeology of Early Japanese Voice Acting”Kerim Yasar, The Ohio State University
Politics and PerformanceModerated by Ann Sherif, Oberlin
“Housekeepers: Performing Marriage in Proletarian Literature”Heather Bowen-Struyk, Independent Scholar
“The Kirishitan expulsion as ritual performance in early-modern Japanese texts”Jan Leuchtenberger, Univ. of Puget Sound
“Performing the Past as Present: The Meiji Restoration on the Proletarian StageAragorn Quinn , Stanford Univ.
“Performative Writing: the Politics of Prose”Robert Tierney, UIUC
Traditional Performance (1)Moderated by Nobuko Toyosawa, University of Chicago
“Emanations of Power: Preachers and the Performance of Homiletic Tales (setsuwa) in Early Medieval Japan”Ethan Bushelle, Harvard University
“Cultures of Sound: Lineages of Sutra Recitation in Medieval Japan”Charlotte Eubanks, Pennsylvania State Univ.
“The relationship between text and movement in the Noh play Aoinoue”Yukiko Nakatsuka, Hosei University
“Performing Texts: Ogino Chiichi and the Musical Tradition of Heikyoku in Mid- to Late Tokugawa Japan”Wei Yu Wayne Tan, Harvard University
12:00-1:00: Lunch (included in registration fee)
1:00-2:45: Feature Panel 1Performing Hayakawa YoshioOrganized by Michael Bourdaghs
“The Many Worlds of The J•a•c•k•s”Anne McKnight, UCLA
“Hayakawa Yoshio and the Double Bind: Commercialism vs. Artistry, Performance vs. Sincerity”James Dorsey, Dartmouth
“Humanities is Dead as Rock is Dead: Death of an Experimental University”UENO Toshiya, Wako UniversityDiscussants: HAYAKAWA Yoshio and SAKUMA Masahide
3:00-5:00: Concurrent Panels
Marginality as Performance Moderated by Eiji Sekine, Purdue
“Japanese Sign Language: Poetry between Literature, Performance and Digital Media” Andrew Campana, Harvard University
“Jinruikan (The Pavilion of Humanity) and performing Okinawa”Kyle Ikeda, Univ. of Vermont
“MEDORUMA Shun and The Okinawan Dialect as Critical Performance”Yoshiaki Koshikawa, Meiji Univ.
“Performing Korean, Performing Korea: Zainichi Identity and the Japanese Language in the Work of Kim Sŏk-pŏm”Cindi Textor, Univ of Washington, Seattle
Pedagogy as Performance Moderated by Christopher Bush, Northwestern Univ.
“Screaming for Help: Mishima’s Modern NOH and the Pedagogy of Adaptation”Stefania Burk, Univ. of British Columbia
“Shakespeare and Noh in Throne of Blood and Ran”Susan Klein, UC Irvine
“Other performance literatures: subtitles in contemporary Japanese theaterJessica Nakamura, Stanford Univ.
“Reading The Tale of Genji through Word Cloud: A Digital Approach to Literary Criticism and Pedagogy”Catherine Ryu, Michigan State Univ.
Translation as PerformanceModerated by Phyllis Lyons, Northwestern Univ.
“Suicides in Sôseki’s Kokoro”Reiko Abe Auestad, Univ. of Oslo
“Performing a Reading of Konjiki yasha”Ken Ito , Univ. of Hawai’i
“The Boy with the Pistol and the Execution of Literary Acceptance: The Case of Nagayama Norio”Nathan Shockey, Bard College
“Assuming Identities in Nagai Kafū’s Baudelaire Translations”Marianne Tarcov, UC Berkeley
5:00-7:00: Reception, dinner (included in registration fee)
7:30-8:30: Keynote Performance: Hayakawa Yoshio, Sakuma Masahide
Saturday October 19
9:00-11:00: Concurrent Panels
Traditional Performance (2) Moderated by Elizabeth Oyler, Univ. of Illinois
“Poetry, Performance, and History: The Songs of the Kojiki and Nihon shoki”Torquil Duthie, UCLA
“Envisioning Difference: Social Typology and Exhaustive Articulation in Fujiwara no Akihira’s Shin sarugaku ki”Ashton Lazarus, Yale University
“And the Angel Spake unto Harunobu: Gaspar Coelho’s Japanese “Story of a Cross which Miraculously Appeared in Japan”Patrick Schwemmer, Princeton
“How To Do Things With Poems: A Reassessment of The Wondrous Powers of Waka”Ariel Stillerman, Columbia Univ.
Performances of Death Moderated by Atsuko Ueda, Princeton Univ.
“Narrative Adaptations of the Myth of the Child Devouring Goddess Kishimojin”Davinder Bhowmik, Univ of Washington
“Mishima Yukio’s Yūkoku: Performing Suicide on the Page, Noh Stage, and Cinema Screen Kirsten Cather, UT Austin
“A Vaguely Unsatisfying Performance: Arishima Takeo’s Labyrinth and Japanese American Homosocialism”Andrew Leong, Northwestern Univ.
“Mishima Yukio’s Yūkoku (Patriotism): On the performativity of the text and the textuality of the film”Rebecca Mak, Univ. of Heidelberg
Performance in Early Meiji/TaishoModerated by Norma Field, University of Chicago (Emerita)
“Suzuki Miekichi’s Writing Pedagogy and the Ideology of Childhood”Mika Endo, Bard College
“The Gold Standard: Performing Genius in the Early Fiction of Tanizaki Jun’ichirō”Pau Pitarch Fernandez, Columbia Univ.
“Re-inventing the audience: towards an aesthetics of the spectator in Meiji Japan”Andreas Regelsberger, Western Michigan Univ.
“Meiji Women’s Education as Performance: Shimoda Utako’s Construction and Embodiment of the “New Traditional” Woman” Mamiko Suzuki, Univ. of Utah
11:00-12:30: Feature Panel 2The Social Dimensions of PerformanceOrganized by Hoyt Long
“Performance as Text: The Legacy of Post-1960s Japanese Theatre”Cody Poulton, University of Victoria
“Space, Performance and Text in the Shinjuku West Exit Underground Plaza Incident, 1969″Jordan Sand, Georgetown
“The Evanescence of Performance and the Evidence of Print: On the Archives of Nineteenth-Century Kabuki”Jonathan Zwicker, University of Michigan
12:30-1:30: Lunch (included in registration fee)
1:30-3:30: Concurrent Panels
Performing the Incident Moderated by Steve Ridgely, Univ. of Wisconsin
“Performing Poetry in the Wake of 3/11”Jeffrey Angles, Western Michigan Univ.
“Performing Japaneseness: Realistic Machines, Cute Characters and Wartime Aggression”Hikari Hori, Columbia Univ.
“Oe’s Performance of Peace”Mimi Long, Univ. of Calif. Riverside
“Cities in the Clouds: Theatrical Perspectives on Tension between Rebirth and Return in the Post-3/11 Utopic Imaginary”Justine Wiesinger, Yale University
Performing Gender Moderated by Susan Burns, University of Chicago
““What’s Love Got To Do With It?” — Performing Masculinities in The Love Suicides at Amijima” Michael Brownstein, Univ. of Notre Dame
“Symbiotic Cycles in Ôhara Mariko’s Hybrid Child and the Parodic Performance of Mother-Daughter”Kazue Harada, Wash Univ in St. Louis
“Celebrity, Sex, and Shame : Murayama Tomoyoshi on Female Performance”Diane Lewis, Wash Univ in St. Louis
“Pan-Pan Girls and Transvestite Patriarchies: Performing and Recovering Masculinity in Immediate Postwar Literature”Andrea Mendoza, Cornell Univ.
Performances of OralityModerated by Chelsea Foxwell, University of Chicago
“Visible rhymes, inaudible echoes: inscriptive and oral performance in the Chinese poetry of modern Japan”Matthew Fraleigh, Brandeis Univ.
“Memorization and Improvisation in the Tradition of blind biwa players”Saida Khalmirzaeva, Hosei University
“Narrating Modernity: Tokugawa Musei, Creative Adaptation, and Benshi Performance”Kyoko Omori, Hamilton College“Restoring Performance to Text: the Heike Mabushi”Jeremy Robinson, Grand Valley State Univ.
4:00-5:30: Feature Panel 3H. Richard Okada Memorial Panel on Critical PedagogiesOrganized by Reginald Jackson
Jim Fujii (UC Irvine)
Christine Marran (University of Minnesota)
Steven Chung (Princeton University)
10:00-12:00: Concurrent Panels
Mediated PerformanceModerated by Julia Adeney Thomas, Notre Dame
“Conversations with Former Selves: Terayama Shūji’s Den’en ni Shisu Project and Okada Toshiki’s Zero Cost House”Erin Lofting, Univ. of Toronto
“2.5D: Voice-Acting, Ensoulment, and Mediation”Shunsuke Nozawa, Dartmouth College
“The Optron: Light, Noise, and Design Noir in Tokyo “Lorraine Plourde, SUNY Purchase
“Vocal Capital: An Archeology of Early Japanese Voice Acting”Kerim Yasar, The Ohio State University
Politics and PerformanceModerated by Ann Sherif, Oberlin
“Housekeepers: Performing Marriage in Proletarian Literature”Heather Bowen-Struyk, Independent Scholar
“The Kirishitan expulsion as ritual performance in early-modern Japanese texts”Jan Leuchtenberger, Univ. of Puget Sound
“Performing the Past as Present: The Meiji Restoration on the Proletarian StageAragorn Quinn , Stanford Univ.
“Performative Writing: the Politics of Prose”Robert Tierney, UIUC
Traditional Performance (1)Moderated by Nobuko Toyosawa, University of Chicago
“Emanations of Power: Preachers and the Performance of Homiletic Tales (setsuwa) in Early Medieval Japan”Ethan Bushelle, Harvard University
“Cultures of Sound: Lineages of Sutra Recitation in Medieval Japan”Charlotte Eubanks, Pennsylvania State Univ.
“The relationship between text and movement in the Noh play Aoinoue”Yukiko Nakatsuka, Hosei University
“Performing Texts: Ogino Chiichi and the Musical Tradition of Heikyoku in Mid- to Late Tokugawa Japan”Wei Yu Wayne Tan, Harvard University
12:00-1:00: Lunch (included in registration fee)
1:00-2:45: Feature Panel 1Performing Hayakawa YoshioOrganized by Michael Bourdaghs
“The Many Worlds of The J•a•c•k•s”Anne McKnight, UCLA
“Hayakawa Yoshio and the Double Bind: Commercialism vs. Artistry, Performance vs. Sincerity”James Dorsey, Dartmouth
“Humanities is Dead as Rock is Dead: Death of an Experimental University”UENO Toshiya, Wako UniversityDiscussants: HAYAKAWA Yoshio and SAKUMA Masahide
3:00-5:00: Concurrent Panels
Marginality as Performance Moderated by Eiji Sekine, Purdue
“Japanese Sign Language: Poetry between Literature, Performance and Digital Media” Andrew Campana, Harvard University
“Jinruikan (The Pavilion of Humanity) and performing Okinawa”Kyle Ikeda, Univ. of Vermont
“MEDORUMA Shun and The Okinawan Dialect as Critical Performance”Yoshiaki Koshikawa, Meiji Univ.
“Performing Korean, Performing Korea: Zainichi Identity and the Japanese Language in the Work of Kim Sŏk-pŏm”Cindi Textor, Univ of Washington, Seattle
Pedagogy as Performance Moderated by Christopher Bush, Northwestern Univ.
“Screaming for Help: Mishima’s Modern NOH and the Pedagogy of Adaptation”Stefania Burk, Univ. of British Columbia
“Shakespeare and Noh in Throne of Blood and Ran”Susan Klein, UC Irvine
“Other performance literatures: subtitles in contemporary Japanese theaterJessica Nakamura, Stanford Univ.
“Reading The Tale of Genji through Word Cloud: A Digital Approach to Literary Criticism and Pedagogy”Catherine Ryu, Michigan State Univ.
Translation as PerformanceModerated by Phyllis Lyons, Northwestern Univ.
“Suicides in Sôseki’s Kokoro”Reiko Abe Auestad, Univ. of Oslo
“Performing a Reading of Konjiki yasha”Ken Ito , Univ. of Hawai’i
“The Boy with the Pistol and the Execution of Literary Acceptance: The Case of Nagayama Norio”Nathan Shockey, Bard College
“Assuming Identities in Nagai Kafū’s Baudelaire Translations”Marianne Tarcov, UC Berkeley
5:00-7:00: Reception, dinner (included in registration fee)
7:30-8:30: Keynote Performance: Hayakawa Yoshio, Sakuma Masahide
Saturday October 19
9:00-11:00: Concurrent Panels
Traditional Performance (2) Moderated by Elizabeth Oyler, Univ. of Illinois
“Poetry, Performance, and History: The Songs of the Kojiki and Nihon shoki”Torquil Duthie, UCLA
“Envisioning Difference: Social Typology and Exhaustive Articulation in Fujiwara no Akihira’s Shin sarugaku ki”Ashton Lazarus, Yale University
“And the Angel Spake unto Harunobu: Gaspar Coelho’s Japanese “Story of a Cross which Miraculously Appeared in Japan”Patrick Schwemmer, Princeton
“How To Do Things With Poems: A Reassessment of The Wondrous Powers of Waka”Ariel Stillerman, Columbia Univ.
Performances of Death Moderated by Atsuko Ueda, Princeton Univ.
“Narrative Adaptations of the Myth of the Child Devouring Goddess Kishimojin”Davinder Bhowmik, Univ of Washington
“Mishima Yukio’s Yūkoku: Performing Suicide on the Page, Noh Stage, and Cinema Screen Kirsten Cather, UT Austin
“A Vaguely Unsatisfying Performance: Arishima Takeo’s Labyrinth and Japanese American Homosocialism”Andrew Leong, Northwestern Univ.
“Mishima Yukio’s Yūkoku (Patriotism): On the performativity of the text and the textuality of the film”Rebecca Mak, Univ. of Heidelberg
Performance in Early Meiji/TaishoModerated by Norma Field, University of Chicago (Emerita)
“Suzuki Miekichi’s Writing Pedagogy and the Ideology of Childhood”Mika Endo, Bard College
“The Gold Standard: Performing Genius in the Early Fiction of Tanizaki Jun’ichirō”Pau Pitarch Fernandez, Columbia Univ.
“Re-inventing the audience: towards an aesthetics of the spectator in Meiji Japan”Andreas Regelsberger, Western Michigan Univ.
“Meiji Women’s Education as Performance: Shimoda Utako’s Construction and Embodiment of the “New Traditional” Woman” Mamiko Suzuki, Univ. of Utah
11:00-12:30: Feature Panel 2The Social Dimensions of PerformanceOrganized by Hoyt Long
“Performance as Text: The Legacy of Post-1960s Japanese Theatre”Cody Poulton, University of Victoria
“Space, Performance and Text in the Shinjuku West Exit Underground Plaza Incident, 1969″Jordan Sand, Georgetown
“The Evanescence of Performance and the Evidence of Print: On the Archives of Nineteenth-Century Kabuki”Jonathan Zwicker, University of Michigan
12:30-1:30: Lunch (included in registration fee)
1:30-3:30: Concurrent Panels
Performing the Incident Moderated by Steve Ridgely, Univ. of Wisconsin
“Performing Poetry in the Wake of 3/11”Jeffrey Angles, Western Michigan Univ.
“Performing Japaneseness: Realistic Machines, Cute Characters and Wartime Aggression”Hikari Hori, Columbia Univ.
“Oe’s Performance of Peace”Mimi Long, Univ. of Calif. Riverside
“Cities in the Clouds: Theatrical Perspectives on Tension between Rebirth and Return in the Post-3/11 Utopic Imaginary”Justine Wiesinger, Yale University
Performing Gender Moderated by Susan Burns, University of Chicago
““What’s Love Got To Do With It?” — Performing Masculinities in The Love Suicides at Amijima” Michael Brownstein, Univ. of Notre Dame
“Symbiotic Cycles in Ôhara Mariko’s Hybrid Child and the Parodic Performance of Mother-Daughter”Kazue Harada, Wash Univ in St. Louis
“Celebrity, Sex, and Shame : Murayama Tomoyoshi on Female Performance”Diane Lewis, Wash Univ in St. Louis
“Pan-Pan Girls and Transvestite Patriarchies: Performing and Recovering Masculinity in Immediate Postwar Literature”Andrea Mendoza, Cornell Univ.
Performances of OralityModerated by Chelsea Foxwell, University of Chicago
“Visible rhymes, inaudible echoes: inscriptive and oral performance in the Chinese poetry of modern Japan”Matthew Fraleigh, Brandeis Univ.
“Memorization and Improvisation in the Tradition of blind biwa players”Saida Khalmirzaeva, Hosei University
“Narrating Modernity: Tokugawa Musei, Creative Adaptation, and Benshi Performance”Kyoko Omori, Hamilton College“Restoring Performance to Text: the Heike Mabushi”Jeremy Robinson, Grand Valley State Univ.
4:00-5:30: Feature Panel 3H. Richard Okada Memorial Panel on Critical PedagogiesOrganized by Reginald Jackson
Jim Fujii (UC Irvine)
Christine Marran (University of Minnesota)
Steven Chung (Princeton University)