word/image/japan
Pennsylvania State University
October 27 - 30, 2016
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Thursday, October 27th, 2016 5:00-6:00 Informal Drinks Atherton Hotel Rumors Lounge Friday October 28th, 2016 8:00-8:30 Welcome Robb Hall 8:30-11:00 Concurrent Panels, Session 1 Panel 1: Hands, Tears, Sleep: The Gendered Labor of Japanese Textual Reproduction, Room BAndrew Leong (Northwestern U) “Osato-san’s Hand: Gendered Labor in a Japanese American Serial Novel” Grace Ting (Macalester College) “Tears in the Night: Finding Queer Politics in Ekuni Kaori’s Texts” Kim Icreverzi (Reischauer Institute) “The Adaptations of Japanese Women’s Somnambulant Labor” J. Keith Vincent (Boston U) Discussant Panel 2: Nuclear Realities and the Scenarios of Disaster: Fukushima in Film, Anime, and Music Videos, Room AJohn D. Moore (U Oregon) “Documentary Animation and Referentiality in Fukushima Gianax’s Letters to the Future” Stephen Murnion (U Oregon)“3.11 in Music Videos: Image, Sound, Ideology” Rachel DiNitto (U Oregon)“The Fukushima Fiction Film and the Gendered Discourse of Nuclear Signification” Alex Bates (Dickinson) Discussant 11:00-12:30 Lunch (panelists pick up box lunches in Robb Hall), Robb Hall 12:30-2:30 Concurrent Panels, Session 2 Panel 3: Reading Regionality in Late Edo Popular Fiction and Illustration, Room BDavid Atherton (U Colorado-Boulder) “Writing the Body (and Bodies) of the Realm: Imaging ‘Japan’ in Early Modern Popular Fiction” Dylan McGee (Nagyoa U)“The Dilemma of Local Literature: Nagoya Gesaku Commissioned by the Daisō Lending Library (1767-1899)” Jeffrey Newmark (U Winnepeg)“Osaka Values and the Comic Satire of Nichōsai” Panel 4: Early Film, Room ANathen Clerici (SUNY New Palz)“Osaki Midori’s Nansensu” Xin I Zhao (Columbia U)“Heteroglossia: Exploring Images and Texts in Manchurian Cinema” Kerim Yasar (Ohio State U)“Imagined Histories, Invented Languages: Sound Film and the Creation of JidaigekiKotoba” Panel 5: Kanji, Haikyo, Kyokō: Imagined Structures and Structured, Room CBrett de Bary (Cornell U)“Writing Entanglements in Tawada Yōko’s Burudō no gikei (Brother-in-Law in Bordeaux)” Ikuho Amano (U Nebraska-Lincoln)“Apparitions of Things Past: Haikyo as a Visual Narrative of Consumed Modernity” Hannah Osborne (U Oxford)“Structuring the Void: Kanai Mieko’s ‘Inflated Man’ and Pictorial Allusion” 3:00-5:00 Concurrent Panels, Session 3 Panel 6: Edo Book Culture, Room CMaria L. Bugno (U Cambridge)“Shunpon: Sex and Humour in the Rewritings of the Early Edo Period Literature” Cheryl Crowley (Emory U)“Traversing a World of Moonlight and Blossoms: Tagami Kikusha’s Fifty-Three Stationsof the Tōkaidō Haiga (Haikai Paintings)” Stephen Forrest (U Massachusetts-Amherst)“Setting the Scene: The Significance of Visual Elements in the [Melo-]Drama of Ninjōbon” Panel 7: Anime, Room AShige (CJ) Suzuki (CUNY-Baruch College)“Comics as Art: Art Avant-Gardism and Japanese Comics” Philomena Mazza-Hilway (U Chicago)“Watashi ni wa manga shika nai: The Work of Tsurita Kuniko as Seen Through Garo, 1965-1981” Joelle Tapas (Harvard U)“The Girl Returns: Visualizing the Shōjo in The Girl Who Leapt through Time” Panel 8: Framing the Act of Seeing in Cultural and Social Transitions, Room BKeiji Kunigami (Cornell U)“Problems of the Present: Seeing with Kinugasa’s A Page of Madness” Yoshihiro Yasuhara (Carnegie Mellon U)“An Issue of Ambivalent Peace in Ishikawa Jun’s ‘Taka’ (The raptor)” Erin Schoneveld (Haverford C)“Shirakaba and the ‘Conventions of Painting’ Debate” 5:30-6:30 Buffet-style dinner Robb Hall 6:30-8:00 Keynote address (open to the public) Robb Hall John Whittier Treat (Yale U, emeritus) & Ayelet Zohar (Tel Aviv U)“Re-enacting the Past, Performing Recollection: Kamikaze Images in Contemporary Japanese Cinema and Koizumi Meiro’s Video Art” Saturday October 29th, 2016 8:00-8:30 Coffee & Welcome Back Robb Hall 8:30-10:30 Concurrent Panels, Session 4 Panel 9: Imaging the Word in Medieval and Early-Modern Japan: Sonographism and other Interlingual Relations, Room AKōno Kimiko (Waseda U)“Legend, Lexicon, Commentary: The Lotus Sutra in Japanese Letters” Patrick Schwemmer (Sophia U)“Latin Kundoku and the Birth of ‘Translation’ in Japanese Gospels from 1591” William C. Hedberg (Arizona State U)“Protecting the Vulgar from Elegant Hands: Four Cries of the Cicada and the Sinification of Japanese Drama” Brian Steininger (Princeton U) Discussant Panel 10: Activism, Room BVictoria Lupascu (Penn State U)“291_AntiNuke’s Graffiti and Japanese Political Subjectivity” Doug Slaymaker (U Kentucky)“When Words Fail” 10:40-12:30 Concurrent Panels, Session 5 Panel 11: Book Arts, Room CMai Kataoka (Sokendai, Nichibunken)“The Art of Crafting the Image of Modern Japanese Literature: The Use of Visual Images in Promoting the Knopf Translation Program” Yongfei Yi (Ohio State U)“The City of Embracing Defeat: Images of Shanghai in Takeda Taijun’s Shanhai no Hotaru (The fireflies of Shanghai)” Elena Giannoulis (Freie U-Berlin)“The Impact of Emoticons on (Japanese) Literature” Anne Sherif (Oberlin College) Discussant Panel 12: Race & Ethnicity, Room BYoon Jeong Oh (Cornell U)“Translingual Melancholia in Yi Sang’s Visual Poetry” Zelideth Maria Rivas (Marshall U)“Imaging Mixed Race: Imagining Nation” Kathryn Hemmann (George Mason U) “A Legend of Regret: Fallen Kingdoms and Postcolonial Ghosts in Twilight Princess” Panel 13: Remediating the Premodern, Room ASari Kawana (U Massachusetts)“Mythology as Manga: Ancient Japan and Shinto Heritage in Popular Culture” Lindsey Stirek (Ohio State U)“Reviving the Past or Evoking It? Representations of Classical Japanese Literature in Manga” J. Christopher Kern (Kenyon College)“Genji in Woodblock: The Reading Experience of the Edo Period” 12:45-2:00 Lunch (panelists pick up box lunches in Robb Hall), Robb Hall Presentation (open to public):Tina Chen (Penn State U)“Verge: Studies in Global Asias” 2:00-4:00 Concurrent Panels, Session 6 Panel 14: Fragmentary Womanhood, Hybridized Manhood: New Images of Gender inChanging Times, Room AWakako Suzuki (UCLA)“The Silenced Voice of the Modern Girl in Mizoguchi Kenji’s The Water Magician: Examining the Role of Irie Takako in Early Japanese Cinema” Juhee Lee (Tsukuba U)“Wife, Writer, and Café Waitress: The Image of the ‘Populace’ in Sata Ineko’s Crimson” Sachi Schmidt-Hori (Dartmouth College)“Pretty Young Thing: Idolization of Minamoto no Yoshitsune in the Gikeiki” Nobuko Yamasaki (Lehigh U) Discussant Panel 15: Japan and Latin America: Images in Perspective, Room CMichele Eduarda Brasil de Sá (U of Brasília)“A Brief History of the Kōtakusei: Japanese Immigrants in the State of the Amazonas, Brazil” Irenae Aigbedion (Penn State U)“Yamamoto’s Michoko e Hatchin (2008)” Camila Gutierrez (Penn State U)“Manga Visuals in Latin America: Gender Diversity beyond the Panel” Panel 16: Visions of Classical Japan: Reading between Text and Image, Room BMonika Dix (Saginaw Valley State U)“Textuality and its Material Display in the Taima-dera Jikkai-zu byobu” Joannah Peterson (Smith College)“Interior Monologues and Exterior Settings: The Development of Landscape as Mindscape in the Nezame Scrolls” Michelle Kuhn (Nagoya U)“Aspirational Elegance: Character Interpretation in the Genji Hiinakata” Charo D’Etcheverry (U of Wisconsin-Madison) Discussant 4:30-6:00 Japanese Musical Performance State TheaterSankyoku, Ralph Samuelson (shakuhachi) and Yoko Hiraoka (samisen & koto) 6:30-until Dinner (all participants break into groups for dinner at local restaurants)
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