14 September 2024 (Saturday)
14 September 2024 (Saturday)
9.00 – Arrival & Registration 4th Floor, Building 18, Komaba Campus
9.30 – 9.40 Opening Remarks
9:40 – 11.10 Book Talk: Professor Peter D. McDonald (University of Oxford)
Moderators: Ryan Johnson (University of Tokyo) and Kyoko Yoshida (University of Kyoto)
Room: Collaboration Room 1
11.10 – 11.30 Coffee Break
11.30 – 12.50 Panel Sessions 1
1. Looking Forward, Looking Back
Chair: Motonori Sato (Keio University) Room: Collaboration Room 1
Andrew van der Vlies (University of Adelaide / University of the Western Cape) “Sarah Gertrude Millin: Temporality, Banality, and Global Modernism Reconsidered”
Elliot Patsoura (University of Melbourne) “The Distant and the Detail: On Georges Bataille’s Framing of Modernity”
Patrick Flanery (University of Adelaide) “Entropies: Pynchon, Smithson, Strugatsky, Tarkovsky: Or A Picnic on Gravity’s Jetty”
2. Global Modernism and Religious Imagination
Chair: Christopher Bush (Northwestern University) Room: Collaboration Room 3
Tomoya Nishiwaki (University of Tokyo) “Snail in the Garden and Ghosts in the House―Spirituality and Materiality in Virginia Woolf’s Short Stories”
Sihan Wang (Northwestern University) “Poetry as Practice of Chan: Fei Ming’s Modernist Chan Aesthetic”
Kazuki Inoue (Saitama University) “‘Shantih Shantih Shantih’: T. S. Eliot’s Buddhist and Psychic Imagination in his Harvard Years”
12.50 – 14.20 Lunch
14.20 – 15.40 Panel Sessions 2
3. Modernism and the Cold War
Chair: Yoshiki Tajiri (University of Tokyo) Room: Collaboration Room 1
Eiji Yasuhara (University of Kent) “Japanese Modernism in Latin America: Sur’s Special Issue on Modern Japanese Literature”
Motonori Sato (Keio University) “The Birth of a Global Modernist Poet in Postwar Japan: Nishiwaki’s Engagement with Graham Greene in The Third Myth”
4. Global and Japanese Modernism
Chair: Corey Wakeling (Aoyama Gakuin University) Room: Collaboration Room 3
Akiko Kawasumi (University of Tokyo) “On Lafcadio Hearn and Modernism”
Andrew Houwen (Tokyo Woman’s Christian University) “‘Giving Haikai New Validity’: Kitasono Katué’s Haiku as Modernist Poetry”
Edward Marx (Ehime University) “Yone Noguchi and Surrealism”
15.40 – 16.00 Coffee Break
16.00 – 17.30
Keynote Lecture: Professor Josephine Park (University of Pennsylvania) “Flickering between East and West”
Chair: Kazuki Inoue (Saitama University) Room: Collaboration Room 1
18.00 – 20.00 Conference Dinner
15 September 2024 (Sunday)
9.40 – 10.40 Panel Sessions 3
5. Simultaneity and Temporality
Chair: Peter D. McDonald (University of Oxford) Room: Collaboration Room 1
Mary A. Knighton (Aoyama Gakuin University) “(Re)Constructing Temporal and Teratological Forms from Stephen Crane’s The Monster (1898)”
James Tink (Tohoku University) “The Slow Worm of Simultaneity: Basil Bunting, Briggflatts and History’s Disquiet.”
10.40 – 11.00 Coffee Break
11.00 – 12.20 Panel Sessions 4
6. Gender and Global Modernism
Chair: Josephine Park (University of Pennsylvania) Room: Collaboration Room 1
Yuka Hirai (Waseda University / Ferris University / Ageo Nursing School) “Cold Male Doctors: Modernism and Gender in Kawabata Yasunari’s ‘Needles, Glasses, and Fog’ (1930) and ‘Illusions in Crystal’ (1931)”
Yuexi Liu (Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University) “Women Writing War: Eileen Chang’s Legends (1944) and Elizabeth Bowen’s The Demon Lover (1945)”
Ruchi Mundeja (University of Delhi) “‘And the Street Walks in’: Fugitive Mobilities in Early Twentieth-Century Colonial Women’s Fiction.”
7. Artistic Media and Aesthetics
Chair: Andrew Houwen (Tokyo Woman’s Christian University) Room: Collaboration Room 3
Fuhito Endo (Seikei University) “Fry, Kishida, and Kajii: Post-Impressionism in Japan”
Tsung-Han Tsai (University of Tsukuba) “‘The lovely promise that seemed to be given by the music’: Music and Simultaneity in Black Lamb and Grey Falcon”
Helen Huang (University of Oregon) “Synchronous Polyphony: Le Moulin and Its Reconstruction of Modernity”
12.20– 13.20 Lunch Break
13.20– 14.40 Panel Sessions 5
8. Global Modernism and Translation
Chair: Qiang Huang (Beijing Foreign Studies University) Room: Collaboration Room 1
Xu Xiaofan (Beijing Foreign Studies University) “The Imagination of Ideas: Wu Xinghua’s Modernist Poetics”
Youguang Xie (Nanjing University) “An Allegory of Revolution: On Lin Shu’s Second Translation of Washington Irving’s ‘Rip Van Winkle’”
Byron Byrne-Taylor (Shanghai International Studies University) “An Eastern Account of Goethe’s Weltliteratur”
9. Modernist Transformations
Chair: Fuhito Endo (Seikei University) Room: Collaboration Room 3
Yoshiki Tajiri (University of Tokyo) “Modernism and the Mythologization of the Artist: Rereading The Moon and Sixpence”
Corey Wakeling (Aoyama Gakuin University) “Acting without Words: Ōta Shōgo, Samuel Beckett, and the Unspoken Promise of Okina”
Nicola Wan (City University of Hong Kong) “The Singularity of Hong Kong Literary Modernism”
14.40 – 15.00 Coffee Break
15.00 – 16.20 Panel Sessions 6
10. Modernism at the Peripheries
Chair: Kyoko Yoshida (University of Kyoto) Room: Collaboration Room 1
Kunio Shin (University of Tokyo) “‘This Strange Synthesis’: Wyndham Lewis, Shamanism, and the Siberia of the Mind”
Ryan Johnson (University of Tokyo) “Past, Contemporary, Timeless: Late Modernist Genealogies”
Ben Madden (University of Adelaide) “Norman Lindsay’s Ulysses: Anti-Modernism, Belatedness, Nationalism”
11. Global Modernism and Empire
Chair: James Tink (Tohoku University) Room: Collaboration Room 3
Angel Hsieh (National Taiwan University) “The Aesthetics of Heat in Chung-hsien Yan’s Formosa Grand Hotel”
Qiang Huang (Beijing Foreign Studies University) “‘The Past Has Another Pattern’: Retrieving Memory, War and Empires in Eliot’s Early Poems”
Ray Zhou (University of Sydney) “Somerset Maugham's East between Conrad and Orwell”
16.20 – 16.40 Coffee Break
16.40 – 18.10
Keynote Lecture: Professor Christopher Bush (Northwestern University) “The Simultaneist Moment”
Chair: Kunio Shin (University of Tokyo) Room: Collaboration Room 1