Tuesday, 8 June 2021 from 10:00 to 15:55 (BST)
Wednesday, 9 June 2021 from 10:00 to 14:15 (BST)
Day One / Tue 8th June -
10:00-10:10: Opening remarks
10:10-11:30: Keynote and Q&A
Dr Fusako Innami, University of Durham.
"Touch, Shadow, Air: Tanizaki’s Aesthetic Culturalism"
11:30-11:50: Tea/coffee break
11:50-13:05: Panel 1 - The Reflecting/ed Occidentality
Kazuki Inoue, University of Tokyo:
"W. B. Yeats and Spiritualist Noh Theatre: Irish and Japanese Ghosts in War"
Louise Yu Jui Yang, University of York:
"Forms for People: Yanagi Sōetsu’s Critique on William Morris and Other Resources for Shaping Socialism in the Japanese Mingei (Folk Art) Theory"
Nanami Kawade, University of York:
"Japonisme in the Japanese Art: Reaction from Japanese to Western Japonisme"
13:05-14:15: Lunch break
14:15-15:55: Panel 2 - Relocating/ed Selves and Others
Zaynab Seedat, University of York:
"Islam(ism), Modernity and Postcolonial Theory"
Jessica Albrecht, University of Heidelberg:
"Awakened Womanhood within Colonial Ties"
Marte Stinis, University of York:
"Fauvism, Lyricism, and Pictorial Rhythm: 'Modern Expression' in Yorozu Tetsugorō"
Andreea Serban, University of Leeds:
"Reconsidering Balzac's Dis(Orient)ating Vision of China and the Chinese"
DayTwo / Wed 9th June -
10:00-10:10: Opening remarks
10:10-10:40: Workshop: Academic Publishing (additional booking required)
Dr Fusako Innami, University of Durham.
10:40-11:00: Tea/coffee break
11:00-12:15: Panel 3 - Fluidity, Identity and Modernity
Xiaohui Cai, Nankai University:
"Between Modernity and Nationality: Western Cities in Chinese American Sinophone Literature"
Aleksandra Tobiasz, European University Institute:
"Sándor Márai’s Self in the Mirror of the Other"
Iwona Przybysz, University of Warsaw:
"The Bridges Between Occidental and Oriental in Polish Literature Between 19th and 20th Century in Works of Antoni Lange"
12:15-13:00: Lunch break
13:00-14:00: Roundtable discussion
Intercultural Studies in terms of Occidental and Oriental
Dr Oleg Benesch, Senior Lecturer in Modern History at the University of York
Dr Kit Fan, Poet and fiction writer
14:00-14:10: Closing remarks