Here you can find the program of the seventh edition of the conference (September 2-4, 2019).
Day 1
10:00~ 12:00 “Japan in the World, the World in Japan. A Methodological Approach” Book launch & roundtable
12:00~ 13:30 Lunch
13:30~14:30 Keynote speech: Prof. Debra Occhi (Miyazaki International College)
14:30~ 14:45 Coffee break
14:45~ 16:45 Session 1 Literature
Carlo Pelliccia (CHAM, Universidade Nova de Lisboa)—Portuguese language, translation and culture in the kirishitanban (1590-1614) (*Skype)
Angela Dragan (“Dimitrie Cantemir” Christian University)—Santô Kyôden’s Hakoiri Musume Menya Ningyô (1791). This World and the Other World
Cristian Pallone (University of Bergamo)—Edo and its flaneurs: in search of an early-modern Japanese urban literature
Maria Theodosiou (Independent researcher)—Stuck in a Crossroads: Meiji Women Writers
16:45~ 17:00 Coffee break
17:00~ 18:00 Session 2 Literature
Irina Holca (University of Tokyo)—Real Animals and Where to Find Them: in the Works of Shimazaki Toson and Shiga Naoya
Monica Tamas (CESI, University of Bucharest)—Patterns of Identity Deconstruction in Yoko Tawada’s “In Front of Trang-Tien Bridge” and “The Naked Eye”
Conference dinner (venue TBA)
Day 2
10:00~ 12:00 Session 1 Popular culture
Talia Ramirez Gil (Faculty of Fine Arts of Sevilla University)—The aesthetics of video games and the(ir?) increasing value as an artistic expression
Alice Teodorescu (Independent researcher)—The shôjo soundscape(s) and the transnational
Oana Birlea (Babes- Bolyai University)—Recurrent elements in Japanese advertising discourse. Case study: the kawaii phenomena (*Skype)
Litian Wang (Hiroshima University)—The Aesthetic Features of Satoshi Kon’s Animation・今敏アニメーションの美的特徴
12:00~ 13:30 Lunch
13:30~ 14:30 Session 2 Anthropology
Sachiko Horiguchi (Temple University, Japan Campus)—Challenging the Global in the ‘Global Periphery’: Performances and Negotiations of Academic and Personal Identities among JET-Alumni Japan Scholars Based in Japan
Carmen Sapunaru Tamas (University of Hyogo)—It’s a (Gentle)Men’s World. Reconstructing Traditional Masculinities within the Ôtori Mikoshi Group
14:30~ 14:45 Coffee break
14:45~ 15:45 Session 3 Art
Evelyn Toth (Osaka University)—Peasant Art Movement in Hokkaido in the 20thCentury: Tokugawa Yoshichika’s Contribution (*Hangouts)
Oana Loredana Scorus (Kyoto University)—The Aesthetic Sense of Yamagata Aritomo as Seen in the Texts He Wrote
15:45~ 16:00 Coffee break
16:00~ 17:30 Session 4 Cultural studies
Miki Suehiro (University of Hyogo)—How Many Names Do You Have? A Cross-Cultural Perspective on the Use of Japanese Names in Other Languages
Reyhan Silingar (University of Cambridge)—The Emperor’s Role in Postwar Japan: An Analysis of Emperor Showa’s Addresses at Parliament Openings
Raphael Chim (Chinese University of Hong Kong)—The Individual for Kuki Shûzô, contingency and awakening, among other things
Day 3
9:30~ 11:00 Session 1 Linguistics
Yasushi Okegawa (Kobe University)—Advancement of conversational technology in modern Japanese Society・現代日本社会における会話技術の高度化
Raluca Ciolca (Osaka University)—Predicative Adjectives and the Relative Clause: a Comparison Between Japanese and Romanian
Magdalena Ciubancan (“Dimitrie Cantemir” Christian University) — On the perception of darkness and the difficulties of translating it from Japanese into Romanian
11:00~ 11:15 Coffee break
11:15~ 12:15 Session 2 Literature
Maria Carbune (Ruprecht-Karls University of Heidelberg)—Forerunners of Japanese Modernity: the Poetics of Ozawa Roan, Kagawa Kageki and Ôkuma Kotomichi and Their Reception
Cezara Miclea (Independent researcher)—The artistic depth within “Genji’s tale” emaki
14:00~ The Art Collection Museum – visit (optional)