This two-day international symposium to commemorate the 50th anniversary of Josai University Educational Corporation brings together leading scholars of art, literature, and music for an interdisciplinary look at how inquiry into the role of orality and sound has the capacity to transform research in Japanese studies.
Individual papers by scholars from around the globe will explore intersections between sound and image, orality and the written or printed text, and acoustic aspects of diverse pre-modern aesthetic environments.
Josai University Educational Corporation
Tokyo Kioi-cho Campus 1 building
3-26 Kioi-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-0094
http://www.josai.jp/en/access/
Wednesday, January 13
| 3:30 p.m. | Opening Ceremony |
| 4:00 p.m. |
Keynote Address by Haruo Shirane (Columbia University) Voice, Body, and Music in the Construction of Communal Memory: Reconsidering Media in Medieval Japanese Popular Tales |
| 5:15 p.m. |
Biwa Performance by Kawashima Nobuko (The Gion Shoja, The Flight from Fukuhara, Dannoura) |
Thursday, January 14
| Morning | |
| 10:00 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. |
Eugene Wang (Harvard University) The Shōsō-in Zither: To What Tunes Does It Play? |
| 10:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. |
Ashton Lazarus (University of Chicago) Folk Performance and the Soundscape of Early Medieval Japan |
| 11:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. |
Fumi Ouchi (Miyagi Gakuin Women’s University) What Cannot Be Noted: The Notation of Buddhist Vocal Music |
| 11:30 a.m. - 12:00 p.m. |
Discussion and including audience Q&A Discussant: Didier Davin (École française d’Extrême-Orient, Tokyo) |
| 12:00 p.m. - 13:30 p.m. | Lunch Break |
| Afternoon | |
| 1:30 p.m. - 2:00 p.m. |
Melissa McCormick (Harvard University) Seeing Voices: Pictured Dialogue and Metanarrative in Japanese Emaki |
| 2:00 p.m. - 2:30 p.m. |
Miyako Okada (Josai International University) Listening to the Zither Playing Woman: Sound and Image in Medieval Setsuwa |
| 2:30 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. |
Discussion and including audience Q&A Discussant: Haruo Shirane (Columbia University) |
| 3:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m. | Break |
| 3:30 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. |
Judit Árokay (Universität Heidelberg) Late Edo Approaches to the Orality of Japanese Poetry: In Search of the Immediacy of Poetic Language |
| 4:00 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
Timon Screech (University of London) Performing Painting in the Early-modern Period East and West |
| 4:30 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. |
Discussion and including audience Q&A Discussant: Yukio Lippit (Harvard University) |
Simultaneous Translation (ENG-JPN) available.
Registration required to attend.
Please register by e-mail to: josai50@jiu.ac.jp
Kindly mention the date (13th, 14th morning, 14th afternoon) you wish to attend.
