Sponsors:
Toshiba International Foundation
Josai International University

The 1st day		7月1日　土曜日
The 2nd day		7月2日　日曜日

Opening Greetings:10:00 a. m., Conference Hall

• Session 1: 10:20 a.m.〜12:00 p.m., Conference Hall
  Circular Journeys and Displaced Points of Origin in Modern Japanese Novels

• Sakaguchi Shu, University of Tokyo
  “Yokomitsu Riichi’s Four Dimensional Travel in Shanghai”
• Raquel Hill, Kanagawa University
  “‘Third Space’ in Oba Minako's Garakuta Hakubutsukan”
• Helen Weetman, University of Colorado, Boulder
  “‘Tours of the Womb, Tours of Hell’: Circular Journeys in Late Twentieth-century Literature”
• Mary A. Knighton, University of Tokyo
  “A Travel Scribe Minds Her Ps and Qs: Kurahashi Yumiko’s Amanokoku Okanki and Sumiyakist Q no Boken”

• Session 2: 10:20 a.m.〜12:00 p.m., Room 301
  Fantastic Journeys in Muromachi Fiction and Drama

• R. Keller Kimbrough, University of Colorado
  “Travel Writing from Hell? Minamoto no Yoriie and the Politics of Fuji no hitoana sôshi”
• Monika Dix, University of British Columbia
  “Ascending Hibariyama: Textual, Physical, and Spiritual Journeys in Chûjôhime and Chûjôhime no honji”
• Michael Watson, Meiji Gakuin University
  “Spirits of the Drowned: Sea Journeys in Bangai Noh from the Genpei War”
• Tokuda Kazuo, Gakushuin Women’s College（Discussant）

• Session 3: 10:20 a.m.〜12:00 p.m., Room 302
  近代における旅と恋の諸相

• 関根英二 Purdue University
  “旅先の恋とその変容”
• 松浦芳子 Purdue University
  “植民者二世の初恋:湯淺克衞『カンナニ』再考”
• 芳賀浩一 University of California, Los Angeles
  “時間の植民地化と文学メディア”

• Session 4: 10:20 a.m.〜12:00 p.m., Room 401
  Gender and National Identity in Women's Travel Narratives

• Marilyn Bolles Guggenheim, Montana State University-Bozeman
  “Singular Women: Hirabayashi and Enchi in 1958 America”
• Julia C. Bullock, Emory University
  “We’ll Always Have Iowa: Gender and National Identity in Kurahashi　Yumiko’s‘Virginia’”
• Robin Tierney, University of Iowa
  “Travel and bodily flux in Tawada Yoko's train narratives”
• Joan Ericson, Colorado College （Discussant）
• Rebecca Copeland, Washington University in St. Louis （Discussant）

Major Address I : 12:50 p.m.〜13:50 p.m., Conference Hall Komatsu Sakyo, Writer “人間にとって旅とは何か”

• Session 5: 14:10 p.m.〜15:10 p.m., Conference Hall
  Individual Papers: Travel in Contemporary Literature

• Atsuko Sakaki, University of Toronto
  “Tales of Traveling Tongues: Paris as the Capital of the Age of Diaspora in
  Horie Toshiyuki’s Oparaban (Auparavant, 1998)”
• Eileen Mikals-Adachi, Eckerd College
  “Densha Otoko: Commuting to Dreams in Cyber Space”

• Session 6: 14:10 p.m.〜15:10 p.m., Room 301
  Individual Papers: Cinema and Anime

• Timothy Iles, University of Victoria
  “Are We There Yet? Traveling Toward the Self in Contemporary Japanese Cinema”
• Vivian P.Y. Lee, University of Victoria
  “Pilgrims at the End of Time：Religion Symbolisms, and the Quest for Redemption in Anime”

• Session 7: 14:10 p.m.〜15:10 p.m., Room 302
  Individual Papers: Japan and the West in Meiji Period

• 河野至恩 Sophia University
  “『東京朝日新聞』の「世界一周」旅行記−明治末期の新聞メディアと異国体験”
• Harue Tsutsumi, Indiana University
  “Kabuki Encounters the West: Iwakura Embassy and Hyōryūkidan Seiyōkabuki”

• Session 8: 14:10 p.m.〜15:10 p.m., Room 401
  Individual Papers: Urban Representations

• Erez Golani Solomon, University of Tokyo
  “Tokyo, the Pathway and Me--Stories of Everyday Itineraries and Practices in the Contemporary Japanese City”
• 佐藤耕治 Josai International University
  “中上健次『讃歌』におけるセクシュアリティ−路地から新宿へ”

Keynote Address: 15:30 p.m.〜17:00 p.m., Conference Hall Yoshiaki Shimizu , Princeton University "A Journey's tale and a Tale's journey: Studying Japanese narrative handscrolls abroad" (in English)

Dinner Reception:17:20 p.m.〜19:00 p.m., Conference Hall

• Session 9: 10:00 a.m.〜11:50 a.m., Conference Hall
  Postwar Reformation of “Japan” and Japanese Historical Memory: Physical, Conceptual, and Temporal Travel in post-1945 Japan

• Michael Bourdaghs, University of California, Los Angeles
  “The Performance of Travel: Misora Hibari and Kasagi Shizuko's American Tours”
• Richi Sakakibara, Waseda University
  “The Narrative of Return, the Narrative of Stay: Geopolitical Reformation of Post-Imperial Japan”
• Atsuko Ueda, Princeton University
  “Debates over Politics and Literature: the Trope of Defection and Wartime Responsibility”　
• Richard H. Okada, Princeton University
  “Remapping Travel and Post-War Japan in Café Lumière”

• Session 10: 10:00 a.m.〜11:50 a.m., Room 301
  Travelers and Transients: Critical Explorations of Amerika in Modern Japanese literature

• Kyoko Omori, Hamilton College
  “Frantically Walking About the Modern Space With(in) a Magazine: Youth Migrancy and Travel in Early Twentieth-Century Popular Fiction”
• Bruce Suttmeier, Lewis and Clark College
  “Ethnography as Consumption in Oda Makoto’s Nandemo mite yarō (I’ll Give Anything A Look)”
• Jeffrey Angles, Western Michigan University
  “Legend of a (Un)Holy City: Takahashi Mutsuo’s Critique of Queer America”
• Suga Keijiro, Meiji University （Discussant）
• Suzuki Sadami, International Research Center for Japanese Studies （Discussant）

• Session 11: 10:00 a.m.〜11:50 a.m., Room 302
  Engendering Landscape: Women, Narrative, and Medieval Travel

• Naito Mariko, University of Tokyo
  “Poetic Imagination and Place Names: Women Travelers and the Creation of the Utamakura Shiga”
• Christina Laffin, University of British Columbia
  “The Road Well Traveled: Poetic Expectation in Diary of the Sixteenth Night”
• Kimura Saeko, Tsuda College
  “Traveling through the Narratives: Imagination of Women's Salvation”

• Session 12: 10:00 a.m.〜11:50 a.m., Room 401
  Individual Papers: Modern Women Writers

• Karen Thornber, Harvard University
  “Itinerant Clouds, Sooty Trains, and Peripatetic Memories: Travel in Hayashi　Fumiko’s Ukigumo”
• Nadezhda Murray, Ritsumeikan University
  “Travel as Metaphor: Hirabayashi Taiko's Symbolic Reality”
• 宮崎紗英子Josai International University
  “尾崎翠『映画漫想』における幻想空間への「浮遊」”

Major Address II : 13:00 p.m.〜14:00 p.m., Conference Hall Herbert Plutschow, Josai International University "Some characteristics of pre-modern Japanese travel literature" (in English)

• Session 13: 14:20 p.m.〜15:40 p.m., Conference Hall
  Individual Papers: Travel in Edo Period

• Sumie Jones, Indiana University
  “Traveling/Travel-lying and the Invention of Science Fiction in Japan”
• Charles Shirō Inouye, Tufts University
  “Traveling the Tōkaidō: Jippensha Ikku’s Hizakurige and the Development of Perspectival/Pornographic Vision”
• Dalia Svambaryte, Vilnius University (Republic of Lithuania)
  “江戸時代の「漂流記」における海外のイメージの諸相”

• Session 14: 14:20 p.m.〜15:40 p.m., Room 301
  Individual Papers: Ancient and Medieval Literature

• Paul Schalow, Rutgers University
  “Exile from Heian”
• Carolina Negri, University of Lecce（Republic of Italy)
  “Travel in Memoirs by Heian Women's Writers: The Sarashina nikki”
• Sook Young Wang（王淑英）, Inha University (Republic of Korea )
  “宗祇と旅−歌枕・名所探訪を超えて−”

• Session 15: 14:20 p.m.〜15:40 p.m., Room 302
  Girls on the Road

• ドラージ土屋浩美 Vassar College
  “風景としての少女：川端康成と吉屋信子の少女小説”
• 青山友子 The University of Queensland (Australia)
  “久生十蘭の旅する少女たち”
• 江黒清美 Josai International University
  “Tokyo-少女の彷徨と旅、林芙美子『放浪記』・倉橋由美子『聖少女』”
• 高原英理　文芸評論家（Discussant）

• Session 16: 15:50 p.m.〜17:10 p.m, Conference Hall
  Individual Papers: Travel from Comparative Perspectives

• Michael F. Marra, University of California, Los Angeles
  “Place of Poetry, Place in Poetry: On Rulers, Poets, and Gods”
• Lewis Dibble, Indiana University Purdue University Columbus
  “On Not Crossing Over to the Past: Bashō and Benjamin at the Barriers”
• 中川成美 Ritsumeikan University
  “海外紀行文と文学の間−往還するジャンルー”

• Session 17: 15:50 p.m.〜17:10 p.m., Room 301
  Individual Papers: Travel Writings in Contemporary Japan

• Jennifer Scott, Shujitsu University
  “Furui Yoshikichi-Travel and Liminality”
• Mark Meli, Kansai University
  “‘Reconciliation’ in Contemporary Japanese Travel Writing on Asia”

• Session 18: 15:50 p.m.〜17:10 p.m., Room 302
  Beggars, Tourists, and Conquering Heroes: The Folklore of Strange Visitations

• Takashi Lep Ariga, Gakkan International
  “Forcing a Feast: Cruel Hospitality and the Energy of Renewal”
• Michael Dylan Foster, University of California, Riverside
  “Observing Ritual: Namahage, Toshidon, and the Tourist Gaze”
• Robert Tierney, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign
  “Momotarō's Adventures in the South Seas: Folklore, Propaganda and Parody”

Ending Remarks: 17:10 p.m., Conference Hall