9:45 a.m. – 10:00 a.m. | Introduction

10:00 a.m. – 11:45 a.m. | Panel 1: Sparkling Manuscripts, Sparkling Evidence: The Role of Manuscripts in the Edo Period (190 Doe Library)

 

Motoi Katsumata, Meisei University
The Story of a Crazy Katana: The Relation Between Fact and Gossip in the Edo Manuscripts
 

Takahiro Sasaki, Keiō Institute of Oriental Classics
The Makura no sōshi Abridged Version from the UC Berkeley East Asian Library
 

Jonathan Zwicker, University of California, Berkeley
Manuscript Culture in the Age of Print: Authority and Authorship in the Work of Kyokutei Bakin
 

Matthew Fraleigh, Brandeis University | Discussant

 

11:45 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. | Break

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1:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. | Panel 2A: Epistemicity and Evidence in Narrating: Case Studies from Heian Monogatari, Kundoku Readings of Sūtras, and Omorosōshi (180 Doe Library)

 

Charles J. Quinn, The Ohio State University
The Epistemic/Evidential Dimension in Heian Japanese
 

Frederick C. Bowman, The Ohio State University
Four Narrative Style in Heian Japanese: Aspect, Tense, and Evidentiality
 

John Bundschuh, The Ohio State University
Evidence in Heian Buddhist Kundokugo Narration
 

Rumiko Shinzato, Georgia Institute of Technology
Evidential Continuum, Point of View, and the Order Pairing of Think and Say Verbs in the Okinawan Shamanic Texts, Omoro sōshi

 

1:00 p.m. – 2:45 p.m. | Panel 2B: The Emergent Populace in Japan’s 1980’s (190 Doe Library) 

Ikuho Amano, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
An Apologia for Generation “S”: Quiet Social Engagement in Somewhat, Crystal after 33 Years

Raechel Dumas, San Diego State University
Atsumenia: Strategic Accumulation and Networks of Desire in Collection-Based Smartphone Games

Yoshihiro Yasuhara, Carnegie Mellon University
The Intersection of Advertising, Poetry, and Media: Amano Yūkichi’s Theorization of Japan’s 1980’s

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2:45 pm – 3:15 pm | Break

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3:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Panel 3A: Reading Objects and Images: Material Evidence and the Space of Cultural Production in Contemporary Japan (180 Doe Library)

Camila Gutiérrez and Kendra McDuffie, The Pennsylvania State University
A Rhizomatic Reading of Literary Transmissions in Material Culture through kimono and jojou- ga shoujo manga

Victoria Lapascu, The Pennsylvania State University
Graffiti as Listening to the Walls Speak about Dissent: SUIKO, SASU, and KAMI’s How To Guide

Luciana Sanga, Stanford University
Material Form, Genre and Reception: The Case of Setouchi Jakuchō’s “Kashin”

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Kelly Hansen, Okayama University
Encoding of Gender in the Filmography of Hara Setsuko

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3:15 p.m. – 5:00 p.m. | Panel 3B: Excursions in Style: Allusion as the Site of Past, Present, and Future in Medieval and Early Edo Poetic Practice (190 Doe Library)
 

Bonnie McClure, University of California, Berkeley
Undertones of Longing: Honkadori and Figurative Expression in Shinkokinshū-era Waka

Kai Xie, Kenyon College
Identification with or Distance from Chinese Poetry? ‘Chinese-Style’ Haikai by Bashō’s Circle

Kendra Strand, University of Iowa
Revisiting Old Souvenirs: Genroku Travel Anthologies, Bashō’s Narrow Road, and the Construction of a Genre
 

Joseph Sorensen, University of California, Davis | Moderator

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5:15 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. | Keynote Panel (180 Doe Library)
 

Yoshitaka Hibi, Etsuko Taketani, Indra Levy, Christina Laffin, and Anne McKnight (moderator)
Evidence and the Challenges of the Humanities