9:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m.| Panel 4A: A World of Allusions: Inter-medial and Intertextual Evidence inModern Japanese Fiction (180 Doe Library)

 

Joanne Quimby, St. Olaf College
Performative Citation and Allusion in Matsuura Rieko’s Oyayubi P no shugyō jidai—Interrogating Matsuura’s “Inheritances”
 

Michele Eduarda Brasil de Sá, University of Brasília
Murakami on the Shore: Between Japanese Tradition and Western Influence
 

Atsuko Sakaki, University of Toronto
Picture Imperfect: Gotō Meisei’s Shintoku mondō and the Conundrums of Photodocumentary

 

9:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. | Panel 4B: Evidence Interrupted: Broken Lines and Nonlinear Transmission, from Ancient to Modern Times (190 Doe Library)
 

Matthew Mewhinney, Boston University
Evincing Experience: Lyric in Natsume Sōseki’s Recollecting and Such
 

Azusa Ōmura, Yamanashi Prefectural University
A Successor or a Pioneer: Horiguchi Daigaku and Japanese Poetry in Literary Magazines
 

Marjorie Burge, University of Chicago
The Tragedy of Failed Transmission: The Ōmi Court in Literary Imagination
 

Lewis Cook, Queens College, C.U.N.Y.
Stalking the Untamed Colophon: Scripts for Inheritance, Authorization and Transmission of Medieval Literary Manuscripts

 

11:00 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. | Panel 5A: Visual Evidence: Reconstructing Practice and Performance through  Woodblock Prints and Illustrated Books (180 Doe Library)
 

Pedro Bassoe, Willamette University
With a Single Glance: Visual Evidence in the Reconstruction of Historical Reading Practices in Meiji Japan
 

Michael Toole, University of Wisconsin-Madison
The Body as Evidence: Revisualizing Race in Meiji Japan

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Katherine Saltzman-Li, University of California, Santa Barbara
Understanding Kabuki through Print Series: Early Modern Theatre and Modern Scholarship

 

11:00 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. | Panel 5B: Re-Figuring Women of the Past in Medieval and Early Modern  Japan (190 Doe Library)
 

Linda Chance, University of Pennsylvania

Trouble All Around: Ichijō Kaneyoshi and Women’s Authority

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Shiho Takai, Waseda University

Transmitting Myth and Magic: Early Modern Adaptations of the Dōjōji Legend in Jōruri Puppet Plays

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Jamie Newhard, Washington University in St. Louis
Modular Morals: Biography in Seventeenth-Century Didactic Books for Women

 

Gergana Ivanova, University of Cincinnati

Literary Prowess Repackaged for Women of the Late Edo Period: The Case of Onna yūshoku mibae bunko
 

Christina Laffin, University of British Columbia | Discussant

 

12:45 a.m. – 1:45 p.m. | Break

 

1:45 p.m. – 3:05 p.m. | Panel 6: Adaptation as Evidence: Japanese Literary Genres & Their Legal Contexts (190 Doe Library)
 

Raj Lakhi Sen, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Adaption of Adoption Law on the Verge of Modern-state Building: Decoding Shakespeare’s Tragedies Adapted by Jōno Saigiku
 

Younglong Kim, Waseda University
Adapting the Stenographic Record of Tokyo Trial: Reading Kinoshita Junji’s Between God and Man
 

Mamoru Fujita, Keiō University
Dynamics of Adapting Imperfect Memories and Laws of Indies: Interpreting Tsushima Yuko's Jakkha Dukhni: Stories of Oceans’ Memories
 

Anne McKnight, Shirayuri University | Discussant

 

3:10 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. | Panel 7: Japanese Literature and its Evidentiary Futures (190 Doe Library) 
 

Hoyt Long, University of Chicago
Literary Canon Formation in the Digital Age
 

Molly Des Jardin, University of Pennsylvania
Constructing Our Canon(s): Reprinting & Digitizing Literary Heritage
 

Jonathan E. Abel, The Pennsylvania State University
New Positivism, Same as the Old Positivism
 

Ted Mack, University of Washington | Discussant
 

4:30 p.m. – 4:45 p.m. | Closing remarks