Fwd: MAJLS meeting program

Ono Seiko and Aaron Gerow onogerow
Sat Sep 12 00:16:02 EDT 1998


This is a crosspost from H-Japan.  There will be several papers on 
Japanese film at the upcoming MAJLS meeting.

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From: Eiji Sekine <esekine at purdue.edu>

Seventh MAJLS Annual Meeting Program

Love and Sexuality in Japanese Literature

November 6-8, 1998
Purdue University

Sponsored by:
Northeast Asia Council (AAS) and Purdue University (Department of Foreign
Languages and Literatures, School of Liberal Arts Dean's Office, Asian
Studies Program, and Division of Conferences)

This year's conference will highlight the issues of love and sexuality in
Japanese literature from various points of view. We will have a three-day
meeting with a number of panel participants, including quite a few from
outside the United States. Our special thanks go to Professors Inaga
Shigemi and Saeki Junko, who have agreed to present the keynote lectures.
Please take a look at the conference program of the conference and related
information, and plan to attend the meeting.


Friday, November 6
(Stewart Center 202)

8:45 a.m.
WELCOMING REMARKS
----- Sidney Pellissier, Assistant Head, Deapartment of Foreign Languages
and Literatures, Purdue University

9 a.m. - 10:50 a.m.
LOVE AND DESIRE IN HEIAN COURT LITERATURE

Love and Sexuality in Heian Texts: Productive and Non-Productive Sex -----
Kimura Saeko, Tokyo University

Manufacturing Desire in the "Tamakazura" Chapters ----- Lili Selden,
University of Michigan

Psychological Pressure as a Courtship Strategy ----- Margaret Childs,
University of Kansas

The Lover's Subject: Its Construction and Relativisation in the Waka 
Poetry
of the Heian Period ----- Rein Raud, University of Helsinki, Estonia

11 a.m. - 12 p.m.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Confession and Exposure: Nagasawa Mitsuo's Adult Video Actresses and
Japan's Male Intellectual Consciousness ----- Inaga Shigemi, International
Research Center for Japanese Studies, Japan

1:30 p.m. -  3 p.m.
VISIONS OF SEXUALITY IN CLASSICAL THEATER AND VISUAL TEXTS

Mythology, the Marginalized Female Body and Buddhist Love Dialogues in
Late-Medieval Performance Genres ----- Todd Squires, Ohio State University

Sukeroku yukarino Edo zakura: Eroticism as Performance ----- Harue
Tsutsumi, Indiana University

Torn Between Two Lovers: Bisexuality in Edo Comic Fiction ----- Adam L.
Kern, University of Washington

3:10 p.m.- 4:40 p.m.
SNOW COUNTRY AND CAPITALISM:

The Production of Traditional Labor and Love in Snow Country ----- Miho
Matsugu, University of Chicago

Cinematic Experience in Snow Country: Novel and Film ----- Chris Perrius,
University of Chicago

Laborers of Love in Snow Country: The Fantasy of Capitalism ----- Heather
Bowen-Struyk, University of Michigan

Discussant ----- Matthew Mizenko, Havaford College

4:50 p.m. - 6:40 p.m.
GENDER, VIOLENCE, AND NATIONAL IDENTITY

Love, Hate, and Sexuality in the Erotic-Gothic-Nonsense ----- Mark
Driscoll, University of Michigan

A Dark Princess from Thailand in Mishima's The Temple of Dawn ----- Ryoko
Otomo, Monash University, Australia

The Ideology of Rebellion and Anti-Social Sex in Oe and Oshima ----- Craig
J. Luchsinger, University of Chicago

Buto, Gender, and the Supposed Return to Japan ----- Bruce Baird,
University of Pennsylvania

Saturday, November 7
(Liberal Arts and Education Bldg. 2290)

8:30 a.m. - 10 a.m.
TEXTUALIZATION OF LOVE AND SEXUALITY IN MEIJI LITERATURE

Ren'ai: The Politics of Eros in the Writings of Kitamura Tokoku -----
Michael C. Brownstein, University of Notre Dame

Sex and the Lady Translator ----- Rebecca Copeland, Washington University,
Saint-Louis

Love as Literary Construct: Erotic Tropes in the Poetry of Akiko, Hiroshi,
and Tomiko ----- Leith D. Morton, University of Newcastle, Australia

10:10 a.m. - 12 p.m.
RECONSTRUCTION AND DECONSTRUCTION OF FEMININITY IN MODERN TEXTS

A Golden Needle, A Rabbit's Tail, Mice, and the Destiny of Female Body Fat
----- Catherine Ryu, University of Michigan

A Game of Sexuality: Kinugasa Teinosuke's Film, Gate of Hell ----- Tamae
Prindle, Colby College

Tracing the Body of the Question Mark: Kanai Mieko's Ai aru kagiri -----
Mary A. Knighton, University of California, Berkeley

Curing Up Tight: Patterns of Regression in the Fiction of Tsushima Yuko
----- Eve Zimmerman, Boston University

1:30 p.m. - 3:20 p.m.
CONTEMPORARY MALE SEXUALITY AND (META-) (HYPER-) REALITY

The Body of Postwar Literature: Tamura Taijiro's Nikutai bungaku ----- 
Doug
Slaymaker, University of Kentucky

Penisism and the Eternal Hole: Takahashi Mutsuo's Homeuta ----- Jeffrey
Angles, Ohio State University

Love and Eros in the Christianity of Shusaku Endo ----- Takao Hagiwara,
Case Western Reserve University

Cyborg Sexualities, Cinematic Bodies, and Japanese Colonial Histories in
Murakami Haruki's The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle ----- Livia Monnet, 
University
of Montreal, Canada

3:30 p.m. - 5 p.m.
EROS IN TANIZAKI'S WRITINGS

Figuring Male-Male Eros in Tanizaki's Ashikari ----- Margherita Long, 
SUNY,
Buffalo

Triangulating the Voyeur ----- Jean Yamasaki Toyama, University of 
Hawaii, Manoa

The Years of Living Dangerously: Life and Love in Tanizaki's Fiction of
1928-30 ----- Phyllis I. Lyons, Northwestern University

5:10 p.m. - 6:10 p.m.
KEYNOTE ADDRESS

Love and Sexuality in Tanizaki Jun'ichiro ----- Saeki Junko, Tezukayama
Gakuin University, Japan
7 p.m.

RECEPTION

633 Owen Street, Lafayette (at the home of Eiji and Teresa Sekine)

Sunday, November 8
(Liberal Arts and Education Bldg. 2290)

9 a.m. - 10:30 a.m.
MYTH OF THE MOTHER AND MODERN WOMEN WRITERS

A Mother's Love: Kishimo and Re-Writing of a Male-Authored Myth -----
Charlotte Eubanks, Indiana University

Man-Eaters: Women Writers and the Appropriation of the Yamauba Motif -----
S. Yumiko Hulvey, University of Florida

Mothers and Sexual Agency in Three Works by Enchi Fumiko ----- Barbara
Hartley, Central Queensland University, Australia

10:40 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.
LESBIANISM, POPULAR CULTURE, AND WOMEN READERS

Sisters and Lovers: Women Magazine Readers and Sexuality in Yoshiya
Nobuko's Romance Fiction ----- Sarah Frederick, University of Chicago

Broken Pasts, Uncomfortable Presents: Tales of Yu Miri and "Comfort Women"
----- Melissa Wender, University of Chicago

Female Gender and Father's Abuse: On the Construction of Femininity in
Contemporary Japanese Women's Writings ----- Yokota-Murakami Takayuki,
Osaka University, Japan

Sexuality, Love, and Queer Studies: Reading of Matsuura Rieko's Oyayubi P
no shugyo jidai ----Nakagawa Shigemi, Ritsumeikan University, Japan

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Registration
Registration fee is $30, which includes a reception on Saturday evening at
the home of the conference chair.

Hotel
A block of rooms is reserved at the Purdue Memorial Union Club Hotel. A
room with two double-beds is $82 for one person, $92 for two, $96 for
three, and $104 for four people; and the double bed and twin room is $65
for one person, $71 for two, and $78 for three people. The hotel is 
located
on campus, at the corner of State and Grant Streets, within walking
distance from the conference sites. For reservations, call 800.320.6291 or
765.494.8900. Identify yourselves as attendees of the Japanese Literature
Conference (ref. 400702).

Travel
Air travelers can either come to the Purdue Airport in West Lafayette or 
to
Indianapolis and take a shuttle bus that will drop you in front of the
Union Club Hotel. Lafayette Limo departs from the Indianapolis Airport at
6:30 a.m. and continues its service every two hours until 10:30 p.m. It is
a 90 minute ride to the Union. Fare is $19 for one way and $33 for round
trip. For reservations, call 765.497.3828 or FAX 765.497.4106.
Travelers by ground have access to the city by I-65; exit at Indiana 26
West, which will take you to the Hotel (26 turns into State St. after
passing the bridge that divides Lafayette and West Lafayette).

More Information
For registration information contact:
Barbara B. Meyer, Conference Coordinator
Division of Conference
Purdue University
1586 Stewart Center, Room 116
West Lafayette, IN 47907-1586
Phone: 765.494.7221
Fax: 765.494.0567
E-mail: bbmeyer at CEA.purdue.edu

For conference content information contact:
Eiji Sekine, Conference Chair
Phone: 765.496.2258
Fax: 765. 496.1700
E-mail: esekine at purdue.edu


Purdue University is an equal access/equal opportunity university.

Please print the following registration form and mail or FAX to:
        Continuing Education Business Office
        Purdue University
        1586 Stewart Center, Room 110
        West Lafayette, IN 47907-1586
        USA

        FAX: 756.494.0567

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Registration Form                                        1727-M
                7th MAJLS Annual Meeting
                November 6-8, 1998

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