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> Date: Mon, 24 Apr 2006 08:45:06 -0500
> From: eiji sekine <esekine at purdue.edu>
> Subject: AJLS Conference Program/News 24
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> Dear Netters,
> Our apologoes for cross-listing. Here is our electronic copy of our
> latest newsletter, which includes our fifteenth annual meeting program.
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> AJLS Newsletter
> Association for Japanese Literary Studies
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> No. 24 (Summer, 2006) Edited by Eiji Sekine
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> AJLS . Purdue University . 640 Oval Drive .W. Lafayette . IN 47907-2039
> . USA
> 765.496.2258 (Tel) . 765.496.1700 (FAX) . esekine at purdue.edu (E-mail)
> http://www.sla.purdue.edu/fll/AJLS/ (website)
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> Fifteenth Annual Meeting Program
> Travel in Japanese Representational Culture: Its Past, Present and  
> Future
> July 1-2, 2006
> Josai International University
> (Tokyo Kioicho Campus)
>
> Sponsors:
> Toshiba Intwernational Foundation
> Josai International University
>
> REGISTRATION
> The fee for registration is 5,000 yen. Please pay in cash on site.
> Please download the Registration Form from the conference website
> (http://www.josai.jp/AJLS2006/) and send it to the address below by
> Tuesday, June 20, 2006: ajls2006 at jiu.ac.jp (E-mail) and 03-6238-1299  
> (FAX).
>
> LODGING
> We have reserved a block of 30 rooms each at Akasaka Prince Hotel and
> Toshi Center Hotel. Both hotels are a few minutes walk from the
> conference site. For details on reservations, rates, and payment for
> rooms at these hotels, please see the ?lodging section? of our website.
>
> DIRECTION AND OTHER INQUIRIES
> The campus building is located adjacent to Bungei Shunjusha Building in
> the center of Tokyo. Please see maps in the ?direction section? of our
> website.
> For inquiries, please contact our conference administrators: Professors
> Okada Miyako, David Luan, or Kawano Yuka at: Josai Kokusai Daigaku,  
> 3-26
> Kioicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, JAPAN 102-0094; ajls2006 at jiu.ac.jp  
> (E-mail);
> and 03-6238-1299 (FAX). For updated information on the conference,
> please see our website: http://www.josai.jp/AJLS2006.
>
> Saturday, July 1
>
> 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 Mind 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 so^shi?
> Monika Dix, University of British Columbia
> ?Ascending Hibariyama: Textual, Physical, and Spiritual Journeys in
> Chu^jo^hime and Chu^jo^hime 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
> ????????????
> ???? Purdue University
> ???????????
> ???? Purdue University
> ?????????:?????????????
> ???? University of California, Los Angeles
> ????????????????
>
> 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
> ?????????????????
>
> 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
> ???? Sophia University
> ?????????????????????????????????????
> Harue Tsutsumi, Indiana University
> ?Kabuki Encounters the West: Iwakura Embassy and Hyo-ryu-kidan  
> Seiyo-kabuki?
> 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?
> ???? Josai International University
> ??????????????????????????????
>
> 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"
>
> Dinner Reception: 17:20 p.m.?19:00 p.m., Conference Hall
>
> Sunday, July 2
>
> 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 Cafe' Lumie`re?
>
> 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 yaro- (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?
> ?????Josai International University
> ?????????????????????????
>
> 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"
>
> 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 Shiro- Inouye, Tufts University
> ?Traveling the To-kaido-: Jippensha Ikku?s Hizakurige and the
> Development of Perspectival/Pornographic Vision?
> Dalia Svambaryte, Vilnius University (Republic of Lithuania)
> ??????????????????????????
>
> Session 14: 14:20 p.m.?15:40 p.m., Room 301
> Indivisual Papers: Ancient and Medieval Literature
> Paul Schalow, Rutgers University
> ?Exile from Heian?
> Carolina Negri, Universita degli Studi di Lecce?Republic of Italy)
> ?Travel in Memoirs by Heian Women's Writers: The Sarashina nikki?
> Sook Young Wang (????, Inha University (Republic of Korea )
> ???????????????????
>
> Session 15: 14:20 p.m.?15:40 p.m., Room 302
> Girls on the Road
> ???????? Vassar College
> ?????????????????????????
> ???? The University of Queensland, Australia
> ??????????????
> ???? Josai International University
> ?Tokyo-?????????????????????????????
>
> 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
> ?A Journey to Foreign Lands: Traveling with Martin Heidegger & Kuki  
> Shu-zo-?
> Lewis Dibble, Indiana University Purdue University Columbus
> ?On Not Crossing Over to the Past: Basho- and Benjamin at the Barriers?
> ???? Ritsumeikan University
> ??????????????????????
>
> 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?
> Reiko Tachibana, Pennsylvania State University
> ?Japanese (Language) Literature: Journey to Stepping out of/in mother
> Tongue (Bogo)?
> 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
> ?Momotaro-'s Adventures in the South Seas: Folklore, Propaganda and  
> Parody?
>
> Ending Remarks: 17:10 p.m., Conference Hall
>
> AJLS Membership
>
> Membership fee: $25 (North American members); $35 (members from outside
> the region). Please send the membership form and your check (payable to
> AJLS) to the AJLS address: AJLS, Purdue University, 640 Oval Drive, W.
> Lafayette, IN 47907-2039, USA. All annual meeting panel participants
> must become members in order to present.
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>
> AJLS Publications
>
> ?Reading Material: The Production of Narratives, Genres and Literary
> Identities,? PAJLS, vol. 7will be published this Fall. Information on
> our back issues is available at: www.sla.purdue.edu/fll/ajls.. Each
> issue can be purchased at the cost of $15 by non-members ($10 for
> members). Add $10 for air mail.
>
> Call for Conference Hosts
>
> If you are interested in hosting our conferences for 2008 and later,
> please contact Professor Ann Sherif: ann.sherif at oberlin.edu or
> 440.775.8827 (Tel).
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