THE TALE OF
GENJI IN JAPAN AND
THE WORLD:
SOCIAL
IMAGINARY, MEDIA, AND CULTURAL PRODUCTION
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March 25-26,
2005
Columbia University, New York City
Organizers: Haruo Shirane (East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia
U.) and Melissa McCormick (Art History, Columbia U.)
Funded and sponsored by
 , Japan Airlines,
Japan Foundation,
Toshiba
International Foundation, Donald
Keene Center of Japanese Culture, and
Department of East Asian Languages
and Cultures and Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia
University
This international symposium explores the impact of The
Tale of Genji on Japanese culture and abroad from a multi-media, cross-historical,
global perspective, analyzing the roles of genre (poetry, fiction, drama), media
(painting, illustrated books, film, anime, manga), translation,
and education, with particular attention to the larger issues of cultural identity,
gender, and canon formation. The symposium takes an interdisciplinary approach,
bringing together specialists in history, literature, drama, religion, art history,
and cultural studies, whose topics range from Japan's medieval period through
the 21st century.
For registration
and further information, email Yurika
Kurakata
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501 Schermerhorn
W. 116th Street, Columbia University
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Registration: 8:30-9:00AM
OPENING REMARKS
9:00-9:40
Haruo
Shirane
(Columbia), “The
Tale of Genji,
Social Imaginary, and Cultural Production”
COMMENTARIES, EDUCATION, AND GENDER
Chair:
Edward Kamens (Yale)
9:40-10:20
Ii
Haruki
(National Institute for the Humanities),
“The
Tale of Genji,
Curriculum, and Women”
10:20-11:00
Lewis
Cook
(Queens College),
“Medieval
Commentaries, Allegorical Readings, and
The
Tale of Genji"
11:00-11:10 Session Discussion
11:10-11:30 COFFEE BREAK
REWRITING
THE TALE OF GENJI: MONOGATARI AND SETSUWA
Chair:
Machiko Midorikawa (Kantō Gakuin)
11:30-12:10
Royall Tyler
(Australian National), “Sagoromo
monogatari
and
Hamamatsu chūnagon monogatari:
Fiction as Meta-commentary”
12:10-12:50
Komine Kazuaki
(Rikkyō), "The
Tale of Genji and Medieval Popular Narrative: Setsuwa and
Otogi-zōshi"
12:50-1:00
Session
Discussion.
1:00-2:00
LUNCH BREAK
VISUALIZING THE TALE OF GENJI: POWER AND MATERIAL CULTURE
Chair: Ikeda
Shinobu (Chiba)
2:00-2:40 Yukio
Lippit
(Harvard), “Figure
and Facture in
The
Tale of Genji Scrolls”
2:40-3:20 Melissa
McCormick
(Columbia), "Monochromatic Genji: The Hakubyô Tradition in
Premodern Japan"
Chair:
Naomi Fukumori (Ohio State)
3:20-4:00
Mitamura Masako
(Ferris), "Imperial Possessions: Excerpting The Tale of Genji"
4:00-4:10 Session Discussion
4:10-4:30 COFFEE BREAK
ARISTOCRATIC AND WARRIOR CULTURES: POWER AND GENDER
Chair:
Richard Okada (Princeton)
4:30-5:10
Matsuoka
Shinpei
(Tokyo), “Ashikaga Yoshimitsu and
The Tale of
Genji:
Power and Performance”
5:10-5:50
Yamanaka Reiko
(Hōsei), “Female-Spirit Noh and The Tale of
Genji"
Chair: Okuda
Isao (Seishin/Columbia)
5:50-6:30
Gaye Rowley
(Waseda) and
Miyakawa Yōko
(Shukutoku),
“Aristocratic and
Warrior Reception of the Classics in the Age of Tsunayoshi, the Fifth
Shogun”
6:30-6:45
Session Discussion |
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Saturday, March 26th, 2005 |
501 Schermerhorn
W. 116th Street, Columbia University
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Registration: 8:45-9:00AM
PRINT, POPULAR
CULTURE, AND THE CLASSICS IN THE EDO PERIOD
Chair: Henry
Smith (Columbia)
9:00-9:40
Nakamachi Keiko
(Jissen), "Tale of Genji
Pictures in the Edo Period: Representations and Socio-Cultural
Significance"
9:40-10:20
Nakajima
Takashi (Waseda),
"Classical Revival, Popular Fiction, and Pleasure
Quarters"
10:20-10:30
Session Discussion
10:30-10:50
COFFEE BREAK
Chair: Thomas
Harper (Leiden)
10:50-11:30
Patrick Caddeau
(Amherst), “Edo
Commentaries: Norinaga and Hiromichi’s
Appraisals of
The Tale of
Genji”
11:30-12:10
Michael
Emmerich
(Columbia), “Inaka
Genji,
Text-Image, and Popular Culture”
12:10-12:20
Session Discussion
12:20-1:30PM
LUNCH BREAK
INTERNATIONAL
TRANSACTIONS AND CULTURAL IDENTITY
Chair: Paul
Anderer (Columbia)
1:30-2:10
Tomi
Suzuki
(Columbia), “Modern
Literary Histories and The Tale of Genji: Genre, Gender, and
Language”
2:10-2:50
Kawazoe Fusae
(Tokyo Gakugei),
“Translation and
Modern Literature: Yosano Akiko, Arthur Waley, and
Tanizaki
Junichirō”
2:50-3:30
Kobayashi Masaaki
(Aoyama),
"Wartime
Genji:
Censorship and Resistance"
3:30-3:40 Session Discussion
3:40-4:00 COFFEE BREAK
MASS MEDIA AND
POP CULTURE
Chair: Carole
Cavanaugh (Middlebury)
4:00-4:40
Kitamura
Yuika
(Kobe),
"Manga
and
Contemporary
Translations:
Tanabe
Seiko, Yamato Waki, Setouchi Jakucho, Maki Miyako, Hashimoto Osamu, and
Egawa Tatsuya.”
4:40-5:20
Tateishi Kazuhiro
(Ferris), "The
Tale of Genji,
Film, and Pop Culture"
5:20-5:30 Session Discussion
THEORETICAL
PERSPECTIVES
Chair: Haruo
Shirane (Columbia)
5:30-6:00
Joshua
Mostow
(British Columbia), "Final Comments and Theoretical Perspectives"
6:00-6:40
Closing Discussion |
Those wishing to attend should make their own hotel and travel arrangements.
For a partial list of hotels near Columbia, please visit these sites:
http://www.jrn.columbia.edu/alumni/reunions/archive/2004/hotels
http://www.columbia.edu/cu/ceremonies/commencement/travel.html
http://www.uts.columbia.edu/index.php?id=54
http://www.barnard.edu/admiss/visiting/accommodations.html
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2005 SEN LECTURE
March 24, Thursday,
2005, 6-7:30PM, followed by reception, in the Low Rotunda, Low Library,
W. 116th Street, Columbia University
The
2005 Annual Soshitsu Sen XV Distinguished Lecture on Japanese Culture
Setouchi
Jakuchō, "Fujitsubo and The Tale of Genji" |
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ADMINISTRATION AND ASSISTANCE |
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Associate Director of
the Donald Keene Center: Yurika Kurakata
Columbia University PhD
Student Assistants: Talia Andrei, Michael Emmerich, Chelsea Foxwell, Herschel Miller, Satoko
Naito, Gian Piero Persiani, Satoru Saito, Tomoko Sakomura, Saeko Shibayama,
Satoko Shimazaki, Akiko Takeuchi, Mathew Thompson, Loren Waller, Anri Yasuda |
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