LOCATION CHANGE: The symposium will be held at Room 422, Levis Faculty Center, NOT Lucy Ellis Lounge.
2018 Osaka City University-University of Illinois Exchange Symposium
Focus on Japanese Literature
March 6, 2018, Levis Faculty Center
Faculty Organizers
UIUC: Bob Tierney, Misumi Sadler, Gian Piero Persiani
OCU: Ashita Saga, Hisatsugu Kusabu, Mayuko Yamamoto
Program
8:30 am | Breakfast & Registration
9:00 am | Welcome Remarks
9:15 am | First Session, Chair: Ashita Saga, Osaka City University
“Waka Poetry and Preface based on Sightseeing Excursions on the Oigawa River during the Heian Period: Concerning the Succession of Authority," Mayuko Yamamoto, Osaka City University
“Taiheiki, Volume 35, The Tale of the Kitano Wake and Emperor Go-Daigo’s Vengeful Ghost,” Ryosuke Otsubo, Osaka City University
10:30 am | Coffee Break
10:45 am | Second Session, Chair: Bob Tierney, University of Illinois
“Nationalizing Verse: Waka as The Nation's Poetry After 1868,” Gian Piero Persiani, University of Illinois
“Ryunosuke Akutagawa's Pastel Dragon: Classical China depicted through Imagism,” Ken Ryu, Osaka City University
12:00 pm | Lunch
1:30 pm | Third Session, Chair: Gian Piero Persiani, University of Illinois
“Pages of Madness,” Wesley Jordan Sampias, University of Illinois
“Gendered Body in Meiji Japan: Gender Performativity and Illness in The Cuckoo,” Wenqi Yang, University of Illinois
“Tanizaki Junichiro’s Futen Rojin Nikki: Medicalization of Aging Body in the early 1960s Japanese Family,” Yujie Pu, University of Illinois
3:15 pm | Closing Remarks
4:00-5:00 pm | Reception
