*This is an in-person event.
9:30 am Coffee
10:00 am Opening remarks:
Hisatsugu Kusabu (Osaka Metropolitan University)
Misumi Sadler (University of Illinois)
10:15 am Session 1
“Alice Travels to China—A Chinese adaptation of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland”
Yangyang Liu (MA student, EALC, UIUC)
“W.B.Yeats’ ‘The Land of Heart’s Desire’ and Hiroko Katayama: A Longing for the Temptation of Fairies”
Izumi Nagai, PhD (UCRC Researcher of Japanese Literature, OMU)
“Visual ‘Metaphrasis’ in World-History Teaching in Japan”
Hisatsugu Kusabu, PhD (UCRC Director, Professor of World History/ Medieval and Byzantine Studies, OMU)
12:00 pm Lunch
1:30 pm Session 2
“HŌMEN-IIN (方面委員: District Welfare Commissioners) in Osaka-Fu:
The Poor Sick and Medical Care in a Japanese modern city in the 1920s”
Honoka Inomoto (PhD student, Japanese Modern History, OMU)
“Being Non-Binary on Japanese Disney Channel:
An Analysis of the Gendered Language Used in The Owl House”
Sarah Herendeen (MA student, EALC, UIUC)
“Silence: Two Ways of Adaptations”
Hanyun Zeng (PhD student, EALC, UIUC)
“Adaptation in Japanese Popular Culture”
Yu Ishikawa, PhD (Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies, OMU)-online presentation at 3 pm (US central)
3:30 pm Closing