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Osaka Metropolitan University (OMU) - University of Illinois Exchange Symposium 2025

Event Type
Conference/Workshop
Sponsor
Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies; Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures; Osaka Metropolitan University
Location
2090B Literatures, Cultures and Linguistics Building (707 S. Mathews Ave., 2nd FL)
Date
Mar 7, 2025   All Day
Registration
Registration (Lunch & refreshments provided w/ registration)
Contact
Yuchia Chang
E-Mail
yuchia@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar
CEAPS Events Calendar

Osaka Metropolitan University-University of Illinois Exchange Symposium 2025
"The Internationality of Japanese Culture" 

2090B LCLB, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Friday, March 7, 2025 9:30 am - 4:45 pm CT  

9:30 am Coffee  

9:45 am Opening remarks 

  • Hisatsugu Kusabu (Osaka Metropolitan University)  
  • Matthew Winters (University of Illinois)  


10:00 am Session 1, Chair: Matthew Winters (University of Illinois)  

  • “Globalizing Shikoku Henro: From the Perspective of the Local Communities Circled,” Hiromune Watanabe (Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences, Osaka Metropolitan University) 
  • “Reconstructing Horror: Cosmopolitan Ideologies, Sensational Liberty and Abject Cosmopolitanism in Yokomitsu Riichi’s Shanghai (1928-1931),” Yingzhi Lu (East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Illinois) 


11:10 am Break 


11:20 am Session 2, Chair: Hisatsugu Kusabu (Osaka Metropolitan University) 

  • “The Formation of Low-context Culture: A comparative cultural study of Japanese, Chinese, and British,” Changyi Wu (Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences, Osaka Metropolitan University) 
  • “English-language Scholarship on Japan and the Internationality of Japanese Culture,” Gian Piero Persiani, East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Illinois)


12:30 pm Lunch 

2:00 pm Session 3, Chair: Matthew Winters (University of Illinois) 

  • “Cycles of Violence and Vengeance: Okinawa and the US military in Medoruma Shun,” Samantha Ting (Comparative and World Literature, University of Illinois) 
  • "Cultural Imperialism and Tanizaki Jun'ichirō's Early Fictions on China," Tsutomu Nagata (East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Illinois) 


3:10 pm Break 

3:20 pm Session 4, Chair: Gian Piero Persiani (University of Illinois) 

  • “Culturally Shared Beliefs, Anticipating Others' Responses based on the beliefs, and the Self-Sustaining Mechanism of Japanese Interdependence,” Hirofumi Hashimoto (Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences, Osaka Metropolitan University) 
  • “The Social Impact of Mega-Events: Insights from the Tokyo 2020 Games,” Yuhei Inoue (Sport Management, University of Illinois) 


4:30 pm Closing 

 

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