Osaka Metropolitan University-University of Illinois Exchange Symposium 2024
Medical Humanities in the World
2090B LCLB, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
March 5, 2024, Tuesday
9:30 am - 4:45 pm CT
9:30 am Coffee
10:00 am Opening remarks:
Hisatsugu Kusabu (Osaka Metropolitan University) & Misumi Sadler (University of Illinois)
10:15 am Session 1
Can music training focused on piano playing improve the manual dexterity issues in children with developmental disabilities?
Junko Shimamoto (Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences, OMU)
Discussant: Takao Inoue (Graduate School of Rehabilitation Science Division of Rehabilitation Science, OMU)
From Elderly to “Patient”: Junichiro Tanizaki’s Diary of a Mad Old Man and Aging Narratives in 1950s-1960s Japan
Yujie Pu (East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Illinois)
Death Literature: Sickness, Death and Writing in Meiji Japan
Robert Tierney (East Asian Languages and Literatures, Comparative, World Literature, University of Illinois)
12:30 pm Lunch
2:30 pm Session 2
Medico-Spirituel Relationships Between Heretics and Local People of Southern France in the 14th Century
Saki Komori (Graduate School of Literature and Human Sciences, OMU)
Health Disparities for Child-rearing Households Living in Depopulated Areas in Japan in the 2010s to 2020s.
Hana Sugita (Graduate School of Human Life and Ecology, OMU)
Beyond Menstrual Blood: Enchi Fumiko’s Late Year Works, Illness, and Gender Performativity
Yingzhi Lu (East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Illinois)
4:30 pm Closing
