Tanaka Symposium in Japanese Studies: 'Literature After 3.11'
PAST EVENT | 01 June 2017 08:30 - 01 June 2017 19:00
The first Tanaka Symposium in Japanese Studies will be held at Pembroke College, Oxford on 1st June 2017.
The theme for this year's symposium is 'Literature After 3.11', and participants will discuss literary responses to the Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster at Fukushima. It will consider the state of literature and the arts six years after the traumatic events and how writers, critics and artists have responded in various ways to 3.11. The key note speaker for the event is the Akutagawa prize-winning author Ikezawa Natsuki. Ikezawa's work demonstrates a long-standing concern for the environment and nuclear power, and his recent publications over the past few years also address the impact of 3.11.
This event is free and open to the public.
Programme
08.30-09.00 Coffee and Tea
09.00-10.30
Opening Remarks: Linda Flores, University of Oxford
Keynote Speech by Natsuki Ikezawa, Akutagawa Prize-Winning Author: “Disasters and Literature”
Linda Flores, University of Oxford: “3.11 and Tōhoku Literature”
10.30-10.45: Break
10.45-12.15
Douglas Slaymaker, University of Kentucky: “Animal Stories: Agency after Radiation”
Saeko Kimura, Tsuda College (Tokyo): “The Hauntology of Post-disaster Literature”
Margherita Long, University of California at Irvine: “Humanism and the Hikari-Event: Reading Ōe with Stengers, in Catastrophic Times”
12.30-13.30 Lunch Break
13.30-15.00
Anne Bayard-Sakai, INALCO (Paris): “History before Memory: Some Reflections on History as Fiction in Post-Fukushima”
Dan Fujiwara, University of Toulouse: “Border-crossing Literature on 3.11: the Case of Tawada Yōko’s Kentōshi (2014)”
Flavia Fulco, Sophia University (Tokyo): “3.11 Witnesses: Building Collective Memory Through Oral and Written Narratives”
15.00-15.30 Tea break
15.30-17.00
Barbara Geilhorn, University of Manchester: “Processing Trauma in Japanese Theatre Responding to ‘3.11’”
Lisette Gebhardt, Goethe University (Frankfurt): “Various Shades of Fury: Criticism of ‘System’ and Society in Japanese Post-Fukushima Literature”
Justine Wiesinger, Yale University: “The Nuclear Home and the Alien Village: The Production of Post-3.11 Space in Sakate Yōji’s Tatta hitori no sensō”
17.00-17.15 Closing Remarks: Linda Flores, University of Oxford
17.15-18.00 Tour of JCR Art Gallery
18.00-19.00 Drinks Reception, SCR Parlour. All are invited to attend.
Organiser: Dr Linda Flores (Associate Professor in Modern Japanese Literature, Pembroke College and Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford
Co-organiser: Filippo Cervelli, DPhil student (Pembroke College, Oxford)
The Tanaka Symposium in Japanese Studies is made possible by a grant from the Tanaka UK Japan Education Foundation, Limited
Tanaka Symposium in Japanese Studies: 'Literature After 3.11'
PAST EVENT | 01 June 2017 08:30 - 01 June 2017 19:00
The first Tanaka Symposium in Japanese Studies will be held at Pembroke College, Oxford on 1st June 2017.
The theme for this year's symposium is 'Literature After 3.11', and participants will discuss literary responses to the Great East Japan Earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster at Fukushima. It will consider the state of literature and the arts six years after the traumatic events and how writers, critics and artists have responded in various ways to 3.11. The key note speaker for the event is the Akutagawa prize-winning author Ikezawa Natsuki. Ikezawa's work demonstrates a long-standing concern for the environment and nuclear power, and his recent publications over the past few years also address the impact of 3.11.
This event is free and open to the public.
Programme
08.30-09.00 Coffee and Tea
09.00-10.30
Opening Remarks: Linda Flores, University of Oxford
Keynote Speech by Natsuki Ikezawa, Akutagawa Prize-Winning Author: “Disasters and Literature”
Linda Flores, University of Oxford: “3.11 and Tōhoku Literature”
10.30-10.45: Break
10.45-12.15
Douglas Slaymaker, University of Kentucky: “Animal Stories: Agency after Radiation”
Saeko Kimura, Tsuda College (Tokyo): “The Hauntology of Post-disaster Literature”
Margherita Long, University of California at Irvine: “Humanism and the Hikari-Event: Reading Ōe with Stengers, in Catastrophic Times”
12.30-13.30 Lunch Break
13.30-15.00
Anne Bayard-Sakai, INALCO (Paris): “History before Memory: Some Reflections on History as Fiction in Post-Fukushima”
Dan Fujiwara, University of Toulouse: “Border-crossing Literature on 3.11: the Case of Tawada Yōko’s Kentōshi (2014)”
Flavia Fulco, Sophia University (Tokyo): “3.11 Witnesses: Building Collective Memory Through Oral and Written Narratives”
15.00-15.30 Tea break
15.30-17.00
Barbara Geilhorn, University of Manchester: “Processing Trauma in Japanese Theatre Responding to ‘3.11’”
Lisette Gebhardt, Goethe University (Frankfurt): “Various Shades of Fury: Criticism of ‘System’ and Society in Japanese Post-Fukushima Literature”
Justine Wiesinger, Yale University: “The Nuclear Home and the Alien Village: The Production of Post-3.11 Space in Sakate Yōji’s Tatta hitori no sensō”
17.00-17.15 Closing Remarks: Linda Flores, University of Oxford
17.15-18.00 Tour of JCR Art Gallery
18.00-19.00 Drinks Reception, SCR Parlour. All are invited to attend.
Organiser: Dr Linda Flores (Associate Professor in Modern Japanese Literature, Pembroke College and Faculty of Oriental Studies, University of Oxford
Co-organiser: Filippo Cervelli, DPhil student (Pembroke College, Oxford)
The Tanaka Symposium in Japanese Studies is made possible by a grant from the Tanaka UK Japan Education Foundation, Limited