1st Ohsawa Colloquium

• Sun. December 12, 2004, 10:00 - 17:15
• Room 314, Building 8, Komaba Campus
• Superviser: Professor John MILTON (University of São Paulo)

1st Session [Session Chair: Yumi TANAKA]

10:00 - 10:30

Dennitza Stefanova GABRAKOVA

Botany of Representation: Walt Whitman's Grass

10:30 - 11:00

Takeshi KAWASHIMA

Modernism: Imaging Word, Wording Image

2nd Session [Session Chair: Maki NAKAI]

11:20 - 11:50

Keiko KAWAGUCHI

The Golden Era of French Cinema in Pre-War Japan: Import, Publicity, Distribution, Censorship and Audience

11:50 - 12:20

Yūki KIKUCHI

The Birth of the “Pessimistic Poet”: On Reception of Lord Byron in Kitayama Tokoku's “The Pessimistic Poet and the Woman”

3rd Session [Session Chair: Takeshi KAWASHIMA]

13:20 - 13:50

Maki NAKAI

Translating the Terms for Colors of Medieval Japan

13:50 - 14:20

Kumiko NAGAI

Kemari in Paintings: Reading the Nenju Gyoji Emaki Comparing with the 10th-13th Century Literary Works

4th Session [Session Chair: Dennitza Stefanova GABRAKOVA]

14:40 - 15:10

Manima ARINOBU

Two Images of the KingII of England

15:10 - 15:40

Taku TACHIBANA

Translated Musics and Translated Languages: Antonio Carlos Jobim's Bilingualism

15:40 - 16:10

Yumi TANAKA

Imaging a New Comparative Literature: A Review of Spivak's Death of a Discipline

Lecture Session

16:30 - 17:15

John MILTON

Contemporary Developments in Translation Studies

2nd Ohsawa Colloquium

• Sun. May 15, 2005, 11:00 - 17:00
• Room 314, Building 8, Komaba Campus
• Superviser: Professor Cathy STEBLYK (Pennsylvania State University)
• General Chair: Kumiko NAGAI (Department of Comparative Literature and Culture)

1st Session [Session Chair: Yumi TANAKA]

11:00 - 11:30

Mika EGLINTON (English Language and Literature Course)

Subversive Voices in Sulayman Al-Bassam's Al Hamlet Summit

11:30 - 12:00

Yasuhiro MIKURA (Department of Area Studies)

Representations of the Ottoman Empire in Early Modern Spain: The Viaje de Turquia (The Voyage to Turkey)

2nd Session [Session Chair: Asako NOBUOKA]

13:20 - 13:50

Eliko KOSAKA (Department of Comparative Literature and Culture)

Linear Versus Warped Temporality: Non-Anglo Time in Karen Tei Yamashita's Tropic of Orange

13:50 - 14:20

Soichiro ONOSE (Department of Comparative Literature and Culture)

A History of Okinawan Conformism: Ifa Fuyu and the Okinawan-Japanese Homogeneity Theory

14:20 - 14:50

Kumiko NAGAI (Department of Comparative Literature and Culture)

Kemari, The Ancient Football: The Craze among the Emperor and the Vassals' in the 12th Century Japan

Lecture Session [Session Chair: Kumiko NAGAI]

15:20 - 16:05

Roselyn COSTANTINO (Associate Professor of Spanish and Women's Studies, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona)

Inconvenient Women: Women Perform Nation, Culture, and History in Mexico

16:15- 17:00

Laurencio CARLOS RUIZ (Graphic Designer, Set Designer, Photographer, Performance Artist and Instructor in Theater Arts, Pennsylvania State University, Altoona)

The Social and the Personal: Puppets Perform Disabilities

3rd Ohsawa Colloquium

• Sun. May 14, 2006, 11:00 - 17:00
• “Insei-Sagyoushitsu”, 2nd Floor of Building 18, Komaba Campus
• Superviser: Professor Noriko THUNMAN TAKEI (Göteborg University)

1st Session [Session Chair: Kumiko NAGAI]

11:00 - 11:30

Asako NOBUOKA (Department of Comparative Literature and Culture)

Beyond the Myth of “Japanese Beauty”: Nature Photography and Its New Possibility of Evaluating

11:30 - 12:00

Asa FUKAMI (Department of Comparative Literature and Culture)

The Japan's Cultural Diplomacy and the Local Japanese Immigrant Society in the Panama-Pacific Exposition 1915.

2nd Session [Session Chair: Asa FUKAMI]

13:00 - 13:30

Tatiana LINKHOEVA (Department of Comparative Literature and Culture)

Overcoming Modernity: Nishitani Keiji's View of Nihilism and Emptiness

13:30 - 14:00

Ayako OKU (Department of Area Studies)

Kiš and Borges

14:00 - 14:30

Seok LEE (Department of Comparative Literature and Culture)

Beauty, Which Is Not a Quality But an Effect: Comparative Studies on Edgar Allan Poe's “Silence--A Fable” and Akutagawa Ryunosuke's “The Belief of Bisei”

3rd Session [Session Chair: Asako NOBUOKA]

15:00 - 15:30

Tomoko ANDO (Department of Comparative Literature and Culture)

Paul Cézanne«Scène Religieuse»

15:30 - 16:00

Kumiko NAGAI (Department of Comparative Literature and Culture)

The Origins of Treasures from China Told in the Late Heian Period: A Study on the Reason of Creation of the Scroll of Kibi's Adventure in China

Talk Session

16:15- 17:00

Noriko THUNMAN TAKEI (Göteborg University)

Japanese Studies in Sweden

4th Ohsawa Colloquium

• Sat. May 26, 2007, 11:00 - 17:00
• Room 319, Building 8, Komaba Campus
• Supervisor: Professor Mary KNIGHTON

1st Session [Session Chair: KIM Hyomi]

11:00 - 11:30

ITOH Yuki (Department of Comparative Literature and Culture)

“Japanese Translation of Imagist Poems: Some Early Examples Attempted by URASE Hakuu.”

11:30 - 12:00

YASUNAGA Marie (Department of Comparative Literature and Culture)

“Reading Two Poems on Sculpture by Mina Loy.”

2nd Session [Session Chair: MAESHIMA Shiho]

13:00 - 13:30

KITAMURA Sae (Department of Culture and Representation)

“Performances and Lies: ‘The Decay of Lying’ by Oscar Wilde.”

13:30 - 14:00

KAMEDA Masumi (Department of Contemporary Literary Studies)

“Presentness on Stage: Resistance by Vvedensky and Beckett.”

14:00 - 14:30

ONOSE Soichiro (Department of Comparative Literature and Culture)

“Righting the Nation: Parody and Nationalism in James Joyce's “Oxen of the Sun.””

3rd Session [Session Chair: ONOSE Soichiro]

15:00 - 15:30

OKU Ayako (Department of Area Studies)

“Female Narratives in the Works of Kiš and Dazai.”

15:30 - 16:00

MAESHIMA Shiho (Part-time Lecturer, Kanagawa University)

“Rethinking Women's Magazines: The Impact of Mass-Market Women's Magazines on Reading Culture in 1920s–30s Japan.”

Talk Session

16:15 - 17:00

Professor Mary Knighton

5th Ohsawa Colloquium

• Sat. May 31, 2008, 11:00 - 18:00
• Room 319, Building 8, Komaba Campus
• Supervisor: Professor Mary KNIGHTON

1st Session [Session Chair: Eliko KOSAKA]

11:00 - 11:30

Noriko TSUJIKAWA (Department of Area Studies)

“Oscar Jászi's Discussion on ‘Culture’ at the Beginning of 1920s”

11:30 - 12:00

Yasutaka KABUTO (Department of Area Studies)

“Subtle Disharmony in the Marriage: Social Catholicism and an ‘Ideal’ Ireland 1932-1939”

12:00 - 12:30

Soichiro ONOSE (Department of Comparative Literature and Culture)

“Yes, the Newspapers Were Right: Orality and the Question of Fidelity in ‘The Dead’”

2nd Session [Session Chair: Kiriko NISHIDA]

13:30 - 14:00

Noritaka MORIYAMA (Department of Interdisciplinary Social Science)

“Positions and Actions: Tachi/Neko System of Gay Men in Japan”

14:00 - 14:30

Danuta LACKA (Department of Language and Information Sciences)

“Trans-gender, Trans-bordering, Translation in Tawada Yoko's Narratives”

14:30 - 15:00

Eliko KOSAKA (Department of Comparative Literature and Culture)

“Performative Transgressions of the Western Imaginary in Perry Miyake's 21st Century Manzanar”

3rd Session [Session Chair: Soichiro ONOSE]

15:00 - 15:30

Sae KITAMURA (Department of Culture and Representation)

“Egyptian Givers: Gift-giving in Antony and Cleopatra”

15:30 - 16:00

Bu Young LEE (Department of Comparative Literature and Culture)

“A Comparative Study of the Love between The Traveler with the Pasted Rag Picture and The Greengrocer's Daughter with a Bundle of Love”

16:00 - 16:30

Shiho MAESHIMA (Part-time Lecturer, Kanagawa University)

“Poetics of Pictorial Sections in Pre-World War II Japanese Popular Magazines: The Case of Shufu no Tomo (House Wife's Companion)”

Talk Session

17:15 - 18:00

Professor Mary Knighton

“Insect Subjectivity in Modern Japanese Literature”

6th Ohsawa Colloquium

• Sat. May 23, 2009, 11:00 - 17:00
• Room 319, Building 8, Komaba Campus
• Supervisor: Professor Mary KNIGHTON and Professor Katsuya SUGAWARA

1st Session [Session Chair: Buyong LEE]

11:00 - 11:30

Kiriko NISHIDA (Comparative Literature and Culture Program）

“An Encounter between Kenzaburo Oe and Seicho Matsumoto: Representations of Discrimination and Violence in Oe's The Catch and Matsumoto's Painting on Black Canvas”

11:30 - 12:00

Jiyoung KIM (Comparative Literature and Culture Program)

“Questioning National Memory: The Narrative of Sawako Ariyoshi's Hishoku”

2nd Session [Session Chair: Kyung-Nam MOON]

13:00 - 13:30

Sae KITAMURA (Culture and Representation Course）

“Shakespeare in High School: The Taming of the Shrew and 10 Things I Hate About You”

13:30 - 14:00

Luciana DOBRE (Comparative Literature and Culture Program)

“Fairytale Elements and Humor in Marianne Van Hirtum's ‘ Euthanasia ’ ”

3rd Session [Session Chair: Luciana DOBRE]

14:15 - 14:45

Kyung-Nam Moon (Comparative Literature and Culture Program）

“Aristotle on Perceptual Consciousness: How Are We Conscious When We Perceive That We See?”

14:45 - 15:15

Shiho MAESHIMA (Part-Time Lecturer, Kanagawa University)

“Melodramatized Experiences: A Craze for ‘True’ Stories in 1920-30s Japanese Mass-Market Periodicals and Their Readings”

Talk Session and Video Session

15:30 - 17:00

Professor Mary KNIGHTON

“Diversity Matters: Perspectives Across the Disciplines on Affirmative Action”

7th Ohsawa Colloquium

• Sat. May 29, 2010, 13:00 - 17:30
• Room 319, Building 8, Komaba Campus
• Supervisor: Professor Katsuya SUGAWARA

1st Session [Session Chair: Yoko YAMAGUCHI]

13:00 - 13:30

Yuichi TSUKADA (Department of Language and Information Sciences）

“‘Two Spent Swimmers’: The Paradox of Masculinity in Macbeth”

13:30 - 14:00

Jae-eun SHIN (Comparative Literature and Culture Program)

“The White Woman as Other: Gender and Interracial Issues in Native Speaker and Never Forever”

14:00 - 14:30

Kiriko NISHIDA (Comparative Literature and Culture Program)

“How Did America Influence the Japanese Inner Life through Occupation Period?: Rereading Kojima Nobuo's The American School”

2nd Session [Session Chair: Soichiro ONOSE]

14:45 - 15:15

BuYong LEE (Comparative Literature and Culture Program）

“A Comparative Study in The Tale of Genji & SimCheong-Jeon: The Motive of Throwing Oneself into the Water”

15:15 - 15:45

Yoshitaka YAMAMOTO (Comparative Literature and Culture Program)

“Non-Linear Chronology as a Translator's Beacon: Critical Anachronisms in Marcel Proust, The Tale of Genji, and Shin'ichiro Nakamura”

15:45 - 16:15

Seok LEE (Comparative Literature and Culture Program)

“The Best Seller Story, Keys to Save the Needless Trouble (Mueki no Tesu wo Habuku Hiketsu) (1913) and Taylorism in Japan”

3rd Session [Session Chair: Yuki ITOH]

16:30 - 17:00

Taro MIZUNO (Comparative Literature and Culture Program）

“Hinatsu Konosuke's Translation of Blake's ‘The Sick Rose’”

17:00 - 17:30

Yasutaka KABUTO (Department of Area Studies)

“Eternally Looking North: The Border in the Early Poetry of Patrick Kavanagh”

8th Ohsawa Colloquium

• SAT. June 4, 2011, 12:00 - 16:00
• Room 319, Building 8, Komaba Campus
• Supervisor: Professor Katsuya SUGAWARA

1st Session [Session Chair: Soichiro ONOSE]

12:00 - 12:30

Kiriko NISHIDA (Comparative Literature and Culture Program)

“Nakagami Kenji in transition: Comparison with Tawada Yoko's The Night Train of a Suspect”

12:30 - 13:00

Yuichi TSUKADA (Department of Language and Information Sciences)

“‘[W]omen wont in warres to beare most sway’: Elizabethan Foreign Policy and the Representation of Femininity in Edmund Spenser's Book III of The Faerie Queene”

2nd Session [Session Chair: BuYong LEE]

13:30 - 14:00

Kumiko NAGAI (Comparative Literature and Culture Program)

“A Study of the Kentōshi-e (Picture Scroll of the Silk Thread Exhaled from a Dog's Nose)”

14:00 - 14:30

Yuki ITOH (Comparative Literature and Culture Program)

“Ishikura Kosaburō's translation of German song lyrics: Reading ‘Rurō no tami,’ a Japanese version of Schumann's ‘Zigeunerleben.’”

3rd Session [Session Chair: Kumiko NAGAI]

15:00 - 15:30

Claire Tung (Comparative Literature and Culture Program)

“Gender, Genre and Canonisation: Female Kanshi Poets in the Late Edo Period”

15:30 - 16:00

BuYong LEE (Comparative Literature and Culture Program)

“The Role of the Father to Akashi no himegimi in The Tale of Genji”

9th Ohsawa Colloquium

• Saturday, May 26, 2012 11:30 - 17:30
• Room 319, Building 8, Komaba Campus
• Supervisor: Professor Katsuya SUGAWARA

1st Session [Session Chair: Yoshitaka YAMAMOTO]

11:30 - 12:00

Hazumu YAMAZAKI (Comparative Literature and Culture Program)

“The Narrative Structure of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood”

12:00 - 12:30

Seok LEE (Program in Comparative Literature and Culture)

“What Happens When Hemingway’s 'Big Two-Hearted River' Is Translated in the Japanese Context?”

12:30 - 13:00

Rita KOHL (Program in Comparative Literature and Culture)

“The Translation of Japanese Literature in Brazil: The Case of Eiji Yoshikawa's Miyamoto Musashi”

13:00 - 13:30

Megumi WAKABAYASHI (Department of Area Studies)

“Toyama Masakazu and Christianity in Meiji Japan”

2nd Session [Session Chair: Kyung-Nam MOON]

14:00 - 14:30

HORIE Hidefumi (Program in Comparative Literature and Culture)

“The History of TERAYAMA Shuji’s Photography: From 1960s' Snapshots to '70s' Fantastic Pictures”

14:30 - 15:00

Hiromi MATSUI (Program in Comparative Literature and Culture)

“Picasso’s Ceramics and French Communist Politics after the Second World War”

15:00 - 15:30

Yuichi TSUKADA (Department of Language and Information Sciences)

“The Burial of the Elizabethan Past: Antony and Cleopatra and Jacobean Politics”

3rd Session [Session Chair: Kumiko NAGAI]

16:00 - 16:30

GONG Lan (Program in Comparative Literature and Culture)

“The Image of Dust in the Kuso-shi in Emperor Shomu’s ‘Zasshu’ and a Comparative Analysis with the Bible”

16:30 - 17:00

Tyler TAPE (Program in Comparative Literature and Culture)

“Naughty Nyorais and Jokey Jizōs: The Buddha in Edo Comic Literature”

17:00 - 17:30

Yoshitaka YAMAMOTO (Program in Comparative Literature and Culture)

“Flower Arrangement as a Masculine Art in Edo-Period Japan: A Reading of Yamamoto Hokuzan's Preface to Kashida Hokugan's Collection of Classical Chinese Prose and Poetry”

10th Ohsawa Colloquium

• Saturday, May 25, 2013 13:00 - 16:30
• Room 319, Building 8, Komaba Campus
• Supervisor: Professor Katsuya SUGAWARA

1st Session

13:00 - 13:30

Kana MATSUEDA (Program in Comparative Literature and Culture)

“Maurice Baring’s The Russian People and Uchida Roan: The Hidden Relationship between Japan and Great Britain with Regard to Russian Studies at the Beginning of the 20th Century”

13:30 - 14:00

Hirofumi IWASHITA (Program in Comparative Literature and Culture)

“‘Truth in Literature’ in Natsume Sōseki's Theory of Literature (Bungakuron)”

14:00 - 14:30

Pierre BONNEELS (Program in Comparative Literature and Culture)

“Does only Philosophy Draw Concept? : Attempted Criticism on the Vision of ‘Concept’ by Gilles Deleuze and F lix Guattari”

2nd Session

15:00 - 15:30

Shaw LEE (Program in Comparative Literature and Culture)

“Franz Liszt’s Song Transcriptions: Voice to be Played on a Piano”

15:30 - 16:00

Kanako MATSUMOTO (Area Studies)

“Conversion through Reminiscence: A Study of Evelyn Waugh's Brideshead Revisited”

16:00 - 16:30

Yasutaka KABUTO (Area Studies)

“Louis MacNeice as Imperial Subject: His Perspective of British Empire in Zoo ”

11th Ohsawa Colloquium

• Saturday, May 24, 2014 12:00 - 17:00
• Room 319, Building 8, Komaba Campus
• Supervisor: Professor Katsuya SUGAWARA

1st Session

12:00 - 12:30

Yutaka MORINAGA (Program in Comparative Literature and Culture)

“The Problem of the Philosophical Self”

 

12:30 - 13:00

Taehee LEE (Program in Comparative Literature and Culture)

“Freedom and Moral Responsibility”

13:00 - 13:30

Shotaro SHIROMA (Culture and Representation Course)

“Yanagi Muneyoshi and Korea: Aesthetics and Politics”

2nd Session

14:00 - 14:30

Akiko KAWASUMI (Program in Comparative Literature and Culture)

“The Reception of Lafcadio Hearn: ‘In a Japanese Garden’ and the Official Guide for the Japan-British Exhibition 1910”

14:30 - 15:00

Li YANG (Department of Area Studies)

“The Creation and Generation of Hsing (性) in Chinese as the Translation for Sex in 20th China”

15:00 - 15:30

Naoki OHDA (Program in Comparative Literature and Culture)

“Analysis of Oguri Fūyō’s Koizame:

　　from the View Point of the Relationship between the Author and his Work”

3rd Session

16:00 - 16:30

Cosmo USAMI (Program in Comparative Literature and Culture)

“Past and Its Interpretation: The Attitude toward the Middle Ages in Japanese Early-modern Academy”

16:30 - 17:00

Naoki TONE (Program in Comparative Literature and Culture)

“HATAKEYAMA Yoshinari and the Harris Community”

12th Ohsawa Colloquium

• Saturday, May 30, 2015 13:00 - 15:30
• Room 319, Building 8, Komaba Campus
• Supervisor: Professor Katsuya SUGAWARA

  1st Session

• 13:00 - 13:30
• Taehee LEE (Program in Comparative Literature and Culture)
• 　 “The Defense of Libertarianism through the Analysis of
• 　the Future Intentional Concepts”
• 13:30 - 14:00
• Yutaka OKUHATA (Department of Language and Information Sciences)
• 　“Angela Carter with Marquis de Sade:
• 　Pornography, Catastrophe, and Mortal Bodies”

  2nd Session

• 14:30 - 15:00
• Cosmo USAMI (Program in Comparative Literature and Culture)
• 　“Japanese Sword for Court Noble, Japanese Sword for Bushi:
• 　　Analysis of the Sword Culture in the Middle Ages”
• 15:00 - 15:30
• Shinnosuke HOJO (Department of Area Studies)
• 　“Economic Transitions and Political Status in China:
• 　Rethinking the Role of Party Membership”

13th Ohsawa Colloquium

• Saturday, July 23, 2016 13:00 - 17:40
• 【POSTPONED】 Tuesday, August 2, 2016 13:00 - 17:40
• Room 319, Building 8, Komaba Campus
• Supervisor: Professor Katsuya SUGAWARA

  1st Session [Session Chair: Cosmo USAMI]

• 13:00 - 13:30
• Yutaka OKUHATA (Department of Language and Information Sciences)
• 　“The Death of the Body / Empire: Rereading Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshop”
• 13:30 - 14:00
• Taro MIZUNO (Part-time Lecturer, Chiba University of Commerce)
• 　“The Coming of Wisdom with Time: Interaction among Three Poets:
• 　Hinatsu Konosuke, Saijo Yaso and Sangu Makoto”
• 14:00 - 14:30
• Leo KIKUTA (Program in Comparative Literature and Culture)
• 　“On Mallarmé’s Translation of Poe’s "To My Mother"”

• 2nd Session [Session Chair: Manami ISHIKAWA]

• 14:50 - 15:20
• Erin KITAGAWARA (Program in Comparative Literature and Culture)
• 　“Sleep culture in the Heian period as seen in literary works”
• 15:20 - 15:50
• Cosmo USAMI (Program in Comparative Literature and Culture)
• 　“What is "Authentic"?: The Circulation of Counterfeit Swords
• 　　in Gift-Giving Ceremonies of the Muromachi Period”

• 3rd Session [Session Chair: Erin KITAGAWARA]

• 16:10 - 16:40
• Kai SATO (Program in Comparative Literature and Culture)
• 　“Analysing Izutsu with Narratology: Introduction to the Narratological Analysis of
• 　　Nō Text”
• 16:40 - 17:10
• Manami ISHIKAWA (Program in Comparative Literature and Culture)
• 　“Enchi's method of yielding reality in fantastic world:
• 　　Analyzing Enchi Fumiko's "Shishijima Kitan"”

14th Ohsawa Colloquium

• Saturday, May 27, 2017, 13:30 - 16:30
• Room 319, Building 8, Komaba Campus
• Supervisor: Professor Katsuya SUGAWARA

  1st Session [Session Chair: Cosmo USAMI]

• 13:30 - 14:00
• Kazuaki TOKUNAGA (Program in Comparative Literature and Culture)
• 　“On the Self-Defeating Character of Conciliationism”
• 14:00 - 14:30
• Hiroki YAMANO (Program in Comparative Literature and Culture)
• 　“The Philosophical Inquiry into Reality of “History””
• 14:30 - 15:00
• Erin KITAGAWARA (Program in Comparative Literature and Culture)
• 　“The Portrayal of Mental Illness in Kokyō Nakamura’s Kara (1913), After a Nap (1919) and Teacher in a Rural Village (1919)”

• 2nd Session [Session Chair: Erin KITAGAWARA]

• 15:30 - 16:00
• Cosmo USAMI (Program in Comparative Literature and Culture)
• 　“Japanese Sword as a Daily Necessity: Introduction of the Sword Culture for the Late Muromachi Court Nobles”
• 16:00 - 16:30
• Kai SATO (Program in Comparative Literature and Culture)
• 　“Chant Books of Noh (utaibon) Collected by Yamashina Tokitsugu: A Part of the Intellectual Life of an Aristocrat in the Late Muromachi Period”

 

15th Ohsawa Colloquium


• Friday, August 3, 2018, 13:30 - 16:30
• Room 319, Building 8, Komaba Campus
• Supervisor: Professor SUGAWARA Katsuya

Session 1 / 13:30 – 14:30 [Chair: Yuichi Nakagawa]

• 13:30 - 14:00
• Hiroki YAMANO (Program in Comparative Literature and Culture)
• 　“Paul Ricœur and Hermeneutics: On the concept of ‘Compréhension’ and ‘Action’”
• 14:00 - 14:30
• Arito FUKUI (Program in Culture and Representation)
• 　“Jacques Derrida and the Transcendental Status of Repetition”

Session 2 / 15:00 – 16:30 [Chair: Jishi Zheng, Erin Kitagawara]

• 15:00 - 15:30
• Erin KITAGAWARA (Program in Comparative Literature and Culture)
• 　“Rereading “Hermaphrodite” in Yamai no Sōshi: The Erotic Triangle and Homosocial Desire in Japanese Illustrated Scroll”
• 15:30 - 16:00
• Shih-Fen WANG (Socio-information and Communication Studies)
• 　“Understanding Taiwan During the Japanese Colonization Period: Based on the Analysis of the First Publication of Taiwan Fujinkai (1934-1936)”
• 16:00 - 16:30
• Jishi ZHENG (Program in Comparative Literature and Culture)
• 　“Panorama as the apparatus for viewing Other World: Reading Hagiwara Sakutarō's poems from Aoneko Igo”

 

16th Ohsawa Colloquium


• Friday, August 2, 2019, 14:00 - 16:30
• Room 319, Building 8, Komaba Campus
• Supervisor: Professor SATO Hikari
• Organizer: ISHIKAWA Manami

Session 1 / 14:00 – 15:00 [Chair: Yuichi Nakagawa]

• 14:00 - 14:30
• Yoshinari HATTORI (Program in Comparative Literature and Culture)
• “How Does a Kantian Agent Act for Reasons?”
• 14:30 - 15:00
• Takuya ODA (Program in Comparative Literature and Culture)
• Metalinguistic Negotiation and the Interlingual Problem

Session 2 / 15:30 – 16:30 [Chair: Yoshinari Hattori]

• 15:30 - 16:00
• Hiroki YAMANO (Program in Comparative Literature and Culture)
• On the Problems of the Fictionality of “Historiography”
• 16:00 - 16:30
• Yuichi NAKAGAWA (Program in Comparative Literature and Culture)
• Should We Commit Suicide? : The Problem of Death in David Benatar’s Anti-Natalism

 

17th Ohsawa Colloquium


• Friday, August 7, 2020, 13:00 - 15:30
• LOCATION : For staff and students only
• Supervisor: Professor SATO Hikari
• Organizer: Yuichi NAKAGAWA

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18th Ohsawa Colloquium


• Tuesday, September 7, 2021, 14:00 - 16:00
• Location: For staff and students only
• Supervisor: Professor Shiho MAESHIMA
• Organizer: Yoshinari HATTORI

Session 1/14:00 - 15:00 [Chair: Yuichi NAKAGAWA]

• 14:00 - 14:30
• Yoshinari HATTORI (Program in Comparative Literature and Culture)
• What Sourcehood Does Moral Responsibility Require?
• 14:30 - 15:00
• Subin JEONG (Program in Comparative Literature and Culture)
• A Forgotten Woman Writer in Meiji Era: Inabune TAZAWA

Session 2 / 15:30 – 16:30 [Chair: Yoshinari Hattori]

• 15:30 - 16:00
• Yuichi NAKAGAWA (Program in Comparative Literature and Culture)
• Procreative Beneficence: On the Definition of the "Best Life"

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  19th Ohsawa Colloquium

  
  • Wednesday, September 21, 2022, 13:30 - 16:00
  • Location: Room 319, Building 8, Komaba Campus
  • Supervisor: Professor Shiho MAESHIMA
  • Organizer: Biyue KONG

  Session 1/13:30 - 14:30 [Chair: Yoshinari HATTORI]]

  • 13:30 - 14:00
  • Nodoka NAKAYA (Program in Comparative Literature and Culture)
  • When Poetry Meets Painting: Millôr Fernandes's Haiku-Painting
  • 14:00 - 14:30
  • Biyue KONG (Program in Comparative Literature and Culture)
  • Documenting Mountains in Interwar Japan: Murai Yoneko’s Landscape Photography and a New History of Lady’s Camera Club

  Session 2 / 15:00 – 16:00 [Chair: Biyue KONG]]

  • 15:00 - 15:30
  • Jue HOU (Program in Comparative Literature and Culture)
  • Takeuchi Yoshimi and “Asia as Method”
  • 15:30 - 16:00
  • Yoshinari HATTORI (Program in Comparative Literature and Culture)
  • We Blame Others Because We Look Ahead to the Future