Session I （13:00～14:10）
Chair: SUGAWARA Katsuya (The University of Tokyo)
1. Hans BERTENS (Utrecht University, President of the International Comparative Literature Association)
“Postmodern Fiction, the Holocaust, and the Future of Comparative Literature”
2. OSHIMA Hitoshi (Fukuoka University, President of the Japan Comparative Literature Association)
“A Proposal for Comparative Studies of Oral Traditions along the Pacific Rim”
Session II （14:30～15:40）
Chair: KAMIGAITO Ken’ichi (Otsuma Women’s University)
3. Eugene EOYANG (Indiana University/Hong Kong Baptist University, Former President of the American Comparative Literature Association)
“The West in the World: Subliminal and Paradigmatic ‘Westernizations’”
4. HASHIMOTO Yorimitsu (Osaka University)
“Universal Brotherhood Revisited: James H. Cousins’ Theosophical and Transnational Networks in the 1920s Japan”
Session III （16:00～16:40）
Chair: SATO Hikari (The University of Tokyo)
5. YAMANAKA Yuriko (National Museum of Ethnology)
“Not ‘Just’ Fantasy: Mediaeval Perspectives on the Marvelous and Uncanny”
Discussion （17:00～17:30）
Chair: SUGAWARA Katsuya (The University of Tokyo)
