Thursday / March 12
12:20
Opening Remarks
Michael Emmerich (UCLA)
12:30
Keynote Lecture I
Thomas Lamarre (McGill University)
2:30
Keynote Lecture II
「キャラクターと同一性・個体性」
Kinsui Satoshi (Osaka University)
4:30
“23 Tokugawa Ieyasus”
A special event featuring Omori Yōhei and Yoshikawa Kunio of NHK
Thursday / March 12
12:20
Opening Remarks
Michael Emmerich (UCLA)
12:30
Keynote Lecture I
"Tales of Kyara: Literature in the Time of Media Mix”
Thomas Lamarre (McGill University, Emeritus; Duke University)
2:30
Keynote Lecture II
「キャラクターと同一性・個体性」
Kinsui Satoshi (Osaka University)
4:30
“23 Types of Tokugawa Ieyasu: How to Create Characters in 'Taiga Drama' ”
A special event featuring Omori Yōhei and Yoshikawa Kunio of NHK
Friday / March 13
9:30
Lukas Wilde (Tübingen University), Challenges and Potentials for a Pre-narrative Character Theory Building on Japanese Discourses
10:00
Joleen Blom (IT University of Copenhagen), “The Multiplicity Model: Making Sense of Transmedial Characters in Japan and Beyond”
11:00
Eric Tojimbara (UCLA), “ ‘Bad’ Buddhist Monks in Japanese Literature from Setsuwa to Kanazōshi”
11:30
Sebastian Balmes (University of Zurich), “Demarcating Medieval Characters: On the Role of Characters and Their Boundaries in Shintōshū”
12:00
Haley Blum (University of British Columbia), “The Transformed Nonhuman: A Trope in Otogizōshi”
2:00
Hannah Dahlberg-Dodd (Ohio State University), “Figure of Desire, Figure Desired: A Cross-Genre Analysis of O-jōsama”
2:30
Kristin Sivak (University of Toronto), “Functioning Characters: Servants Serving Narrative in Modern Japanese Literature”
3:30
Anne Bayard-Sakai (Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales in Paris), “How does the reader picture the character ? From a few examples in modern Japanese literature.”
4:00
Satō Mioko (Waseda University),〈人造婦人〉の図像学
4:30
Jordi Serrano-Munoz (Open University of Catalonia, Colegio de Mexico), “Outlasting it All? Representing the Survivor in Post-Fukushima Literature”
Sunday / March 14
9:00
Nozawa Shunsuke (Hokkaidō University), “Characterization and Imagined Languages”
9:30
Hayashi Naoki (Nihon University),「流行歌に現れる方言－Oricon歌詞データを用いて－」
10:30
Stevie Suan (Hōsei University), “Constituting Characters: Anime, Individualism, and Lifestyle Performance”
11:00
Bill Feeney (University of Tokyo), “(Re)Animating Bodies: Exploring the Ambivalent Entailments of Childish Imitation”
1:00
Umetada Misa (Waseda University),「演劇の西郷隆盛――「キャラクター化」する偉人」
1:30
Tanaka Yukari (Nihon University),「記憶に残る「方言キャラ」」
2:30
Closing Remarks
Tanaka Yukari (Nihon University)
Illustrations ©︎ Morita Shin, 2020
Generous support for this symposium was provided by
the TGU Project “Global Japanese Studies,” Waseda University (MEXT Grant)
Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C) 18K00623, "New Directions in the Study of 'Virtual Dialects' "
the UCLA Department of Asian Languages and Cultures
and the UCLA Terasaki Center for Japanese Studies.