Saturday June 22, 2013, 8:30am-1:00pm
Free and open to the public, no RSVP necessary
LOCATION: Franke Institute for the Humanities 1100 E 57th St Chicago, IL 60637Download the Symposium program
Schedule
8:30-9:00 Continental Breakfast
9:00-9:45 Opening Remarks (Susan Burns) and Keynote address: Prof. Jun Suzuki, “On the Keisei ehon by Torii Kiyonobu owned by the Art Institute of Chicago.”
9:45-11:15 Panel I: Image and Text in Early Modern Japan (Chair: Chelsea Foxwell)
Helen Nagata, “Reading the Narrator: Reflections on Tone, Humor, and Attitude in the Text of Yoshiwara koi no michibiki (A Guide to Love in the Yoshiwara, 1678)”
Kristin Williams, “Literacy in Print: Primers, ‘ABC’ Books, and Picture Dictionaries in 17th and 18th Century Japan”
Jeannie Kenmotsu, “Refashioning images: Poetry and Eroticism in the Eight Views”
11:15-11:30 Break
11:30-1:00 Panel II: Identity, Community, and Politics in Print and Performance Cultures (Chair: Susan Burns)
Christoph Reichenbaecher, “Sumo as Part of the Entertainment Industry in Early Tokugawa Japan”
Quintana Heathman, “Picturing Edo: Utagawa Toyoharu’s Edo meisho hachigaseki and Edo City Identity, c. 1770”
Tomoko Seto, “’Art’ and Socialism in Hara Kagai ’s Kōdan and Naniwabushi Performances, 1905-6”
Jun Mizukawa, “The Community of Wahon: Production of Knowledge and Value in Kanda Jimbo-cho”
1:00 Lunch and closing remarks
For inquiries, contact eastasia@uchicago.edu or 773-702-8647 Sponsored by the Center for East Asian Studies Committee on Japanese Studies