Rebecca Copeland (Washington University in St. Louis) “Sororal Bonds”: Translation and the Creation of International Sisterhoods
Time:
7:30–7:40 pm
Break
Time:
7:40–9:10 pm
Panel I
Vyjayanthi Selinger (Bowdoin College)
Discussant
Eriko Hata (Shizuoka Eiwa Gakuin University) 日本古代文学の異界の女君と霊力
Keiko Eguchi (Toyota College) 女たちの寝室
Day 2: Saturday, October 17, 2020
Time: 9:00–10:30 am
Panel II
Sam Perry (Brown University)
Discussant
Sachi Schmidt-Hori (Dartmouth College) Symbolic Death and Rebirth into Womanhood: An Analysis of Stepdaughter Narratives from Heian and Medieval Japan
Otilia Milutin (Middlebury College) Fandom, Fiction, Fantasy: Rewriting The Tale of Genji in Yoru no Nezame
Time:
10:30–10:40 am
Break
Time: 10:40–12:10 pm
Panel III
Keith Vincent (Boston University)
Discussant
Beth Carter (Case Western Reserve University) Weeping and wailing: female homosocial mourning in The Tale of Genji
Jyana Browne (University of Maryland) Yūjo in the Off Hours
Time:
12:10–1:30 pm
Lunch break for US participants
Time:
1:30–3:30 pm
Roundtable discussion
General Discussions about the papers, the intra-female interactions in literature and in reality, the state of our field in the face of COVID, institutional racism, devaluation of the humanities, etc.