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Program

Day 1: Friday, October 16, 2020

Time:
6:00-7:30 pm EST
Keynote lecture

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.