May 25, 2018 - Associate Professor in Modern Japanese History, University of Oxford ... Professor in East Asian Language
A two-day interdisciplinary conference about Russo-Japanese cultural relations, this event invites scholars of Russia and Japan to address the topic of Russo-Japanese cultural relations as a challenge to traditional binary views on the knowledge exchange between West and East as that between “colonizer” and “colonized,” seen exclusively through the prism of political and ideological hierarchies and power relations.
PROGRAM SCHEDULE FRIDAY, MAY 25TH 1:30 pm
Welcoming Remarks Conference Organizers: Olga Solovieva Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago Sho Konishi Associate Professor in Modern Japanese History, University of Oxford
2:00-3:20 pm
Panel 1 Chair: Michael Bourdaghs Robert S. Ingersoll Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, University of Chicago Senses and Sensibilities: Translating Classical Japanese Poetry in Prerevolutionary Russia D. Brian Kim Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow in the Program in Writing and Rhetoric, Stanford University Influence and Influenza: Arishima Takeo’s Readings of Leo Tolstoy Andrew Way Leong Assistant Professor of English, Northwestern University Discussant: William Nickell Associate Professor of Russian Literature, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago
3:20-3:40 pm
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Coffee Break
3:40-4:25 pm
Keynote Address Eccentric Subjects – Permeable Frontiers Haun Saussy University Professor in Comparative Literature and East Asian Studies, University of Chicago
4:25-4:45 pm
Coffee Break
4:45-5:48 pm
Film Screening Manchurian Sleepwalkers (63 minutes) Documentary by Thomas Lahusen
5:48-6:30 pm
Post-Screening Discussion Charles Lock, Professor in the Department of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen in conversation with Olga Solovieva SATURDAY, MAY 26TH
10:00-11:20 am
Panel 2 Chair: Sho Konishi Associate Professor in Modern Japanese History, University of Oxford Eroshenko and Ujaku – putting the personal in Russo-Japanese relations Ian Rapley Lecturer in East Asian History in the School of History, Archaeology and Religion, University of Cardiff Japan’s Encounter with Russia in Early Twentieth-Century France: Refashioning Ideas of Solidarity Nadine Willems Lecturer in Japanese History in the School of History, University of East Anglia Discussant: Andrew Way Leong Assistant Professor of English, Northwestern University
11:20-11:40 am
Coffee Break
11:40-1:00 pm
Panel 3 Chair: Olga Solovieva Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago “Po-moyemu, togda po-yaponski…”: Suicide in Times of War and Revolution Arata Takeda Research Associate and Lecturer at the Friedrich Schlegel Graduate School of Literary Studies, Research Project Aristotelische Verhandlungen, Freie Universität Berlin
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De-Orientalizing Suicide Missions: Japan and Russia at War Takashi Nishiyama Associate Professor of History, State University of New York at Brockport Discussant: Hoyt Long Associate Professor of Japanese Literature in East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago 1:00-2:00 pm
Lunch
2:00-3:20 pm
Panel 4 Chair: Andrew Way Leong Assistant Professor of English, Northwestern University “The Ainu Problem”: Shternberg, Piłsudski, and Debates on Ainu Ethnogenesis and Welfare in the Early Twentieth Century Chelsea Hudson Ph.D. Candidate in Japanese History, Georgetown University “The Nanai Problem”: Russo-Japanese Figurations in Kurosawa’s Dersu Uzala (1975) Olga Solovieva Assistant Professor in the Department of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago Discussant: Eleanor Gilburd Assistant Professor of History, University of Chicago
3:20-3:40 pm
Coffee Break
3:40-5:20 pm
Panel 5 Chair: William Nickell Associate Professor of Russian Literature, Slavic Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago Realism as a Constant of Cultural Dialogue Between Japanese and Soviet Cinema Anastasia Fedorova Associate Professor at the Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies, Moscow Higher School of Economics Do as the Russians Do: The Role of Russian-Soviet Music in the Utagoe Movement’s National Music Paradigm Jun Hee Lee Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History, University of Chicago Russia in Contemporary Japanese Literature: Mirroring Each Other Mitsuyoshi Numano Professor in the Department of Contemporary Literary Studies/Slavic Languages and Literatures, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology, University of Tokyo
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Discussant: Michael Bourdaghs Robert S. Ingersoll Professor in East Asian Languages and Civilizations and the College, University of Chicago 5:20-5:30 pm
Coffee Break
5:30-6:15 pm
Keynote Address The Play of Virtues: Religious Afterlives of Civil War Losers in Transnational Japan and Theoretical Implications Sho Konishi Associate Professor in Modern Japanese History, University of Oxford
6:15 pm
Reception
This event would not be possible without the generous support of the University of Chicago’s Center for East Asian Studies, the Franke Institute for the Humanities, the Center for Eastern European and Russian and Eurasian Studies, the Stevanovich Institute on the Formation of Knowledge, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and the Japan Foundation, New York.
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