The 24th IASIL JAPAN International Conference

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IASIL JAPAN

The 24th International Conference
New Irelands: Verbal and Visual

SATURDAY　 27 October

9:30-10:30 Registration
1F, Bldg. No.4

10:30-11:00Opening Addresses:
1. Prof. Mitsuko Ohno (President, IASIL JAPAN)
2. Prof. Masumi Akaishi (Dean of Faculty of Literature, Kobe Shinwa Women’s University)
3. Representative of the Embassy of Ireland; Room 411

11:10-12:10 Guest Lecture:
Prof. Luke Gibbons: ‘They’ve Seen it from the Other Side’: Immigration, Memory and Irish Culture
Introduction: Mitsuko Ohno
Room 411

12:10-13:00 Lunch Room 411

13:00-14:00 Papers
1. Futoshi Sakauchi: Digging the Unnamable: Sam Shepard’s Kicking a Dead Horse
2. Andrew Fitzsimons: ‘What wretches feel’: Lear, Edgar and Samuel Beckett’s Worstward Ho
Chair: Mariko Hori
Commentator: Prof. Luke Gibbons
Room 411

14:10-15:10 Reading: Novelist Evelyn Conlon
Introduction: Andrew Fitzsimons
Room 411

15:20-17:30 Symposium: Beckett and Media
Chair: Joseph O’Leary
With presentations by: 1. David Taylor 2. Miki Iwata 3. Kiminori Fukaya
Commentator: Prof. Luke Gibbons
Room 411

17:40-19:40 RECEPTION Seishi Matsuda
With Book Launch: Our Shared Japan: an anthology of contemporary Irish poetry (Dublin: Dedalus Press, 2007)
Speaker:: Mr. Joseph Woods (Poetry Ireland Director)
Seikyo-Shokudo (Co-op Dining Hall)

SUNDAY 28 October

10:00-10:30 Registration
1F, Bldg. No.4

10:30-11:00 Special Lecture on Our Shared Japan: an anthology of contemporary Irish poetry by Mr. Joseph Woods
Introduction: Andrew Fitzsimons
Room411

11:10-12:10 Papers
1. Edward Marx: Yone Noguchi and Ireland
2. David Burleigh: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Chair: Tetsuro Sano
Room 411
1. Soichiro Onose: Righting the Nation: Parody and Nationalism in James Joyce’s “Oxen of the Sun”
2. Marissa Aixas: Irishness and Catalanishness: The Translation of Finnegans Wake episode ‘The Mookse and the Gripes’ into Catalan
Chair: Kazuhiro Doki
Room412

12:10-13:00 Lunch and Annual General Meeting
Chair: Prof. Ken’ichi Matsumura
Room 411

13:10-15:20 Symposium: Ulster Poets
Chair: Bryan Coleborne
With presentations by 1. Mashiro Tsuji on Louis MacNeice 2. Toru Sato on Seamus Heaney 3. Toshi Takagishi on Paul Muldoon
Room 411

15:20 Closing Address: Masaya Shimokusu
Room 411