PANELS

READING AND WRITING
JAPANESE WOMEN'S TEXTS

Keynote Speakers:

Laurel Rasplica Rodd, University of Colorado
Boulder, Colorado

Sharalyn Orbaugh, University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia



UNIVERSITY OF ALBERTA
EDMONTON, ALBERTA
CANADA

AUGUST 16-20, 2001

1. Surfing the Second Wave: Japanese Feminist Writing, 1970-1990

Bardsley, Jan. University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. "Narrating a Meiji Girlhood: The 1971 Autobiography of Hiratsuka Raicho."
Hirota Akiko. California State University Northridge. "Life in the Limelight: Kirishima Yoko and Her Three Little Pigs."
Hirakawa Hiroko. Guilford College. "Refusing to be Trapped, but How?: Matsubara Junko and the Media Gender Battle."
Loftus, Ronald P. Willamette University. "Depicting Women: Reading Atsugi Taka's Memoirs of a Female Documentarist [Josei Dokyumentarisuto no kaiso]."

2. Japanese Women's Texts and Voices: The Muffled Sounds of the Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries

Butler, Lee. Brigham Young University. "Impersonal Texts: Women's Voices at the Court of the Warring States Era."
Chance, Linda. University of Pennslylvania. "Behind Curtains: Creating or Hiding the Text of Hino Tomiko's (1440-1496) Power."
Ikeda, Janet. Washington and Lee University. "A Tapestry of Embroidered Truths: The Silhouette of Hosokawa Gracia (1563-1600)."
Lillehoj, Elizabeth. DePaul University. "Empress Tôfukumonin (1607-78) and Texts (in Word and Image)."

3. Yoshiya Nobuko and Women Audiences

Suzuki Michiko. Stanford University. "Love and Marriage, Sisters and Mothers: Yoshiya Nobuko Rereads Ellen Key."
Matsugu Miho. University of Chicago. "Why does Uiko Die? The Invisible Lesbian and Patriarchy in Yoshiya Nobuko's The Woman's Classroom."
Frederick, Sarah. Boston University. "Bringing the Colonies 'Home': Yoshiya Nobuko's Popular Fiction and Imperial Japan."
Kinoshita Chika. University of Chicago. "Remaking Culture and Gender: Haha no kyoku and Stella Dallas."
Harada Kazue. University of British Columbia. "Lesbianism and the Writing of Yoshiya Nobuko in the Taisho Period."

4. Woman as Creator - Woman as Critic

Bowen-Struyk, Heather. University of Michigan. "Miyamoto Yuriko: Theory and Practice."
Grella-Mozejko, Piotr. University of Alberta. "When the Sun Rises in the West, or, the Art of Karen Tanaka."
Driscoll, Mark. University of Alberta. "Lone Woman vs. Final Girl: Reading Saitô Minako's Feminist Media Criticism."
Farrell, Zita. Case Western Reserve University. "Artist Mariko Mori: Using Homage, Beauty, Appropriation, Gesture to Produce the Proto-Female Being."

5. Embodying Woman

Chin, Gail F. University of Regina. "Women in the Yamai no sôshi, a Set of Twelfth-Century Japanese Paintings."
Long, Mimi. SUNY Buffalo. "Writing Kanoko's Body."
Slaymaker, Doug. University of Kentucky. "Women Writing the Postwar Body."
McKeon, Midori. San Francisco State University. "What Does It Mean to Write in Father's Language? Ogino Anna's Anatomy of the Human Body in Half Dead Half Alive."

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6. For Better or For Worse? Marriage, Family and Literature

Sato Yasuko. University of Chicago. "Love and Marriage in Classical Japanese Poetry and Prose: The Status of Literary Artefacts in Takamure Itsue's Historical Imagination."
Schierbeck, Sachiko Shibata. University of Copenhagen. "To Marry or Not To Marry."
Shinozuka Sumiko. Kyoritsu Women's University. "Within the Constraints of Social Status: Izumi Shikibu's Relationship with Her Father."
Wender, Melissa L. Bates College. "What Is To Be Done? Children in the Works of Yu Miri."

7. Transgendered Expressions: Staking Claim to a Traditionally Male Territory

Nagase Mari. University of British Columbia. "Pursuing "Women's Words": Poetry of Ema Saiko."
Volk, Alicia. Yale University. "Demon in a Summer Robe: Katsura Yukiko and the Postwar Avant-Garde."
McDonald, Keiko. University of Pittsburgh. "From Actress to Director: Kinuyo Tanaka (1910-1977)"
Nishikawa Teruka. Pianist. "Women and Western Music in Japan."

8. Dial M for Murder (...Monsters, Man-slaughtering, Miyabe Miyuki, and Masculinity)

Mori, Maryellen Toman. Santa Clara University. "Monsters or Imps? The Dynamics of Diabolical Desire in Kôno Taeko's Fantasy Fiction."
Chen, Mei-Yao. University of British Columbia. "Killing Patriarchy: The Man-Slaughtering in Li Ang's The Butcher's Wife and Kanai Mieko's Rotting Meat."
Copeland, Rebecca. Washington University. "M" is For Miyabe Miyuki."
Yamade, Yuko. University of Montreal. "Memory, Fantasy and Identity in Tawada Yoko's The Gotthard Railway."

9. Lest We Forget

Levy, Indra. Rutgers University. "Against essentialism: The status of gender difference in the critical writings of Yamakawa Kikue."
O'Brien, Suzanne. Columbia University. "Discomfiting Performances: 'Comfort Women' and the Fictions of 'Japanese Womanhood'."
Tsurumi, E. Patricia. University of Victoria and University of British Columbia. "Making Feminist History: The Historical Scholarship of Yamakawa Kikue and Takamura Itsue."
Jeon, Miseli. University of British Columbia. "Memory and History."
Mackie, Vera. Curtin University of Technology. "Women Writing the History of the Present: The Jûgoshi Nôto Collective."

10. Women on the Borderline: Negotiating Cultures

Choo, Jessey J.C. University of Toronto. "Shibichûdai: Chinese Female Rulership in Japanese Context."
Pamonag, Febe. University of Alberta. "A Japanese Woman with an Education: the Significance of Ume Tsuda's Correspondence with Adeline Lanman."
Strong, Sarah M. Bates College. "Negotiating Ainu-ness in a Tokyo Home Setting; Chiri Yukie's 1922 Summer Diaries."
Smith, Susan L. University of Alberta. "An American Sanba: The Life of Toku Shimomura, a Japanese-American Midwife."

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11. Who Are You This Time? Problematized Identities

Miyake, Lynn. Pomona College. "'Translating' Discursive Systems: Interactive, Performative Narration in The Kagero Diary."
Chang, Yu. University of Toronto. "Cultivating the Universal Self: Two Women Kanshi Writers in the Late Edo Period."
Wilson, Michiko Niikuni. University of Virginia. "A Female Intellectuality and 'Kawaii Onna': You Can't Live With Them, You Can't Live Without Them."
Monnet, Livia. Université de Montréal. "Memory, Embodiment, and the Senses in Recent Autobiographical Films by Japanese and Japanese American Women."

12. Women on the Move: Travel and Transgression

Sakaki Atsuko. University of Toronto. "Mad Woman Walking: Higuchi Ichiyô as a Flaneur."
Eubanks, Charlotte. University of Colorado at Boulder. "The Wandering Text and the Boundaries of Genre: Hayashi Fumiko's Diary of a Vagabond."
Kleeman, Faye Yuan. University of Colorado at Boulder. "What Did They see in the Tropics? Colonial Ethnography and Gender in Nogami Yaeko and Kubokawa (Sata) Ineko's Travel Writings."
Henitiuk, Valerie. University of Alberta. "Tomaru hito, yuku hito: Pushing the Envelope of Female Space."

13. Nikki: Writing and the Female Self

Mostow, Joshua. University of British Columbia. "Lady Ise as Text."
Tanaka Motoko. UBC. "Two Different Aspects of Identity in Kagerô Nikki and Sarashina Nikki."
Takizawa Akemi. UBC. "Flight to Narutaki and Her Defeat in Kagerô Nikki."
Nagaike Kazumi. UBC. "Formation of Japanese nikki bungaku as an Autobiographical Genre."

14. Thinking Back Through Our Mothers

Fukumori Naomi. Ohio State University. "The Sei Shônagon versus Murasaki Shikibu Debates and the Role of Heian Women Writers in the Formation of National Literature."
Kimura-Steven, Chigusa. University of Canterbury. "The Social Condition of Heian Literary Women."
Imazeki Toshiko. Kawamuragakuen Women's University. "The Legend of Ono-no-Komachi and Japanese Culture."
Rowley, Gaye. Waseda University. "Memoirs of a Real Geisha: Masuda Sayo's Geisha: Half a Lifetime of Pain and Struggle."

15. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman: Coming of Age

Christiansen, Amy. Wittenberg University. "Coming-of-Age Her Style: Saegusa Kazuko's Hibikiko's Smile."
Inoue Kazuko. Hokkaido Daigaku. "The Line of Running Women in Japanese Literature: From Izanami to Modern Women Writers."
Hogan, Eleanor J. Gettysburg College. "From Sachiko to Machiko: Nogami Yaeko's Evolving New Woman."
Soeshima Yumi. University of Wisconsin - Madison. "Miyamoto Yuriko's Nobuko as a Kunstlerroman."

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16. Gender Identity

Khan, Robert Omar. University of Texas at Austin. "Rewriting Genji, Reconfiguring Gender: Imitation and Innovation in the Late Twelfth-Century Court Monogatari 'Ariake no Wakare' ('Parting at Dawn')."
Itoh Moriyuki. Hirosaki University. "Problems of Gender and Education in the Works of Female Writers in the Heian Period."
Winston, Leslie I. Connecticut College. "Shimizu Shikin Employing Sexual Strategies."
Gramlich-Oka, Bettina. University of Tübingen. "Tadano Makuzu and Her Writings."

17. Female Sexualities and Pairings

Hirano Yuki. University of British Columbia. "Women's Sexuality in Film and Fiction."
Langton, Nina. Okanagan University College. "Kono Taeko and the Art of Masochism."
Saeki Junko [Brown, Shelina, tr.]. Tezukayama Gakuin University. "The Portrayal of the Family by Female Writers of the 1980s and 90s."
Jones, Gretchen. University of Maryland. "War, Mummies, and Inversions: Kono Taeko's Miira tori ryokitan."

18. The Visual Body and Beyond

Marran, Christine. Princeton University. "Bodily Circuitries in 19th Century Japanese Books of Nature."
Steblyk, Cathy. Penn State. "Yoko Ono, Fluxus, and Postwar Avante-garde Performances of Self."
Spies, Alwyn. University of British Columbia. "What's wrong with pink? Gender anxiety and shojo manga."
Nakagawa Shigemi. Ritsumeikan University. "'Visage-uality' and Discourses of the Female Body."
Hagiwara Takao. Case Western Reserve University. "The Idea of Freedom in Fumiko Enchi's The Waiting Years and Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House."

19. The Sacred and the Secular: Women, Religion, and Myth

Dix, Monika. University of British Columbia. "Transformed representations of Chûjôhime in Texts and Images from the 13th-17th Centuries."
Kiyama, Lorinda. Stanford University. "Murasaki Shikibu in Hell or Paradise? Literature, Salvation, and Gender in Medieval Performative Preaching."
Umali, Amparo Adelina C. University of the Philippines. "Yuko Yuasa's Hannya Miriam: The Influence of Noh on a Contemporary Woman Playwright."
Hulvey, S. Yumiko. University of Florida. "Narrating the Sublime in Courtly Chaos."

20. Poetry: Personal, Public, Political

Heinrich, Amy V. Columbia University. "Cosmic Tanka: Recreating Universes."
Souleimenova, Aida. Far Eastern State University (Vladivostok). "The Passionate Style of the Tanka Anthology 'Tangled Hair' ('Midaregami')."
Beichman, Janine. Daito Bunka University. "Ishigaki Rin: Yesterday and Today."
Morton, Leith D. University of Newcastle, Australia. "Rewriting Texts as Text: The Creation of Yosano Akiko's Midaregami "

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