SCHEDULE & ACCOMODATIONS

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

Friday, August 17

9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m./1:00 p.m. - 4:00 p.m. Ukiyoe Print Exhibition by Kunisada II "The Tale of Genji"

8:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. Conference Registration
8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Professor Sharalyn Orbaugh Keynote Address
9:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. Coffee Break
9:45 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. PANEL #1 Surfing the Second Wave: Japanese Feminist Writing, 1970-1990: Panelists: Bardsley, Hirota, Hirakawa, Loftus
9:45 a.m. - 11: 45 a.m. PANEL #2 Japanese Women's Texts and Voices: The Muffled Sounds of the Fifteenth to Seventeenth Centuries: Panelists: Butler, Chance, Ikeda, Lillehoj
11:45 a.m. - 12: 45 p.m. Lunch (not catered)
12:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. PANEL #3 Yoshiya Nobuko and Women Audiences: Panelists: Suzuki, Matsugu, Frederick, Kinoshita, Harada
12:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. PANEL #4: Woman as Creator - Woman as Critic: Panelists: Bowen-Struyk, Grella-Mozejko, Driscoll, Farrell
3:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Coffee Break
3:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. PANEL #5: Embodying Woman: Panelists: Chin, Long, Slaymaker, McKeon
3:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. PANEL #6: For Better or For Worse? Marriage, Family, and Literature: Panelists: Sato, Schierbeck, Shinozuka, Wender

8:00 p.m. - 10:30 p.m. Nishikawa Teruka Piano Recital (Japanese Women Composers)

Saturday, August 18

8:30 a.m. - 9:30 a.m. Professor Laurel Rasplica Rodd Keynote Address
9:30 a.m. - 9:45 a.m. Coffee Break
9:45 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. PANEL #7 Transgendered Expressions: Staking Claim to a Traditionally Male Territory: Panelists: Nagase, Volk, McDonald, Nishikawa
9:45 a.m. - 11:45 a.m. PANEL #8 Dial M for Murder (...Monsters, Man-slaughtering, Miyabe Miyuki, and Masculinity): Panelists: Mori, Chen, Copeland, Yamade
11:45 a.m. - 12:45 p.m. Lunch (catered)
12:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. PANEL #9: Lest We Forget: Panelists: Levy, O'Brien, Tsurumi, Jeon, Mackie
12:45 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. PANEL #10: Women on the Borderline: Negotiating Cultures: Panelists: Choo, Pamonag, Strong, Smith
3:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Coffee Break
3:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. PANEL #11: Who Are You This Time? Problematized Identities: Panelists: Miyake, Chang, Wilson, Monnet
3:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. PANEL #12: Women on the Move: Travel and Transgression: Panelists: Sakaki, Eubanks, Kleeman, Henitiuk

7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m. Tsutsui Akiko and Cindy Yuen-Chau Chan Storytelling Event: The Power of Makoto

Sunday, August 19

8:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. PANEL #13: Nikki: Writing and the Female Self: Panelists: Mostow, Tanaka, Takizawa, Nagaike
8:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. PANEL #14: Thinking Back Through Our Mothers: Panelists: Fukumori, Kimura-Steven, Imazeki, Rowley
10:20 a.m. - 10:30 a.m. Coffee Break
10:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. PANEL #15: Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman: Coming of Age: Panelists: Christiansen, Inoue, Hogan, Soeshima
10:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. PANEL #16: Gender Identity: Panelists: Khan, Itoh, Winston, Gramlich-Oka
12:20 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. Lunch (catered)
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. PANEL #17: Female Sexualities and Pairings: Panelists: Hirano, Langton, Saeki, Jones
1:00 p.m. - 3:00 p.m. PANEL #18: The Visual Body and Beyond: Panelists: Marran, Steblyk, Spies, Nakagawa, Hagiwara
3:00 p.m. - 3:15 p.m. Coffee Break
3:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. PANEL #19: The Sacred and the Secular: Women, Religion, and Myth: Panelists: Dix, Kiyama, Umali, Hulvey
3:15 p.m. - 5:15 p.m. PANEL #20: Poetry: Personal, Public, Political: Panelists: Heinrich, Souleimenova, Beichman, Morton
7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m. Banquet

Monday, August 20

8:30 a.m. - 11:00 a.m. Farewell Breakfast

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For further information, contact:

Janice Brown
Associate Professor
Department of East Asian Studies
University of Alberta
Edmonton, AB     T6G 2F6
CANADA
Tel: (780) 492-1569
Fax: (780) 492-7440
janice.brown@ualberta.ca

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