IASIL JapanThe 35th International Conference

Exits and Entrances

Toyo University (Hakusan Campus)
Saturday, 13 October 2018
Sunday, 14 October 2018

Supported by

The JSPS Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (B) 2018
"Prague and Dublin: Spaces of discourse on ghosts andmedia: aspects of 'translation' between cultures"

SATURDAY 13 October

3rd Floor, Building 5

9:30-10:30
10:30-11:00

Registration
Opening Addresses:
1. Naoko Toraiwa (President, IASIL Japan)
2. Etsuko Yaguchi (Dean, Faculty of Letters, Toyo University)
3. Representative of the Embassy of Ireland

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11:00-12:00Guest Lecture: Ondřej Pilný
“The Power of Saying ‘No’: The Recent Plays of David Ireland”
Introduction: Hiroko Mikami

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12:00-13:00

Lunch5302, 5303

13:00-15:00

Papers

15:30-17:50

17:50-18:00
18:30-20:30

Room 1: Literary Traditions and Influences
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Michael Kearney, “Julian Gough at Ireland’s Event Horizon: The
Inescapable Past & Future”
Michael Kenneally, “‘Joyce’s Dubliners and Dubliners 100: Tradition andTransformation in the Contemporary Irish Short Story”
Chair: Kumiko Yamada
Joseph S. O’Leary, “Comic Entrances, Tragic Exits: Socrates and Wilde”
Duncan Chesney, “How it is and the Politics of Art”
Chair: Andrew Fitzsimons
Room 2: Gender and Family Troubles
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Hawk Chang, “ ‘He Meddled with or Molested Me’: #MeToo Protests inNuala Ní Dhomhnaill’s The Fifty Minute Mermaid”
Shan-Yun Huang, “Motherhood in Post-Crash Ireland: Donal Ryan’s All
We Shall Know”
Masahiko Yahata, “Families and Northern Ireland Represented in Deirdre
Madden’s Novels”
Martin Connolly, “Dissonance in Claire Keegan’s Stories”
Chair: Beverley Curran
Symposium 1: “Samuel Beckett and the Imagination of the Post5310
catastrophe”
Chair: Mariko Hori (Aoyama Gakuin University)
Panelists: Naoya Mori (Kobe Women’s University)
Yoshiki Tajiri (University of Tokyo)
Michiko Tsushima (University of Tsukuba)
Commentator: Ondřej Pilný
Book Launch 1: Mariko Hori Tanaka et al. eds., Samuel Beckett andTrauma (Manchester UP)
Reception
Opening Address: Yasuhito Sato (Toyo University)
Book Launch 2: Neil Murphy, John Banville (Bucknell UP)

TresDining(1st Floor,Bldg. 8)

3rd Floor, Building 55303

SUNDAY 14 October
9:30-10:00
Registration
10:00-11:30
Papers

11:40-12:30
12:30-13:40
13:40-16:00

16:00

Room 1: Ireland and the Contemporary World
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Neil Murphy, “John Banville’s Illuminated City-Images”
Lim Lee Ching, “Celtic Tiger Hidden Dragon: John Moriarty and theMyth of Progress”
Rhona Richman Kenneally, “Language Framed on the Body: Text as aMaterial Culture Narrative”
Chair: John Christopher Maher
Room 2: W.B. Yeats and National Images
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Shotaro Yamauchi, “Yeats and Shotaro Oshima: What Was ‘Yeats’sJapan’?”Yuan Li, “W.B.Yeats’s Anti-theatricalism and Poetic Nationalism in At
the Hawk’s Well”
Setsuko Adachi, “‘The Fields of Athenry’ as an Irish Anthem:
Empiricizing Folk Spirit – the Imagined Irish Peasantry”
Chair: Yoko Sato
Reading and Q&A: Deirdre Madden
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Introduction: Naoko Toraiwa
Lunch and Annual General Meeting

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Chair: Masami Nakao
Symposium 2: “Cultivating Stories: Children’s Fiction in Ireland”
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Chair: Jane O’Halloran (Okayama University of Science)
Panelists: Maho Hidaka (Kyoto Women’s University)
Yoko Kubo (Nihon University)
Yuri Yoshino (Gakushuin University)
Commentator: Deirdre Madden
Closing Address: Haruko Takakuwa (Secretary, IASIL Japan)

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Tea and coffee are available in Rooms 5302
EVand 5303.
Main Gate

Toyo University (Hakusan Campus)
5-28-20 Hakusan, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo 112-8606
http://www.toyo.ac.jp/site/access/
http://www.toyo.ac.jp/site/access/access-hakusan.html

For Building 5, enter from the Main Gate and go straight up the slope; thebuilding is in front of you.
The Main Gate is 5-7 minute walk from Hakusan Station (Exit A3) and Sengoku Station(Exit A1) on Metropolitan Mita Line, and from Hon Komagome Station (Exit 1) on Tokyo
Metro Namboku Line.
Toyo University is 10 minute ride away from Sugamo Station on JR Yamanote Line; takeToei bus bound for “Asakusa Kotobuki-cho” and get off at “Toyo Daigaku Mae”.