IASIL JapanThe 34th International Conference

Encounters

Kindai University
Supported bySaturday, 14 October 2017
Sunday, 15 October 2017

SATURDAY 14 October

Building A

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

3nd Floor
Room 301

11:30-12:30

Registration
Opening Addresses:
1. Naoko Toraiwa (President, IASIL Japan)
2. Izumi Takamiya (Dean, Faculty of Literature, Arts and CulturalStudies, Kindai University)
3. Representative of the Embassy of Ireland
Lecture: Margaret Kelleher

Room 301“Contemporary Irish Fiction: Gender and Genre”
Introduction: Naoko Toraiwa
12:30-13:30

Lunch

13:30-15:45

Papers (with 15 mins. coffee break)

16:00-17:00

17:30-19:30

Youngmin Kim, “The Genealogy of Yeats’s ‘Dreaming Back of theRoom 301
Dead’: Ezra Pound, Fenollosa, and Japanese Mugen Noh”
Joseph S. O’Leary, “Yeats on Impermanence”
Chair: Akiko Manabe***coffee break***
Masaya Shimokusu, “Rudy and the Repressed Image of Unbaptised Childin James Joyce’s Ulysses”
Naoya Mori, “Whose Voice Is This?: ‘A Late Evening in The Future’ in
Beckett’s Krapp’s Last Tape”
Chair: Kazuhiro DokiTetsuko Nakamura, “The Post-Famine Representations of Connemara inRoom 306
Fiction and Non-Fiction”
Chih-hsien Hsieh, “‘Whenever you don't quite know you're doing. Knowthat you are growing’: The Problem of Growing Up in Seamus
Deane's Reading in the Dark”
Chair: Kimiyo Ogawa***coffee break***
Masahiko Yahata, “Quests for a Northern Irish Identity: GlennPatterson’s Latest Works of Non-fiction and Fiction”
Chen-wei Han, “Political Landscapes, Memory and the Troubles inNorthern Ireland in the Drama of Christina Reid and Anne
Devlin”
Chair: Fuyuji Tanigawa
Reading: Lia Mills
Room 301
From Fallen and others
Introduction: Kumiko Yamada
Reception
Opening Address: Akemi Yoshida (Kindai University)*Coffee and tea are available in Room 308 for both 14 and 15 October.

KURE

SUNDAY 15 October
Building A
9:30-10:00
Registration
3rd Floor
10:00-12:20
Room 301
Symposium 1: “Looking Back and Forth: Myth, Memory, andHistory in Irish Women's Writing”
Chair: Beverley Curran (International Christian University)
Panelists: Hawk Chang (Education University of Hong Kong)
Jane O’Halloran (Okayama University of Science)
Ayami Yoshida (Tokushima University)
Commentators: Margaret Kelleher, Lia Mills
12:30-13:30
Room 301
Lunch and Annual General Meeting
Chair: Mitsuko Ohno
13:40-16:00
Room 301
Symposium 2: “Contemporary Irish Poetry and Japan”
Chair: Masami Nakao (University of Tokyo)
Panelists: Hiroko Ikeda (Kyoto University)
Toshi Takagishi (Tokyo Metropolitan University)
Naoko Toraiwa (Meiji University)
Commentator: Andrew Fitzsimons (Gakushuin University)
16:10

Closing Address: Haruko Takakuwa (Secretary, IASIL Japan)

Higashi-osaka Campus, Kindai University
Address: 3-4-1 Kowakae, Higashiosaka City, Osaka 577-8502, Japan
Tel (main): 06-6721-2332 (From overseas: +81-6-6721-2332)
Access Information: http://www.kindai.ac.jp/english/access/index.html
 Buses to/from Kindai University from Yaenosato Station (Kintetsu Nara Line)
There is a direct bus service from Yaenosato Station to Kindai’s East Gate on
Saturdays: http://www.kintetsu-bus.co.jp/route/kindai/
There is no direct bus service on Sundays. However, there is a local bus service,although the number is limited. The bus stop nearest to Kindai University is “Higashikami-kosaka (東上小阪)”.
From Yaenosato Sta. http://www.kintetsu-bus.co.jp/search/pdf/686_1425460803.pdf
To Yaenosato Sta. http://www.kintetsu-bus.co.jp/search/pdf/543_1491356039.pdf
 Getting to Kindai University by Taxi
Kindai University is 5-6 minute-ride (costs approx. 1,000 yen) by taxi from bothYaenosato and Nagase Stations. For Building A, ask the driver to go to East Main Gate
(東正門) rather than West Gate.
There is a taxi rank outside Yaenosato Station. From Nagase Station, you will haveto call a taxi.
Taxi Companies

Shin-Toho Taxi (06-6787-0212); Kintetsu Taxi (06-6771-9001);
Osaka MK Taxi (06-6452-4441)