IASIL JAPAN newsletter2008 No.1
International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures, JapanJanuary 2008

We wish all of our members a Happy New Year!
1. Change of Email Address of Office
Due to tons of spam emails and various reasons, with the permission of President Ohno,
the office has changed its email address as follows:
iasiljapan2008@yahoo.co.jp
The office’s former address, shimox@suac.ac.jp , may be available now, but is expected
to be expired soon.
2. IASIL JAPAN Annual Bibliography
The conventions of our annual bibliography will be modified as follows. As mentionedbelow, “[t]he bibliography can include books, theses, translations and review essays, but
not book reviews and not short newspaper articles.” Also, please note item no. 8.
To IASIL members:
We compile an annual bibliography of academic articles and books related to the Irish literaturecompile an annual bibliography of academic articles and books related to the Irish literatureand culture published in Japan and register the list in the Journal of Irish Studies. Please senda bibliography of your publications from January to December of the previous year to Kazuhiro
Doki by the end of March. The bibliography can include books, theses, translations and review
essays, but not book reviews and not short newspaper articles. Also, if the publication’s relation
with Irish literature and culture is not clear, it is not to be included. If in doubt about whether an
item should be listed, include it anyway, and we will make editorial decisions. Yourbibliography should follow the conventions below. The bibliography will be forwarded tothe IASIL main office and also listed in the Irish University Review.
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Font and size: Times New Roman 12 pt.
Author’s name: Japanese names: no comma between the family name and given
name. Non-Japanese names: give surname first, comma, then given name. Author’s
surname in Capital letters. For example: SMITH, John; OHNO Mitsuko
Name of Journal: All journal names should go in italics. For example:
Joycean Japan; The Harp.
in: Before you give the name of the journal, collection etc., write “in”. For example:‘Feminism and Joyce’, in Joycean Japan 9, pp. 108-21.
No comma after the journal name: After the journal name, go straight to the volume
number, without using a comma, and insert a space after pp. For example:
in Theatre Survey 42:2, pp. 137-64. [NOT: in Theatre Survey, 42:2, 137-64.]
Other Journal details: With all Irish Studies journals in Japan, including the Journalof Irish Studies, there is no need to accompany with further detail such as: (Bulletin ofthe X Society of Japan), as there will be a key at the beginning of the Bibliography.
Therefore, not: The Harp (The Bulletin of IASIL Japan) but simply:The HarpArticle title: Put the title of the article in single quotes.
Book title: Book titles should be always in italics, whether it is included in an article
title nor not.
Quotes, titles or phrases within title: Use double quotation marks for internalquotes :ITO Eishiro, ‘The Nameless Narrator and Nationalism: A Study of the“Cyclops” episode of Ulysses’, in The Harp 12, pp. 103-12.
Papers or books published in Japanese: First give the original Japanese title inroman letters (romaji). Then after a backslash, give a translation of the title in English
without any quotation marks. For example:
ITO Hiromi, ‘Yeats Toki to Eien Sono 5’/Time and Eternity inYeats’s Poetry No.5, in Bulletin of Toyo University, Liberal Arts 39, pp. 53-70.
In transcribing Japanese words into Romaji:(a) Follow the Hepburn system (ヘボン式),whose table you can find in
Kenkyusha’s New Japanese-English Dictionary, 4th ed, 1991.
Ex. Not ti but chi; not tu but tsu, etc.
(b) Do not use macrons such as ∧ or − over vowels in order to indicate
vowel length.
(c) English names should be spelled in English; Do not transcribe into Romaji
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Ex. Not: Yeitsu Shi ni okeru, but: Yeats Shi ni okeru
Do not write the words “In Japanese”: If your paper/book is in Japanese, it will beobvious from the translation at the beginning of your entry. If your publication is in
English, this will be clear from the absence of a translation, so do not add the words“In English”:
Multiple editors: Where there are many editors (or authors), punctuation andinitialling should be as follows:
MOODY, T.W., MCDOWELL, R.B., & WOODS, C.J. eds. The Writings ofTheobald Wolfe Tone 1763-98, Oxford University Press (Oxford).
Publisher and place: Spell out the full name of the publisher, i.e., Oxford University
Press, not OUP, and always give the location, even if it appears obvious, i.e., Cork
University Press (Cork).

Please send your bibliography either by e-mail or by postal mail to:
Doki Kazuhiro
Foreign Languages Department
Aichi University of Education
1 Hirosawa, Igaya-cho
Kariya-city, Aichi 448-8542 E-mail: kdoki@auecc.aichi-edu.ac.jp

3. Our Shared JapanThe office still has the stock of copies of the brilliant anthology of contemporary Irish
poetry. If you are a member of IASIL JAPAN, the paperback edition ofOur Shared Japan: an anthology of contemporary Irish poetry
can be bought for 1,000 yen (On the regular commercial basis, its price is 20 euros).
The anthology features Seamus Heaney, Ciaran Carson, Thomas Kinsella, Paula
Meehan, Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill, John Hewitt, Paul Muldoon and many other famous Irish
poets, including IASIL JAPAN members.
For further details of the book, visit
http://www.dedaluspress.com/anthologies/japan.html .
These were donated by the Embassy of Ireland, and we are permitted to sell them for
1,000 yen per copy to our members as a source of our revenue. IASIL JAPAN wishes toexpress sincere gratitude to Mr. Brendan Scannell, the Ambassador, and the Embassy ofIreland in Japan for their generosity.
One member can buy up to five copies. If you wish to buy 1-3 copies, 300 yen will beadded to the book price for postage and commission for each parcel (not for eachbook). If you wish 4-5 copies, 500 yen will do for each parcel. If you order from outsideof Japan, you may need to pay more.

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4. The 24th International Conference of IASIL JAPANWith the book launch of Our Shared Japan, and the guests’ and members’ contribution
on both days, this year's conference was a great success. We, IASIL JAPAN members,
really appreciate the great efforts of Prof. Seishi Matsuda and his wonderful students.
The following is the final version of this year’s programme.
SATURDAY
27 October
9:30-10:30
Registration
1F, Bldg. No.4
10:30-11:00 Opening Addresses:
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1. Prof. Mitsuko Ohno (President, IASIL JAPAN)
2. Prof. Masumi Akaishi (Dean of Faculty of Literature,
Kobe Shinwa Women’s University)
11:10-12:10 Reading: Novelist Evelyn Conlon
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Introduction: Andrew Fitzsimons
12:10-13:00 Lunch
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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
14:10-15:00 Poetry Reading:Room 411
Joseph Woods, Evelyn Conlon, Andrew Fitzsimons,David Burleigh
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15:10-17:10 Symposium: Beckett and Media
Chair: Joseph O’Leary
With presentations by: 1. David Taylor 2. Miki Iwata 3.
Kiminori Fukaya
Commentator: Prof. Luke Gibbons
17:20-18:20 Guest Lecture:
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Prof. Luke Gibbons: ‘They’ve Seen it from the OtherSide’: Immigration, Memory and Irish Culture
Introduction: Mitsuko Ohno
18:30-20:30 RECEPTION Seishi Matsuda
Seikyo-Shokudo
With attendance of Mr. and Mrs. Brendan Scannell, (Co-op DiningHall)
Ambassador of Ireland, andwith Book Launch: Our Shared Japan: an anthology ofcontemporary Irish poetry (Dublin: Dedalus Press,2007)
Speaker: Mr. Joseph Woods (Director, Poetry Ireland)
SUNDAY 28 October
10:00-10:30 Registration
10:30-11:00 Special Lecture on Our Shared Japan: an anthology ofcontemporary Irish poetry by Mr. Joseph Woods
Introduction: Andrew Fitzsimons
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
1. Soichiro Onose: Righting the Nation: Parody andNationalism in James Joyce’s “Oxen of the Sun”
2. Marissa Aixas: Irishness and Catalanishness: TheTranslation of Finnegans Wake episode ‘The Mookse andthe Gripes’ into Catalan
Chair: Kazuhiro Doki
12:10-13:00 Lunch and Annual General Meeting
Chair: Prof. Ken’ichi Matsumura
13:10-15:20 Symposium: Ulster Poets
Chair: Bryan Coleborne
With presentations by 1. Masahiro Tsuji on Louis MacNeice
2. Toru Sato on Seamus Heaney 3. Toshi Takagishi on Paul
Muldoon
15:20
Closing Address: Masaya Shimokusu
5. The 25th International Conference of IASIL JAPAN
Host University: Gakushuin University
Organizer: Prof. Andrew Fitzsimons(Dates, guests and the conference theme are under consideration.)
6. IASIL 2008
The following is the extract from the first call for papers:

Home and Elsewhere: the Spaces of Irish Writing
Oporto , Portugal , 28 July – 1 August 2008
Conference Website: http://web.letras.up.pt/iasil08/
FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS

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Deadline 14 January 2008
The International Association for the Study of Irish Literatures invites you to attend its
2008 conference at Universidade doPorto, in Portugal.
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The conference will take place at the Faculties of Letters and Architecture (Faculdade deLetras / Faculdade de Arquitectura), close to the city centre and overlooking the river
Douro. Accommodation will be available in hotels within walking distance of theconference venue, at a special rate to delegates.
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Confirmed keynote speakers:
Academics: Edna Longley , Professor Emerita, Queen’s University Belfast; Chris Morash ,NUI Maynooth; Claire Connolly , Cardiff University
Writers: Michael Longley, Hugo Hamilton
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