IASIL JapanThe 39th International Conference

Evolutions/Dissolutions

Saturday, 28 October 2023
Sunday, 29 October 2023
Ritsumeikan University, Kinugasa Campus

Supported byStudent assistants supported by a subsidy from Kyoto City and the Kyoto Convention & Visitors Bureau.

IASIL Japan
c/o Yuri Yoshino
Department of English Language and Cultures, Faculty of Letters, Gakushuin University
1-5-1 Mejiro, Toshima-ku, Tokyo 171-8588, Japan
Email: secretary@iasil.jp

SATURDAY 28 October
9:30-10:30
10:30-10:50

10:50-11:50

Soshikan, Ritsumeikan University

Registration
Entrance
Opening Addresses:
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1. Andrew Fitzsimons (President, IASIL Japan)Room
2. Prof. Yuko Nakagawa (Dean, Faculty of Letters, Ritsumeikan
University)
3. Message from H.E. Mr Damien Cole, Ambassador of Ireland toJapan
PapersPanel Session 1: Gender and Zoomorphism in Irish Literature

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Hawk Chang, “‘She set her white face to him, passive, like a helpless Roomanimal.’: Zoomorphism in James Joyce’s ‘Eveline’”
Akemi Yoshida, “Has Stevenson’s Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll andMr. Hyde (1886) Evolved out of George Moore’s A Mummer’s
Wife (1885)? ”
Chair: Brian Fox
11:50-13:00

Lunch

13:00-14:00

PapersPanel Session 2: Evolutions/Dissolutions and Translations
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Tomoya Arai, “Proper Names in Joyce’s Self-Translation of RoomFinnegans Wake and the Multiplicity of the Italian Language”
Chih-hsien Hsieh, “Third Time’s a Charm? — On ‘Oxen of the Sun’

14:15-16:35

16:40-17:30
17:40-19:30

in Liu Xianyu’s 2021 Chinese Translation of Ulysses”
Chair: Andrew Fitzsimons
Symposium 1: “Evolutions/Dissolutions: Changes in Irish Writingand Performance”
Chair: Beverley Curran (ICU)
Panelists: Naoko Toraiwa (Meiji University)
Rina Kikuchi (Shiga University)
Mika Yoshimoto Murtagh (Nagoya Univ of ForeignStudies)
Beverley Curran (ICU)
Reading and Q&A: Anne Haverty
Introduction: Andrew Fitzsimons
Reception
Opening Address: Hitomi Nakamura (Ritsumeikan University)
Book Launch:
Martin Connolly, Belfast, with Dinosaurs, 1979 — a Prehysteric
Farce (Shanway Press) & Kind of Green — Jazz Legends,from ’86 –’90, through an Irish lens (Snowchild Press)
Masaya Shimokusu (ed. & trans.), Fairy and Ghost Stories:
Dubliners and Dwellers in the Other World by James Joyce, W.
B. Yeats et al. (Heibon-sha)
Introduction: Brian Fox

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SUNDAY 29 October
Soshikan, Ritsumeikan University
9:30-10:00
Registration
Entrance
10:00-11:00
Guest Lecture (Online): Claire Connolly (UCC / Boston College)
Conference“A Watery History of Irish Literature: Crossing the Irish Sea with John RoomKeats”
Introduction: Yuri Yoshino
11:10-12:40
Panel Session 3: Evolutions/Dissolutions in Contemporary Irish Conference
Literature
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Nao Igarashi, “Louis MacNeice and His Contemporaries: The
Creative Impact of Edith Sitwell and Dylan Thomas”
Shan-Yun Huang, “Ironic Normality: Metamodern Subjectivity in
Caitriona Lally’s Eggshells”
Iain Twiddy, “Pastoral Elegy in Stephen Sexton’s If All the World andLove Were Young”
Chair: Naoko Toraiwa
12:50-14:00
Lunch and Annual General Meeting
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14:10-16:30
Symposium 2: “How Were They Cuttin’?: Joyce, Beckett, Conference
O’Flaherty, and Corkery and Post-Independence Ireland.”
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Chair: Masaya Shimokusu (Doshisha University)
Panelists: Masaya Shimokusu (Doshisha University)
Yuta Imazeki (Edogawa University)
Kiminori Fukaya (Hosei University)
Fuyuji Tanigawa (Konan Women’s University)
16:30
Closing Address: Yuri Yoshino (Secretary, IASIL Japan)
ConferenceRoomu Membership Renewal
Please renew your membership in advance, if necessary. The Conference Reception will not deal
with membership payment transactions.
u Refreshments
Tea and coffee will be available at the entrance of the Conference Room.
u LunchSaturday 28th October Please make your own arrangements.
・Tully’s Coffee inside the Hirai Kaichiro Memorial Library --- sandwiches and hot meals fortakeaway & eating-in
・FamilyMart (convenience store, just outside the main gate) --- sandwiches and hot meals fortakeaway・Nakau (10 mins walk from the main gate) --- Japanese hot meals for takeaway & eating-in.
Sunday 29th October Optional packed lunch boxes are available. Please book via registration formand pay in advance.
u Reception
Please book via registration form and pay in advance. We are sorry to say that, due to the policyof the service provider, places will be limited to those who made advance booking and payment.

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Wi-fi Connections
Please read relevant links below in advance.
・Wi-fi Connection Manual for members without eduroam:https://it.support.ritsumei.ac.jp/hc/ja/articles/900005832506
NB Please request ID and password via registration form and pick up login details from theConference Reception.
・Wi-fi Connection Manual for members with eduroam:https://it.support.ritsumei.ac.jp/hc/ja/articles/900006783303-eduroam の利用について
AccessGetting to Kyoto Station from Kansai International Airport - 1 hr. 20 min. by WestJapan Railway Kansai-Airport Express “Haruka”.

https://www.westjr.co.jp/global/en/travel/shopping/access/train.html

Ritsumeikandaigaku-mae bus stop on Takao-Keihoku Line☜ recommended

You can also catch a bus bound for Kinkakuji and get off at Wara-tenjin bus stop or Kinugasa-ko bus stop, which is 10 min-walkaway from the campus.

Timetable: https://www2.city.kyoto.lg.jp/kotsu/busdia/hyperdia/061222.htm

l Kyoto City Bus #50 (Bus 36-42 mins) Ritsumeikandaigaku-mae bus stop

Timetable (weekends): https://www.nishinihonjrbus.co.jp/trans/route/kyoto/pdf/takaokeihoku_holiday_230401.pdf

l West Japan JR Bus (Bus 30 mins)

Bus options from Kyoto station (Central Gate 中央改札口) to Ritsumeikan University, Kinugasa Campus