INTERFACEing 2023
“Changing Paradigms: Humanities in the Age ofCrisis”
25 - 27 September 2023, Kobe University, Graduate School of Humanities, Building A/B
25 September, Monday
9:45-10:15

Registration (A119)

10:15-10:40

Welcoming Address & Announcements (B331)
Takashi Kita (Kobe University, vice president), Yoshihiko Shiratori (Kobe University, vice dean of the Graduate School of Humanities)
Hiroko Masumoto (Kobe University, Head of the Conference Organizing Committee)
Plenary Lecture 1 (B331)
Henrieke Stahl (University of Trier), Moderator: Masumoto
Plenary Lecture 2 (B331) Moderator: MasumotoAnne Sauvagnargues (Paris Nanterre University), Moderator: Masumoto
Lunch (A119)

10:40-11:20
11:20-12:00
12:00-13:00

13:00-15:30

Room 1 (B233)

Room 2 (B231)

Room 3 (B132)

Panel 1 (in English)
The Transformation and Representation of
Folk Rituals in the Caucasus under theSoviet Paradigm ShiftModerator: Tateoka
1. Gayane Shagoyan (National Academyof Sciences of Armenia)
2. Liudmila Zhukova (Russian State
University for Humanities)
3. Ketevan Khutsishvili (Tbilisi State

Panel 2 (in English)“Hybrid Culture” in the Age ofGlobalization: Theories and Practices
ReconsideredModerator: Abalos-Orendain
1. Zheng Liu (Kansai InternationalUniversity)
2. Engin Yurt (Ondokuz Mayıs University)
3. Bowen Zhang (University ofNottingham Ningbo China)

Panel 3 (in German)
Images of the Alps and “the National”
Moderator: Hayanagi
1. Kazunori Hayanagi (NagasakiUniversity)
2. Hiroko Masumoto (Kobe University)
3. Yasuko Nakamura (Nagoya University)
4. Takashi Kawashima (Kyoto University)
5. Takuya Nakagawa (Nagoya University)

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4. Kumi Tateoka (University of Tokyo)

15:30-15:50

Coffee Break (A119)

15:50-17:20

Panel 4 (in Russian)Tbilisi avant-garde as a multilingual andmulticultural art movement
Moderator: Kartozia
1. Alexander Kartozia (Tbilisi StateUniversity)
2. Naoto Yagi (Waseda University)
3. Valerij Grecko (University of Tokyo)
Light Meal (A119)

17:20-18:20
18:20-19:00
19:00-20:00

4. Shiyu Chen (Oriental Daily News)
5. Karen Abalos-Orendain (University of thePhilippines)
comment: Nobuo Kazashi (Hiroshima CityUniversity)

Individual Papers 1 (in English)
Moderator: Ohashi
1. Vassilis Vagios (National TaiwanUniversity)
2. Guendalina Daniela Maria Taietti(University of Liverpool)
3. Sofia Bongiovanni (University CollegeLondon)

Individual Papers 2 (in English and Italian)
Moderator: Umemura
1. Andrea Sartori (Nankai University)
2. Lorenzo Cardilli (Politecnico of Milan)
3. Pietro Mazzarisi (University of Modenaand Reggio Emilia)

Book Presentation : The Taste of Dictatorship (B331)
Rusudan Gorgiladze (Tbilisi State University, writer), Moderator: Masumoto
Discussion

26 September, Tuesday

10:00-12:30

Room 1 (B135)

Room 2 (B231)

Room 3 (B232)

Room 4 (B233)

Panel 5 (in English)
Technology and theTransformation of “Being-in-theWorld”
Moderator: Kazashi
1. Takao Koga (TohokuUniversity)

Panel 6 (in German)
German Literature as a Filterof Changing Paradigms in theField of Humanities in an
Epoch of Crisis
Moderator: Chien
1. Christine Frank (FU Berlin)

Individual Papers 3 (in English)
Moderator: Grecko
1. Hiromasa Sato (HoseiUniversity)
2. Yorika Tsutsumi (Universityof Tokyo)
3. Elizaveta Litovskaia

Individual Papers 4 (in English)
Moderator: Nakahata
1. Sheng-mei Ma (MichiganState University)
2. Thomas Fliß (University ofTrier)
3. Barbara Witt (National22. Lingxiao Zhang (KobeUniversity)
3. Shinya Oie (Kobe University)
4. Xiaomei Wang (KobeUniversity)
5. Nobuo Kazashi (HiroshimaCity University)
Lunch (A119)

2. Hiroshi Yamamoto (WasedaUniversity)
3. Shoou-Huey Chang(Wenzao Ursuline Universityof Languages)
4. Chieh Chien (NationalTaiwan University)(National Taiwan University)
4. Yi-Jen Chang (NationalTaipei University)
5. Chenwen Hong (NationalTaipei University of Business)

Chengchi University)
4. Josie-Marie Perkuhn(University of Trier)
5 Mariana Münning (HeidelbergUniversity)

13:20-15:20

Panel 7 (in Russian)Word and idea in the changes oftime
Moderator: Grecko
1. Chieh-han Chiang (NationalChengchi University
2. Serafima Tsung-Huei Hsiung(National Taiwan University)
3. Tingchia Yen (NationalChengchi University)

Panel 8 (in English)
The Role of Literature andNarratives in Fostering
Contemporary Critical andCreative Thinking
Moderator: Novak, Sioli
1. Zvonimir Jelinić (Universityof Osijek)
2. Stephanie Jug (University ofOsijek)
3. Sonja Novak (University ofOsijek)
4. Angeliki Sioli (TU Delft)

Individual Papers 5 (in English)
Moderator: Hirai
1. Jasmin Spiegel (Hebrew
University of Jerusalem)
2. Oscar Wrenn (KobeUniversity)
3. Megumi Ohsumi (KobeUniversity)

Individual Papers 6 (in English)
Moderator: Ohashi
1. Aleksei Semenenko (UmeåUniversity)
2. Barış Çoban (DoğuşUniversity)
3. Olena Semenets (TauridaNational University)

15:20-15:40

Coffee Break (A119)

15:40-17:40

Panel 9 (in English)
Sergei Tretyakov and Soviet
Literary Criticism
Moderator: Grecko
1. Masumi Kameda (ChukyoUniversity)
2. Michiko Komiya (Universityof Tokyo)

Individual Papers 7 (in Englishand French)
Moderator: Nakahata
1. Guy Spielmann (GeorgetownUniversity)
2. Vivianne Wen-HuiChang(Chung Yuan ChristianUniversity)

Individual Papers 8 (in English)
Moderator: Umemura
1. Taisei Yamashita (DoshishaUniversity) + Atsuhiko Uchida(Kobe University)
2. Barbara Marquardt(University of Trier)
3. Laura Bissell (Royal

12:30-13:20

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3. Soo Hwan Kim (Hankuk
University of Foreign Studies)
18:00-20:00

3. Charlène Clonts (KyushuUniversity)

Conservatoire of Scotland)
4. Adam Lovasz (ELTEUniversity)

Dinner (Takigawa Memorial Hall)

27 September, Wednesday
10:00-10:40
10:40-12:00
12:00-13:00
13:30-16:00

Poetry Reading (A119)
Daniel Jurjew (poet and translator), Moderator: Stahl
Information on “Interface: Journal of European Languages and Literatures”, Vassilis Vagios (A119)Time for Networking
Lunch (A119)
Excursion (Kiku-Masamune Sake Brewery Museum)
13:30 Departure by bus* This conference is supported by JSPS KAKENHI Grant Numbers 18KK0008 and 22H00650. It is also kindly supported by the Kobe Convention
Bureau and Jean Monnet Centre of Excellence-Kobe.

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