Co-sponsored by:
The Institute of East Asian Studies, and the Doreen B. Townsend Center for the Humanities, of the University of California, Berkeley, and Boston University.
ABOUT
May 21 - 24, 2015 | Soseki's Diversity: A Workshop, is a three day workshop event in which 16 scholars who have written essays on various aspects of the work of the novelist Natsume Sôseki gather to closely read and critique one another's work. This follows upon a conference held in 2014 at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The purpose of the workshop is to transform the essays into publishable work to be included in a volume edited by the workshop conveners, Keith Vincent and Alan Tansman, to be published in English, and also in Japanese translation, by Iwanami Press.
SCHEDULE
3:00-4:00PM WELCOME COFFEE HOUR
4:00-7:00PM GENDER
4:00-5:00PM Robert Tuck, University of Montana, Doubled Visions of Desire: Gender Ambiguity, Homosociality, and Fujimura Misao in Kusamakura
COMMENTATORS: Keith Vincent, Boston University; Sayumi Harb, Cornell University
5:00-6:00PM Sayumi Harb, Cornell University, Penning the Mad Man in the Attic: Women Writers and Imperial Subjects in Soseki’s Fiction
COMMENTATORS: Alan Tansman, UC Berkeley; Kristin Sivak, University of Toronto
6:00-7:00PM Seth Jacobowitz, Yale Univeristy, In the Key of Minor Literature: Mortification in the Posthumous Memoirs of Bras Cubas and Kokoro
COMMENTATORS: Alan Tansman, UC Berkeley; Angela Yiu, Sophia University (in absentia)
DINNER AT TOWNSEND CENTER
9:00AM-NOON
9:00-10:00AM Hitomi Yoshio, Florida International University, National Literature, Authorship, and the New Woman in Sôseki's Kusamakura
COMMENTATORS: Brian Riley Hurley, UC Berkeley; Leslie Winston
10:00-11:00AM Kristin Sivak, University of Toronto, Domestic Servants and the Narration of Character in Natsume Sōseki's Higan sugi made
COMMENTATORS: Reiko Abe Auestad, University of Oslo
11:00AM-NOON Leslie Winston, Modernity, Boredom, and Decadence in Natsume Sôseki’s Sorekara and Mon and the
Exorcising/Exercising of Morality
COMMENTATORS: Hitomi Yoshio, Florida International University; Brian C. Dowdle, University of Montana
1:00-2:00PM LUNCH AT TOWNSEND CENTER
2:00-5:00PM KOKORO
2:00-3:00PM Ken Ito, University of Hawaii, Kokoro in the High School Text
COMMENTATORS: Stephen Poland, Yale University; Andre Robert Haag University of New Mexico
3:00-4:00PM Reiko Abe Auestad, University of Oslo, Affect that disorients Kokoro
COMMENTATOR: Chris Weinberger, San Francisco State University; Sayumi Harb, Cornell University
4:00-5:00PM Brian Riley Hurley, UC Berkeley, Kokoro Confidential:Literary Language in the Conservative Mind of 1930s Japan 1950s America
COMMENTATORS: Seth Jacobowitz, Yale University; Stephen Poland, Yale University
10:00AM-NOON SOSEKI AND MEDIA
10:00-11:00AM Sarah Frederick, Boston University, Arriving in Sōseki’s Kyoto: A Digital Humanities Approach in Sōseki?”
COMMENTATORS: Reiko Abe Auestad, University of Oslo; Chris Weinberger, San Francisco State University
11:00AM-NOON Brian C. Dowdle, University of Montana, Judging Books by Their Covers 表紙を見た目で評価している：夏名漱石と書物の描写表現
COMMENTATORS: Sarah Frederick, Boston University
NOON-1:00PM LUNCH AT TOWNSEND CENTER
1:00-4:00PM SOSEKI AND ASIA
1:00-2:00PM Matthew Mewhinney, UC Berkeley, The Poetics of Suspension in Omoidasu koto nado
COMMENTATORS: Robert Tuck, University of Montana
2:00-3:00PM Stephen Poland, Yale University, I Am A Dog: Toward a Deimperial Reading of Natsume Sōseki’s Here & There in Manchuria and Korea
COMMENTATORS: Brian Riley Hurley, UC Berkeley; Ken Ito, University of Hawaii
3:00-4:00PM Andre Robert Haag, University of New Mexico, Why Was He...Well, Killed? -- Natsume Sōseki Between Empire, Nation and (Anti-) Colonial Violence
COMMENTATOR: Matthew Mewhinney, UC Berkeley; Robert Tuck, University of Montana
DINNER OFF-CAMPUS, CHENGDU STYLE RESTAURANT
SUNDAY, MAY 24
Breakfast and WRAP-UP for those who are around
PARTICIPANTS
Reiko Abe Auestad | University of Oslo
Brian C. Dowdle | University of Montana
Sarah Frederick | Boston University
Andre Robert Haag | University of New Mexico
Sayumi Harb | Cornell University
Brian Riley Hurley | UC Berkeley
Ken Ito | University of Hawaii
Seth Jacobowitz | Yale University
Matthew Mewhinney | UC Berkeley
Stephen Poland | Yale University
Kristin Sivak | University of Toronto
Alan Tansman | UC Berkeley - ORGANIZER
Robert Tuck | University of Montana
Keith Vincent | Boston University - ORGANIZER
Chris Weinberger | San Francisco State University
Leslie Winston
Angela Yiu | Sophia University
Hitomi Yoshio | Florida International University
LOCATION
GEBALLE ROOM
THE DOREEN B. TOWNSEND CENTER FOR THE HUMANITIES
220 STEPHENS HALL
Finding Stephens Hall
Stephens Hall is located in the central part of the campus near Sather Tower (the clock tower). It is a cream-colored stucco building with a large arched breezeway in its center.
From the south entrance at Telegraph Avenue, proceed across the plaza to Sather Gate and turn right, walking up the hill past Wheeler Hall and South Hall. Stephens Hall is on your right, directly south of the clock tower. Once you are in in the breezeway of Stephens Hall, take the door on the right, walk through the hallway, and exit to the terrace; walk across the terrace to the Center’s entrance.