East Asian Civilizations Research Centre
Paris Cité University – EPHE – CNRS – Collège de France
Saikaku-Bakin Symposium, 20-22 March, 2025

PROGRAM

20 MARCH (THU):           EDO NARRATIVE—Collège de France, Institut des Civilisations – Salle Françoise Héritier

Panel 1                              5:30-7:00pm Q&A 7:00-7:30pm

David ATHERTON (Harvard University) What is fiction for? Ueda Akinari’s Kamakura tales and the bounds of narrative

Andrew GERSTLE (SOAS University of London)    Reading jōruri narratives

21 MARCH (FRI):             POPULAR LITERATURE—Paris Cité University – Amphithéâtre Alan Turing

Panel 2                              10:00-11:30am Q&A 11:30am-12:00pm 

Will FLEMING (UC Santa Barbara)    Jippensha Ikku’s practice of serial publication and the emergence of an interactive readership

HATANAKA Chiaki (Keai University)    Saikaku’s self-replication for the mass production of his works

Angelo WONG (Columbia University)    Hyakumonogatari and setsuwa pastiche in Shokoku hyakumonogatari’s depictions of the return of dead wives

Panel 3                              2:30-3:30pm Q&A 3:30-4:00pm

Cristian PALLONE (University of Bergamo)    Yoshiwara goes to theatre: Some considerations regarding the evolution of sharebon in the Tenmei and Kansei eras

William HEDBERG (Arizona State University)    Chikamatsu Monzaemon’s Latter Battles of Coxinga and the Edo-period discovery of Manchuria

Panel 4                              4:30-5:30pm Q&A 5:30-6:00pm

Paola MASCHIO (University of Milan)    The spoken language of women in Shikitei Sanba’s Ukiyo buro

David J. GUNDRY (UC Davis)    The question of humor in Ihara Saikaku’s fiction

MARCH 22 (SAT):            POPULARIZATION—Paris Cité University – Amphithéâtre Alan Turing

Panel 5                              10-11:30am Q&A11:30am-12:00pm

Nicolas MOLLARD (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3)     When philological essays disguise as fiction: an analysis of Kyokutei Bakin’s Mukashigatari shichiya no kura (1811)

Ye YUAN (Oberlin College)    Rewriting Japanese story into Chinese form: and the unruly woman in early modern Japan

Kevin MULHOLLAND (University of Montana)    Humor, historical consciousness and Engi kyōgiden information culture in Kyokutei Bakin’s Musō Byōei kochō monogatari

Panel 6                              2:30-4:00pm Q&A 4:00-4:30pm

Morgaine SETZER-MORI (Ruhr University Bochum)    Historiographical elements and the construction of historical meaning in Takai Ranzan’s Atsumori gaiden: Kitan Aoba no fue (1813)

Jeffrey KNOTT (National Institute of Japanese Literature)    Premodern Genji commentaries and Tanehiko’s Nise Murasaki

Shan REN (University of Oregon)    The alluring poisonous woman: Oren in Kyokutei Bakin’s Shinpen kinpeibai

Roundtable Discussion  4:30-5:30pm

Jeffrey NEWMARK (University of Winnipeg), Glynne WALLEY (University of Oregon)    Bringing Edo literature to new audiences: translation, pedagogy, digital tools  

Websites: 

Saikaku Bakin Symposium Webpage (Rutgers University)

East Asian Civilizations Research Centre – CRCAO

Venues: 

Collège de France, Institut des Civilisations – Salle François Héritier, 52, rue du Cardinal-Lemoine – 75005 Paris (March 20)

Université Paris Cité, Amphithéâtre Turing, Bâtiment Sophie Germain, 8 place Aurélie Nemours – 75013 Paris (March 21-22)

Contact:

Paul Schalow: schalow@rutgers.edu                                                   

Daniel Struve: daniel.struve@u-paris.fr