Japan’s Russia: Challenging the East-West Paradigm

JAPAN'S RUSSIA: CHALLENGING THE EAST-WEST PARADIGM

A two-day interdisciplinary conference about Russo-Japanese cultural relations

Japan’s Russia

 

Japan’s Russia: Challenging the East-West Paradigm
May 25-26, 2018
Franke Institute for the Humanities

This event is sponsored by the Center for the East Asian Studies, the Franke Institute for the Humanities, Center for Eastern European and Russian and Eurasian Studies, the Institute on the Formation of Knowledge, the University of Chicago’s Department of Comparative Literature, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, and the Japan Foundation New York.

CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

Franke Institute
1100 E 57th St
Chicago, IL 60637

Friday, May 25, 2018
13:30   Welcoming Remarks
14:00   Panel 1

CHAIR: Michael Bourdaghs
PRESENTERS: Brian Kim, Andrew Leong
DISCUSSANT: William Nickell

15:20   Coffee Break
15:40   Keynote by Haun Saussy
16:25   Coffee Break
16:45   Film Screening and Discussion, ‘Manchurian Sleepwalkers’ by Thomas Lahusen (63 min)
17:48   After-Screening Discussion

 

Saturday, May 26, 2018
10:00   Panel 2

CHAIR: Sho Konishi
PRESENTERS: Ian Rapley, Nadine Willems
DISCUSSANT: Andrew Leong

11:20   Coffee Break
11:30   Panel 3

CHAIR: Olga Solovieva
PRESENTERS: Takashi Nishiyama, Arata Takeda
DISCUSSANT: Hoyt Long

13:00   Lunch
14:00   Panel 4

CHAIR: Andrew Leong
PRESENTERS: Chelsea Hudson, Olga Solovieva
DISCUSSANT: Eleanor Gilburd

15:20   Coffee Break
15:40   Panel 5

CHAIR: William Nickell
PRESENTERS: Anastasia Fedorova, Jun Hee Lee, Mitsuyoshi Numano
DISCUSSANT: Michael Bourdaghs

17:20   Coffee Break
17:30   Keynote by Sho Konishi
18:15   Reception

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