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

Publications

Anastasia Fedorova

 

Riarizumu no gensō: Nisso eiga koryū shi 1925-1955 [Illusion of Realism: History of Soviet-Japanese Cinematic Interactions, 1925-1955] Tokyo: Shinwasha, 2018. http://www.shinwasha.com

Mitsuyoshi Numano

 

The Borderline of Japanese Literature and its Changes in the Context of World Literature

Olga Solovieva

 

The erased grave of Dersu Uzala: Kurosawa’s cinema of memory and mourning 

Kurosawa Akira’s The Idiot: Where the East meets the West

Kurosawa Akira’s The Lower Depths: Beggar cinema at the disjuncture of times

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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