Saturday, Oct. 17, 2020–Paul Schalow, Rutgers University. My talk at the Tokyo School Online Symposium addressed the topic of “The Tale of Genji as World Literature.”
Booklet of the Symposium Proceedings can be accessed here:
http://gjs.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/data/essays/uploads/TokyoSchool-03.pdf
The symposium organizer Prof. Kimura also advertised an upcoming online international roundtable organized by the Paris Genji Project that will be held on Dec. 12 & 13, 2020, on the theme “Instances of selfhood in The Tale of Genji and beyond.” My talk is scheduled for Saturday, Dec. 12 and will address “The problem of substitution in the Uji Chapters.”