2025 Paris Symposium Program
西鶴・馬琴シンポジウム
Brochure 2025_Saikaku-Bakin Dépliant A5 V2
Saikaku-Bakin Symposium
Dates: Thu/Fri/Sat 20-22 March, 2025
Paris Cité University, Paris, France (in-person presentations; virtual audience participation)
20 MARCH (THU): |
EDO NARRATIVE—Collège de France, Institut des Civilisations – Salle Françoise Héritierhttps://u-paris.zoom.us/meeting/register/Yv2PiguhR12xhpiCLHDtDQ |
| Panel 1 |
5:30-7:00pm Q&A 7:00-7:30pm Session chair: Paul G. Schalow (Rutgers) |
| David ATHERTON | What is fiction for? Ueda Akinari’s Kamakura tales and the bounds of narrative |
| Andrew GERSTLE
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Reading jōruri narratives
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21 MARCH (FRI): |
POPULAR LITERATURE—Paris Cité University – Amphithéâtre Alan Turinghttps://u-paris.zoom.us/meeting/register/2iNBJ01mQH6hHcabArFZoQ |
| Panel 2 |
10:00-11:00am Q&A 11:00-11:30am Session chair: Marianne Simon (Université Paris Cité) |
| Will FLEMING | Jippensha Ikku’s practice of serial publication and the emergence of an interactive readership |
| Angelo WONG | 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 Session chair: Daniel Struve (Université Paris Cité) |
| Cristian PALLONE | Yoshiwara goes to theatre: Some considerations regarding the evolution of sharebon in the Tenmei and Kansei eras |
| William HEDBERG | Chikamatsu Monzaemon’s Later Battles of Coxinga and the Edo-period discovery of Taiwan |
| Panel 4 |
4:30-5:30pm Q&A 5:30-6:00pm Session chair: Gérald Peloux (INALCO) |
| Paola MASCHIO | The spoken language of women in Shikitei Sanba’s Ukiyo buro |
| David J. GUNDRY
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The question of humor in Ihara Saikaku’s fiction
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MARCH 22 (SAT): |
POPULARIZATION—Paris Cité University – Amphithéâtre Alan Turinghttps://u-paris.zoom.us/meeting/register/S4a7PAf7RM-oc4wm5bZJXA |
| Panel 5 |
10-11:30am Q&A11:30am-12:00pm Session chair: Matthias Hayek (EPHE – PSL) |
| Nicolas MOLLARD | When philological essays disguise as fiction: an analysis of Kyokutei Bakin’s Mukashigatari shichiya no kura (1811) |
| Ye YUAN | Rewriting Japanese story into Chinese form: Engi kyōgiden and the unruly woman in early modern Japan |
| Kevin MULHOLLAND | Humor, historical consciousness and information culture in Kyokutei Bakin’s Musō Byōei kochō monogatari |
| Panel 6 |
2:30-4:00pm Q&A 4:00-4:30pm Session chair: Nicolas Mollard (Université Jean Moulin Lyon 3) |
| Morgaine SETZER-MORI | Historiographical elements and the construction of historical meaning in Takai Ranzan’s Atsumori gaiden: Kitan Aoba no fue (1813) |
| Jeffrey KNOTT | Premodern Genji commentaries and Tanehiko’s Nise Murasaki |
| Shan REN | The alluring poisonous woman: Oren in Kyokutei Bakin’s Shinpen kinpeibai” |
| Roundtable Discussion |
4:30-5:30pm |
| Jeffrey NEWMARK, Glynne WALLEY | “Bringing Edo literature to new audiences: translation, pedagogy, digital tools” |
Please address questions to: daniel.struve@u-paris.fr or schalow@rutgers.edu