2025 Paris Symposium Schedule
西鶴・馬琴シンポジウム
Saikaku-Bakin Symposium schedule (as of 15 Nov. 2024)
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 |
| Panel 1 | 5:30-7:00pm Q&A 7:00-7:30pm |
| David ATHERTON | What is fiction for? Ueda Akinari’s Kamakura tales and the bounds of narrative |
| Andrew GERSTLE | Reading jōruri narratives |
| 21 MARCH (FRI): | POPULAR LITERATURE—Paris Cité University |
| Panel 2 | 10:00-11:30am Q&A 11:30am-12:00pm |
| Will FLEMING | Jippensha Ikku’s practice of serial publication and the emergence of an interactive readership |
| HATANAKA Chiaki | Saikaku’s self-replication for the mass production of his works |
| 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 |
| Cristian PALLONE | Yoshiwara goes to theatre: Some considerations regarding the evolution of sharebon in the Tenmei and Kansei eras |
| William HEDBERG | 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 | The spoken language of women in Shikitei Sanba’s Ukiyo buro |
| David J. GUNDRY | The question of humor in Ihara Saikaku’s fiction |
| MARCH 22 (SAT): | POPULARIZATION—Paris Cité University |
| Panel 5 | 10-11:30am Q&A11:30am-12:00pm |
| 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 |
| 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