Draft Programme (Subject to Change)
Dates: 28 & 29 October 2023
Venue: Ritsumeikan University, Kinugasa Campus
Theme: Evolutions/Dissolutions
Reading and Q&As: Anne Haverty
Online Lecture: Prof Claire Connolly (University College Cork), “A Watery History of Irish Literature: Crossing the Irish Sea with John Keats”
Symposium 1: “Evolutions/Dissolutions: Changes in Irish Writing and Performance”
Chair: Beverley Curran (ICU) Panelists: Naoko Toraiwa (Meiji University), Rina Kikuchi (Shiga University), Mika Yoshimoto Murtagh (Nagoya University of Foreign Studies) & Beverley Curran (ICU)
Symposium 2: “How Were They Cuttin’?: Joyce, Beckett, O’Flaherty,
and Corkery and Post-Independence Ireland.”
Chair: Masaya Shimokusu (Doshisha University) Panelists: Masaya Shimokusu (Doshisha University), Fuyuji Tanigawa (Konan Women’s University), Yuta Imazeki (Edogawa University) & Kiminori Fukaya (Hosei University)
Panel Sessions with presentations by Tomoya Arai, Hawk Chang, Chih-hsien Hsieh, Shan-Yun Huang, Nao Igarashi, Iain Twiddy & Akemi Yoshida
All welcome!
Further details and an online registration form will be released in early September 2023 at http://iasil.jp/conference.html.