International Symposium: Symbols of Japanese Identity (Alsace Symposium 2011)

<Date>
4-6 November 2011

<Venue>
Centre européen d’études japonaises d’Alsace (CEEJA)

<Host Organizations>
Hosei University Research Center for International Japanese Studies (HIJAS)
Le Département d’études japonaises de l’Université de Strasbourg
L’UMR 8155 Centre de Recherche sur les Civilisations de l’Asie Orientale (CRCAO)
Le Centre européen d’études japonaises d’Alsace (CEEJA)

<Schedule>
4th November
9:00
Opening Ceremony

9:30-10:15
Urlich Heinze (Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures [UK])
Digging out Identity: Symbols of the Past in Contemporary Japan

10:15-11:00
Guillaume Carré (EHESS, Centre de recherches sur le Japon [France])
L’impératrice Jingû : du mythe national à l’occultation

11:00-11:15
Intermission

11:15–12:00
Alain Rocher (EPHE, UMR 8155 CRCAO [France])
Mythe et idéologie au Japon : histoire d’un malentendu

13:30–14:15
Robert Borgen (University of California, Davis, [USA])
Michizane’s Waka – Ambiguous Symbols

14:15–15:00
Christiane Séguy (Université de Strasbourg [France])
Representations of Saigô Takamori as symbol of a paradoxal hero

15:00–15:30
Intermission

15:30–16:15
Junzô Kawada (Kanagawa University / Hosei University)
Aspects moraux et esthétiques de la mort volontaire des Japonais : seppuku, junshi et shinjû

16:15–17:00
Maja Milinski (University of Ljubljana [Slovenia])
Suicide: Japan and Slovenia contrasted

17:00–18:00
General Discussion

5th November
9:00–9:45
Josef Kreiner (Hosei University [Japan])
L’identité ethnique et culturelle du Japon à travers la culture du riz

9:45–10:30
Hidetoshi Uchihara (Hosei University [Japan])
Ryon-gu-bun as a Symbol – The Beliefs and Worldview of the Yaeyama Islanders

10:30–11:00
Intermission

11:00–11:45
Masato Goda （Meiji University [Japan]）
Iha Fuyu, pioneer of Okinawan Studies and the humanities during the Meiji Era

11:45-12:30
Josef Kyburz (CNRS, UMR 8155 CRCAO [France])
The talisman of Ise as a Japanese passport

14:00–14:45
Tsutomu Hoshino (Hosei University [Japan])
What is the meaning of the Emperor being the symbol of the unity of the Japanese people?

14:45–15:30
Yusuke Suzumura (Hosei University [Japan])
Kokutai Is the Principle of Liberalism – Ishibashi Tanzan’s Discourse of the Prewar Period

15:30–16:30
Intermission

16:30–17:15
Shin Abiko (Hosei University [Japan])
Nishi Amane et le Rescrit impérial aux soldats et aux marins

17:15–18:00
Maria Eugenia De La Nuez (Université Michel de Montaigne [France])
La fustanelle et le kimono dans La Grèce contemporaine (1854) d’Edmond About et dans Japoneries d’automne (1889) de Pierre Loti : identité, tradition, modernité

6th November
9:00–9:45
Reiko Yamanaka (Hosei University the Nogami Memorial Noh Theatre Research Institute [Japan])
What is Japanese about Noh?

9:45–10:30
Oishi Naoki (Meiji University [Japan])
‘a femme qui se sacrifie’ – Résurrection d’un thème antique au tournant du siècle

10:30–10:45
Intermission

10:45–11:30
Masatoshi Sagara (Hosei University [Japan])
The Foreigner as an Oddity

11:30–12:30
Cloture and Closing Ceremony