The 23rd Ecocriticism Studies Conference (2010 Summer)

Date: August 9 (Mon), 2010

Place: Hiroshima University Higashi-Senda Campus

Address: 1-1-89 Higashisenda, Naka-ku, Hiroshima, Japan

PROGRAM

10:00--10:40 Opening Words and General Meeting: Chair, Shoko Itoh (Matsuyama University)

10:40 –12:40 Symposium: “Reconsidering Landscape in the American Renaissance: Race and Gender”

Chair: Shoko Tsuji (Matsuyama University)

Lecturers：

Keiko Fujie　(Ehime University）“'Like some Tahiti girl’: Herman Melville's 'Piazza' ”

Yukiko Oshima（Fukuoka University） “American Landscape for Frederick Douglass and Herman Melville”

Misa Ono　(Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology)

“Nathaniel Hawthorne and Landscape”

Shoko Tsuji, “The City and Nature: Lydia Maria Child and Her Male Cotemporaries"　

Lunch Time (12:40-13:20)

13:20 – 15:00 <Workshop 1> Chair: Mitsu Yoshida（Matsuyama University）

MELUS Summer, 2009 (Vol. 34, no. 2）“Ethnicity and Ecocriticism”

Shoko Itoh , Hidemi (Hayamizu) Kishino (Matsue College of Technology),

Atsuko Mizuno(Sanyo Women’s College), Kyoko Matsunaga (The Pennsylvania State University)

15:10 – 16:20 <Workshop 2> Chair: Yuri Yokota (Hiroshima Kokusai Gakuin University)

MFS (Modern Fiction Studies) Fall, 2009 (Vol. 55, no. 3)

“Modern Fiction and the Ecological: the Futures of Ecocriticism”

Yoshiko Mieno (Beppu University), Michiko Nakashima (Yonago College of Technology)

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16:30 – 17:50 Special Lecture by Professor Atsuko Furomoto (Josai International University)

“Omeros and the Caribbean Sea”

Chair: Shoko Itoh

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Closing Words: Yuri Yokota

Contact: Office of The Society for Ecocriticism Study in Japan

Address: Study Center at Matsuyama University, Matsuyama University

4-2 Bunkyoucho, Matsuyama City, Ehime Prefecture, Japan790-8578　　　　