The 24th Ecocriticism Studies Conference (2011 Summer)

http://ns1.shudo-u.ac.jp/~shiotah/ecoc.html

Date　＆Time:  August 　8 (Mon), 　2011　 9:50-18:00

Place: Hiroshima University Higashi-Senda Campus  Room403

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

Map:  http://www.hiroshima-u.ac.jp

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9:50 Opening Words: Shoko Itoh (Matsuyama University)

Presentation (10:00-11:00)

Chair: Yuri Yokota

1.Hidemi Kishino (Matsue College of Technology)　

“The World Watched at Low Position in Masumoto's Works”

2. Taras Sak (Yasuda Women’s University)

“Journey Through a Ruined Garden: McCarthy's THE ROAD and Eco-Apocalypse”

Workshop (11:10-12:40)

Chair: Misa Ohno (Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology)

“On Teaching North American Environmental Literature.

Laird Christensen, Mark C. Long, and Fred Waage, eds  (2008)”

Lecturers: Misa Ohno, Chiaki Asai (Senri Kinran University), Shoko Tsuji (Matsuyama University)

Kotaro Nakagaki (Daito Bunka University), Yukinobu Fujimoto (Yamaguchi University)

Lunch Time (12:40-13:30)

 

Symposium (13:30 – 15:30) “Ethnicity and Ecocriticism: Reading Modern Ethnic American Literature”

Chair: Mitsu Yoshida (Matsuyama University)

Lecturers: Yoshiko Mieno (Beppu University) “Jewish Writers and Nature”

Atsuko Mizuno (Sanyo Women’s College) “Chicano’s Sense of Nature and Magical Realism”

Kyoko Matsunaga (Kobe City University of Foreign Studies) “Native American Literature and (Post)Colonialism: Sherman Alexie's Poetry and Nuclear Discourse”）

Mitsu Yoshida “Concentration Camp and Japanese American Literature, mainly on Haiku”

Special Lecture (15:50 – 16:50)

Lecturer: Professor Mie Hihara (Kyoto Women’s University)

Title: “Water” in the Works of Japanese Canadian Writer, Hiromi Goto”

Chair: Shoko Itoh

General Meeting (16:50 – 17:40)       

Closing Words: Mitsu Yoshida

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Committee Meeting：　Date: Aug. 7 (Sun), 2011     15:00－17:30

Place:　Hiroshima Kokusai Gakuin University  Fukuromachi Campus

Get-together：　Aug. 7 (Sun),  2011     18:00－20:00

Place:  Hotel Sunroute Hiroshima Committee: Yoko Hirase

Contact to ➪ The Office of SES-Japan (The Society for Ecocriticism Studies in Japan )

     　　　 annabel@moon.sannet.ne.jp ; mizuno@sanyo.ac.jp