The Edgar Allan Poe Society of Japan
　　　　　　　　The First Conference


Date: Sept. 21, Sunday, 2008

Hours: 10.00 a.m. -- 18.00 p.m.

Venue: No.18 Building Hall, Komaba Campus, Univeristy of Tokyo


Program

Opening Ceremony 10:20 - 10:30

Opening Address: Toshio Yagi, President of the Poe Society of Japan

Welcome from the Host University : Ken Inoue, University of Tokyo

　　　　　　General Chair： Shoko Itoh, Matsuyama University


Sessions 10:30 - 12:20 a.m.

・Session I.　 Tomonori Nishiyama, Saitama Gakuen University, Chair

　　　　　　Shoichiro Fukushima, Ritsumeikan University,

　　　　　　"Whom did Poe meet in the City?: The Representation of City and Others

　　　　　　in‘The Man of the Crowd’"

・Session II. Ken Inoue, University of Tokyo, Chair

　　　　　　Deguchi Natsumi, Kyoto Prefectural University

　　　　　　"How T.S.Eliot Accepted Edgar Allan Poe"

・Session III. Hisayo Ogushi, Keio University, Chair

　　　　　　Greg Bevan, Fukuoka University

　　　　　　"Paul Bowles’s “Doña Faustina” and the Shadow of “Usher”


Special Lecture 13:30 - 14:30 No. 18 Blg. Hall

　　　　　　Takayuki Tatsumi, Keio University, Chair

　　　　　　Kiyoshi Kasai, novelist,

　　　　　　“The Crowd that Poe Discovered”


Symposium: Re-reading of Eureka --Transfigured America and Poe's Strategy -

　　　　 　Keiko Noguchi, Tsuda College, Chair and Speaker

　　　　 　Tomoko Kawano, Kitazato University, Speaker

　　　　 　Keiko Nishiyama, Ryukoku University, Speaker

　 　　　　Chitose Motoyama, Kyoto University of Foreign Studies, Speaker

　　　　　 Makoto Kikuchi, Osaka University, Discussant


General Meeting 17:10 - 17:50
Closing Address 17:50
　　　　　Takayuki Tatsumi, Vice President of the Poe Society of Japan,
　　　　　Keio University

Dinner Party:
　　　　　Shoko Miura, Tokyo University of Marine Science and Technology, Chair,
Lever son Verre (on Komaba Campus, Univeristy of Tokyo)
18:00 - 20:00
* Participation fee 6,000 yen (3,000 yen for students)


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