JAPAN - PREMODERN, MODERN

AND CONTEMPORARY
3-5 September 2018

Venue: “Dimitrie Cantemir” Christian University

Splaiul Unirii 176, Bucharest, Romania

Conference Program
September 3, Day 1

10:00-12:00 Pre-conference Workshop

(Room A)
Learning from “Shōgun” today

Radu Leca (Heidelberg University) & Alexandra Mustățea (Tōyō University)

13:30 -13:45 Opening remarks (Auditorium)

13:45 - 14:45 Keynote Lecture:

Some Contact Languages Involving Japanese: An Overview
Andrei A. Avram
(University of Bucharest)

(15’ coffee break)

15:00 - 16:30 Parallel sessions

Session 1, Room A Session 2, Room B
Anthropology and Culture Language and education
(20’+10’) x 3 (20’+10’) x 3

Goran Vaage Wang Xin

(Kobe College) (Kyushu University)

Osaka Studies: Beyond the Myths A Comparative Study of the Conversational

Styles between Chinese and Japanese: Based
on the Analysis of the Natural Conversations of
Compliment Actions

Adrian Tămaș Inga Ibrakhim

(Kobe University) (St. Petersburg State University)

The Bald Men’s Association: Being Bald in Japanese Language Changes under the
Contemporary Japan Influence of Information Communication
Technologies (ICT)
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Carmen Săpunaru-Tămaș Tsuyoshi Kida

(University of Hyogo) (University of Tsukuba)

Our Daily Rice and the Body of Christ: Staple Global Negotiation in Foreign Language
and Ritual Foods in Japan Education in Japan
and Romania

(15’ break)

16:45 - 18:15 Parallel sessions

Session 3, Room A Session 4, Room B
Japanese Philosophy Japanese Culture through History
(20’+10’) x 3 (20’+10’) x 3

Roman Pașca Hironori Arakawa

(Kanda University of International Studies)
Going Beyond Limits: Reframing Tokugawa
Thought as World Philosophy
(National Institute of Technology,
Akashi College)
The Invention of the Toka-Ebisu "Open Gate"
Ceremony at Nishinomiya Shrine:
A Consideration from Historical Changes in
Hanshin Area

Alexandra Mustățea Alina Hara

(Tōyō University) (University of the Ryukyus)

Yamaga Sokō’s Moral Philosophy and Its Hero-making and Deification in the Ryukyuan
Modern-day Implications: Some Cultural Space
Considerations on “Shidō”

Dagmar Dotting Marianna Lázár

(Copenhagen University) (Karoli Gaspar University, Budapest)

Nishida’s Pure Experience in His Process of Examining the Development of

Self-imagination Illustrated in His “Shijin-ki” (四神旗) Ceremonial Banners:
Calligraphies From Asuka to Edo Period

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September 4, Day 2

10:00 - 12:00 Workshop

(Room A)
From Tanka to Manga: Rethinking Japanese Studies Introductory Courses

Irina Holca (Kyoto University) & Carmen Săpunaru Tămaș (University of Hyogo)

(12:00 - 13:30 lunch)

13:30 - 14:20 Guest lecture:

The state of nature in Japanese Neo-Confucianism
Paulus Kaufmann
(University of Zurich)

(10’ break)

14:30 - 15:20 Guest lecture:

Yukio Mishima's Kabuki Plays
Makiko Kitani
(Doshisha University)

(10’ break)

15:30 - 17:00 Featured panel

Room A
Japan in communist Romania
(20’ x 3) + 30’ Q&A

Viviana Iacob
(Centre for Advanced Studies, Sofia)

Japan’s New Theatre Comes to Bucharest: Akira Wakabayashi’s 1972 Tour

Mihaela Bălan
(Independent researcher)

Back and Forth through the Looking Glass: Japanese- Romanian Literary Reflections

Angela Drăgan (UCDC)

Irina Holca (Kyoto University)

Japan’s Image in Communist Romania: Friend or Foe? East or West?

(15’ break)

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17:15 - 18:15 Parallel sessions
Session 5, Room A
Jesuits in Japan
(20’+10’) x 2
Carlo Pelliccia
(Tuscia University)
The Life of Takayama Ukon (1552-1615) from
the Jesuit Documents:
The Litterae Annuae Iaponiae
Pia Maria Jolliffe
(University of Oxford)
Learning in, about and from Japan:
The Early Jesuit Mission to Japan
19:00 Conference dinner
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Session 6, Room B
Cities and imagination
(20’+10’) x 2
Dana Milea
(“Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and
Urban Planning, Bucharest)
Compared Urban Planning Documents:
Tokyo vs. Bucharest
Raluca Mateoc
(University of Fribourg)
Heritage as Lived, Embodied and Imagined:
the Pre-inscription Life of a World Heritage
Property in Nagasaki
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September 5, Day 3

10:00 - 12:00 Parallel sessions

Session 7, Room A Session 8, Room B
Movement of people and ideas Japanese literature, art, history
(20’+10’) x 4 (20’+10’) x 4

Freya Terryn Stephen Comee

(KU Leuven) (Independent researcher)

Meiji "Nishiki-e" in Japan and the West: The Way to Paradise:

Lost between the State-made Category of Art Buddhism as Seen in the Noh Drama
and Japonisme Aficionados

Leszek Sosnowski Noemi Lanna

(Jagiellonian University, Krakow) (University of Naples “L’Orientale”)

On the Flow of Objects and Ideas: “Sengo” under Scrutiny: Takeuchi Yoshimi and
The Case of Japan the Debate about War Responsibility

Nikita E. Kovrigin Luciana Galliano

(St. Petersburg State University) (Independent researcher)

Regarding Chinese Migration Fluxus, Japan

to Japan and Russia in the
Late XIXth – First Half of the XXth Century:
The Influence of Irregular Migration Factors

Mariia Malashevskaia Andreea Larisa Avram

(St. Petersburg State University) (University of Bucharest)

Japanese Eurasianism at the Turn of the 21st Japanese, American and Japanese-American
Century in Karen Tei Yamashita’s
“Through the Arc of the Rain Forest”

(12:00 - 13:30 lunch)

13:30 - 15:00 Parallel sessions

Session 9, Room A Session 10, Room B
Business, technology, society Media and pop culture
(20’+10’) x 3 (20’+10’) x 3

Alexandra Bănică Luiza-Maria Filimon

(Independent researcher) (Independent researcher)

Historiography of Filament Technology. Japan, When the Doll Is Not What It Seems:
1890-1921 Depictions of Tanshumanism in Mamoru
Oshii’s “Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence”

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Irina Grigorovici Alice Teodorescu

(Kyushu University) (Independent researcher)

Drawing Patterns and Analyzing Potential On Affective Heterotopias:

Effects on the Business Segment of the Studio Ghibli and Its Fandom(s)
Japanese Society by analyzing Nihon Keizai
Shimbun during 1988-1992

Ayano Hirobe Maria Grajdian

(Ryukoku University) Hiroshima University

Study on the Tradition of Producing Alternative Realities, Alternative Masculinities:

“Kamairicha,” Rare Tea An Empiric Enquiry into Japan’s Video Game
in Local Areas of Japan Culture and Its Global Impact

15:00 - 15:15 Closing remarks (Auditorium)