Offered by the UCI Japanese Research
Worldwide Japanese Literature Symposium
Writers Who Have Seen Too A lot: Earth, Kin, Care

Friday · September 30 & Saturday · October 1
UCI Humanities Gateway 1010 

This two-day convention gathers students who work on 5 writers: Chiri Yukie (1903-1922), Sakiyama Tami (1954- ), Tsushima Yuko (1947-2016), Ishimure Michiko (1927-2018), and Kobayashi Erika (1978- ). Our title refers back to the emotional toll taken by environmental destruction at 4 ongoing moments in Japanese modernity: the theft of Ainu lands, the theft of Ryukyuan lands, the Minamata mercury poisoning incident, and the Fukushima nuclear catastrophe. How do those that “see an excessive amount of” use literature not solely to critique but in addition to affirm? How does literature enable them to interact the earth, and what modes of kinship, each human and more-than-human, do they narrate within the course of? Our intention is to open environmental questions in new (and previous) instructions: incapacity research, indigenous knowledges, care feminisms, and philosophies of vitalism. By specializing in figures who’ve impressed a few of the most compelling multilingual scholarship in Japanese literature research, we wish to domesticate relationships between senior and junior students whereas additionally growing our understanding of how the 5 writers amplify one another’s initiatives.

https://www.earthkincareconference2022.com/

Convention Program

Friday 30 September

9:30 am: Welcome (Jon, Mimi, Anne, Sophie)
10:00-11:30 am: Kin Panel
Franz Prichard, “Ecological and Anti-colonial Attunements in Ishimure’s Story of the Sea of Camellias”
Andrew Campana, “The Threads Between Three Ainu Girls Poets: Chiri Yukie, Iga Fude, Chikappu Mieko”
Chiara Pavone, “Radioactive Aesthetics: Kobayashi and the Anti-sublime Craft”
Christine Marran, “Ishimure as Aquapelagic Thinker”
11:30 am – 12:00 pm: Ring Highway Stroll, Aldrich Park: One Circuit, One Concept, One Minute Report Upon Returning (all contributors; in E or J: in Teams of 5 individuals every)
12:15 pm: Break & Shock Performances
1:15 – 2:45 pm: Care, Panel 1
Kazue Harada, “Seen Matter and Affective Radiation: Kobayashi’s Affective Methods in Hikari no kodomo”
Masato Kurosawa, “The Double Dependency of the Traumatized Physique on Care and Setting in Postwar Okinawa: Medoruma’s Postcolonial Fiction”
Anne McKnight, “Eco-documentary in Nineteen Seventies Japan: The Case of the Pre-historical Tree in Haneda’s Usuzumi no sakura”
2:45 -3:15 pm: Ring Highway Stroll, Aldrich Park: One Circuit, One Concept, One Minute Report Upon Returning (all contributors; in E or J: in Teams of 5 individuals every)
3:15 – 4:45 pm: Earth Panel
Jon L Pitt, “‘What’s the Purpose Issues are Like This?’: On Studying the Ainu Shinyōshū as Indigenous Science”
Sara Newsome, “Time Journey and Tree Transformations: Studying Ishimure by way of Jakuchō”
Saeko Kimura, “Tsushima Yūko’s Indigenous Poetics: In Kyrgyz with Golden Dream Track (Ōgon no yume no uta)”
4:45 – 5:15 pm: Ring Highway Stroll, Aldrich Park: One Circuit, One Concept, One Minute Report Upon Returning (all contributors; in E or J: in Teams of 5 individuals every)

Saturday 1 October

9:30 am: Welcome (Jon, Mimi, Anne, Sophie)
10:00-11:30 am: “Too A lot” Panel
Jeffrey Angles, “Nosari Poetics and Ishimure Michiko’s Entanglements”
Daryl Maude, “Island Archive: Indigenous Information and Analogue Media in Sakiyama’s Kurikaeshi-Gaeshi”
Brian Bergstrom, “The Gender of the Emergency: Scale, Historicity, and Era within the Works of Kobayashi Erika”
Mimi Lengthy, “Kin, Incapacity, and Vitalism in Tsushima’s Age of Looking”
11:30 am: Ring Highway Stroll, Aldrich Park: One Circuit, One Concept, One Minute Report (all contributors)
12:30 pm: Break & Shock Performances
1:30 pm: Break
2:00 pm: Care, Panel 2
Davinder Bhowmik, “Suturing the Hole in Sakiyama’s Kuja Tales”
Andrea Arai, “The Politics of Care in Ishimure’s *Lake of Heaven* and Kobayashi’s “Valuable Stones”
Wendy Wang, “An Environmental Community of Care: Tsushima Yūko’s Territory of sunshine“
Shinji Iwamasa, “Searching for the Roles of Writers Who Have Seen Too A lot: Tomiko Inui, Fumiyo Kouno and Erika Kobayashi”
3:30 pm: Ring Highway Stroll, Aldrich Park: One Circuit, One Concept, One Minute Report Upon Returning (all contributors; in E or J: in Teams of 5 individuals every)
4:00 pm: Poetry & Further Readings: Translators & Different Fanatics
5:00 pm: Kansō & Kansha: One individual, One Minute: “Most Generative Suggestions For Me” (everybody thanks one individual), “My Massive New Concept” (when did it occur?), “My Second of “Too A lot” (oversharing allowed!) or no matter you wish to say. So as of presentation.

Generously funded by the next sponsors:
The Japan Basis
UCI Humanities Middle
UCI Division of East Asian Research
UCI Worldwide Middle for Writing and Translation
UCI Middle for Environmental Humanities
UCI Middle for Medical Humanities
UCI Middle for Asian Research