Premodernists, particularly those who focus on history, sometimes feel gloomy about the state of premodern Japanese studies in the U.S., where a number of large graduate programs have shrunk, disappeared, or fundamentally changed in emphasis in the past two decades. Some of us have even been known to eulogize the field, as if the heart of our collective endeavors had already stopped beating. Is the field more like a rotting corpse, or perhaps a mummified one? Have we been subject to cremation, leaving behind only bone fragments to be buried in an urn? Or was the corpse of the field left lying on the banks of the river, food for the crows and source of anxiety for locals, known as “wind burial”? (Thanks, PMJS!)<\/p>\n
Two upcoming events prove that the rumors of the death of medieval Japanese studies were greatly exaggerated.
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202 Jones Hall, Princeton University<\/p>\n
***April 25th (Saturday)***<\/p>\n
9:00am \u2013 9:30am\u00a0\u00a0 Registration and Breakfast<\/p>\n
9:30am \u2013 12:00pm\u00a0\u00a0 Session I<\/p>\n
Opening Remarks by David L. Howell (Princeton University)<\/p>\n
Special Remarks by Andrew M. Watsky (Princeton University) Re-assembling the \u201cPieces of Sengoku\u201d<\/p>\n
\u3010\u9ed2\u5370\u72b6\u3011 Tomoko Kitagawa (Princeton University) Who Owned the Black-Seal?: The Black-Seal Letter Issued (not) by Kusu<\/p>\n
\u3010\u66f8\u672d\u793c\u3011 Taizo Noda (Kyoto K\u014dka Women\u2019s University) Hierarchy in the Manners of Writing: The Letters from the Uesugi Collection<\/p>\n
\u3010\u5fa1\u7f6e\u76ee\u3011 David Eason (SUNY, University at Albany) Affective Law in the Long Sixteenth Century: The Rokkaku-shi Shikimoku Revealed<\/p>\n
12:00pm\u00a0\u00a0 Lunch 1:00pm \u2013 2:30pm\u00a0\u00a0 Session II<\/p>\n
\u3010\u897f\u7b11\u627f\u514c\u3011 Masatoshi Harada (Kansai University) Monks of the Five Mountains and the Unification of Japan: Excerpts from Seish\u014d Osh\u014d Bun\u2019an<\/p>\n
\u3010\u897f\u7b11\u627f\u514c\u3011Nam-lin Hur (University of British Columbia) Truce Negotiations in the Final Phase of the Toyotomi Regime\u2019s Invasion of Korea<\/p>\n
2:30pm \u2013 3:00pm\u00a0\u00a0 Break 3:00pm \u2013 4:30pm\u00a0\u00a0 Session III<\/p>\n
\u3010\u7981\u5236\u3011 David Spafford (University of Washington) Violators Will Be Punished: Kinzei Placards and the Performance of Local Authority<\/p>\n
\u3010\u904e\u6240\u65d7\u3011 Peter Shapinsky (University of Illinois at Springfield) Japanese ‘Jolly Roger’: The Functions and Symbolism of ‘Pirate’ Flags in Sixteenth-Century Japan<\/p>\n
4:30pm \u2013 5:00pm\u00a0\u00a0 Break 5:00pm \u2013 6:30pm\u00a0\u00a0 Session IV<\/p>\n
\u3010\u8096\u50cf\u753b\u3011Hiroshi Kitagawa (Osaka Castle Museum) Deification and the Political History of the Sengoku Period: The Portraits of Toyotomi Hideyoshi<\/p>\n
\u3010\u5fa1\u9053\u5177\u5e33\u3011Morgan Pitelka (Occidental College) The Social Life of Ieyasu’s Things: Tokugawa Probate in the Long Sixteenth Century
\n***April 26th (Sunday)***<\/p>\n
11:00am \u2013 1:30pm\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Round Table Discussion and Lunch<\/p>\n
A Colby Bates and Bowdoin (CBB) Initiative, to be held at Bowdoin College on May 8-10, 2009.<\/p>\n
Organized by Thomas Conlan, Vyjayanthi Selinger, Roberta Strippoli<\/p>\n
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Presentations (diacritics-free version)<\/p>\n
Soundscapes: Music and Ritual in The Tale of the Heike and other Medieval Texts – David Bialock University of Southern California<\/p>\n
Sovereign Authority and the Medieval Japanese State – Thomas Conlan Bowdoin College<\/p>\n
Why’d They Do That & How d’ya Know?: \u00a0Some Thoughts on Reconstructing Early Medieval Warfare – Karl Friday University of Georgia<\/p>\n
Warriors and Illness – Andrew Goble University of Oregon<\/p>\n
Ghosts Along the Road: The Kaidoki and the Jokyu Rebellion – Elizabeth Oyler University of Illinois<\/p>\n
Analyzing Japan’s Early Medieval Economy – Ethan Segal Harvard University<\/p>\n
The Heike monogatari and Manuscript Textuality – Vyjayanthi Selinger Bowdoin College<\/p>\n
Gio’s Temples, Landmarks, and Documents: When Literature Becomes “History” – Roberta Strippoli Bates College<\/p>\n
Seppuku: A Methodological Problem – Hitomi Tonomura University of Michigan<\/p>\n
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The symposium is open to the public, but space is limited. \u00a0Those who plan to attend should get in touch with Roberta Strippoli\u00a0 (rstrippo@bates.edu) to reserve a seat. \u00a0Roberta will also provide a \u00a0 more detailed program.<\/p>\n
Sponsored by CBB and the Luce Foundation<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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