July 31 (Wed.)

S3: 14:00-15:30  LEONG, Andrew/ WILLEMS, Nadine/ LIM, Susanna

20 mins/ Pax, 30 mins/ Q&A

Chair: Olga Solovieva

1 LEONG, Andrew (University of California)

Kōtoku, Kropotkin, and Japanese American Cooperatives

2 WILLEMS, Nadine (University of East Anglia)

Journeys to the North: Poets as Ethnographers in 1920s Japan

3 LIM, Susanna (University of Oregon)

Singing Katiusha Across the Japanese Empire: Tolstoy’s Resurrection in 1910s Korea

July 31 (Wed.)

S4: 16:00-17:30  SIPOS, George T/ NUMANO, Mitsuyoshi/ SOLOVIEVA, Olga

20 mins/ Pax, 30 mins/ Q&A

Chair: Olga Solovieva

1 SIPOS, George T (University of Missouri-St. Louis)

Lenin’s Letter, the Japanese Writer, and the Soviet Ambassador: A Re-reading of Tenkō Short Story the House in the Village by Nakano Shigeharu

2 NUMANO, Mitsuyoshi (University of Tokyo)

Akunin's Japan and Murakami’s Russia

3 SOLOVIEVA, Olga (University of Chicago)

Voicing the Nuclear, Resisting the State in Svetlana Aleksievich’s Chernobyl and Hitomi Kamanaka’s Fukushima