The 3rd Joint Graduate Workshop on Japanese Studies
The University of Chicago – the University of Tokyo

18 October 2016, 10:10-20:00
First Meeting Room (3rd Floor)
Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia
The University of Tokyo

SCHEDULE
10:10-10:30 Opening Remarks
10:30-11:30 Panel 1: Disaster and Its Remembering
Byoungdo Park (UTokyo) & Alex Jania (UChicago)
Death, Burial, and Spiritual Commemoration in Disasters of Early Modern Japan
Reverberations: Memory & Constructing National Empathy in 1933 Shōwa Sanriku Disaster
11:30-12:30 Panel 2: Before and After Xuan-zang
Thomas Newhall (UTokyo) & Paride Storini (UChicago)
The “Essence of the Precepts” in Daoxuan’s Jiemoshu & the Twilight of the Shelun School
An Academic Pilgrimage: India in the Scholarship and Experience of Nanjō Bunyū

12:30-13:30 lunch

13:30-14:30 Panel 3: Imaging, Imagination, and Ideology
Beomkeun Lee (UTokyo) & Sandy Lin (UChicago)
Post-war Photography in Korea and Japan: A Possible History of East Asian Photography?
The Kokka-method Woodblock Print: Its Technique and Ideology, 1889-1910
14:30-15:30 Panel 4: Transcendence Through Philosophy and Religion
Kyle Peters (UChicago) & Kota Saito (UTokyo)
Nakai, Rhythm, and Time: On Nakai Masakazu's "The Structure of Rhythm"
The Formation of “Japanese Theology:” Beyond the State Shinto Theory

15:30-15:40 Break

15:40-16:40 Panel 5: Transformation Through Sound and Word
Jun Hee Lee (UChicago) & Fumihiro Okada (UTokyo)
Two Utagoe, Two Movements: Links Between utagoe kissa and the Utagoe Movement
The Image of Genshin (942-1017) in a Biography by his Disciple Chingen: A Study on Hokke-genki or Experiencing the Lotus Sutra

16:40-17:40 Comprehensive Discussion

17:40-20:00 Reception

Workshop Sponsored by
The Japan Committee, Center for East Asian Studies, the University of Chicago
Uehiro Research Division for the Philosophy of Co-existence, University of Tokyo Center for Philosophy
The Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, the University of Tokyo

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