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EMILY  DICKINSON IN JAPAN:
 Like Fabrics of the East



The Palace Side Hotel
Kyoto Japan

August 3-5, 2007




Entrance
Program




PROGRAM
Thursday, August 3
       
8:30-9:00am Registration
     
9:00-9:20am Welcomes

             

Opening Address by Onisi Naoki, Vice-presidennt of the Emily
Dickinson Society of Japan(left)
Welcome by Gudrun Grabher, President of the Emily Dickinson  
          International  Socie
ty (right)



Welcomes from the American Embassy (left)
from the Emily Dickinson Society of Japan,by Hiroko Uno, the president
Messages from the Mayor of Kyoto and the Governor of Kyoto
Prefecture. read by Hiroko Uno, (right)

9:20-10:20am PLENARY SESSION A

Christopher Benfey, Mount Holyoke College(US):"A Route of Evanescence:
Dickinson and Japan." introduced by Cristanne Miller


Christopher Benfy
Christanne Miller



10:40-11:55am SESSION 1
Dickinson in Cross-Cultural Poetics
Farnoosh Fathi. University of Houston(US)"The Wound as Open Secret:
Despair and Compression in the Work of Emily Dickinson and
Classical Women Poets of Japan"

Rev.Niels Kjaer. Kridthojvaenge(Denmark): "Seren Kierkegaard. Emily
Dickinson, and Haiku Poetry: "The Moment' as a Cross-cultural
Categpry"
Chair: Gary Stonum. Case Western Reserve University(US)

Farnoosh Fathi
Rev. Niels Kjaer




From 10 countries
Australia Austria Canada Denmark Germany Japan Korea Russia U.K.. U.S.A.


11:55-1:00pm Lunch

1:00-2:15pm SESSION 2
(Choose one from two themes)
2-1 Dickinson And Other American Women Poets
Midori Asahina, Keio University(Japan):"Pursuing you in your transition:
Reading Emily Dickinson's Poems Sent to Helen Hunt Jackson"

Paula Bennett, University of Southern Illinois-Carbondale(US):"Of Flowers,
Patterns, and Women: Japanese Aesthetics and American Women's
Poetry in the 1890s"

Vivian Pollak, Washington University-St. Louis(US):"Writing Beyond the Master:
Dickinson and the American Poetess Tradition"

Chair: Georgiana Strickland(US)


Midori Asahina
Georgiana Stickland


Paula Bennett Vivian Pollak


2-2 Word, Music, Aesthetics
Rebecca Romney, Brigham University(US): "West-Weaving: Kennings in
Emily Dickinson's Poems"
Nicole Panizza, Royal College of Music(UK): "Emily Dickinson's Musicality"
Cindy Mackenzie University of Regina(Canada): "Condensed Essences":
Dickinson's Poetics and Shakespearean Sonnets"
Chair: Eleanor Heginbotham, Concordia University-St. Paul(US)


2:45-4:00pm SESSION 3
(Choose one from two themes)
3-1 Dickinson in Contemporary Popular Culture
Brad J. Ricca, Case Western Reserve University(US):"SHE died at play":
Emily Dickinson and Video Games"

Georgiana Banita, University of Constance(Germany):"Poetry Without
Borders: mily Dickinson and and Game Design"

Stephanie A. Tingley, Youngstown State University(US): "Emily Among Us:
Popular Representation of Dickinson's Image and Words in
Contemporary Culture"

Chair: Cindy Mackenzie, University of Regina(Canada)


3-2 The Fabric of Text
Daria D' Arienzo, Amherst College Archives and special Collections(US):
"In Her Own Hand: A Tour through Emily Dickinson's Literary Legacy at Amherst College"

Martha Nell Smith, University of Maryland(US): "Dickinson during the Post-
World War II Occupation"

Paul Crumbley,Utah State University(US):"'This- was my finallest
Occasion-': Dickinson's Aethentic of Intrinsic Renown"

Chair: Mary Loeffelholz. Northeastern University(US)


Daria D' Arienzo
Mary Leoffelholz


Martha Nell Smith Paul Crumbley


4:15-5:15pm PLENARY SESSION B
Katsuhiko Inada, Vice President, Hijiyama University(Japan): "Dickinson and
Haiku," introduced by Michiko Iwata


Katsuhiko Inada
Michiko Iwata



Conference Banquet, 6-9pm
At Heian Kaikan
Chair: Naoki Onishi





Lecture on the Way of Tea: Bruce Seiichi Hamana
Introduced by Hiroko Uno



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