PROGRAM

Sunday, August 19/Kanazawa Bunka Hall

13:30-14:15 Registration
14:15-14:30 Welcome

14:30-15:30 Keynote Speech by Ko Un: “A Poor Reflection”

15:30-15:50 Break

15:50-17:20 Session 1 Poetics of Nature in Korean and Japanese Literature

Hong Yong hee, Kyunghee Cyber University (Korea), “On Ecological Imagination of Kim Ji Ha’s Poetry”
Huh Hyejung, Korea Cyber University (Korea), “The Arabian Nights, the Silk Road, and the Erotic Motif in ‘Cheoyongga’”
Kono Chie, Nihon University (Japan), “The Sublime Solitude in Nature: The Tanka Poems of Tsuiji Masako”
Morita Keitaro, Rikkyo University (Japan), “Ito Hiromi, Seungho Choi, and Ma Kwang-Soo"

17:20-18:50 Drinks & Snacks

18:50-20:40 Reading Workshop
Discussion Leaders: Lee Gangsun, Kang Yeonhuen, Lee Young Hyun (ASLE-Korea)，Morita Keitaro, Nakamura Yuko, Yamamoto Yohei（ASLE-Japan）

Monday, August 20/Kanazawa Bunka Hall

10:00-11:00 Keynote Speech by Uchiyama Takashi

11:00-11:20 Break

11:20-12:30 Session 2 Senses of Place

Kang Yong-ki, Chonnam National University (Korea), “Eco-consciousness in Poongsoo”
Kim Ilgu, Hannam University (Korea), “A Comparative Ecological Study of The Water Babies, Sim Cheong, and Princess Bari”
Odani Kazuaki, Niigata Women’s College (Japan), “Calling the Wind: Reading ‘Wind’ in Lee JungJa, Korean Poet of Japan”

12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-15:00 Session 3 Modernism and Environmental Discourses in Korea and Japan

Simon Estok, Sungkyunkwan University (Korea), “Diethylstilbestrol, My Year of Meats, ecocriticism, and nation”
Ursula K. Heise, Stanford University (USA), “From Robot Pastoral to theme Park Idyll: Environmentalism, Modernization and Postmodernization in the Films of Hayao Miyazaki and Isao Takahata”
Terashita Hironori, Ritsumeikan University (Japan), “Two Women, The Two Seas: Ishimure Michiko and Lee Nam Hee”
Nakamura Yuko, Rikkyo University (Japan), “The Relationships Between Humans and Nature in Fantasy Fiction Written by Decadants: Sakaguchi Ango and I San”

15:00-15:30 Coffee Break

15:30-17:00 Session 4 The Future of Literary Environmentalism: Proposals from East Asia

Lee Mansik, Kyungwon University (Korea), “Deeper Ecology Movement: Deep Ecology Movement Remodeled by Deconstruction Apprehended by an Oriental Mind-set”
Nakagaki Kotaro, Tokiwa University (Japan), “Monsters from Environmental Pollution: Visions of Nuclear, Junk, and Ruins in the Post-Industrial World”
Masami Raker Yuki, Kanazawa University (Japan), “Culture of Village and Environmental Discourses: Matrix of Language in the Work of Morisaki Kazue and Ishimure Michiko”
Wu Chan Je, Sogang University (Korea), “Harmony of Tree and Bird: Ecological Imagination of Novels of Yi Chong-Jun”

18:15- Dinner

Tuesday, August 21/Kanazawa Bunka Hall and Daijoji

9:00-12:00 Session 5 Gary Snyder in Asia
Iwamasa Shinji, Shirayuri College (Japan), “Reading Miyazawa Kenji and Gary Snyder from the Viewpoint of the Place of Nothingness”
Kim Won-Chung, Sungkyunkwan University (Korea), “Gary Snyder Studies in Korea”
Robin Chen-Hsing Tsai, Tamkang University (Taiwan), “Gary Snyder and the Literature of Energy”
Yamazato Katsunori, University of the Ryukyus (Japan) “Envisioning a Planetary Future: Gary Snyder and Japan, 1951-2006”
Commentators: Gary Snyder, Kato Yukiko, Suga Keijiro

12:00-13:30 Lunch

13:30-15:00 Roundtable Session From Now: Furthering East Asian Collaboration

Lee Soongwon, Seoul Women’s University (Korea)
Shin Moonsu , Seoul National University (Korea)
Noda Ken-ichi, Rikkyo University (Founding President of ASLE-Japan)
Ikuta Shogo, Kanazawa University (Japan)

15:00-15:15 Closing Address

17:00-19:00 Poetry Reading by Ko Un and Gary Snyder in Daijoji