SATURDAY　 27 October

9:30-10:30

Registration

1F, Bldg. No.4

10:30-11:00

Opening Addresses:

Representative of the Embassy of Ireland;

Prof. Kohei Yamane (President, Kobe Shinwa Women’s University);

Prof. Mitsuko Ohno (President, IASIL JAPAN)

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11:10-12:10

Guest Lecture:

Prof. Luke Gibbons: ‘They’ve Seen it from the Other Side’:  Immigration, Memory and Irish Culture

Introduction: Mitsuko Ohno

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12:10-13:00

Lunch

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13:00-14:00

Papers

1. Futoshi Sakauchi: Digging the Unnamable: Sam Shepard’s Kicking a Dead Horse
2. Andrew Fitzsimons: ‘What wretches feel’: Lear, Edgar and Samuel Beckett’s Worstward Ho

Chair: Mariko Hori

Commentator: Prof. Luke Gibbons

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14:10-15:10

Reading: Novelist Evelyn Conlon

Introduction: Andrew Fitzsimons

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15:20-17:30

Symposium: Beckett and Media

Chair: Joseph O’Leary

With presentations by: 1. David Taylor 2. Miki Iwata 3. Kiminori Fukaya

Commentator: Prof. Luke Gibbons

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17:40-19:40

RECEPTION Seishi Matsuda

With Book Launch: Our Shared Japan: an anthology of contemporary Irish poetry  (Dublin: Dedalus Press, 2007)

Speaker:: Mr. Joseph Woods (Poetry Ireland Director)

Seikyo-Shokudo (Co-op Dining Hall)

SUNDAY 28 October

10:00-10:30

Registration

1F, Bldg. No.4

10:30-11:00

Special Lecture on Our Shared Japan: an anthology of contemporary Irish poetry by Mr. Joseph Woods

Introduction: Andrew Fitzsimons

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11:10-12:10

Papers

1. Edward Marx: Yone Noguchi and Ireland
2. David Burleigh: Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird

Chair: Tetsuro Sano

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1. Soichiro Onose: Righting the Nation: Parody and Nationalism in James Joyce’s “Oxen of the Sun”

2. Marissa Aixas: Irishness and Catalanishness: The Translation of Finnegans Wake episode ‘The Mookse and the Gripes’ into Catalan

Chair: Kazuhiro Doki

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12:10-13:00

Lunch and Annual General Meeting

Chair: Prof. Ken’ichi Matsumura

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13:10-15:20

Symposium: Ulster Poets

Chair: Bryan Coleborne

With presentations by 1. Mashiro Tsuji on Louis MacNeice   2. Toru Sato on Seamus Heaney 3. Toshi Takagishi on Paul Muldoon

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15:20

Closing Address: Masaya Shimokusu

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