Participants |
William FLEMING
is Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Literatures, and
Theater Studies at Yale University. His research areas are Early Modern
Japanese literature, theater, and cultural history; the reception of
Chinese literature in Japan; Japanese popular culture and visual
culture; history of science and medicine in East Asia; and book history.
Among other publications, he is the author of “Strange Tales from Edo:
Liaozhai zhiyi in Early Modern Japan” (Sino-Japanese Studies, Vol. 20, 2013), and co-author of the forthcoming Samurai and the Culture of Japan’s Great Peace.
Takanori FUJITA is Professor, The Research Centre for Japanese Traditional Music, Kyoto City University of Arts. He specializes in Japanese performing arts; noh drama; Japanese music, particularly of the noh theatre; and music of Papua New Guinea. Among his publications are “Cultural Synchrony in Performance: An Examination of the Musical Use of the Japanese Word Nori” (Zinbun: Annals of the Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University, no. 25, 1990, pp. 1-16) and “On Mass Chanting of Noh Performance” [Nō no taninzu gasshō no tokushitsu; in Japanese] (Geinoshi Kenkyū, no. 124, 1994, pp. 1-21), and “Nō and Kyōgen: Music from the Medieval theater” (Ashgate Research Companion to Japanese Music, 2009). Hank GLASSMAN is Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Haverford College. His research focuses on Japanese Buddhism; medieval Japanese history; gender; material and visual culture; classical and medieval literature; thanatology; lived religions; and iconology. He is the author of many articles on Japanese religion, co-editor of a special issue of Japanese Journal of Religious Studies on “Vernacular Buddhism and Medieval Japanese Literature” (2009), and author of The Face of Jizō: Image and Cult in Medieval Japanese Buddhism (2012). Tom HARE is William Sauter LaPorte ’28 Professor in Regional Studies, Department of Comparative Literature, Princeton University. He also has an advisory position at the Hosei University Nogami Memorial Noh Theatre Research Institute. His specializations are Japanese literature through the sixteenth century, with special emphasis on poetics; Buddhist influence on Japanese culture; Japanese dramatic literature and dramaturgy; music of noh drama; and cultural studies of Ancient Egypt. Among his publications on noh are Zeami, Performance Notes (2008) and Zeami’s Style: The Noh Plays of Zeami Motokiyo (1986). He is also the author of ReMembering Osiris: Number, Gender and the Word in Ancient Egyptian Representational Systems (1999). Elizabeth OYLER is Associate Professor of Japanese, East Asian Languages and Cultures at University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign, where she is also Director of the Center for East Asian and Pacific Studies. Her research interests center on noh drama and medieval Japanese literature and cultural studies. Among her publications are Swords, Oaths, and Prophetic Visions: Authoring Warrior Rule in Medieval Japan (2006). She recently edited the volume, Like Clouds or Mists: Studies and Translations of Nō Plays of the Genpei War (2013), to which she also contributed “The Battle of Tonamiyama in Bangai Nō.” Fabio RAMBELLI is Professor of Japanese religions and cultural history at the University of California, Santa Barbara, where he holds the International Shinto Foundation Chair in Shinto Studies. He is currently working on Buddhist political thought in Japan; representations of India in premodern Japan; and the history of the development of Shinto as related to global intellectual networks and their impact on Japanese culture. His books include Buddhas and Kami in Japan (with Mark Teeuwen, 2000), Vegetal Buddhas (2001), Buddhist Materiality (2007), Buddhism and Iconoclasm in East Asia: A History (with Eric Reinders, 2012), A Buddhist Theory of Semiotics (2013), and Zen Anarchism (2013). Luke ROBERTS is Professor of Japanese History, in the Department of History, University of California, Santa Barbara. He specializes in Japanese political, social, and economic history of the Edo period and early Meiji transformations. Prominent among his publications are Performing the Great Peace: Political Space and Open Secrets in Tokugawa Japan (2012), Mercantilism in a Japanese Domain: The Merchant Origins of Economic Nationalism in 18th-Century Tosa (1998), and the co-authored exhibit catalogue, Japanese Fisherman’s Coats From Awaji Island (2001). Katherine SALTZMAN-LI is Associate Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, and Program in Comparative Literature, University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research interests include kabuki plays and playwriting; Edo-period kabuki treatises; theatre prints; Japanese folklore; and Japanese literature. She is the author of articles on kabuki and comparative theatre, and Creating Kabuki Plays: Context for Kezairoku, ‘Valuable Notes on Playwriting’ (2010). She is also Director of Global Performing Arts Consortium (GloPAC), a website dedicated to international theatre materials and research. Satoko SHIMAZAKI is Assistant Professor, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern California. Her research areas include theatre, literature, and cultural studies of the Early Modern and Modern periods, especially Edo-period kabuki. Her publications include the forthcoming The End of the World: Kabuki, Community, and the Vengeful Female Ghost, and “The Ghost of Oiwa in Actor Prints: Confronting Disfigurement” (Impressions: The Journal of the Japanese Art Society of America, Vol. 29, 2007-8). She is also the co-editor of Publishing the Stage: Print and Performance in Early Modern Japan (2011). Emily SIMPSON is a PhD student in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara. Her central research interest lies in the legend of Empress Jingū and its transformations since its appearance in the Kojiki and the Nihon shoki. Her most recent conference presentations were “The Jewel of the Tide: Empress Jingū and Maritime Religiosity in Medieval Japan" (Conference of the European Association for Japanese Studies, 2014) and “Sacred Mother Bodhisattva, Buddha and Cakravartin: Recasting Empress Jingū as a Buddhist Figure" (UC/Stanford New Directions in Buddhist Studies Graduate Conference, 2014). |