A19: East West Networks

Seminar Leader: Tamara Bentley, Colorado College

Friday, April 16, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Breakout Room #2

Hitomi Nabae, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies: “Insect-Music: the Transcultural Narrative of Lafcadio Hearn”

Lise-Helene Trouilloud, University of California � Davis: �Inscribing Sexuality and Violence onto the Vietnamese (American) Body: Andrew X. Pham�s Catfish and Mandala�

Yoko Chiba, St. Lawrence University: �Lafcadio Hearn and Colonial Culture: The Case of Japonisme and Theosophy�

Chandrima Chakraborty, York University: “Being Brown and (Not) Indian in Shani Mootoo’s Out on Main Street and Other Stories”

Saturday, April 17, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Breakout Room #2

Richard Iadonisi, Grand Valley State University: �Violent Haiku:� Richard Wright and the �Whatness� of Race�

Sinkwan Cheng: �Tragic Vision East and West: Buddhism, Schopenhauer, Lacan, and Ashes of Time�

Metin Bosnak, Fatih University: �Reading the Oedipal Tendency in American and Turkish Culture�

Sunday, April 18, 8:15 – 10:15 AM, Breakout Room #2

Tamara H. Bentley, Colorado College: �Otherness and Authority: Visual Strategies for Co-opting �Others� in 17th-Century Japan, France, and China�

Mitsutoshi Oba, The University of the South: ��Where � the Real and the Imaginary Melt�: (Anti-) Darwinism, (Anti-) Ruskinism, and Japoniste Symbolism in the Arts of Victorian America�