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”