AJLS 2012: Rhetoric and Region: The Local Determinants of Literary Expression

Friday, October 12
4:00 p.m. - 6:00 p.m. 6:15 p.m. - 8:00 p.m. Registration & Welcome Reception: The Ohio State University Libraries, Thompson Library

Panel 1: Spatial Practices in the Center and Regions: Genre, Technology, and the Chronotope in Twentieth-Century Culture, Hagerty Hall Room 180 Hagerty 180 Hagerty 046
Welcome Breakfast and Registration: Hagerty Hall, in front of Hagerty 180

Saturday, October 13
8:00 a.m. - 8:30 a.m. 8:30 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. 8:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m.

Teacher Workshop in Hagerty Hall, Room 186 Panel 2: Japanese Literature and Film in International Contexts Panel 4: The Avant Garde and the Internationalization of Literary Language Panel 3: Place and Contemporary Issues in Fiction

10:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m. 12:20 p.m. - 1:00 p.m. 1:00 p.m. - 2:50 p.m. 3:00 p.m. - 4:50 p.m. 5:00 p.m. - 6:50 p.m. 7:00 p.m. - 9:00 p.m.

Panel 5: Place, Poetics, and Other Operations on Language

Lunch: Hagerty Hall

Panel 6: Osaka: Alternative Topographies Panel 8: Film Panel 10: Women, Politics, and the New and Old Proletarian Literature

Panel 7: Semi-Imaginary Places and the Realities of Home in Japanese Literature and Popular Culture Panel 9: Meiji Prose Panel 11: Modern Literary Expression from Thoku to Kysh

Special Event: Keynote Address & Conference Dinner (Ohio Union): Sadami Suzuki, International Research Center for Japanese Studies

Sunday, October 14
8:30 a.m. - 10:20 a.m. 10:30 a.m. - 12:20 p.m.

Hagerty 180 Panel 12: Regional Inflections and Dialects Panel 14: The Role of Place in Perspectives on Conflict in Modern Fiction

Hagerty 046 Panel 13: Myth, Region, and Literature of the Classical Period