Doctoral Workshop in Japanese Studies

The workshop will provide a forum for participants to present their work to established researchers and encourage the creation of research networks.

Program

Morning session 1

Panel 1: Cultural history (auditorium)

9.30 am-10am Ivan Grandclément (EPHE), ‘Representations of dreams in the Taiheiki: around the figure of Prince Shōtoku’.

10 am-10.30 am Maxime Bonnet (EPHE), ‘La sino-japonisation du corpus ésopique : les Fables imprimées en Amakusa (1593)’ (The Sino-Japanisation of the esopic corpus: the Fables printed in Amakusa (1593))

11am-11.30am Sophie Rainaut (École Normale Supérieure de Lyon), ‘Teachers and the masculinisation of boys in Imperial Japan (1918-1941): between theorisation, debate and reappropriation’.

11.30 am-12 amMatthieu Mallard (Université de Lorraine), ‘Redefining film authorship. What contribution can the Japanese case make to the historical sociology of film copyright (1963-1970)?

Panel 2: Japanese religions, past and present (amphitheatre 4)

9.30 am-10 am Benedetta Pacini (EPHE), La triade du kondō (salle dorée) du temple Tōshōdai-ji: l'aube de la pratique religieuse et artistique du zōnai nōnyūhin ’

10 am-10.30 am Marina Pandolfino (EPHE), ‘Exegesis as an instrument of influence: Yoshida Kanetomo's lectures on the Nihon shoki’

11 am-11.30 amAlice Lesté-Lasserre (EHESS), ‘Faire l'ascèse de la cascade à Ikoma (Japon) en 2023-2024: enjeux et perspectives d'un rituel qui perdure dans le temps’ (Performing the asceticism of the waterfall in Ikoma (Japan) in 2023-2024: the challenges and prospects of a ritual that endures over time)

11.30 am-12 am Hugo Trévisan (EHESS), ‘ʺWe love Japan's other religions.ʺ Nationalisme et rapports conflictuels au shintoïsme dans une communauté chrétienne évangélique’.

12 am -13.15 am Lunch break

13.15 am - Round table: Promoting the thesis (auditorium)

Publishing during the thesis: the journal Etudes japonaises - Christian Galan (Université Toulouse-Jean-Jaurès)

Publishing your thesis: the publication process - César Castellvi (Université Paris Cité)

CNU qualification and recruitment of lecturers - Gérald Peloux (Inalco)

Post-doctoral opportunities abroad - Adrienne Sala (Waseda University)

Session 2 - Afternoon

Panel 3: On the margins of Japanese society (auditorium)

2.30pm -3 pm Kawasaki Natsuki (Inalco), ‘The current situation of foreign children in Japanese schools’.

3 pm - 3.30 pm Anaïs Cornier (Inalco/Université Paris Dauphine), ‘Sexual violence against minors in Japan - History of Japanese child protection’.

4 pm -4.30 pm Pierre-Jean Colas (Inalco), ‘Une professionnalisation impossible? Between amateur practices and material contingencies, the discourse in question’.

4.30 pm -5 pm Wiktor Ziolkiewicz (University of Geneva), ‘Les ʺchoses obscènesʺ - une analyse de l'underground au Japon dans les années 1960’.

Panel 4: Arts and literature (amphitheatre 4)

2.30 pm- 3 pm Goto Misaki (Université Paris-1 Panthéon-Sorbonne), ‘Japanese shamanism: evolution towards performance art and contemporary controversies’

3 pm -3.30 pm Adélaïde Mangon (Inalco), ‘Murakami Haruki et Ikezawa Natsuki, traducteurs et écrivains dans les années 1970-1980’ (Murakami Haruki and Ikezawa Natsuki, translators and writers in the 1970s-1980s)

4 pm-4.30 pm Lucie Rydzek (Université de Lorraine), ‘Rewriting social news: the Fukushima and Covid-19 crises in amateur and professional films supported by the Sendai media library’.

4.30 pm-5 pm Sonia Cutuli (University of Geneva), ‘L'intermédialité pour mieux comprendre les débuts de l'histoire du cinéma japonais’ (Intermediality for a better understanding of the early history of Japanese cinema)

5 pm - Closing address (auditorium): Matthias Hayek (EPHE), President of the SFEJ

5.45 pm: SFEJ General Assembly