The Multiple Trajectories of Modernity: Reassessing Literature, Art, and Film in Japan in America
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Event Details

The international joint research project “Dark Modernity: Modernism to Film Noir from East to West” conducted by the University of Hamburg and the University of Tsukuba launched in 2017 was transferred to Kanazawa University in 2023. To showcase our research results, we would like to invite you all to the international symposium that will be held on December 13, 2024 during 3rd, 4th, and 5th periods at the B10 Classroom（B10示範教室）, General Education Lecture Hall, Kakuma Campus, Kanazawa University. The symposium will explore the diverse manifestations of modernity in Japan and the United States from the early 20th century to the present and reexamine its contemporary significance in literature, art, and film. Key topics will include modernity, modernism, Gertrude Stein, Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, H. G. Wells, World War II, the postwar world, the Indian Wars, the Vietnam War, American literature of the 1930s and 1940s, and notable works such as "Jaws" and "Godzilla," as well as the events surrounding Hiroshima and the atomic bomb. The panelists are Hans-Peter Rodenberg, professor emeritus at the University of Hamburg, specializing in 20th century American literature and journalism, who will also deliver the keynote address; Yoichiro Miyamoto, Professor at the Open University of Japan and professor emeritus at Tsukuba University, specializing in the contemporary American novel; Bunei Kohara, Professor at Komatsu University; Eisuke Kawada, associate professor at Kanazawa University, Institute of Liberal Arts and Science who specializes in modernist art and fiction.
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Timetable / Presentation Title

13：30～　“Keynote Address： Dark Modernity”
Peter H. Rodenberg (University of Hamburg, Emeritus Professor)
　　　　　　　　
13：45～　“The Terrible Modernity of War: Artistic Responses in Japan and America”
Peter H. Rodenberg (University of Hamburg, Emeritus Professor)
　　　　　　　
(Break)

14：45～　“Disfiguring Rosebud: Citizen Kane and the Dark America”
Yoichiro Miyamoto (The Open University of Japan, Professor, University of Tsukuba Emeritus Professor)
　　　　　　　　
15：35～　“Interopticality in Jaws and Godzilla: Unveiling Postwar America’s Atomic Guilt and the Legacy of Violence from the Indian Wars to Vietnam”
Bunei Kohara (Komatsu University, Professor)
　　　　　　　　
(Break)

16：30～　“Unbelievably White in the Sun”: The Idea of Dissipation in Late Hemingway’s Craft”
Eisuke Kawada  (Kanazawa University Institute of Liberal Arts and Science, Lecturer)
　　　　　　　　

17:15 - Discussion (Questions from the floor will be accepted)
Coordinator: Eisuke Kawada (Kanazawa University Institute of Liberal Arts and Science, Lecturer)

Since this will be a long symposium, you are free to enter and leave the room. Please enter and exit from the door on the left side of the hall.

Contact

Institute of Liberal Arts and Science　Eisuke Kawada, Lecturer
mail：eisukekawada(@)staff.kanazawa-u.ac.jp *(@) should be replaced by @.