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20th Anniversary of Japanese Studies in Krakow and Poznan

The International Conference in Japanese Studies

"Civilisation of Evolution. Civilisation of Revolution. Metamorphoses in Japan, 1900-2000."
24-28 October 2007, Krakow, Poland

Jagiellonian University (Krakow) and Adam Mickiewicz University (Poznan) in cooperation with the Polish Association of Japanese Studies and the Manggha Centre of Japanese Art and Technology (Krakow) invite papers for a conference. The subject of the conference covers a wide area of studies on modern Japan and concerns the retrospection and revaluation of various phenomena in Japanese history and cultural tradition. We propose the following topics:

* Japanese linguistics and language teaching, including both synchronic and diachronic studies, new theories in genealogy of Japanese and Altaic languages, historical phenomena in development of Japanese lexicon and linguistic contacts, pragmatics, cognitive semantics and new trends in teaching Japanese as a foreign language in the Central European centres of Japanese studies;

* traditional and modern Japanese literature and literary criticism, including the presence of Japanese literature in Europe and its translatory tradition, modern literary genres and new phenomena in literary life, recent changes and tendencies in perception of literature, woman writers and literary feminism in last decades, the theory and practice of Japanese poetry;

* ancient and modern history of Japan, including new evaluations and recent studies on the Meiji and Showa Japan, conflicts and reforms in the political development of Japan, the role of history in the modern political and social discourse in Japanese press, the historical and cultural identity of Japan within East Asia seen from the perspective of relations wit Korea and China;

* Japanese theatre, mass media, film and other visual arts, including popular culture and its main genres, the presence of Japanese cinema in Poland and directs contacts of film artists of both countries seen in a wider European perspective, reception of the Japanese theatrical tradition in Poland and Europe within the cultural wave of orientalisme;

* Japanese art and aesthetics, Japanese fine art in Europe and its impact in the 20th century, European japonisme, its development and expansion from Western to Central and Eastern Europe;

* Japanese religion, philosophy and social thought, including Buddhism and Shinto studies with modern aspects of Japanese religions and their social and literary impacts, religious inspiration in Japanese prose and poetry;

* sociology and economics, with both historical and systemic analyses of the most important phenomena in social structure and the economic development in the Meiji and Showa era, including most recent tendencies and changes;

* Okinawa and Ainu studies, including the history and dialectology of the Ryukyu Archipelago, the identity and cultural tradition of Okinawa and its historic contacts with the Asian Continent, the Ainu language and culture, including the history of the Ainu studies.

We invite papers from the fields of literature, linguistics, history, anthropology and other disciplines related to Japanese studies. We also welcome proposals for panel discussions. The conference will be held in English and Japanese.

The Conference Committee
Prof. Romuald Huszcza, Jagiellonian University
Prof. Alfred Majewicz, Adam Mickiewicz University

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