The Dickens Fellowship: Japan Branch

Spring Conferences

2008 2007 2006 2005 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996 1995

2008 (Video-on-Demand Virtual Conference)

  • 7 June 2008
  • A Bldg., Edogawa University, 474, Komagi, Nagareyama-shi, Chiba-ken 270-0198
  • Programme

    1. Opening Addresses (13:30-13:50)

      Eiichi Hara (Tohoku University)
      Yuichi Ichimura (President, Edogawa University)

    2. Part One: Short Paper Session (14:20-15:00)
      Chair: Akiko Takei (Chukyo University)

      Takashi Terauchi, "Reading Dickens's Three Novels: David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations"

    3. Part Two: Lecture Session (15:15-17:30)

    4. Fellowship Convivial Party (18:30-20:30)

Contact Details:
Toyoko Matsumura, Edogawa University
moyasuhiko at hotmail.com
TEL: 0471-24-1501

2007 (Video-on-Demand Virtual Conference)

  • 9 June 2007
  • Noda Campus, Tokyo University of Science, 2641, Yamazaki, Noda-shi, Chiba-ken 278-8510
  • Programme

    1. Opening Address (13:50-14:10)

      Eiichi Hara (Tohoku University)

    2. Short Paper Session (14:10-14:50)
      Chair: Ryota Kanayama (Niigata University)

    3. Part Two: Lecture Session (15:50-17:40)
      Chair: Toyoko Matsumura (Edogawa University)

      • Yasuhiko Matsumura (Tokyo University of Science), "Characterization as a Result of the Use of Shorthand in Dickens's Writing"

      • Akiko Takei (Yamaguchi University), "Dickens and Charity: His Involvement in Urania Cottage"

    4. Fellowship Convivial Party (18:15-20:30)

Contact Details:
Yasuhiko Matsumoto, Tokyo University of Science
moyasuhiko at hotmail.com
TEL: 0471-24-1501

2006 (Video-on-Demand Virtual Conference)

  • 10 June 2006
  • 2F, Daigaku Kaikan, Yamaguchi University, 1677-1, Yoshida, Yamaguchi-shi, 759-8511
  • Programme

    1. Opening Address (13:50-14:10)

      Takao Saijo (Konan University)

    2. Special Lecture Session I (14:10-14:50)
      Chair: Susumu Onodera (Hirosaki University)

      Takashi Terauchi, "Could Dickens be reconciled with Catherine?"

    3. Special Lecture Session II (15:00-15:40)
      Chair: Fumie Tamai (Doshisha University)

      Masayuki Toga (Chukyo University), "The House of Mr Dickens, the House of Mr Maugham"

    4. Special Guest Lecture Session (16:00-17:30)
      Chair: Takao Saijo (Konan University)

      Tony Williams, "Dickens and 'The Moving Age'," followed by a reading from chapter 9 of Great Expectations

    5. Fellowship Convivial Party (18:15-20:30)

Contact Details:
Akiko Takei, Yamaguchi University
ysatis at pop02.odn.ne.jp
TEL: 083-933-5419

2005 (Video-on-Demand Virtual Conference)

  • 11 June 2005
  • Bunkei Sogokan, Nagoya University, Furo, Chikusa, Nagoya 464-8601
  • Programme

    1. Opening Address (13:50-14:10)

      Takao Saijo (Konan University)

    2. Special Lecture Session I (14:10-15:00)
      Chair: Masatoshi Ogino (Professor Emeritus of Nanzan University)

      Toru Sasaki (Kyoto University), "Listening to Dickens"

    3. Special Lecture Session II (15:00-16:00)
      Chair: Mitsuharu Matsuoka (Nagoya University)

      Atsushi Katagi (Nagoya University), "Seeing London's Modernization in Terms of Bridges"

    4. Special Lecture Session III (16:20-17:50)
      Chair: Takao Saijo (Konan University)

      Alan Dilnot (Monash University), "Dickens and Australia," followed by a reading of "Sikes and Nancy"

    5. Fellowship Convivial Party (18:00-20:00)

Contact Details:
Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Nagoya University
mitsu at lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp
TEL: 052-789-4864

2004 (Video-on-Demand Virtual Conference)

  • 1:45 pm, 4 June 2004
  • British Embassy, 1 Ichiban-cho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-8381
    (TEL: 03-5211-1100)
  • Programme

    1. Opening Addresses (13:45-14:10)

      Takao Saijo, Konan University
      Mr. David Elliott, British Council

    2. Symposium (14:10-16:00)

      Theme: Tracing the Origin of Dickens's Imaginatiion

      Chair: Toyoko Matsumura, Edogawa University

      Eiichi Hara, Tohoku University: Barnaby Rudge

      Hideo Kajiyama, Shimane University: Martin Chuzzlewit

      Toyoko Matsumura, Edogawa University: Dombey and Son

    3. Public Reading and Special Lecture Session (16:20-16:50)

      Chair: David Rycroft, Konan University

      Professor Peter Robinson, Tohoku University: "'This fiction of an occupation': Mr Boffin's encounter with Blight in Our Mutual Friend"

Contact Details:
Takao Saijo, Konan University
saijo at center.konan-u.ac.jp
TEL: 078-435-2343

2003 (Video-on-Demand Virtual Conference)

  • 1:30 pm, 7 June 2003
  • Room 11, 2nd Bldg., Faculty of Technology and Science, Hirosaki University, Bunkyo-cho 1, Hirosaki, Aomori 036-8560
    (TEL: 0172-39-3963)
  • Programme

    1. Opening Address (13:30-13:45)

      Takao Saijo, Konan University

    2. Short Paper Session (14:20-15:00)

      Chair: Eiichi Hara, Tohoku University

      Takayuki Mizuno (Waseda University)
      A Right Point of View in Little Dorrit

      Sakiko Nonomura (Nagoya University)
      Dickens, Collins and Mental Science: Aspects of Consciousness in Our Mutual Friend and Armadale

    3. Symposium (15:15-17:40)

      Theme: Dickens Criticism since 1980

      Chair: Toshikatsu Murayama, Seikei University

      Toshikatsu Murayama, Seikei University

      Midori Niino, Kobe City University of Foreign Studies

      Fumie Tamai, Doshisha University

Contact Details:
Susumu Onodera, Hirosaki University
susumu at cc.hirosaki-u.ac.jp
TEL: 0172-39-3963

2002 (Video-on-Demand Virtual Conference)

  • 2:00 pm, 8 June 2002
  • Room 1, 2nd F., Daigaku-kaikan, Komazawa University, 1-23-1, Komazawa, Setagaya, Tokyo 154-8525
    (TEL: 03-3418-9146)
  • Programme

    1. Opening Address (14:00-14:15)

      Takao Saijo, Konan University

    2. Short Paper Session (14:20-15:00)

      Chair: Toru Sasaki, Kyoto University

      David Chandler (Kyoto University)
      The Challenger of The Battle of Life

    3. Public Reading (15:00-15:20)

      Shinji Sato (Komazawa University)

      Reading from "Doctor Marigold"

    4. Symposium (15:40-17:40)

      Theme: Dickens Criticism and Its Development
      Chair: Eiichi Hara, Tohoku University

      Shiro Yamamoto, University of Tokyo
      Humphry House

      Eiichi Hara, Tohoku University
      J. Hillis Miller

      Kensuke Ueki, Hiroshima University
      Steven Marcus

Contact Details
Yoshio Arai, Komazawa University
fwkx5491 at mb.infoweb.ne.jp
TEL: 03-3418-9146, 9147

2001

  • 2:00 pm, 9 June 2001
  • Room 732, 7th Bldg., Seijo University, 6-1-20, Seijo, Setagaya, Tokyo 157-8511
    (TEL: 03-3482-1181, ext. 286)
  • Programme

    1. Opening Address (14:00-14:15)
      Takao Saijo, Konan University

    2. Symposium (14:30-16:50)
      Theme: Dickens and Hogarth
      Chair: Ken Aoki, Seijo University

      Hisayasu Hirukawa, Musashi University
      Hogarth's Points of View

      Takashi Nakamura, Yamagata University
      Crime and Poverty as Spectacle in Oliver Twist

      Yasuhiko Matsumoto, Science University of Tokyo
      Artistry in Dickens and Hogarth

    3. Lecture Session (17:00-18:00)

      Yoshio Arai (Komazawa University)

      "Narrative Technique in Dickens Novels: A Relation between his Literary Styles and Vocal Expressions"

Contact Details
Ken Aoki, Seijo University
kshr.aoki at nifty.ne.jp
TEL: 03-3482-1181, ext. 286

2000

  • 2:00 pm, 10 June 2000
  • Daikaigishitsu, Faculty of Letters, Hiroshima University, 1-2-3, YKagamiyama, Higashi Hiroshima 739-8522 (TEL: 0824-24-6682)
  • Programme

    1. Opening Address (14:00-14:15)
      Takao Saijo, Konan University

    2. Short Paper Session (14:20-15:20)
      • Chair: Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Nagoya University
        Yoko Oikawa, Hokkaido University
        Dickens and Dostoevsky: Results of Love Murder in Our Mutual Friend and Idiot

      • Chair: Keiji Kanameda, Hiroshima University
        Hideo Kajiyama, Hiroshima University
        It Does Not Matter Who Murders Edwin -- An Essay on The Mystery of Edwin Drood as a Detective Story

      • Chair: Toshikatsu Murayama, Seikei University
        Aya Yatsugi (Ube National College of Technology)
        Disease in Bleak House - What Is Symbolised in Esther's Disease?

      • Lecture Session (15:00-17:00)
        Chair: Kensuke Ueki, Hiroshima University

        Paul Schlicke (University of Aberdeen)

        "The Theatre Dickens Knew" followed by a public reading:

Contact Details
Kensuke Ueki, Hiroshima University
kueki at hiroshima-u.ac.jp
Telephone: 0824-24-6682

1999

  • 2:00 pm, 5 June 1999
  • "Yamate Hall", Yagoto Gakusha Centre Bldg., Chukyo University, 101-2, Yagotohonmachi, Showa, Nagoya 466-8666 (TEL: 052-832-2151)
  • Programme

    1. Opening Address (14:00-14:15)
      Takao Saijo, Konan University

    2. Short Paper Session (14:20-15:20)
      Chair: Masayuki Toga, Chukyo University

      Sari Nishigaki, Kwansei Gakuin University
      The Composition of Reversal: Disease and Healing in Great Expectations

      Yasuhiko Matsumoto, Science University of Tokyo
      Can Pip Be the Hero of His Own Life? -- A Psychotherapeutic Analysis --

    3. Symposium (15:00-17:00)
      Theme: Dickens and his Younger Novelists
      Chair: Masatoshi Ogino, Nanzan University

      • Kuichi Saito (Joetsu University of Education): Anthony Trollope
      • Miyuki Amano (Hiroshima Women's University): George Eliot
      • Shigeo Kimura (Osaka University): Joseph Conrad
Contact Details
Masayuki Toga, Chukyo University
mtoga at lets.chukyo-u.ac.jp
Telephone: 052-832-2151

1998

  • 2:00 pm, 6 June 1998
  • "Yugakukan", Yamagata-Ken Shogai-Gakusyu Centre, 1-2-36, Midori, Yamagata (TEL: 023-625-6415)
  • Programme

    1. Opening Address (14:00-14:15)
      Shigeru Koike, Tokyo Women's University

    2. Short Paper Session (14:20-15:30)
      Chair: Ken Aoki, Seijo University

      Yuji Miyamaru, Keio University
      Aberrated Body -- Two Cases of Pickwickian Syndrome

      Akiko Takei, Shukutoku University
      Confusion of Identities in Our Mutual Friend with Special Reference to Imperialism, Class and Gender

    3. Symposium (15:00-17:00)
      Theme: Dickens and Madness
      Chair: Eichi Hara, Tohoku University

      • Susumu Onodera, Hirosaki University
      • Ryota Kanayama, Niigata University
      • Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Nagoya University
Contact Details
Takashi Nakamura, Yamagata University
nakka at human.kj.yamagata-u.ac.jp
Telephone: 023-628-4796 (Office)

1997

  • 1:00 pm, 7 June 1997
  • Takigawa Kinen Gakujutsu Koryu Kaikan 2F, Kobe University
  • Programme

    1. Opening Address (13:30-13:45)
      Shigeru Koike, Tokyo Women's University

    2. Short Paper Session (13:45-14:45)
      Chair: Ken Aoki, Seijo University

      Yumiko Hirono, Yamaguchi University
      Great Expectations: Dickens's Child Point of View

      Kiiko Nagaoka, Osaka Gakuin Junior College
      The Shadow in Little Dorrit: Disruption and Reconstruction of the Family Myth

    3. Symposium (15:00-17:00)
      Theme: Dickens and Prison

      Masaie Matsumura, Otemae Women's University
      Harunori Hisada, Aichi University of Education
      Takao Saijo, Konan University

Contact Details
Yuko Ishizuka
Faculty of International Culture, Kobe University
Telephone: 078-803-0803

1996

  • 14:00 pm, 1 June 1996
  • Symposion Hall, Toyoda Auditorium, Nagoya University
  • Programme

    1. Opening Address (14:00-14:15)
      Shigeru Koike, Tokyo Women's University

    2. Short Paper Session (14:15-15:15)
      Chair: Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Nagoya University

      Yasuki Kihara, Fukui University
      The Prison in David Copperfield

      Toru Sasaki, Kyoto University
      Dickens in Confusion?: Discrepancies in the Denouement of Martin Chuzzlewit

    3. Lecture Session (15:30-17:00)
      Chair: Masaie Matsumura, Konan University

      Paul Snowden, Waseda University
      Dickens and Drinking

Contact Details
Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Nagoya University
Telephone: 052-789-4864
E-mail: matsuoka at lang.nagoya-u.ac.jp

1995

  • 1:30 pm, 3 June 1995
  • Room 210, Kyodai Kaikan, Kyoto
  • Programme

    1. Opening Address (13:30-13:45)
      Shigeru Koike, Tokyo Women's University

    2. Short Paper Session (13:45-14:45)
      Chair: Toru Sasaki, Kyoto University

      Koji Sakimura, Kochi University
      Class Structure and Occupation in Great Expectations: Concepts of Loop and Strata

      Yoko Tanabe, Hiroshima University of Economics
      "Mutuality" in Our Mutual Friend

    3. Lecture Session (15:00-17:00)
      Chair: Masaie Matsumura, Konan University

      Michael Slater, University of London
      "Creative Anger, Creative Writer: Dickens the Journalist and Dickens the Novelist"

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