Paris-Tokyo-Paris: The reception of Japanese Culture in France

Paris‐Tokyo‐Paris: The reception of Japanese Culture in France since 1945 Maison franco‐japonaise, Tokyo, 6–7 September 2013 Address: Ebisu 3‐9‐25, Shibuya‐ku, Tokyo 150‐0013 http://www.kent.ac.uk/secl/researchcentres/eurolit/events/conferences/index.html [email protected] Co‐organised by Dr Fabien Arribert‐Narce, JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow (P 12703) / Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (東京外国語大学) Research project funded by JSPS : ‘The Reception of Japanese Culture by French Writers and Film‐makers Since 1945’ Dr Kohei Kuwada (桑田光平), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (東京外国
語大学) Dr Lucy O’Meara, University of Kent (United Kingdom) The French Office of the Maison franco‐japonaise, Tokyo (日仏会館フランス
事務所) Funded by The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (Japan) The Centre for Modern European Literature and the Kent Institute for Advanced Studies in the Humanities (KIASH) at the University of Kent (United Kingdom) The Japan Foundation Endowment Committee (United Kingdom) With support from The French Embassy in Japan The Transcultural Research Institute at Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (
東京外国語大学総合文化研究所) The influence of Japanese culture on postwar French artists, writers and filmmakers has been immense and varied. A marked theme in French cultural responses to Japan is an interest in the most banal and ‘insignificant’ aspects of everyday life in Japan, as seen in texts from Roland Barthes’s L’Empire des signes (1970) to Jacques Roubaud’s Tokyo infra‐ordinaire (2005). This conference will explore the aesthetic positions of contemporary ‘japonistes’, including, notably, the work of invited keynote speakers Gérard Macé, Philippe Forest and Michaël Ferrier. Friday 6 September 9.00–9.55 Welcome 9.55–10.00 Conference opening address (Christophe Marquet, Director of the Maison franco‐japonaise de Tokyo) 1
10.00–11.00 Panel 1: Spectres of Georges Perec: from wabi‐sabi to zuihitsu URSULA TIDD (University of Manchester, United Kingdom), ‘L’œil d’abord: le wabi sabi et l’infra‐ordinaire de Georges Perec’ ANDRÉ LAIDLI (Université Jean Moulin ‐ Lyon 3, France), ‘Le zuihitsu, un genre français ? La réception de l’écrit au fil du pinceau, de Georges Perec à Michaël Ferrier’ 11.00–11.15 Coffee break 11.15–12.15 Keynote speech 1: MICHAËL FERRIER (Chuo University, Tokyo, Japon), ‘Paris‐Tokyo‐et après ? : les écrivains du corail, ou d’une nouvelle arborescence dans la réception de la culture japonaise’ 12.15–13.25 Lunch 13.25–14.55 Panel 2: The Reception of Noh, Bunraku and Japanese Calligraphy in Post‐war France OSAMU HAYASHI (University of Fukushima, Japan), ‘Marguerite Yourcenar et le Nô’ LISE GUIOT (Université de Montpellier III, France), ‘Réceptions du bunraku et questions d’écritures : matière littéraire et dramatique versus matériau dramaturgique’ LAÏLI DOR (INALCO, Paris, France), ‘Regards français contemporains sur la calligraphie japonaise’ 14.55–15.15 Coffee break 15.15–16.15 Panel 3: New japonismes? French Intellectuals and Japan from 1970 to the present day EMMANUEL LOZERAND (INALCO, Paris, France), ‘La dilution du sujet japonais chez les intellectuels français au tournant des années 1970’ CATHERINE MAYAUX (Université de Cergy‐Pontoise, France), ‘Philippe Forest, une consonance avec un autre Japon’ 16.30–17.30 Keynote speech 2: PHILIPPE FOREST (Université de Nantes, France), ‘Retour à Sôseki : Théorie de la littérature et autres livres de ma bibliothèque japonaise’ 17.30–18.30 Wine reception 2
Saturday 7 September 10.00–11.00 Panel 4: Japan seen by French Artists: Case Studies in Contemporary Dance and Art TIPHAINE LARROQUE (Université de Strasbourg, France), ‘Reconnaître ou entrevoir le Japon, familiarité ou dépaysement du voyage : œuvres audiovisuelles de Dominique Gonzalez‐Foerster et de Robert Cahen’ ANNE‐GAËLLE SALIOT (Duke University, United States), ‘La beauté du contre‐geste : TeZuKa de Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui (2011)’ 11.00–11.15 Coffee break 11.15–12.15 Panel 5: Representations of Japanese Women: Between Stereotype and Innovation KYOKO KOMA (University Mykolas Romeris, Lithuania), ‘Le stéréotype de la femme japonaise exotique formé à travers la réception de la mode japonaise en France depuis 1945’ MARC KOBER (Université Paris 13, France), ‘La fiction franco‐japonaise aujourd’hui. Le complexe de Madame Chrysanthème dépassé?’ 12.15–13.25 Lunch 13.25–14.25 Panel 6: A Taste for the Everyday and the Infra‐ordinary: Jacques Roubaud and Jean‐Philippe Toussaint AGNÈS DISSON (University of Osaka, Japan), ‘Jacques Roubaud, Tokyo infra‐ordinaire : transferts et transports’ ÉLISABETH CARDONNE‐ARLYCK (Vassar College, United States), ‘Jean‐Philippe Toussaint : “On arrive à Tokyo comme à Bastia”’ 14.35–15.35 Panel 7: Travels and Peregrinations in Japan: Urban and Ritual Spaces FUMIO CHIBA (Waseda University, Tokyo, Japon), ‘Chris Marker au Japon’ BRUNO SIBONA (Aberystwyth University, United Kingdom), ‘Rituels d’écriture dans l’espace urbain : Kyoto’ 15.35–15.50 Coffee break 15.50–16.50 Keynote speech 3: AKANE KAWAKAMI (Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom), ‘Flâneurs cosmopolites : écrire/voyager entre Paris et Tokyo’ 3
17.00–18.00 Round table on the work of Gérard Macé, with GÉRARD MACÉ (writer and photographer), FUMIO CHIBA (Waseda University, Tokyo, Japon), KOHEI KUWADA (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies) and AKANE KAWAKAMI (Birkbeck, University of London, United Kingdom)
18.00–19.00 Wine reception and end of conference NB: it is essential to register in advance in order to attend the conference. Registration is free, but the number of places is limited. In order to register, please send an email with your details to the Maison franco‐japonaise at this address: [email protected] NB 2: all conference contributions will be delivered in French, and will be simultaneously translated into Japanese by a team of interpreters.
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