Fairy Tales - Their Legacy and Transformation: Gender, Sexuality, and Comparative Literature

Saturday,November 7,2015

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Center for Gender Studies / Institute for the Study of Christianity and Culture Joint Symposium
Fairy Tales - Their Legacy and Transformation: Gender, Sexuality, and Comparative Literature

Date
7th November (Sat) 2015 13:00-18:00
Doors Open 12:30 / Includes Intermission

Place
H-116, International Christian University

Language
English

Fee
Free, No Appointment Nessesary

Program
13:00-14:00 Key Note
Mayako MURAI (Professor, Kanagawa University)
Konoike Tomoko's Wolf Girls in the Woods: Contemporary Japanese Fairy-Tale Adaptations in Conversation with the West

14:00-16:00 Presentations
Lindsay R. Morrison
Doctoral Candidate, ICU / Research Institute Assistant, CGS
O Mother, Where Art Thou?: Motif of Disappearing Women in Japanese Mythology

Christopher E. J. SIMONS
Senior Associate Professor, ICU
Foot-Loose and Fancy-Free: Song and Dance as Representations of Gender and Sexuality in Shakespeare's Fairy Plays

Daniela KATO
Associate Professor, Hiroshima Jogakuin University
"By the side of the beast": Animal Iconography and Iconoclasm in the Work of Paula Rego

Natsumi IKOMA
Senior Associate Professor, ICU / Director, CGS
Wolves and Witches: Sexual Outcasts in Angela Carter's Fairy Tales

16:00-18:00 Round Table
Moderator: Natsumi IKOMA

Mysterious existences wander about the world of fairy tales. This symposium analyzes these motifs in literature and art, through the perspectives of gender and sexuality.


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