Symposium 3: Raymond Williams in Japan - Friday, October 22, 2021
9am / (17.00 Japan). Introduction.
9.10/ (17.10) Student Symposium
Continuing and Developing Raymond Williams’ Thinking on Literature
9.10 - 9. 15. Introduction by Takashi Onuki
9.15 – 9.25 Mizuki Watanabe (Hitotsubashi University) On Kazuo Ishiguro
9.25 – 9.35 Hiyon Mitsumoto (Hitotsubashi University) On William Morris
9.35 – 9.45 Chiaki Iimi (Tohoku University) On Kazuo Ishiguro
9.45 – 9. 55 Tomoko Watanabe (Tohoku University) On H. G. Wells
9. 55 – 10. 30. Responses and Discussion.
10.30 / (18.30) Break.
Raymond Williams in Japan: Symposium
11. 00 / (19.00)
Takashi Onuki, Forms and Relations in Raymond Williams: The Case of Japanese Manga
Asako Nakai, Intention and Agency in the Television Age: Raymond Williams's Television (1974) and Edward Said's Beginnings (1975)
12.00 / (20.00) Break
12. 30 – 13. 30 / (20. 30 – 21.30)
Hiromi Ochi, 1955: Faulkner at Nagano as a Media Event
Shintaro Kono, COVID-19, the Olympics, and Flow.
13.30 – 14.00 / 21.30 – 22.00.
Closing Presentation
Dai Smith, ‘A Member of the Awkward Squad: The Specificities of Raymond Williams’.