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The Program for
The Tenth International
Melville Conference
Tokyo
KeioUniversity (MitaCampus)
The Tenth International
Melville Conference
Tokyo
The Tenth International Melville Conference Tokyo
Registration
June 25 (Thursday):
Conference Hall (East Research Building, 8th floor)
June 26 (Friday) – 28 (Sunday):
Conference Room (East Research Building, 5th floor)
PanelsandPlenaries
Melville in a Global Context
The Tenth International Melville Conference
Tokyo, June 25-29, 2015
Organized by the Melville Society of America, in collaboration with the Melville Society
of Japan and Keio University’s G-SEC American Studies Project
Co-sponsored by the Tokyo American Literature Society (for Saturday’s program), Keio
University's Faculty of Letters, and the Keio Society of Arts and Letters
Room A: G-SEC Lab. (East Research Building, 6th floor)
Room B: Seminar Room (East Research Building, 4th floor)
Plenaries #1–#4: Conference Hall (North Building)
ArtInstallation
G-SEC Lab. (East Research Building, 6th floor)
Peter Martin
Martin and Moby
KeioUniversity
(MitaCampus)
2-15-45 Mita, Minato-ku, Tokyo
The Tenth International Melville Conference 3
1B 13:00 – 14:15 Room B
Moby-Dick, Pierre, and Philosophy
(Thursday)
Registration (Conference Hall, 8th floor) 11:00 –
Prologue 11:30 –
Panels 13:00 –
Plenary#1 17:15 –
Reception 18:30 –
Moderator: A. Robert Lee (Independent Scholar)
Pilar Martinez Benedi (University of Rome)
Hovering Over Descartian Vortices: Corporeal Disappearance and “Prosthetic”
Embodiment in Moby-Dick
Katsunori Takeuchi (Kagoshima University)
Reconsidering Melville’s Phenomenology: Ishmael Faced with Thing-in-Itself
Dawn Coleman (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)
“—ran foul”: Moby-Dick as Confession
Eitetsu Sasaki (Momoyama Gakuin University)
Messianic Others in Pierre
Prologue: GreetingsandAnnouncements
11:30 – 12:00 Conference Hall, 8th floor
1A 13:00 –14:15 Room A
Aspects of “Bartleby”
Moderator: Carolyn L. Karcher (Temple University)
Yoshiaki Furui (Emory University)
Postal Solitude: Bartleby at the Dead Letter Office
Yukiko Oshima (Fukuoka University)
What Dead Letter Office?: Historicizing Bartleby in Amerindian Context
2A 14:30 – 15:30 Room A
Melville and Japanese Writers
Moderator: Sam Malissa (Yale University)
Joshua Petitto (University of Tokyo)
Moby-Dick, Uno Kōichirō, and Corporeal Identity in Postwar Japan
Arimichi Makino (MSJ President)
Melville and Kenzaburo Oe
Ikuno Saiki (Tokyo Gakugei University)
Melville, Ikezawa, and the World after 3.11
Tomoyuki Zettsu（Rikkyo University）
Bartleby and Poetry: Melville’s Narrator as a Failed Poet
Martin Griffin（University of Tennessee, Knoxville）
Bartleby and the Memory of the Future
4 Melville in a Global Context
2B 14:30 – 15:45 Room B
Melville and Ethics
3B 16:00 – 17:00 Room B
The Uncanny
Moderator: Martin Kevorkian (University of Texas at Austin)
Moderator: David Farnell (Fukuoka University)
John Ronan (Kutztown University of Pennsylvania)
Christian Faith in Pierre
H. T. Chang (Pennsylvania State University)
Chronometricals and Horologicals: Ethics, Its Ambiguities, and the World’s
Time-Keepers
James Emmett Ryan (Auburn University)
The House of Harper: Melville’s Anti-Catholic Publisher
Caitlin Smith (University of Notre Dame)
A Message from Beneath the Stone: Religion and Language in Clarel
Roundtable#1
3A 16:00 – 17:00 Room A
Islands and Archipelagoes: The Forms of Melville’s Pacific
Moderator: Melissa Gniadek (Rice University)
Alex Calder (University of Auckland)
Devious Cruising: Melville and Polynesian Navigation
Spencer Tricker (University of Miami) “Five Dusky Phantoms”: Lascars, Manilamen, and the Limits of
Cosmopolitanism in Moby-Dick
Shoko Tsuji (Matsuyama University)
Fedallah as a Positive Asian Image in Moby-Dick
Kevin Riordan (Nanyang Technological University)
Spectator with Shipwreck: Melville across Land and Sea
Plenary#1
17:15-18:15 Conference Hall (North Building)
Natsuki Ikezawa (Writer)
Literature of the Quest: Melville and Pynchon
Moderator: Arimichi Makino (MSJ President)
Reception
FacultyClub (North Building) 18:30 – 20:30
Melissa Gniadek (Rice University)
Islands Beyond Allegory: Melville’s Plots of Land and Sea
Michael Jonik (University of Sussex)
“[E]ndless, unknown Archipelagoes”: Melville’s Islands and the Poetics of
Relation
4B 9:00 –10:00 Room B
Empire
(Friday)
Panels 9:00 –
ArtistChats 11:30 –
Plenary#2 13:00 –
Plenary#3 14:00 –
Panels 15:15 –
4A 9:00 –10:00 Room A
Melville and Japanese Aesthetics
Moderator: Joshua Petitto (University of Tokyo)
Daniel Herman (University of San Francisco)
Whaling Life, Monastic Life: The Pequod as Japanese Zen Monastery
Scott Norsworthy (Independent scholar)
Copying Melville: Literary Theft and Romantic Anti-imperialism in Kinahan
Cornwallis’ Two Journeys to Japan
Kelly Ross (Rider University)
Anti-Detectives in Melville’s “Benito Cereno” and Kōbō Abe’s The Face of
Another
Moderator: Carolyn L. Karcher (Temple University)
Yui Kasane (Hitotsubashi University)
Genial Deviation: Israel Potter and American “Empire”
Nicholas Spengler (University of Edinburgh)
Melville’s “Black Legend”: Spanish America’s Ambiguous Place in the
Articulation of US American Exceptionalism
François Specq (Université de Lyon)
Isolari, Isolatoes, and Delusions of Empire in Melville’s “Encantadas”
5A 10:15 – 11:15 Room A
Translation
Moderator: Taras Alexander Sak (Yasuda Women’s University)
Leyli Jamali (Islamic Azad University)
Chased in Translation: Melville’s White Whale in the Persian Gulf
Kohei Furuya (Wayo Women’s University)
Moby-Dick and the Ethics of Translation
John Bryant (Hofstra University)
Translating the Translated: Imagining a Digital Tool for Studying the Critical
Act of Translation
5B 10:15 – 11:15 Room B
Oceanic Studies
6A 15:15 – 16:30 Room A
Adaptations of Melville
Moderator: Mary K. Bercaw Edwards (University of Connecticut)
Moderator: Robert K. Wallace (North Kentucky University)
Daniel S. Traber (Texas A&M University)
The Transnational Dandy in Redburn
Stacey Margolis (University of Utah)
Parisian Pierre
Keiko Fujie (Ehime University)
From the Romantic Sea to the Sea as the Global Commons: Longfellow,
Melville, and Wedde　Daniel Clinton (Rutgers University)
Character and Confidence in Moby-Dick––Rehearsed
Edlie L. Wong (University of Maryland)
“My Inland Voyage”: Reimaging the Oceanic in The Piazza Tales
ArtistChats
11:30 – 12:00 Room A
Peter Martin
Plenary#2
Elizabeth Schultz (Professor Emeritus, University of Kansas)
The Art of Moby-Dick
Moderator: Ikuno Saiki (Tokyo Gakugei University)
Plenary#3
Yoji Sakate (Dramatist)
Bartlebies (A Dramatic Reading)
Moderator: Toshiyuki Ohwada (Keio University)
Don Dingledine (University of Wisconsin Oshkosh)
Melville and the Angry Inch　Wendy Stallard Flory (Purdue University)
Gojira and Moby Dick Globalized: Monsters with a Shared and Human
Significance
6B 15:15 – 16:30 Room B
Transpacific Studies
Moderator: Etsuko Taketani (Tsukuba University)
Jennifer Greiman (University at Albany, SUNY)
Melville’s Greens: Color Theory and Democracy’s History from the Typee to
the Hudson Valley
Tim Yamamura (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Pacific Apprehensions: Herman Melville across Shifting Seas
Tony McGowan (United States Military Academy at West Point)
Melville’s Pacific Extinctions
Cyrus R. K. Patell (New York University, Abu Dhabi)
What Does It Mean to Be a “Global” Text?: The Example of Moby-Dick
7A 16:45 – 18:00 Room A
The Posthuman and Monsters
Moderator: Hisayo Ogushi (Keio University)
Stephanie A. Smith (University of Florida)
Tattspeak: Melville’s Cross-Species Translations
Christopher Sten (George Washington University)
The Monster in Melville’s “Bell-Tower”: Foucault’s “Docile Bodies” and
Slavery
Roundtable#2
8A 18:15 – 19:45 Room A
Rethinking the Local and the Global in Pierre
Moderator: Robert S. Levine (University of Maryland)
Gillian Osborne (University of California, Berkeley)
Backyard Wilderness: the Over-Wrought Localities of Pierre
Joel Pfister (Wesleyan University)
Pierre, Typee, and the U.S. History of Capitalism’s Hothouse Family
Amy R. Nestor (Georgetown University)
Deserted Archive: Melville, Clarel, and the Posthuman
Takayuki Tatsumi (Keio University)
“Young America in Literature” Reconsidered
Wyn Kelley (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
“Implacable Sea”: Melville and the Posthuman Gaze
Jeannine DeLombard (University of California, Santa Barbara)
Laboring Souls: Authorship, Slavery, and Inviolate Personality in Melville’s Pierre
7B 16:45 – 18:00 Room B
Adaptations of Moby-Dick
Robert S. Levine (University of Maryland)
Annotating Pierre
Moderator: Wendy Stallard Flory (Purdue University)
Bryan Waterman (New York University, Abu Dhabi)
Chasing Moby-Dick in Abu Dhabi
8B 18:15 – 19:30 Room B
Nature and Narrative
Moderator: Jennifer Greiman (University at Albany, SUNY)
Sahmadi Linda Sabrina (University of Nice Sophia Antipolis)
Shooting the Big White Whale: Moby-Dick on Screen
John C. Rendeiro (University at Buffalo, SUNY)
The Captive as Anthropologist: Time and Narrative Form in Typee
Jun Okawa (Kwansei Gakuin University)
Moby-Dick in Osaka: The Adaptation of Moby-Dick to Jarinko Chie
Christopher Leslie (New York University)
Melville and the Natural Historians
Martina Pfeiler (TU Dortmund University)
Ahab in Love: From Emma C. Embury’s “Love and Whaling” (1843) to
Michael Curtiz’ Dämon des Meeres (1931)
Ean High (Northwestern University)
The Shades of Melville’s Silence: Religious Hearing in Moby-Dick
Hester Blum (Penn State University)
Melville and Ecomedia
9B 9:00 – 10:00 Room B
Melville in World Literature
(Saturday)
Panels 9:00 –
Plenary#4 13:30 –
ResponsestoPlenary#4 14:30 –
Panels 14:45 –
Banquet 18:30 –
Moderator: Timothy Marr (University of North Carolina)
Akihiro Maru (University of Tsukuba)
The Un-translatability and Globalization in “A Whale or a Crocodile”
David Farnell (Fukuoka University)
“Her bleeding philosophy”: Ahabian Monomania in China Miéville’s Railsea
Martin Kevorkian (University of Texas at Austin)
Reading Melville after Murakami
10A 10:15– 11:15 Room A
Melville and Visuality
9A 9:00 – 10:00 Room A
Geography
Moderator: Edlie L. Wong (University of Maryland)
Michiko Shimokobe (Seikei University)
The Pacific in Western/Eastern Hemisphere: Longitude in Melville’s Nautical
Discourse
Kylan Rice (Colorado State University)
Knotted Up in Place: Melville and the American Spatial Subject
Samuel Otter (University of California, Berkeley)
Melville’s Islands
Moderator: Christopher Sten (George Washington University)
Ryan McWilliams (University of California, Berkeley)
Global Revolutions and Local Landscapes in Pierre, “The Encantadas,” and
“Benito Cereno”
Elisa Tamarkin (University of California, Berkeley)
Melville Squinting: Visuality in the Last Decades
Robert K. Wallace (North Kentucky University)
Moby-Dick Art in New Bedford, Northern Kentucky, Kitakyushu, and Greater
Cincinnati
10B 10:15– 11:15 Room B
Melville and Hawthorne
11B 11:30-12:30 Room B
Gender and Sexuality
Moderator: Naochika Takao (Chuo University)
Moderator: Taras Alexander Sak (Yasuda Women’s University)
Toshiyuki Ohwada (Keio University)
Writer as Critic: Melville’s “Mosses” and 19th-Century Literary Criticism
David Rosenthal (Independent Scholar)
“Will he make a covenant with thee?”: Erotic Pantheism and Ahab’s Oath
A. Robert Lee (Independent Scholar)
Storying Hawthorne: Melville and “Mosses”
Shiho Hayashi (Mie Prefectural College of Nursing)
Manhood and the Silent Recluse in Melville’s “I and My Chimney”
Shirley Samuels (Cornell University)
Men at Sea: Love and Violence in Hawthorne, Bridge, and Melville
Ai Takahashi (Tokuyama College of Technology)
Is Billy a Peace-maker?: Gender Confusion in Billy Budd, Sailor
11A 11:30-12:30 Room A
Capitalism
Moderator: Zach Hutchins (Colorado State University)
Erin Pearson (University of California, Irvine)
The Universal Capitalism of the Sea: Melville’s Cannibal Commodities
Mitsuru Sanada (Ryukoku University)
Melville’s Critique of Government and Time under Capitalism
Trane DeVore (Osaka University)
Shams and Delusions Esteemed for Soundest Truths: Materializations of
Capital in Melville, Thoreau, and Moby-Duck
Plenary#4
Cosponsored by the Tokyo American Literature Society
Karen Tei Yamashita (University of California, Santa Cruz)
Call Me Ishimaru
Moderator: Takayuki Tatsumi (Keio University)
ResponsestoPlenary#4
14:30 – 15:45 Conference Hall (North Building)
Commentators:
Ryuta Imafuku (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
Keijiro Suga (Meiji University)
Rie Makino (Nihon University)
Moderator: Takayuki Tatsumi (Keio University)
12A 14:45 – 16:00 Room A
Melville and World Travel
13A 16:15 – 17:30 Room A
Whaling and Diplomacy
Moderator: Dennis Berthold (Texas A&M University)
Moderator: Hester Blum (Penn State University)
Jimmy Packham (University of Bristol)
“Were you ever homeward bound?—No?”: Melville’s Vision of Home
Thomas D. Zlatic (St. Louis College of Pharmacy)
Melville’s Avid Tourist
Eric Tasch (St. Thomas University)
The Tourism of Poetic Form in Melville’s Clarel
Timothy Marr (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)
American Sinbad: Melville’s Multidimensional Travel
12B 14:45 – 15:45 Room B
Melville and Other Writers
Moderator: John Matteson (John Jay College of Criminal Justice)
Scott Brennan (Independent Scholar)
Cultural Narcissism as a Basis for Racial and Cultural Distinctions in MobyDick
Zach Hutchins (Colorado State University)
“Kith and Kin to Noble Benjamin”: Imitation and the Autobiography of
Ishmael
Mikako Takeuchi (Keio University)
Foregrounding Otherness: Ralph Ellison’s Interpretation of Melville’s Works
Yukari Kato (Seikei University)
Native American Castaways in Japanese Captivity: Ishmael and Ranald
MacDonald
David Dowling (University of Iowa)
The Japanese Cruising Ground: Cultural Conflict from John Manjiro to
Whale Wars
Marissa Grunes (Harvard University)
The Hunt for the White Continent: Moby-Dick and the U.S. Exploring
Expedition
Mary K. Bercaw Edwards (University of Connecticut)
Melville and Whaling Culture
13B 16:15 – 17:30 Room B
Aspects of Billy Budd, Sailor
Moderator: Tomoyuki Iino (Sophia University)
Ok-Rae Kim (Korea National University of Transportation)
Captain Vere: The Role of the Intellectual in 19th-Century America
Mikayo Sakuma (Wayo Women’s University)
Billy Budd in a Global Context: Isolationism between the Aesthetic and the
Political
Shogo Tanokuchi (Keio University)
Billy Buddha: Melville’s Obsession with “Nothingness”
Dorsey Kleitz (Tokyo Woman’s Christian University)
Melville’s Ma ( 間 ) and Billy Budd
Banquet (Shinagawa Prince Hotel) 18:30 – 21:00
*Banquet Hall pens at 18:00
(Sunday)
Panels 9:00 –
SpecialEvent 13:00 –
Epilogue 13:50 –
DowntownTokyoTours 14:30 –
14A 9:15 – 10:15 Room A
The Global Turn in Melville’s Later Poetry
Moderator: Samuel Otter (University of California, Berkeley)
Dennis Berthold (Texas A&M University)
Derwent’s Dialogics: Conversation in Clarel
Zheng Zhaomei (Shanghai Normal University)
Ambiguity and Contrariety in Melville’s Poems
Maki Sadahiro (Meiji Gakuin University)
Celebrity, Personality, and the Poetics of Posterity in Melville’s Last Years
14B 9:15 – 10:15 Room B
Aspects of The Confidence-Man
15B 10:30 – 11:45 Room B
Melville in Theory
Moderator: John Matteson (John Jay College of Criminal Justice)
Moderator: Takuya Nishitani (Kobe University)
Masahiro Uehara (Senshu University)
What The Confidence-Man Tells Us about Our Human Condition: Identity,
Trust, and Hope
Søren Frank (University of Southern Denmark)
Melville’s Broad Present: Nostalgia, Presentiment, and Prophecy in Moby-Dick
Elizabeth Duquette (Gettysburg College)
“But it is argument?”
John Funchion (University of Miami)
Jurisdictional Crisis and the Dangers of the Antifederal Imagination in The
Confidence-Man
15A 10:30 – 11:45 Room A
Melville and Science
Moderator: Wyn Kelley (Massachusetts Institute of Technology)
Robert Fanuzzi (St. John’s University)
French Colonial Sexual Science and the Generation of American Fiction:
Melville’s Supplement to the Voyage of Boungainville
Tom F. Wright (University of Sussex)
Melville’s Embodied Telegraph
Fumiko Takeno (Nagoya Gakuin University)
The Museum World of Melville’s “The Encantadas”
Tom Nurmi (Montana State University Billings)
Cinders and Epitaphs: Darwin and Melville Among the Relics
Taras Alexander Sak (Yasuda Women’s University)
Pierre’s Bachelor Machines: Reading Melville alongside Deleuze
Christopher Edison (University of Oklahoma)
Biopolitics and the Tradition of Racism in Melville’s “Benito Cereno”
Michiaki Ogura (University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee)
Defamiliarizing the Familiar: Melville’s Philosophy of Friendship in His Later
Novels
SpecialEvent
13:00 –13:45 Room A
A Reading from Herman Melville: A Half Known Life
John Bryant (Hofstra University)
Moderator: Samuel Otter (University of California, Berkeley)
Epilogue: AnnouncementsandFarewells
13:50 – 14:15 Conference Hall, 8th floor
Arimichi Makino (MSJ President)
Takayuki Tatsumi (Keio University, MSJ Vice President)
DowntownTokyoTours 14:30 –
(Guided by Japanese students)
(Monday)
Excursion (Guided Bus Tour) 10:00 –
(Advance reservation required)
The meeting place: Room A
The meeting time: 10:00
1. North Building
2. The Keio University Library (Old Building)
3. East Research Building
4. Jukukan-kyoku Keio Corporate Administration
5. The Keio University Library (New Building)
6. South School Building
7. Mita Enzetsu-kan Public Speaking Hall
8. Graduate School Building
9. First School Building
10. Faculty Research Building
11. Keio Trade Union
12. West School Building
13. South Building
14. University Co-op
15. West Building
16. South Annex

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