Conference: Japan on the Jesuit Stage, Vienna, Alte Burse, 28–29 June 2018

Patrick Schwemmer Discussion

Japan on the Jesuit Stage
Vienna, Alte Burse, 28–29 June 2018


Thursday, 28 June 2018


14.30–15.00 Welcome Address

 

Panel 1 (chair: Akihiko Watanabe and Florian Schaffenrath)
15.00–15.30 Patrick Schwemmer (Tokyo), Found in Translation: The Jesuit Japan Letters as a Source of Early-Modern European Images of Japan
15.30–16.00 Mirjam Döpfert (Freiburg i.Br.), Christianomachia Iaponensis – Japanese Martyrs on the Jesuit Stage
16.00–16.30 Break
 

Panel 2
16.30–17.00 Margarida Miranda (Coimbra), An Honorable Old Man, All Bald Named Japan…
17.00–17.30 Nicholas De Sutter (Leuven) and Goran Proot (Udine), Titus Iapon on the Jesuit Stage in the Provincia Flandro-Belgica
17.30–18.00 Nana Miyata (Vienna), A Play with a Special Focus on Toyotomi Hideyoshi Entitled Comico-Tragoedia von Quabacondono einem Japonischen Tyrann
19.30 Conference Dinner
 

Friday, 29 June 2018


Panel 3 (chair: Haruka Ōba)
09.00–09.30 Makoto Harris Takao (Berlin), Of Mission and Music: Mythologizing the Japanese Church for the European Stage
09.30–10.00 Yasmin Haskell (Bristol), Mulier fortis: A European Queen in an Oriental Mirror?
10.00–10.30 Raphaële Garrod (Cambridge), Foreign Fortitude: Exoticizing Virtue
10.30–11.00 Break


Panel 4 (chair: Florian Schaffenrath)
11.00–11.30 Akihiko Watanabe (Tokyo), The Japanese Senex Iratus: The Munich Victor Play
11.30–12.00 Monika Miazek-Męczyńska (Poznań), Not Only Titus the Japanese: About Japan and the Japanese on the Jesuit Stage in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth in 17th–18th Centuries
12.00–14.00 Break


Panel 5 (chair: Maria Maciejewska)
14.00–14.30 Justyna Łukaszewska-Haberkowa (Cracow), Early Christian Japanese Sources of the Jesuit Theatre in the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth
14.30–15.00 Clarinda Calma (Cracow), Contrasting Fact from Literary Fiction: The Case of the Jesuit Play Terminus Interminabilis
15.00–15.30 Break


Panel 6 (chair: Akihiko Watanabe)
15.30–16.00 Kateřina Bobková-Valentová and Magdaléna Jacková (Prague), Japan and Japanese in Jesuit School Plays from the Provincia Bohemia SJ
16.00–16.30 Neven Jovanović and Nina Čengić (Zagreb), Traces of Japan in Croatian Latin School Drama 1600–1800
16.30–17.00 Final Discussion


Conference venue: Alte Burse, Sonnenfelsgasse 19, A-1010 Vienna
Conference hotel: Motel One Wien–Staatsoper, Elisabethstraße 5, A-1010 Vienna
Conference homepage: http://neolatin.lbg.ac.at/upcoming-conferences/japan-jesuit-stage
If you have any further questions, please, don’t hesitate to contact Florian Schaffenrath
(florian.schaffenrath@neolatin.lbg.ac.at).