The conference is part of the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Project Travel in Tokugawa Period Japan (1603-1868): Identity, Nation and Social Transformation led by Dr. Sonia Favi (2019-2021). The project, funded by the European Commission (Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme), investigates the social and cultural history of Tokugawa Japan (1603-1868) through maps from the University of Manchester Special Collections (https://www.digitalcollections.manchester.ac.uk/collections/japanesemaps/1)
Programme
All the sessions will include four 15-minutes presentations and a discussion/Q&A.
All times are British Summer Time.
JULY 12
11 AM -11.50 AM: Arrival, socialising
11.50 AM -12 noon: Opening remarks
12 noon -1.30 PM: Session 1
Jon Morris (Komazawa Women’s University) - Early Modern Mokujiki Practice: Travel, Materiality and Modernization.
Kawanishi Takao (Kyoto University) - Travel leading to Great Awakening-John Wesley’s Methodism and Revival through another place and world.
Roberto Dagnino (University of Strasbourg) - A Dutch Catholic goes to Rome. Jan J.F. Wap’s My journey to Rome (1837-1838) at the crossroads between Grand Tour and pilgrimage.
Sara Atwood (Independent Scholar) - Views from Afar: Kii no Kuni Meisho Zue and Women’s Pilgrimage to Mt. Koya.
1.30-2PM: Socialising
2-3.30 PM: Session 2
Joseph Lyndon Decker (Indiana University Department of Religious Studies) - Guiding Pilgrim Readers: Travel and Textual Relationships in Shikoku.
Matthew Mitchell (Allegheny College) - Hitting the Road with the Buddha: Traveling Displays of Temple and Shrine Treasures and Their Representations in the Works of Koriki Tanenobu in Early Modern Japan.
Anastasia Borkina (Higher School of Economics, Saint Petersburg) - An “anti-world” through the eyes of the travelers – Jippensha Ikku’s Tokaidochu hizakurige and its internal fictional dimension
Ondrej Štetka (Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Prague) - The transformations of the image of mountain landscape in the 18th century English travelogues in various geopolitical contexts.
3.30-4 PM: Socialising
4-5.30 PM: Session 3
Xue Zhang (Hampden-Sydney College) - The Journeys to the West: Travel Accounts on Xinjiang in Eighteenth-Century China.
Daniele Lauro (Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies Harvard University) - Performing Authority, Producing Power: the Tokugawa Shoguns’ Pilgrimage to Nikko as a Political Tool.
Huiying Chen, (University of Illinois at Chicago) - Travels and Frontier: Politics of Road Passes in Eighteenth-century China.
Johann JK Reusch (University of Washington, Tacoma) - Rural Tourism and Othering as Middle-Class Colonial Experience in Early Industrial Europe.
5.30-6.30: Socialising
6.30-7.30 PM: Keynote lecture by Professor Laura Nenzi (The University of Tennessee, Knoxville) – Shaping the Tourist Gaze in Early Modern Japan
7.30-8 PM: Socialising
JULY 13
11.30 AM-12 noon: Socialising
12 noon-1.30 PM: Session 1
Hung-yi Chien (National Taipei University of Education) - Joseph de Mailla’s Formosa Travelogue and its Reception in the United Kingdom.
Somsubhra Chatterjee and Rituparna Das (Amity University Kolkata and Techno India University West Bengal) Such Another Long Journey: A Study of Selected Colonial Travel Narratives of India.
Achraf Idrissi (University of Debrecen, Institute of English and North American Studies) -Pluritopic Hermeneutics and Islamic Diplomacy: Re-thinking the Praxis of Travel and Modern Diplomacy, al-
Ghazzal’s Embassy to 18th century Spain (1766-1767).
Tim Zhang (Zhejiang University Museum of Art and Archaeology) - Imaginary Journey of the Woodcutters: Ike no Taiga's Twelve Views of West Lake.
1.30- 2 PM: Socialising
2-3.30 PM: Session 2
Chuanxin Weng (SUNY New Paltz) - Huang Xiangjian (1609-1673), Representation of Guizhou, and the Visuality of Panjiang.
Kevin Mcdowell and Kumiko McDowell (University of Oregon) - Taking in the Tokaido: Travel Portrayal and Practice in an Edo Period Cultural Community.
Phillip Koyoumjian (Independent Scholar) - The Rise of the Road Map in England, France, and Germany, 1700–1750.
Sonia Favi and Erica Baffelli (The University of Manchester), Maps as narratives in Edo Japan (1603-1868): the case of Tokaido bunken zu (Sectional map of the Tokaido).
3.30-4 PM: Socialising
4-5.30 PM: Session 3
Elizabeth Mjelde (De Anza College) - Private Curiosity, Public Representation: The Case of Henry Salt.
Rhiannon Hein (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign) - Agents of Empire? Alexander von Humboldt’s South America and the Global Enlightenment.
Andrew Bellamy (Baylor University Department of History) - “Aggressively Overreacting” or “Establishing the Rectitude?”: Reviewing Lord Macartney’s Diplomatic Performance in John Barrow’s Travels in China.
Michael B. Pass (University of Ottawa) - The Book Travels of Commodore Perry: Framing the Narrative of the Expedition of an American Squadron to the China Seas and Japan, 1815–1852.
5.30-5.40 PM: Closing remarks
5.40-6.30: Socialising
The panels and discussions will be held over two half-days with a keynote address at the end of Day1.
There are a few spaces available for auditors who are interested in the topic and would like to participate in the discussion. If you would like to attend please email travelconferencemanchester@gmail.com by July 4th, 2021.
As places are limited, we would be grateful if you would only book a place if you can definitely attend.
The live synchronous sessions will take place online via the QiQoChat platform which uses Zoom as its video meeting provider. The Symposium is supported by the Marie Sklodowska-Curie Actions Grant Travel in Tokugawa Period Japan (1603-1868): Identity, Nation and Social Transformation and there are no registration fees.
Please send any queries to travelconferencemanchester@gmail.com.
