Mishima Symposium

Mishima Symposium

March 30, 2001

Mishima Symposium
East Gallery, Buell Hall, Columbia University (116th St. & Amsterdam Ave.)
11:00 AM-1:00 PM (Panel 1)
3:00 PM-5:00 PM (Panel 2)
Followed by a reception
As novelist, critic, and dramatist, and as a cultural actor on many fronts, Mishima Yukio (1925-1970) was a powerful and provocational presence in post-war Japan. This symposium will revisit and reexplore Mishima’s work and his life, his literature and his politics, and his significance for the culture of our time.

Panel 1 (Fiction and Criticism)
11:00 AM–1:00 PM

· Paul Anderer – Discussant (Professor of Japanese Literature, Columbia University)
· Nina Cornyetz (Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies, Gallatin School of Individualized Studies, New York University)
· Keith Vincent (Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies and Comparative Literature, New York University)
· Dennis Washburn (Associate Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature, Dartmouth College)

Panel 2 (Drama and Performance)
3:00 PM–5:00 PM

· Thomas Rimer – Discussant (Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures, University of Pittsburgh)
· David Goodman (Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign)
· Donald Keene (University and Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature Emeritus, Columbia University)
· Laurence Kominz (Professor of Japanese, Portland State University)

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