○The 5th Seminar: from 3:00pm, July 16,
2010 at Soshikan 411
・Presented by:
(1) AKIYOSHI Daisuke
○The 4th Seminar: from 4:00pm, July 2, 2010 at Soshikan 411
・Presented by:
(1) AMEMIYA Komei "Tension of
Bodies and Representation of Women -- Time, Memory and Violence:
Reading FURUI Yoshikichi's Women Going into the Huddle (円陣を組む
女たち)"
○The 3rd Seminar: from 3:00pm, June 4, 2010 at Soshikan 411
・Presented by:
(1) TORIKI Keita "Bodies in Proletarian Literature: Starting
From HAYAMA Yoshiki's Prostitutes (淫売婦)"
(2) TOMODA Yoshiyuki " SAGAWA
Mitsuharu and 'Bound Bodies'"
○The 2nd Seminar: from 3:00pm, May 21, 2010 at Soshikan 411
・Presented by:
(1) TAKAGI Satoshi "Forced
Transformation and Life / Identity (tentative): Reading ASO Shunpei's
War Chronicle of Mu Toss Notes (ミュートスノート戦記)"
(2) KURAMOTO Tomoaki "Homosexual
Representation in War Literature: Focusing on Chen Chien-wu's
Memory of Former Taiwan Volunteer Solders (猟女犯)"
○The 1st Seminar: from 3:00pm, May 7, 2010 at Soshikan 412
Meeting on activities of the Study Group on Ars Vivendi and Literature
■ Achievements
□Academic Papers
◆AMEMIYA Komei September 2010 "Viewpoint from Overseas Coal Mine
Films: Theory of KAMERADSCHAFT" Bulletin of Ritsumeikan University
Language and Culture Studies, International Institute of Language
and Culture Studies, Ritsumeikan University, 22-1 (To be
published)
◆IZUTANI Shun May 2010 "ENDO Shusaku Deep River (深い河) Theory: 'Chaos' Women/India,"
Ronkyu Nihon Bungaku 92:29-40
◆IZUTANI Shun April 2010 "On HIMENO Kaoruko's Struggles (受難): Conversation with the Statement,"
The 129th Research Meeting of Society of Japanese Literature of Ritsumeikan University, Ritsumeikan University
◆Project Member *as of Academic Year 2010
・Project Leader: AMEMIYA Komei (Graduate Student, Graduate School of Letters, Ritsumeikan University)
・NISHIJIMA Kazuhiro (Graduate Student, Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Ritsumeikan University)
・TANAKA Moriyasu (Graduate Student, Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Ritsumeikan University / Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)
・ONO Airi (Graduate Student, Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Ritsumeikan University)
・TAKAGI Satoshi (Graduate Student, Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Ritsumeikan University)
・KURAMOTO Tomoaki (Graduate Student, Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Ritsumeikan University / Research Fellow of Japan Society for the Promotion of Science)
・NAKAKURA Tomonori (Part-time Lecturer / PD, Kinugasa Research Organization, Ritsumeikan University)
・Zheng HuiYun (Graduate School, Osaka University)
・IZUTANI Shun (Graduate Student, Graduate School of Letters, Ritsumeikan University)
・AKIYOSHI Daisuke (Graduate Student, Graduate School of Letters, Ritsumeikan University)
・YOSHIMI Tomofumi (Graduate Student, Graduate School of Letters, Ritsumeikan University)
・TORIKI Keita (Research Fellow, Ritsumeikan University)
・TOMODA Yoshiyuki (Part-time Lecturer / PD, Kinugasa Research Organization, Ritsumeikan University)
◆Advisory Professor: NISHI Masahiko (Professor, Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Ritsumeikan University)
1. Topics and Contribution to the Global COE Program Ars Vivendi
（1）Topics, Objectives and Impacts
This project aims to reconsider "bound bodies" in literature. We plan to study social binding effect on bodies, and situation of bodies fighting back against such bindings, in literary works and modern drama of authors like Chu Tien-hsin, Gombrowicz, Kafka, FURUI Yoshikichi, ABE Kobo, TERAYAMA Shuji. We hope to contribute to the COE Program Ars Vivendi by adding the viewpoints of literature studies so that we can deepen understanding on representations of Ars Vivendi, which cannot be covered by studying modern or social issues like medical treatment or labor only.
（2）Contribution to the Global COE Program Ars Vivendi
Many studies have been conducted on medical treatment and labor issues at the Global COE Program Ars Vivendi. This project expects to expand the field of ars vivendi by newly adding the literature which focuses on issues of representation in language. Ritsumeikan University has graduate students studying literature in the Graduate School of Letters and the Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences. This project goes beyond the academic barrier by sharing the theme of Ars Vivendi, and we expect that this project has the effect to make our studies deeper and more active on both sides. The project members, not only the faculty or PDs but also graduate students, have published papers in academic journals, and we are ready to publish more papers actively as well as encourage younger students to do so, too.
2. Research Plan, Method and Publication of Research Products
The project plans to hold biweekly seminars from July 2010. First, we plan to share the basic framework of Ars Vivendi by reading Ars Vivendi (vol.1 and vol.2). From the second seminar, two project members will make presentation on a research concept which connects Ars Vivendi and their own interests. We share each other's interests and deepen our thoughts on the issue by exchanging opinions, and accumulate our knowledge. From the second round of presentation, we plan to have more detailed research presentation in order to frame the research into academic papers. Meanwhile, the project members can contact each other to share their materials and information.
The project members will make presentations in academic associations or symposium inside and outside of Japan in addition to the Study Group seminars. Then, we restructure our research with criticisms and advices based on those places, and publish academic papers in various media. We will publish our achievements on the project website, too. The project plans to invite an active writer, SAGAWA Mitsuharu, to hold the round table discussions and seminars to seek the routes between ars vivendi
and literature from August to October of 2010.