William F. Sibley Memorial Symposium
Saturday May 8, 2010 at the University of Chicago, International House, 1414 E. 59th St.View the schedule
Presentations
Norma Field: Opening Remarks
Edward Fowler: A Fateful Encounter: Bill Sibley, Sōseki, and Mon
On Translation
Alisa Freedman: Translating Tokyo with Bill Sibley Introduction | PowerPoint
Mark Lincicome: Who Let the Historian in? Or, How I Found a Home in FELC
Leslie Pincus: Paper Lanterns and Humanity
Miho Matsugu: That Early Morning Fog: William Sibley’s Minakata Kumagusu
Guy Yasko: The Language of Humility: Extrapolations from Bill Sibley's Pedagogy
Stefan Tanaka: Wayfaring Across Japanese Studies
On Literary Studies
Gerald Figal: Translations Not Written
Sarah Frederick: Reflections on Useless Heroes and William F. Sibley’s Review of “The Failure of Freedom”
James Fujii: Thoughts
on Literature, the City, and Bill
Amanda Seaman: Texts in the City: Bill Sibley, Tokyo Stories, and Myself
Thoughts on William Sibley
Mike Molasky has dedicated his new CD to William Sibley.
Selected Works by William Sibley
from Partings at Dawn
Morning Fog (Correspondence on Gay Lifestyles): Minakata Kumagusu and Iwata Jun'Ichi
from Text and the City
The Spirits of Abandoned Gardens: On Nagai Kafu's "The Fox"
In the Recesses of the High City: On Soseki's Gate
Book Reviews
Review of The Failure of Freedom: A Portrait of Modern Japanese Intellectuals by Arima Tatsuo
Review of In the Company of Men: Representations of Male-Male Sexuality in Meiji Literature by Jim Reichert
