Roma - Sendai - Leiden 2014 workshop
“Viewing the Body:
Japanese and European approaches to concepts of the corporeal.”
March 24, 2014, Lipsius building, Cleveringaplaats 1, Leiden
“Viewing the Body: Japanese-European approaches to concepts of the corporeal” is
the second workshop in a series of international meetings between three partner
universities, Tōhoku University (Japan), “Sapienza” Università di Roma (Italy), and
Leiden University (The Netherlands) that aim to foster cooperation between the
partner universities involved. The first workshop was organized in Rome; the third
will be in Sendai, Japan.
“Viewing the Body” takes as its starting point a common ground to explore
Asian views on Asia and Europe and European views in Europe and Asia,
concentrating on different conceptions of the ‘body’ and the ‘bodily.’ This workshop
brings together a selection of international scholars who all wish to probe, in relatively
short but focus contributions, a shared notion through the avenue of their own research
and thereby highlighting cultural specificities of ‘the body.’
09:00-15:00
09:00-09:30
Venue: Lipsius/1.48 (“LUF conference room”)
Conference room open
09:30-09:40
welcome by Professor Wim van den Doel, Dean of Faculty of Humanities,
Leiden University
09:45-10:00
Akihiro Ozaki (Tohoku University):
The Internal Body Revealed: Rembrandt “Who was a Godless Painter”
Kyoko Yamada (Tohoku University, doctoral candidate):
Depiction of Internal Passion by Rembrandt: His Stilled Manner and Asian
Miniatures
Yukihiro Kawaguchi (Tohoku University):
Viewing the Dead Man’s Body: Ancestor Worship in Chinese Society
Miki Iwata (Tohoku University):
Racial Conflicts and the Deformed Body in British Satirical Prints during the
18th and 19th Centuries
10:00-10:15
10:15-10:30
10:30-10:45
10:45-11:00
coffee break
11:00-11:15
Enrico Fongaro (Tohoku University):
Bodily Experience of an Eternal Now: The fundamental role of the body in
the philosophy of Nishida Kitarō (and its relation to some Japanese
traditional arts)
Kōji Ōno (Tohoku University, Visiting Researcher at Leiden University
Institute for Area Studies):
The personnel system in early-modern China and the judgment by
appearances
Jonathan Silk (Leiden University Institute for Area Studies):
The Body of the Buddha
11:15-11:30
11:30-11:45
11:45-12:00
12:00-12:15
Dr. Kiri Paramore (Leiden University Institute for Area Studies):
Confucianism as Capitalism in Modern Japan: Private Property, the Public
Body, Lust and Profit in the writings of Shibusawa Eiichi and Matsudaira
Sadanobu
Marco Del Bene (Istituto Italiano di Studi Orientali, “Sapienza” Università di
Roma)
The (sicken) body of the Nation: Individuality, State and the struggle for
power in modern and contemporary Japan
12:30-13:30
lunch (at own costs). Venue: Faculty restaurant, Lipsius (ground floor)
13:45-15.00
13:45-14:00
Skype session with colleagues from Roma “La Sapienza”
Renzo Bragantini (Dipartimento di Studi greco-latini, italiani, scenicomusicali, “Sapienza” Università di Roma)
Disfigured and dismembered bodies in the Narrative of the Italian
Renaissance
Lorenzo Geri (Dipartimento di Studi greco-latini, italiani, scenico-musicali,
“Sapienza” Università di Roma)
Textual bodies and bodily texts: the metaphor of the body in the Italian
Renaissance
Lorenzo Verderame (Istituto Italiano di Studi Orientali, “Sapienza”
Università di Roma)
The value of the body in the Babylonian cosmogony
Elisabetta Corsi (Dipartimento di Storia, Culture, Religioni, “Sapienza”
Università di Roma)
The Spread of Optical Science in China during the Early Modern Period: The
Primacy of Vision in Xingxue cushu by Giulio Aleni, SJ
Matilde Mastrangelo (Istituto Italiano di Studi Orientali, “Sapienza”
Università di Roma)
The ghosts’ body in Japanese Literature
14:00-14:15
14:15-14:30
14:30-14:45
14:45-15:00
15:00-16:00
15.00-15:05
15:10-15:25
15:25-15:40
15:40-15:55
15:55-16:05
16:05-16:10
16:10-17:00
Venue: Lipsius//0.02
change of venue: move to Lipsius/0.02
Marjan Groot (Leiden University Centre for the Arts in Society):
The Rhetoricality of BioDesign
Asghar Seyed-Ghorab (Leiden University Institute for Area Studies):
The body of the beloved in Persian literature
Harmen Beukers (Leiden University, Scaliger Institute):
Philip Franz von Siebold and traditional Japanese medicine, with special
reference to Leiden collections
wrap-up
walk to Rapenburg 25 (5 mins.)
guided tour of Bibliotheca Thysiana (for participants), by Professor Paul
Hoftijzer
The Bibliotheca Thysiana on the Rapenburg canal (no. 25) in Leiden was founded by
testament in 1653 by the young Dutch jurist Johannes Thysius. It is the only Dutch
book collection from the seventeenth century that is housed in the original purposebuilt library. The collection contains some 2,500 books and several thousand
pamphlets on a great variety of subjects. For more detail, see:
http://www.library.leiden.edu/special-collections/rare/bibliotheca-thysiana.html