Workshop: Occupied by Play Rethinking Reading and Learning in Japan
Workshop
Start date: Friday 17 February 2023
Time: 09.30
End date: Saturday 18 February 2023
Time: 17.00
Location: Online and at The Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Cambridge University, UK
Cambridge-Stockholm Collaborative Research Grant Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Cambridge UK).
This is a hybrid workshop. All times are in GMT (London). Time zone converter
If you join us in person, please come to the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies (Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge, CB3 9DA). If you join us on Zoom, please register at the following link: Meeting Registration - Zoom
Programme
Friday 17 February
Room 9
9:30-9:45
Greetings by Jaqueline Berndt and Laura Moretti
9.45–11.45
READING AS PLAY/ PLAY BEYOND READING
9.45–10.15
Jaqueline Berndt (Stockholm University)
Manga at Play: Reading, Toying, and Performing
10.15–10.45
Hiroshi Yoshida (The University of Tokyo)
Between Virtual and Physical: Japanese Video Games in the Tradition of Toys
10.45–11.15
Martin Roth (Ritsumeikan University, joining on Zoom)
Free to Play? Rethinking “Play” Beyond Rules and Transgression
11.15–11.45
Selen Çalık Bedir (Beykoz University, Turkey)
Storytelling, Storyliving, Storybeing: Juggling Different Levels of Play in Contemporary Narrative Engagement
11.45–12.15
Olga Kopylova (Tohoku University, joining on Zoom)
Reading Visual Novels: Play and/or Emotion Work?
12.15–13.00
Lunch
PLAY AND GAMIFICATION IN JAPANESE LANGUAGE EDUCATION
13.00–13.30
Kazuhito Yamada (Dōshisha University; joining on Zoom) (in Japanese)
「くずし字学習とことば遊び」
13.30–14.00
Mitsuyo Kuwano-Lidén (Stockholm University) (in Japanese)
14.00–14.30
Marcella Mariotti (Università Ca’ Foscari Venezia)
Game-over in Critical Japanese Language Education? Students’ Playfulness at Work
Saturday 18 February
11.00-12.15
KEYNOTE
Peter Burke (University of Cambridge)
Taking Play Seriously
Lunch
13.30–15.30
GAMES AND BOOKS IN EARLY MODERN JAPAN
13.30–14.00
Bianca Chui (University of British Columbia; joining on Zoom)
Eating Your Way Through Sugoroku: Imaginary Travel in a Japanese Board Game
14.00–14.30
Joseph Bills (University of Cambridge)
Dissecting Bunkaidō kyōchū sugoroku: A Board Game in Fifteen Folios
14.30–15.00
Tara McGowan (Independent scholar; joining on Zoom)
From within the Magic Lantern: Shifting Perspectives on Japanese Shadow Play (1860s to the present)
15.00–15.30
Laura Moretti (University of Cambridge)
Playing with Shadows in Early Modern Japan
15.30–15.45 Break
15.45–17.00 Roundtable discussion
Abstracts (as of 26 January 2023) (130 Kb)
Occupied by Play Workshop Programme (275 Kb)
Last updated: January 30, 2023
Source: Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies