Presentations

1: ‘You Thought You’d Never Die?’: Shibuya Kei'ichirō’s The End, Hatsune Miku, and the Prosthesis of Death

Kimberlee Sanders, Harvard U

2: Human into Animal: Nature and Buddhist Discourse in the Fiction of Izumi Kyōka

Pedro Bassoe, Willamette U

3: Stepping on a Snake: Hiromi Kawakami and the Borders of the Human

Mihoko Suzuki, U of Miami

4: Between Animals and Disaster: Fiction at the Animal-Human Fault Line

Doug Slaymaker, U of Kentucky

Presider

Kyoko Omori, Hamilton C