11/05/2026
【International Symposium📣】
“The Creativity of Ruins, the Future of Ruins”
📅 May 23, 2026 | 14:00–18:00 (JST)
📍Hybrid (Onsite / Zoom)
🗣 Language: English
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https://hmc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ja/joint-events/2026/symposium-the-creativity-of-ruins-the-future-of-ruins/
Program:
14:00 - 15:45: First Session
Plenary Lecture
Haig Patapan(ヘイグ・パタパン), Griffith University
"Ghostly Ruins: The Creative Politics of the British Romantic Poets"
Response Papers
Saeko Yoshikawa(吉川朗子), Kobe City University of Foreign Studies
"Ruination and Resilience: Wordsworth on Ruins and Nature"
Nahoko Miyamoto Alvey(アルヴィ宮本なほ子), University of Tokyo
"'Half sunk a shattered visage lies': Percy Bysshe Shelley's Ruin Lessons on Human Ruination"
15:45 - 16:00: Break
16:00 - 17:00: Second Session
Kaz Oishi(大石和欣), University of Tokyo
"Layered Memories of War: War-Damaged Ruins, Experience, and Ideology in the Urban Landscape"
Satoshi Udo(鵜戸聡), Meiji University
"The Ancestral Ruins as an Obscure Origin of the Nation's Foetus: Reading the Episode of 'Nadhor' in Kateb Yacine's Nedjma"
Kumiko Nagai(永井久美子), University of Tokyo
"Yamato: Desolate Images of a Deserted Capital Region"
17:00 - 17:45: General Discussion / Q&A
