Landscape, Images, and Literature

Ritsumeikan University International Institute of Language and Culture Studies will stage an international conference titled Landscape Images and Literature having Professor Gail Levin, a leading expert on Edward Hopper.

10:35 to 11:40 a.m. Morning Session

- Dr. Marco Bohr (Postgraduate Programme Director for the Arts at Loughborough University):
No Man's Zone: The Essay Film in the Aftermath of the Tsunami in Japan

- Professor Hidetoshi Takahashi (College of Letters, Ritsumeikan University):
Catastrophe in German Pop Culture (Lecture in Japanese language only)


12:30 to 2:15 p.m. Afternoon Session
- Professor Yuko Nakama (College of Social Sciences, Ritsumeikan University):
Caspar David Friedrich - Romanticism Images and Literature (Lecture in Japanese language only)

- Associate Professor Keiichi Tsumori (Institute of Humanities, Social Sciences and Education, Niigata University):
Marcel Proust's Landscape Aesthetics in 'In Search of Lost Time' (Lecture in Japanese language only)

- Associate Professor Junko Miki (Design and Architecture, Kyoto Institute of Technology):
Invisible Townscape - Visualizing 'Place' by Italo Calvino and Haruki Murakami (Lecture in Japanese language only)


2:30 to 4:00 p.m. Lecture
- Distinguished Professor Gail Levin (The City University of New York):
Edward Hopper, Landscape, and Literature


4:00 p.m. Roundtable Discussion