Main Bldg. 441, Jissen Women's University
Osakaue, Hino, Tokyo 191 (Voice: 0425-85-0311)
- Program
Plenary (13:00)
Moderator: Kyoko Matsubara, Kobe Women's University
Opening Address: Yuriko Yamawaki (President of the Society)
Paper Readings
First Half (13:30)
Moderator: Mie Nakamura, Tsudajuku University
Mutsuko Sakurai, Aoyama Gakuin University
North and South--Different Kinds of Reconciliation by Reversing the Relation of the Sexes
Akiko Aikawa
Holy Texts in Mary Barton
Second Half (14:30)
Moderator: Mitsuharu Matsuoka, Nagoya University
Akiko Kimura, Waseda University
Gaskell's Heroines and their Sickness
Mitsuko Suzuki, Yamaguchi University
Defects in Girls' Education by Rousseau--Helen and Wives and Daughters
Lecture (13:40)
Moderator: Hidemitsu Togo, Keio University
Christine Alexander, University of New South Wales
The Biographer Vindicated: Mrs Gaskell and the Brontës
2007
14:00 PM, Saturday 2 June 2007
Jissen Women's University, Shibuya, Tokyo [map]
Moderator: Akiko Sekiguchi (Part-time Lecturer, Kitasato University)
Opening Address: Akiko Suzue (President of the Society)
AGM: chaired by Shigetoshi Morosaka (Professor, Nihon University)
Workshop
Coordinator: Fumie Tamai (Associate Professor, Doshisha University)
Lecturers: Fumie Tamai (Associate Professor, Doshisha University)
Mizuki Ezawa (the Graduate School of English, Ochanomizu University)
Yoshiyuki Ohmae (the Graduate School of English, Nihon University)
Akiko Kumakura (Part-time Lecturer, Jissen Women's University)
Misa Hayashi (the Graduate School of English, Aoyama-Gakuin University)
"The Three Short Stories by Elizabeth Gaskell: 'The Old Nurse', 'The
Poor Clare', and 'The Grey Woman' "
2006
14:00 PM, Saturday 3 June 2006
Jissen Women's University, Shibuya, Tokyo [map]
Moderator: Chieko Ichikawa (Associate Professor, Kushiro Public University
of Economics)
Opening Address: Akiko Suzue (President of the Society)
Lecture 1
Moderator: Hiroyuki Ide (Professor Emeritus, Tokyo Metropolitan University)
Lecturer: Shigeru Koike (Professor Emeritus, Tokyo Metropolitan University)
"The Elements of Rakugo and Soap Opera in Cranford"
Lecture 2
Moderator: Tomoko Kanda (Associate Professor, Nihon University)
Lecturer: Joan Leach (Honarary Secretary of the Headquarter of Gaskell Society)
"Knutsford and Cheshire in Elizabeth Gaskell's Life and Works"
2005
14:30 PM, Saturday 25 June 2005
3F, College of Humanities and Sciences, Nihon University, Tokyo [map]
Moderator: Akiko Kimura (Waseda University)
Papers (followed by discussion)
1. Chie Maeda (the Graduate School of Education, University of Yamanashi)
'Elizabeth Gaskell's Ruth: A Woman Reconsidered'
2. Yuri Aizawa (Lecturer of Tokai)
'The Exploration of the Innate Power that Underlines the Text of Mary Barton'
2004
14:30 PM, Saturday 3 July 2004
3F, College of Humanities and Sciences, Nihon University, Tokyo
Lecture
Moderator: Shigeru Koike (Professor Emeritus of Tokyo Metropolitan University)
Lecturer: Hiroyuki Ide (Professor Emeritus of Tokyo Metropolitan University)
"Gaskell and the Victorian Melodrama: An Adaptation by D. Boucicault (1966)"
2003
14:30, 21 June 2003
Room 503, Bldg. 14, Waseda University, Shinjuku, Tokyo
Lecture
Lecturer: Tatsuhiro Ohno (Kumamoto University)
"The Life of Gaskell on Video"
2002
14:30, 29 June 2002
Room 242, Bldg. 2, Hihon University, Chiyoda, Tokyo
Lecture
Moderator: Yoshie Abe, Shoin Women's University
Kazuko Uda (Saitama University)
Victorian Society and its Eating Culture
2001
14:30, 7 July 2001
Room 503, Bldg. 14, Waseda University, Shibuya, Tokyo
Film
Moderator: Chieko Ichikawa, Ochanomizu Women's University
Wives and Daughters
2000
14:30, 24 June 2000
Conference Room, 5th Floor, Bldg. 3, Jissen Women's Gakuen, Shibuya, Tokyo
Lecture
Moderator: Mariko Tahira, Jissen Women's University
Shigeru Koike
Gaskell and Railway
1999
14:30, 26 June 1999
Conference Room, 5th Floor, Bldg. 3, Jissen Women's Gakuen, Shibuya, Tokyo
Lecture
Moderator: Midori Nakamura, Jissen Women's University
Hidemitsu Togo, Meikai University
Wives and Daughters Reconsidered
1998
14:30, 27 June 1998
Conference Room, Control Building, Konan Women's University, 6-2-23, Morikita, Higashinada, Kobe
Lecture
Moderator: Kyoko Matsubara, Kobe Women's University
Yuriko Yamawaki, Emeritus Professor of Jissen Women's University
Elizabeth Gaskell: Fiction and Truth
1997
14:30, 28 June 1997
Conference Room, 5th Floor, Bldg. 3, Jissen Women's Gakuen, Shibuya, Tokyo
Lecture
Moderator: Yuko Naono, Konan Women's University
Yoshiko Hayashi, Kobe Women's University
On "Lois the Witch"
1996
14:30, 29 June 1996
Conference Room, 5th Floor, Bldg. 3, Jissen Women's Gakuen, Shibuya, Tokyo
Lecture
Moderator: Yasuko Date, Meikai University
Nobuyuki Sakuraba, Emeritus Professor, Tokyo University of Education
"Adam Smith and Mary Smith"
1995
14:00, 1 July 1995
Conference Room, 5th Floor, Bldg. 3, Jissen Women's Gakuen, Shibuya, Tokyo
Lecture
Moderator: Yoko Hatano, Tsukuba Junior College of Tokyo Kasei Gakuin
Goro Yanagi, Aichi Shukutoku University
"Mrs Gaskell and Women Writers"
Gaskell Studies, No. 13
(pub. 5 October 2003)
Articles
Tatsuhiro Ohno, "Mary Barton as a Tale of Manchester Life, Not of John Barton
Mitsuko Suzuki, "Waves, Fire, Monsters and Steam: Representation of the Working
Class in Mary Barton"
Mitsuharu Matsuoka, "The Humour of Gaskell: Its Signs and Characteristics"
Asako Koizumi, "Macmillan's Cranford Series: The Illustrated Books
of the 1890s"
Aya Yatsugi, "Single Women's Fellow-Feeling in 'Libbie Marsh's Three Eras,'
'The Well of Pen-Morpha,' and 'Half a Life-Time Ago'"
Rika Nakamura, "Narrator-Character Paul in Cousin Phillis"
Masako Kimura, "Enclosures in England and Journey to Italy: The Place for
a Lady in A Dark Night's Work"
Takashi Kohzawa, "'Storytellers' in Elizabeth Gaskell's Sylvia's Lovers"
Yuzo Miyata, "Sylvia's Lovers: Self, Others, and Forgiveness"
Gaskell Studies, No. 12
(pub. 6 October 2002)
Articles
Toyohiko Tatsumi, "Ruth -- Mystery of the Ending" (Lecture at the 13th
Annual General Meeting, 7 October 2001)
Takayuki Shima, "'My Beautiful Ruth': The Picturesque Beauty in Ruth"
Shigetoshi Morosaka, "A Mother = Earth Concept in Gaskell: A Comparative Study
of Dostoyevsky, Faulkner, and Camus"
Yohko Yasuhara, "Relativization of Modernity in Mary Barton: Local
Community and Observation"
Masako Kimura, "The Tragic in Sylvia's Lovers: People Deprived of Their
Words"
Tomoko Kanda, "Sources of Mary Barton"
Yuzo Miyata, "Ruth's Selfhood"
Gaskell Studies, No. 11
(pub. 7 October 2001)
Articles
Seiko Aoyama, "Communality versus Aloofness -- E. Gaskell and C. Brontë --" (Lecture
at the 12th Annual General Meeting, 8 October 2000)
Akiko Suzue, "Women's Work and Independence in the Novels of Elizabeth Gaskell"
Masuko Adachi,""A Blending of the Two" -- Elizabeth Gaskell as a Working Woman
and a Housewife"
Tomoko S. Uda, "A Study of Mary Barton -- Occupation and Independence
of Working-class Women"
Yasuko Koyanagi, "Re-reading Ruth: Focusing on Unitarianism"
Akiko Suzue, "Sylvia's Lovers -- Longing for Independence and the Burden
of Dependants"
Midori Nakamura, "The Charms of Wives and Daughters"
Yuzo Miyata, "Self and others in North and South"
Hisako Nagase, "The Life of Charlotte Brontë, a Fiction"
Masako Kimura, "North and South: The Heroine Does Not Sleep"
Gaskell Studies, No. 10
(pub. 8 October 2000)
Articles
Masaie Matsumura, "Life and Death of the Seamstress -- from "The Song of the Shirt" to Ruth" (Lecture
at the 11th Annual General Meeting, 3 October 1999)
Shigetoshi Morosaka, "Mrs Gaskell in Japan: the Past and the Potentiality"
Chiyuki Kanamaru,"A Question of Silence: The Reconsideration of "The Half-brothers""
Masako Kimura, "Mary Barton: Mother Figure and Maternal Voice"
Hisako Nagase, "Gaskell and Nightingale"
Gaskell Studies, No. 9
(pub. 3 October 1999)
Articles
Yuriko Yamawaki, "The Fictitious World of Elizabeth Gaskell" (Lecture at the
10th Regular Meeting, 27 June 1998)
Andrew Sanders, "Publishing with Dickens: Gaskell and Household Words" (Presented
at the 10th Annual General Meeting, 10 October 1998)
Chieko Ichikawa,"On the Theme of "Two Mothers" in Wives and Daughters"
Akiko Sekiguchi, "A World between Farce and Pathos in Cranford"
Tatsuhiro Ohno, "Mary Barton's Chronology"
Yoshiko Hayashi, "Merits and Demerits of the Dramatization of Mary Barton"
Gaskell Studies, No. 8
(pub. 10 October 1998)
Articles
Yoshiko Hayashi, ""Lois the Witch" -- Historical Fact and Fiction" (Lecture
at the 9th Regular Meeting, 28 June 1997)
Hiroshi Togo, "Rereading Jane Eyre in the Light of The Life of Charlotte Brontë" (Presented
at the 9th Annual General Meeting, 10 October 1997)
Masuko Adachi, "The Art of Fiction in "My Lady Ludlow" with a Focus on Point
of View"
Akiko Kimura, "The Witches in Gaskell's Two Stories: "Lois the Witch" and "The Poor Clare""
Gaskell Studies, No. 7
(pub. 10 October 1997)
Articles
Nobuyuki Sakuraba, "Adam Smith and Mary Smith" (Lecture at the 8th Regular
Meeting, 29 June 1996)
Hidekatsu Nojima, "Why we read Mrs Gaskell today" (Lecture at the 8th Annual
General Meeting, 27 October 1996)
Emiko Nakayama, "Cranford -- A Search for Utopia"
Ai Sugimura, "The Life of Charlotte Brontë in the Critical History of Jane Eyre (II)"
Yoko Hatano, "Ruth and Domestic ideology"
Hisae Ashizawa, "An Approach to Cousin Phillis: The Process of Phillis's
Independence through the Confrontation and Unity"
Kazuyo Sato, "A Study of North and South: Class- and Gender-Gap as
Reflected in Clothing"
Gaskell Studies, No. 6
(pub. 27 October 1996)
Articles
Goro Yanagi, "Mrs. Gaskell and Female Novelists" (Lecture at the 7th Regular
Meeting, 1 June 1995)
Christine Alexander, "The Biographer Vindicated: Elizabeth Gaskell and Charlotte Brontë" (Lecture
at the 7th Annual General Meeting, 15 October 1995)
Mutsuko Sakurai, "The Reversals of Situation between Man and Woman in North and South"
Akiko Aikawa, "Biblical References in Mary Barton"
Akiko Kimura, "Illness and the Heroines in Elizabeth Gaskell's Novels"
Gaskell Studies, No. 5
(pub. 10 October 1995)
Articles
Yoko Hatano, "Fanny Price and Molly Gibson--Heroines Keeping the Tradition of Country Houses" (Lecture
at the 6th Regular Meeting, 4 June 1994)
Ken Onodera, "Conservatism and Radicalism in Elizabeth Gaskell" (Lecture at
the 6th Annual General Meeting, 16 October 1994)
Tomomi Matsumoto, "As a Messenger of Peace--Cranford "
Tomoko Sano, "Gaskell as a Woman Writer--Her Own Self as a Discourse of The Life of Charlotte Bronte "
Masuko Adachi, "The Entertaining and the Ethic in "The Old Nurse's Story""
Hidemitsu Togo, "Wives and Daughters--Sublimation of Mrs Gaskell's
Social Interest?--"
Chiyuki Kanemaru, "Comparative Studies on Gaskell's Ruth and Ichiyo's Otsugomori "
Gaskell Studies, No. 4
(pub. 10 October 1994)
- Articles
Shoko Suzue, "Sylvia's Lovers--a Woman Hunted Down" (Lecture at the
5th Regular Meeting, 12 June 1993)
General Meeting, 31 October 1993)
Ai Sugimura, "The Life of Charlotte Bronte in the History of Jane Eyre Criticisms"
Mie Nakamura, "A Spirit in the Mirror--a Study of The Poor Clare"
Shigetoshi Morosaka, "A Vindication of Bellingham"
- Translation
Mary Barton
Mariko Tahira, Yoshie Abe, Mie Nakamura, Maki Asakawa, Fumie Yoshizawa, and
Akiko Aikawa
Gaskell Studies, No. 3
- (pub. 10 October 1993)
Articles
Shoko Nakamura, "A Great Insight of Elizabeth Gaskell" (Lecture at the 4th
Regular Meeting, 30 May 1992)
Chiseki Asahi, "Is Ruth a Fallen Woman?: A Study of Ruth" (Lecture
at the 4th Annual General Meeting, 18 October 1992)
Kimi Tsukada, "Ruth's Tears: For Purification"
Tomoko Kobayashi, "Mary Barton and the Chartist Movement"
Masuko Adachi, "Religious Faith in 'Lizzie Leigh'"
Yasuko Date, "The Meaning of the Acceptance of Motherhood in Ruth"
Translation: Mary Barton by Akiko Aikawa, Fumie Yoshizawa, Mariko Tahira, Yoshie Abe, Mie Nakamura, and Maki Asakawa
Gaskell Studies, No. 2
- (pub. 10 October 1992)
Articles
Toyohiko Tatsumi, "Ruth as a Religious Novel" (Lecture at the 2nd Regular
Meeting, 1 June 1991)
Hiroshi Nakaoka, "The Friendship of Writers: The Meeting of Mrs. Gaskell with Charlotte Brontë" (Lecture
at the 3rd Annual General Meeting, 12 October 1991)
Akiko Aikawa, "Echoes of Nursery Rhymes in Wives and Daughters"
Hisae Ashizawa, "Mrs. Gaskell's Portrait of Emily Brontë"
Mariko Tahira, "Short Story: 'Lizzie Leigh'"
Akiko Kimura, "On North and South"
Sumiko Otsuki, "The Pain and Anxiety Brought upon Mrs. Gaskell by The Life of Charlotte Brontë"
Gaskell Studies, No. 1
- (pub. 10 October 1991)
Articles
Yuriko Yamawaki, "In Celebration of the Foundation of Gaskell Studies"
Arthur Pollard, "Mrs Gaskell's Young Women"
Akiko Aikawa, "Death Scenes in Mary Barton"
Midori Nakamura, "'The Half-Brothers'"
Mie Nakamura, "The Fear of Collective Delusion in 'Lois the Witch'"
Mariko Tahira, "'Hand and Heart' and 'Bessy's Troubles at Home' in The Sunday School Penny Magazine"
Chiyuki Kanamaru, "Feminist Criticism and North and South"
Fumie Yoshizawa, "Nature and Phillis in Cousin Phillis"
Noboru Kawamitsu, "Conjugal Love in 'Right at Last': Colour and a Psychological
Prism of Classes"
Keiko Nozawa, "The Significance of Outfitting Description in Cranford"
No. 11 (June 1999)
Articles
Yuriko Yamawaki, "Mes in Conflict"
Shoko Suzue, "'Things and Heart"
Yasuko Date, "Souls Attracting Each Other"
Report of the Conference
General Information
List of the Society Members
No. 10 (June 1998)
Articles
Yuriko Yamawaki, "Gaskell and I"
Hiroshi Nakaoka, "When I Knew Gaskell"
Chiseki Asahi, "What is Mrs. Gaskell to Me"
Kazuhiko Oshima, "Cranford Revisited"
Shigeru Koike, "Scheherezade in the Androgyne"
Ineko Kondo, "Mrs. Gaskell and I"
Toyohiko Tatsumi, "Mrs. Gaskell and Her Age"
John A. V. Chapple, "Elizabeth Gaskell and Her Reputation"
Joan Leach, "Elizabeth Gaskell and I"
Report of the Conference
General Information
List of the Society Members
No. 9 (June 1997)
Articles
Yuriko Yamawaki, "Three Days at Heppenheim"
Yoshiko Hayashi, "Gaskell and America"
Syoko Nakamura, "Gaskell and America"
Yuko Ishizuka, "Gaskell and Italy"
Review
Tatsuhiro Ohno, "Winifred Gérin, Elizabeth Gaskell: A Biography (Oxford:
OUP, 1976)"
Tomoko Iijima, Gaskell Bibliography in Japan (1)
Report of the Conference
General Information
No. 8 (June 1996)
Articles
Yuriko Yamawaki, "Associations--They Are Like Fragrance"
Masuko Adachi, "Lindeth Tower"
Shigetoshi Morosaka, "At the Oxford Conference"
Kimi Tsukada, "A Trip to Oxford"
Review
Kyoko Matsubara, "Robin B. Colby, "Some Appointed Work to Do": Women and Vocation in the Fiction of Elizabeth Gaskell (Westport,
1995)"
Report of the Conferences
General Information
Membership List
No. 7 (May 1995)
Articles
Yuriko Yamawaki, "A "Decent" Way of Life in Woman Writers"
Toyohiko Tatsumi, "Mrs. Gaskell's View of Christ"
Review
Akiko Kimura, "F. Bonaparte, The Gypsy Bachelor of Manchester"
List of Japanese Translations of Gaskell's Works
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