Friday 11/2
1:00 Greetings and Introductions Professors Piggott & Sasaki
1:15 Dr. Sachiko Kawai, How to Make Premodern Japanese History More Global
1:45 Ms. Marie Sakurada, The Empress in Ancient Japan
Discussion 2:15-2:30
Break
2:45 Mr. Jesse Drian, Distant Travels of Local Gods
3:15 Prof. Atsushi Makino, Women and Buddhism in Medieval Japan
Discussion 3:45-4:00
Break
4:15 Prof. Ken’ichi Sasaki, The Adoption of Horse-riding in Kofun Japan
4:45 Mr. Shôhei Dôi, Craftsmanship, and the Production and Distribution of Pottery for Mortuary Rituals
Discussion 5:15-5:45
Saturday 11/3
1:00 Prof. Nakamura Tomokazu, The Terms Uji, Kabane, and Shizoku—Changing Meanings Through Time
1:30 Mr. Shôdai Satodate, The Koseki System, Diachronic Diffusion and Adoption
Discussion 2:00–2:15
Break 2:30 Prof. Joan Piggott, Reading Ruins—District Offices in the Ritsuryô Realm 3:00 Ms. Emily Warren, A Guide to Royal Eating in Late Heian Times, the Chûjiruiki
Discussion 3:30-3:45
Break
4:00 Prof. Itô Ujitaka, Japanism and Music, Why Japanese Music Was Not Well Accepted
4:30 Ms. Jillian Barndt, Fujiwara no Yorinaga’s Book List of 1143
Discussion 5:00-5:15