Date/Time: Mar 21 (Sat), 2026, 13:30-18:00
Venue: GL Room (Room 201), Building 140, GSIS, SNU
Hosts: Forum for Transboundary Japanese Studies; Institute for Japanese Studies, Seoul National University

Opening Ceremony (13:30-13:40)

Session 1: Research Presentation (13:40-15:50)

Title: Representations of the Emperor in Colonial Korea: Focusing on Newspapers Published by Resident Japanese
Presenter: KIM Bohyun (Chungnam National University)
Discussant: KIM Wook (Seoul National University)

Title: The Formation and Collapse of “Secret Loyalty” in Yukio Mishima’s Emperor Novels
Presenter: LEE Jaechang (Doctoral Candidate, The University of Tokyo)
Discussant: NAM Sangwook (Incheon National University)

Title: The “Emperor” as a “Method of the Novel”: Focusing on Kenzaburō Ōe’s Novels of the 1980s
Presenter: NAM Heejeong (Seoul National University)
Discussant: SEO Dong Ju (Seoul National University)

Session 2: Roundtable (16:00-17:50)

Theme: The Canon of Literary History and the Emperor: Focusing on Natsume Sōseki’s Kokoro, Sakaguchi Ango’s “On Decadence”, and Yukio Mishima’s “Patriotism”

Chair: SEO Dong Ju (Seoul National University)
Panelists: KWAK Donggon (Daegu University), LEE Sang-hyeok (Chosun University), HONG Yun Pyo (Sungshin Women’s University)