Our third meeting included the following participants: Nathaniel Gallant, Dunja Jelesijevic, Susan Klein, Elizabeth Oyler, Vyjayanthi Selinger, Takeuchi Akiko, and Yokoyama Tarō.

OUTCOMES

Conference presentations:

Oyler, Elizabeth, February, 2027: Routes, Encounters, Destinations: Cultural Flows and Symbolic Landscapes of Medieval Asia (ca. 500–1500) Symposium, University of Illinois. Paper title: Tracing imagined routes in the noh Shunkan.

Takeuchi Akiko, August 2026: Congress of the European Society of Comparative Literature. Paper title: “Imaginative Worlds in Greek Lyric Poetry and Japanese Noh I: Transtemporal Sacred Space in the Noh Play Taema.”

Yokoyama Tarō, September 2026: Ca’ Foscari University of Venice. Paper title: “Nō for Waka: How the Stage Restages the Lyric Moment,” presented at the symposium “Cross-Glances: Greek Lyric and Japanese Nō.