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

OUTCOMES

Publications:
Yokoyama, Taro, “Waki tōjōdan no kinō: Mugen nō no monogatariron josetsu” (The Function of the Waki’s Entrance: An Introduction to the Narratology of Dream Nō), Nōgaku kenkyū 50 (March 2026, Japanese).

Yokoyama Tarō, “Nō no shintaishi: Oni kara saibōgu e” (The Body History of Nō: From Demons to Cyborgs), Shisō 1222 (February 2026).

Panel organized for major conferences in the following year:  

March 2026, Association for Asian Studies Annual meeting in Vancouver. Panel title:  “Narrative Transformations: Wrinkles in Time and Space in Noh.” Presenters: Matthew Chudnow, Susan Klein, Elizabeth Oyler and Yokoyama Tarō.

August 2026 European Association of Japanese Studies meeting in Poznań, Poland. Panel title : “Performing Polychronic Timescapes in Nō Theatre.” Presenters: Elizabeth Oyler, Takeuchi Akiko, and Vyjayanthi Selinger.

Invited Lectures:
Selinger, Vyjayanthi: “Towards the Sensori-legal in Medieval Japanese Drama,” Brown University Medieval Circle, April 2026.

Yokoyama, Tarō, November 2025-March, 2026: “The Body History of Nō: From Demons to Cyborgs,” at Columbia University; University of Pittsburgh; and University of California, Los Angeles.

Academic Dialogue:
Takeuchi Akiko and Elizabeth Oyler, October 11, 2025: “Companion to Nō and Kyōgen Theatre, Chapter 4: uses in the US classroom” (対話：米国の大学での教材としてのCompanion to Nō and Kyōgen Theatre). Conversation comprised one section of two-day symposium reflecting on the recent publication of the Companion.  Hōsei University, Tokyo, Japan.