9:00 – 9:30 Registration
9:30 – 9:50 Opening

Keynote speech I
9:50 – 11:00 Buddhist Politics as Revolutionary Praxis: A Case Study from Japan (J. Shields)

Section 1 (parallel): Contrasts and confluences in literary texts
Chair: Marek Mikeš
11:00 – 11:30 From The Tale of Genji to Towazugatari – Three centuries of the Japanese court novel (V. Abbasová)
11:30 – 12:00 Geibun, Manchurian Literature, and Egalitarian Utopia (N. Toyosawa)

Section 2 (parallel): Confluences in Japanese ideas and words
Chair: Zuzana Rozwałka
11:00 – 11:30 The Zen River: Confluences of Chan and Zen in Dōgen’s writing (Z. Kubovčáková)
11:30 – 12:00 How do you do in Japanese: On the most verb-like verb of Japanese (J. Matela)

12:00 – 13:30 Lunch break

Section 3: Confluences and contradictions in the Japanese language
Chair: Jiří Matela
13:30 – 14:00 The Development of the Japanese Compound Particles throughout the Ages (V. Ulman)
14:00 – 14:30 What is (un)inflected in Japanese – and why? (A. Jabłoński)

14:30 – 14:50 Coffee break 1

Section 4: Contradictions and confluences on a theatrical stage
Chair: Zuzana Rozwałka
14:50 – 15:20 Inspiration, Imitation, Admiration: Three different attitudes towards Japanese traditional theatre form Kyōgen in Europe during last three decades (O. Hýbl)
15:20 – 15:50 Scandal in Japan: Transgression, Performance and Ritual (I. Pruša)

Keynote speech II
9:00 – 10:00 Japan Remade Abroad: How the Japanese Restaurant Abroad Reinvented Japanese Cuisine and Restructured Global Gastronomy (J. Farrer)

10:00 – 10:10 Short break

Section 5 (parallel): Contradictions and contrasts in perceptions of Japan
Chair: Robert Croker
10:10 – 10:40 A “Magical Country”: Japan in the Travel Writings of Alma M. Karlin (K. Senica)
10:40 – 11:10 Tracing the Development of the Harakiri Stereotype in Czech Archive Media (Z. Rozwałka)

Section 6 (parallel): Japanese confluences in the markets of the world
Chair: Jiří Matela
10:10 – 10:40 Japanese restaurants in Central and Eastern Europe 100 years ago and now: spaces of transnational imaginary and cultural diffusion (L. Vyleťalová)
10:40 – 11:10 Contrasts and confluences in the reception of Japanese digital games in different markets (M. Mikeš)

11:10 – 11:30 Coffee break 3

Section 7: Contrasts and confluences in the linguistic space
Chair: Jiří Matela
11:30 – 12:00 What can the three principal ancient sources tell us about the origin of Japonic (I. Rumánek)
12:00 – 12:30 First among equals – the Okinawan linguistic revitalization (Z. Hidvégi)

12:30 – 14:00 Lunch break

Section 8: Confluences, contradictions, and contrasts in Japanese history
Chair: Marek Mikeš
14:00 – 14:30 The challenges of the interpretation of Western anatomical knowledge in the Early Modern Japanese medical history (J. E. Zentai)
14:30 – 15:00 Continuity and Discontinuity in the Early Meiji Period (R. Kodet)

15:00 – 15:20 Coffee break 4

Section 9: Contrasts and contradictions in Japanese schools
Chair: Jiří Matela
15:20 – 15:50 Professor or Civil Servant? University Autonomy, Scholarly Freedom in Meiji Japan (B. Szabó)
15:50 – 16:20 Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Policies at Japanese Universities (R. Croker)

16:20 – 16:30 Closing