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Participants Profile

	Takaaki Morinaka Born in 1960. Poet. Associate professor at Waseda University in Tokyo(The Faculty of Law). Specializes in French literature and thought, comparative poetics.
	Poetry collections include The Days of Sand (Shichosha pub. 1991), Tales of my never coming birth (Shichosha pub.1992), By Two, or A Song of the Borders (Shichosha pub.1997), Selected Poems (Shichosha pub.Contemporary Poetry Library,1999) and Sister Antigone, a Grave without date (Shichosha pub.2001). Publications include An Anti-Poetic Grammar (Shichosha pub. 1995), Deconstruction (Iwanami Shoten pub.1999), Being and Ashes: Celan, Derrida and after (Jinbun Shoin pub.2004) and Law (Iwanami Shoten pub.2005). Collaborations include Deleuze Traverse (Kawade Shobo Shinsha, pub.1994), The Ranges of Surrealism (Serika Shobo pub.1998), Decoding "Light" (Iwanami Shoten pub.Querying Religion 2, 1990) and The Feast of Poetry (Iwanami Shoten pub.Lectures & Literature 4, 2003). Translations include Jacques Derrida, Shibboleth, for Paul Celan (joint translation, Iwanami Shoten pub.1990), Jacques Derrida, The Monolingualism of the Other (Iwanami Shoten pub. 2001), Jacques Derrida, Khora (Miraisha pub.2004),Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy, The Myth Nazi (shouraisha pub.2002), Gilles Deleuze and Felix Guattari, A Thousand Plateaus (joint translation, Kawade Shobo Shinsha pub.1994) and Gilles Deleuze, Essays Critical and Clinical (joint translation, Kawade Shobo Shinsha pub.2002).

	Ban'ya Natsuishi
	which is the penname of Masayuki Inui, was born in Prefecture, Japan. He studied at Tokyo University where he received a Masters of Arts in Comparative Literature and Culture in 1981. In 1992 appointed Professor at Meiji University where he continues to teach. From 1996 to 1998 a guest research fellow at Paris 7th University. In 1998 with Sayumi Kamakura, he founded international haiku quarterly "Ginyu", became its Publisher and Editor-in-Chief. In Slovenia, 2000, he co-founded the World Haiku Association, currently works as its Director. In 2001 attended to Vilenica Poetry Festival, in 2003 to Struga Poetry Evenings, in the same year worked as the Chairman of The Steering Committee for The Second World Haiku Association Conference. In 2004 with full invitation, he attended to Poetry at Porto Santo in Portugal. In 2005 he will attend to the 3rd World Haiku Association Conference in Bulgaria. Among his awards are: in 1991 the Modern Haiku Association Prize, in 2002 the Kawahigashi Prize of the 21st Century Ehime Haiku Prize. Overseas publication other than Japanese publication: A Future Waterfall―100 Haiku from the Japanese (Red Moon Press, USA, 1999 & 2004), Romanje po Zemlji ( Apokalipsa, Slovenia, 2000), etc. *Click here for the details of the 3rd World Haiku Association Conference in Bulgaria, which Mr.Natsuishi will attend.

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