Spring Events 2016
Yuka Kanno (Associate Professor, Doshisha University, Kyoto)Film Festivals as Social Space: Local Queer Activism and Community in Japan
Co-sponsored by the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture and the Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Thursday 4 February, 12 PM, Room 918 International Affairs Building (click here for the map)
Shigeatsu Shimizu (Associate Professor, Kyoto Institute of Technology)
Recent Trends in the Historical Study of Ancient Japanese Architecture: Hōryūji and the Daigokuden Hall in the Nara Palace Site
Co-sponsored by the Department of Art History
Thursday 11 February, 6 PM, 612 Schermerhorn Hall (click here for the map)
Amy Stanley (Associate Professor, Dept. of History, Northwestern University)
A Maidservant's Tale: Early Modern Japan between Domestic and Global History
Thursday 18 February, 6 PM, 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
Empowering Objects: Kamakura-period Buddhist Art in Ritual Contexts
One-Day Interdisciplinary Symposium
Co-sponsored by the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, and Dr. John C. Weber
RSVP requested. Please email your full name to: RSVP@keenecenter.org
Saturday 27 February, 9 AM - 6 PM, Julius S. Held Lecture Hall, 304 Barnard Hall, 3rd Fl., 3009 Broadway (W117th St.)
Click here for the detailed schedule from the programYuriko Furuhata (Associate Professor and William Dawson Scholar of Cinema and Media History,Department of East Asian Studies and World Cinemas Program at McGill University)
From Medium to Technical Support: Cybernetic Art in 1960s Japan
Thursday 3 March, 6 PM, 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
Marc Steinberg (Associate Professor, Film Studies, Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema, Concordia University)
Genesis of the Platform Concept: iMode and “Platform Business” in Japan
Sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Friday 4 March, 12 PM, Room 918 International Affairs Building (click here for the map)
Rethinking Japanese Literary History: Periodization, Genre, and Media
An International Workshop
Co-sponsored by Waseda University; Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
Presentations in Japanese and English
RSVP required. Please email your full name to: rsvp-w@keenecenter.org
Friday 11 March, 9:30 AM, 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
Click here for detailed programJunko Mori (Professor of Japanese Language and Linguistics, Department of East Asian Languages and Literature; Director, The Doctoral Program in Second Language Acquisition, University of Wisconsin-Madison)
Finding One's Own Voice in Japanese: Language, Ideologies, and Identities
Thursday 24 March, 6 PM, 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
Ivan Orkin (Chef/ Owner of Ivan Ramen)
The Origins of Ivan Ramen: How a Japanese Language Degree Shaped a Non-Academic’s Professional Life
RSVP requested. Please email your full name to: rsvp-ramen@keenecenter.org
Discussant: Nathan Shockey, Assistant Professor of Japanese, Bard College
Thursday 7 April, 6 PM, 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
Postimperial Japan and East Asia
Workshop
Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute - Dorothy Borg Research Program and the Center for Korean Research
Friday 15 April, 1 pm - 6 pm, International Affairs Building Room 918, Columbia University
No registration required
Brian Steininger, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, Princeton University
Divine Incarnation or Worm-Eaten Scroll? Reading the Tang Tale You xianku in Medieval Japan
Co-hosted by the University Seminar on Japanese Culture (733)
Respondent: Joseph Howley, Assistant Professor of Classics, Columbia University
Friday 22 April, 5:00 pm, 403 Kent Hall
No registration required
Akiko Takenaka, Associate Professor of History, University of Kentucky
Yasukuni Shrine: History, Memory, and Japan’s Unending Postwar
Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Moderated by Kim Brandt, Associate Professor of Japanese History, Columbia University
Thursday 28 April, 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm, International Affairs Building, Room 918
No registration required
Keijiro Suga (Professor, School of Science & Technology, Meiji University)
The 2015-2016 Soshitsu Sen XV Distinguished Lecture on Japanese Culture
Invisible Waves: Japanese Artists After March 11, 2011
RSVP requested. Please email your full name to: rsvp-sen@keenecenter.org
Thursday 28 April, 6 PM, Lehman Auditorium (Altschul Hall 202), Barnard College, Columbia University
Akira Takayama (leading performance maker/artist)
Art, Performance, and Social Poetics: Contemporary Japanese Perspectives
Symposium and an artist talk with Keijirō Suga and Akira Takayama
With support from the Martin E. Segal Theater Center of the City University of New York
Monday 2 May, 2 PM Symposium / 6:30 PM Artist Talk, 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
Click here for details on the program
Fall Events 2016
Amanda Mayer Stinchecum (Independent scholar)Disembodiment of an Everyday Object and Changing Regional Identity: Pushing against the Center in Southern Okinawa
Thursday 22 September, 6 PM, 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
Takashi Fujitani (Dr. David Chu Professor and Director in Asia Pacific Studies, Professor of History, University of Toronto)
Two Unforgivens: Clint Eastwood, Lee Sang-il, and the Transpacific Western
Friday 4 November, 5 PM, 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
Andrea Gevurtz Arai (Affiliate Lecturer, Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington)
The Strange Child: Education and the Psychology of Patriotism in Recessionary Japan
Thursday 13 October, 6 PM, 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
Workshop “Comparative Postwars: Japan, Germany, and Elsewhere”
Friday 21 October, 5:00 pm - 10:30 pm
International Affairs Building, Room 918, Columbia University
Registration required.
Please register at http://comparativepostwars.eventbrite.com
Hideto Tsuboi, International Research Center for Japanese Studies
Narita Ryuichi, Japan Women’s University
Yoshihara Yukari, Tsukuba University
Iwasaki Minoru, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Youngran Ko, Nihon University
Osa Shizue, Kobe University
Naoki Watanabe, Musashi University
Franziska Seraphim, Boston College
Henry Rousso, Columbia University/Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
Carol Gluck, Columbia University
Paul Kreitman, Columbia University
Gregory Pflugfelder, Columbia University
Friday, October 21, 2016 – Film Screenings:
8:00 PM: Rainer Werner Fassbinder’s “The Marriage of Maria Braun” (1979)
Saturday, October 22, 2016 – Workshop:
2:30 PM – 5:00 PM: “Comparative Postwars: Remembering and Forgetting”
Jonathan Reynolds (Associate Professor of Art History, Barnard College)
Are You Jōmon? Historical Parks, Cultural Identity, and Prehistory in Postwar Japan
Respondent: Gregory Pflugfelder, Associate Professor of Japanese History, Columbia University
Thursday 4 November, 5 PM, 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
Co-sponsored by University Seminar on Japanese Culture
Gennifer Weisenfeld (Professor in the Department of Art, Art History, and Visual Studies, and Dean of the Humanities, Duke University)
Electric Design: Light, Labor, and Leisure in Prewar Japanese Advertising
Thursday 17 November, 6 PM, 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
Paul Anderer (Mack Professor of Humanities, Professor of Japanese Literature, Director of Undergraduate Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University)
Anderer on Kurosawa's Rashomon
Friday 2 December, 6 PM, C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Main Reading Room, 300 Kent Hall, Columbia University
A reception to follow
{2 IDs to drink} RSVP requested by November 22nd: RSVP@keenecenter.org
(please indicate "Dec. 2nd" with the attendees' names and affiliations, if any)
Co-sponsored by the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, the University Seminar on Japanese Culture, the Heyman Center for the Humanities, the Society of Fellows in the Humanities, and the Deans of Humanities and Social Sciences of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences
Professor Jeong Gwiryun (丁貴連) Faculty of International Studies and Graduate School of International Studies, Utsunomiya University
The Reception of Japanese Literature in Modern Korea
－Focusing on Kunikida Doppo and Arishima Takeo－