Spring Events 2015
Film Screening "Campaign"(Senkyo; directed by Kazuhiro Soda, 2007) and Q&A with Kazuhiro Soda (documentary filmmaker)The Politics of Documentary Film-making in Japan: From Conservative Electoral Campaign to Fukushima
Thursday 5 February, 6-8 PM
Room 918 IAB (click here for map), Columbia University
Co-sponsored with the Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Benedetta Lomi (Mellon Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, University of Virginia)
Curing with Ox-Bezoars: The Materiality of Heian-period Therapeutic
Friday 6 February, 6:30 PM
Faculty House, 64 Morningside Drive (click here for map), Columbia University
Gustav Heldt (Associate Professor of Japanese Literature, University of Virginia)
An Account of Ancient Matters: On Translating the Kojiki
Thursday 19 February, 6 PM
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
Rebecca Copeland for her translation of The Goddess Chronicle
Juliet Winters Carpenter for her translation of A True Novel
The 2014-2015 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature
Friday 20 February, 5:30 PM
C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University
Sheldon Garon (Professor, Princeton University)
On the Transnational Destruction of Cities: What Japan and the U.S. Learned from the Bombing of Britain and German in World War II
Tuesday 24 February, 6-8 PM
Room 918 IAB (click here for map), Columbia University
Co-sponsored with the Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Ryuichi Abe (Edwin O. Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions, Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University)
Restoring the Dragon Princess: her episode in the Lotus Sutra and its implications for medieval Japanese art and literature
Friday 27 February, 6:30 PM
Faculty House, Columbia University
Yomota Inuhiko (Independent critic/former professor of Comparative literature at Meiji Gakuin)
Discovering Japan (Landscape Discourses from the 1960's into the 1970's)
Wednesday 4 March, 6 PM
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
Michael Dylan Foster (Associate Professor of Folklore, Indiana University)
Ritual Surveillance: Seeing Gods on a Japanese Island
Thursday 5 March, 6 PM
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
International Symposium Organized by Columbia University and Waseda University
NEW HORIZONS IN JAPANESE LITERARY AND CULTURAL STUDIES
Friday 13 March, 9:00 AM403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
Conference Language: English and Japanese
Space is limited. By preregistration only.
Click here for the schedule
Yoshikawa Shinji (Professor, Kyoto University)
Early Japanese Buddhism in the Nihon ryōiki
『日本霊異記』が語る日本古代仏教
Friday 3 April, 2 PM
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
Presentation in Japanese
Susan Napier (Professor, Tufts University)
The Poetics of Technology, Nostalgia and Denial: The Legacy of Miyazaki’s Final Film
Thursday 9 April, 6 PM
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
Kristin Surak (Senior Lecturer (Associate Professor) in Japanese Politics, SOAS, University of London)
How Did the Tea Ceremony Become Japanese? Exploring Cultural Nationalism in Practice
Monday 13 April, 6:00 PM
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
Thomas Conlan (Professor of East Asian Studies and History, Princeton University)
When Men Become Gods: The Ritual Basis For Political Authority in Japan 1351-1551
Thursday 16 April, 6:30 PM
Faculty House, Columbia University
Jordan Sand (Professor of Japanese History, Georgetown University)
Cosmopolitan Culture in Imperial Japan
Friday 17 April, 6 PM
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
The 2014-2015 Soshitsu Sen XV Distinguished Lecture on Japanese Culture
Experiencing the World of Japanese Noh Theater Dance
Featuring Hisa UZAWA and Hikaru UZAWA
Friday 24 April, 5PM
Miller Theatre, Columbia University
RSVP requested by April 10th at RSVP@keenecenter.org (please indicate the name of the event for which you are responding, attendees' names, and email address where we can reach you)
Fall Events 2015
Sonja Arntzen (Professor Emerita, University of Toronto)
A Woman Reading and Writing in 11th C. Japan: The Sarashina Diary
Friday 18 September, 4pm, 403 Kent
Workshop in Global Humanities
Courts, Collections, Cosmologies: The Literary Anthology in Eurasian Perspective
(Cosponsored by Center for Korean Research, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Department of Classics, Department of Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies)
Friday 2 October, 1pm (revised time), 403 Kent
Janine Sawada (Professor of Religious Studies and East Asian Studies, Brown University)
Ritual Confinement and Suicide on Mt. Fuji in the Edo Period
Thursday 8 October, 6pm, 403 Kent
Reception for the donation of the Toho Company Archival Materials by Brant Reiter
Remarks by: Ann D. Thornton, Haruo Shirane, Paul Anderer, Hikari Hori, and Brant Reiter
TOHO COMPANY: An Archival History in Japanese CinemaExhibition: October-December 2015
Friday 16 October, 6:00 PM, C.V. Starr East Asian Library Reading Room, 300 Kent Hall
Sharalyn Orbaugh (Professor of Modern Japanese Literature and Popular Culture, University of British Columbia)
Political Persuasion in Kamishibai: The Indoctrination of Children through Narrative and Picture
Thursday 22 October, 6pm, 403 Kent
Sharalyn Orbaugh (Professor of Modern Japanese Literature and Popular Culture, University of British Columbia)
What is Queer About Postwar Manga?
Friday 23 October, 12pm, 403 Kent (Brown Bag Lecture)
Junko 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
[Cancelled] Thursday 5 November, 6pm, 403 Kent
Takashi Fujitani (Dr. David Chu Professor and Director in Asia Pacific Studies, Professor of History, University of Toronto)
Two Unforgivens: The Zainichi Director Lee Sang-il and the Transpacific Western
[Cancelled]Thursday 12 November, 6pm, 403 Kent
John Whitman (Professor of Linguistics, Cornell University)
Glossing and Other Traces of Vernacular Reading
(Cosponsored by the Columbia Program in World Philology)
Thursday 19 November 6pm, 403 Kent
Takahiro Nakajima (Professor of Chinese Philosophy and Comparative Philosophy, Institute of Advanced Studies on Asia, Tokyo University; Visiting Research Scholar and Visiting Professor of East Asian Studies, Princeton University)
Confucianism for the People in Modern Japan: Ishizaki Tōgoku and Osaka Yōmei Gakkai
Friday 20 November, 3:00 PM, 403 Kent
Steven D. Carter for The Columbia Anthology of Japanese Essays
Terry Gallagher for his translation of Toh Enjoe's Self-Reference ENGINE
Stephen D. Miller and Patrick Donnelly for their waka translation in The Wind from Vulture Peak
2015-2016 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature
Friday 11 December, 5:30 PM, C.V. Starr East Asia Library Reading Room
Please email your full name in order to attend the Translation Prize awards ceremony on Dec. 11th. RSVP requested by December 1st: RSVP@keenecenter.org
Thomas Lamarre (Professor of East Asian Studies and Communication Studies, McGill University)
Manga Empire: Cartoon Animals, War, and Multi-Media Franchises
Tuesday 15 December, 12:00 PM, 403 Kent
The Many Worlds of Yamaguchi Yoshiko: An International Workshop
Cosponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Center for Korean Research