Donald Keene Center

Fall Events 2017

Andrew Bernstein (Associate Professor of History, Lewis & Clark College)

Science, Technology and Environment Lecture Series

Mt. Fuji as Lived Environment: A Story of Ecological Adaptation and Technological Manipulation from the 17th Century to Today

Wednesday 4 October, 6pm, 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
No registration required.

A One-and-a-Half-Day Workshop

Looking Closely at Color in 19th-Century Nishiki-e
Co-sponsored by Mary Griggs Burke Center for Japanese Art and Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture

Friday–Saturday 20–21 October, Time TBA, 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University

THIS EVENT IS NOW CLOSED DUE TO FULL CAPACITY. If you do not hear back from us about your waiting list status, it means that a seat is not available. Thank you.

Toshihiro Higuchi (Assistant Professor, Department of History, Georgetown University)

Science, Technology and Environment Lecture Series

The Nature of Unequal Treaties: Illegal Sealing in Meiji Japan and an Environmental Consequence of Extraterritoriality

Thursday 26 October, 6pm, 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
No registration required.

Shinji Yoshikawa (Professor, Kyoto University)
日本古代寺院の楽舞 (Music of Ancient Japanese Temples)

Presentation in Japanese

Wednesday 15 November, 4pm, 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
No registration required.

Alisa Freedman (Associate Professor, Japanese Literature & Film, University of Oregon)
From Cold-War Coeds to Pioneering Professors: The Forgotten Story of Japanese Women Who Studied in the United States, 1949-1966

Thursday 16 November, 6pm, 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
No registration required.

Alisa Freedman (Associate Professor, Japanese Literature & Film, University of Oregon)

Brown Bag Lecture

Modernist Snark: How Fights Shaped Japanese Literature

Friday 17 November, 11:30am, 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
No registration required.

Hiromi Mizuno (Associate Professor, Department of History, University of Minnesota)

Science, Technology and Environment Lecture Series

The Age of Nitrogen: Agricultural Modernization and the Japanese Empire

Thursday 30 November, 6pm, 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
No registration required.

HYODO Hiromi (Gakushuin University)
The Tales of Heike, Performance, and Politics

Lecture/Workshop (in Japanese)

Tuesday 5 December, 1pm, 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
No registration required.

Jacqueline Stone (Professor, Department of Religion, Princeton University) Right Thoughts at the Last Moment: Buddhism and Deathbed Practices in Early Medieval Japan

Thursday 7 December, 6pm, 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
No registration required.

Spring Events 2017

Lindsey E. DeWitt (JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow, Kyushu University)
Crafting the Sacred: Envisioning and Observing Mount Ōmine

Friday 27th January, 7 PM, 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
Co-sponsored by the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture and the Center for Buddhism and East Asian Religions
No registration required

International Symposium
Rethinking Authorship in East Asia and Europe

Fri. 10th March, 9:00AM - 5:00PM [Sessions in English]
Sat. 11th March, 9:30AM - 6:00PM [Most sessions in Japanese]
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University

Registration is now closed. We sincerely apologize to those whose reservation we could not take due to limited seating available to the public.

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Co-sponsored by the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University; Ryusaku Tsunoda Center of Japanese Culture, Waseda University, and Global Japanese Studies Model Unit, Waseda University Top Global University Project, supported by the Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science, and Technology-Japan

Abe Yasuro (Nagoya University) and Abe Mika (Historiographical Institute, The University of Tokyo)
Medieval Japanese Culture Lecture Series (Conducted in Japanese)
      Abe Yasuro, “Gods and Text/Image in Medieval Japanese Paintings: Kamiyo monogatari (Tale of the Age of the Gods) and Hikohohodemi no mikoto”
     Abe Mika, "Reading Engaku, An Illustrated Tale of a Monkey Couple That is Reborn in the Pure Land"

Tuesday 28th March, 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM, 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
Co-sponsored by Dept. of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture
No registration required

Kären Wigen (Professor of History, Frances and Charles Field Professor, Stanford University)
Mapping History in Tokugawa Japan

Thursday 30th March, 6pm, 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
No registration required

Edward Boyle (Assistant Professor, Kyushu University)
Writing Japan's Territory into the World: the Cartographic Creation of the Ezochi

Monday, 10th April, 6:00 PM, 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
No registration required

Giorgio Biancorosso (Associate Professor (Music), School of Humanities, The University of Hong Kong)
Steel, Synth, and Silk: The Musical Worlds of Martial Arts Cinema

Tuesday 11th April, 6:00 PM, 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
Co-sponsored by the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, Heyman Center for the Humanities, The MA in Film and Media Studies, and Department of Music
No registration required

Slaves, Outcasts, and Torture: Sekkyō-bushi and Issues in Japanese Performance, Marginality, and Pollution
Haruo Shirane (Shincho Professor of Japanese Literature; Chair Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University)
     Discussants: David Lurie (Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University), Michael Como (Toshu Fukami Associate Professor of Shinto Studies in the Departments of Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University)

Friday 14th April, 4:30 PM, 522C Kent Hall, Columbia University
Co-sponsored by the University Seminar on Japanese Culture and Donald Keene Center of Japanese
No registration required.

Columbia University Libraries presents

Takahiro Sasaki (Professor, Shidō Bunko, Keio University)
Japanese Book History: Workshop

Friday 21st April, 2:00pm-6:00pm, 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
Co-sponsored by Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, and C.V. Starr East Asian Library

Presentation in Japanese with English Translation
Registration required: (Click here) http://library.columbia.edu/events

Koji Toba (Waseda University, Visiting Scholar at Columbia University)
Colonial Afterlives: From Abe Kōbō to Sukiyaki

Tuesday 25th April, 6:30pm-8:00pm, 918 International Affairs Building, Columbia University (click here for the map)
Co-sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Donald Keene Center of Japanese
No registration required.

2016-2017 Soshitsu Sen XV Distinguished Lecture on Japanese Culture

Minae Mizumura (Award-winning novelist and author of The Fall of Language in the Age of English, A True Novel, and Inheritance from Mother)
Miracles of Language and Literature in Modern Japan

Thursday 27th April, 6pm, Faculty House, Columbia University

REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED.
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