Spring Events 2019
Reginald Jackson
Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature, Department of Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Michigan
Showing Up to Withhold: Economies of Enslavement and Spectacular Restraint in Medieval Japanese Performance
Thursday 14 February, 6pm, 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
No registration required.
Christina Yi
Assistant Professor of Modern Japanese Literature, University of British Columbia
Colonizing Language: Japanese-Language Cultural Production in Modern Japan and Korea
Co-sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, the Center for Korean Research, the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, and Columbia University Press
Thursday 21 February, 6pm, 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
No registration required.
Conference
Legacies of Leftism in Film and Media Theory: East Asia and Beyond
Co-sponsored with The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities; Weatherhead East Asian Institute; Dragon Summit Fund;
C.V. Starr Library; Center for Korean Research; Academy of Korean Studies; Film and Media Studies, School of the Arts; Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought; Center for Chinese Literature and Culture; Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures; Institute for Comparative Literature & Society; Division of Humanities in Arts and Sciences; Center for Comparative Media; School of the Arts Dean’s Global Programs; Sites of Cinema Faculty Seminar; Permanent Seminar on Histories of Film Theories; Columbia University Press
Thursday 28 February, 7:30pm, Faculty House (64 Morningside Drive); Friday—Saturday, 1—2 March, 9:00am, Lenfest Center for the Arts (615 West 129th Street), Columbia University
Click below for details:
http://heymancenter.org/events/legacies-of-leftism-in-film-and-media-theory-east-asia-and-beyond/
Brown Bag Lecture
"They're Snatching Our Islands Through Environmental Protection: sovereignty and biodiversity conservation on the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands"
Featuring Paul Kreitman, Assistant Professor of Japanese History, Columbia University
Discussant: Federico Marcon, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies and History Director of Graduate Studies, Princeton University
Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Monday 4 March, 12pm, International Affairs Building, Room 918
No registration required.
Brown Bag Lecture
Transforming Empire in Japan and East Asia: The Taiwan Expedition and the Birth of Japanese Imperialism
Robert Eskildsen, Senior Associate Professor in the Department of History at International Christian University, Tokyo
Moderated by: Gregory Pflugfelder, Associate Professor of Japanese History, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Department of History, Columbia University
Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute
Monday 11 March, 12pm, International Affairs Building, Room 918
No registration required.
Symposium
Between Worlds: Borders, Performance, & Deities
Co-sponsored with Center for Cultural Heritage and Texts at Nagoya University and Department of Religion, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Center for Buddhism and East Asian Religions, and Institute for Religion, Culture, and Public Life at Columbia University, NYC.
Friday—Saturday, 15—16 March, 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. To see the schedule and to pre-register, please visit:
http://keenecenter.org/borders_2019.html
~Awards Ceremony~
The 2018-2019 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature
Takako Lento for her translation of Kaneko Mitsuharu’s poems in PIONEERS OF MODERN JAPANESE POETRY
Lindsley and Masao Miyoshi Translation PrizeMichael Brase for his translation of SOETSU YANAGI: SELECTED ESSAYS ON JAPANESE FOLK CRAFTS
Geraldine Harcourt for her translation of Tsushima Yuko’s TERRITORY OF LIGHT
Sumie Jones for lifetime achievement as a translator and editor
Friday 29 March, 5:30pm, C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University
Pre-registration will be required. TBA
John Whittier Treat
Emeritus Professor, East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University
The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature: What Comes Next
Thursday 4 April, 6pm, 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
No registration required.
Daisuke Miyao
Professor, Hajime Mori Chair in Japanese Language and Literature, Director of the Japanese Studies Program, Director of Doctoral Studies, Department of Literature, University of California, San Diego
Japonisme and the Birth of Japanese Cinema
Thursday 11 April, 6pm, 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
No registration required.
The 2018-2019 Soshitsu Sen Distinguished Lecture on Japanese Culture
Featuring Eiko Otake
Dance Artist and Choreographer
Friday 10 May, 6PM, Miller Theatre, Columbia University
Pre-registration will be required. TBA
Fall Events 2019
Memorial Service for DONALD KEENE
University Professor Emeritus and Shincho Professor Emeritus of Japanese Literature
1922-2019
Friday, September 27, 2019
Faculty House (64 Morningside Drive), 5pm
Reception to follow
The Bounds of Modern Japanese Literature and Film
A Symposium in Honor of Professor Paul Anderer
Friday 18 October 2019
403 Kent Hall, 2-5pm
Public Reception, Starr East Asian Library, 5:30pm
Saturday 19 October 2019
403 Kent Hall, 10am-6pm
Please pre-register RSVP Now
Schedule:
Friday 18 October
2:00pm Welcome: David Lurie
2:05 Opening Remarks: Seiji Lippit
2:15 Panel 1: Topographies, I
Janet Poole (University of Toronto): “The Post-Colony and the Changing Literary Form of the Streets”
Nate Shockey (Bard College): “The Topography of Typography: Uchida Roan and Bibliophilic Discourse in Early 20th-Century Tokyo”
Kerim Yasar (USC): “Highs and Lows: Kurosawa’s Sonic Topographies in Tengoku to jigoku”
3:30 Coffee Break
4:00 Panel 2: Reminiscences from Former Undergraduate Students
John Carpenter (Metropolitan Museum of Art), Yi-Ping Ong (Johns Hopkins), Charlotte Pu (Columbia College), Eliza Shapiro (New York Times), Jean-Emmanuel Shein (Uniqlo)
4:30 Paul Anderer: “Beginnings”
5:30 Public Reception in C.V. Starr East Asian Library
Saturday 19 October
10:00am Panel 3: Perspectives on Meiji and Taisho Writers
Indra Levy (Stanford): “Can the Meiji Man Laugh?”
Anri Yasuda (UVA): “Towards Ever More Beauty”: The Visual and Literary Arts in Sōseki’s Early Thought
Keith Vincent (BU): “Shiki and Rohan, Haiku and the Novel”
11:15 Break
11:30 Panel 4: Perspectives on Home, Family, and Space
Joan Ericson (Colorado College): “Women and Children First”
Eve Zimmerman (Wellesley): “Of Roofs and Valleys: Ethnographic Photography, Futagawa Yukio, and the Materiality of Nihon no Minka (1957)”
Jonathan Zwicker (UC Berkeley): “Life at the Margins: Mapping Urban Space in the Fiction of Higuchi Ichiyō”
12:45pm Lunch Break
2:00 Panel 5: Perspectives on Empire and War
Chris Hill (University of Michigan): “Tokyo in Tashkent: The Afro-Asian Writers’ Conference and the Problem of War Responsibility.”
Nina Cornyetz (NYU): “The Sadism of Suicide: Mishima Yukio’s Patriotism.”
Sunyoung Park (USC): “Tales of Napaj: The Japanese Empire in South Korean Science Fiction”
3:15 Coffee Break
3:45 Panel 6: Topographies, II
Seiji Lippit (UCLA): “Reading the Text as a Map: Literature and Criticism in the Space of the City”
Tyler Walker (Kalamazoo College): “Literature of the Never-lost Home”
Stephen Dodd (SOAS): “Six Perfect Places for Suicide in Mishima Yukio’s ‘Life for Sale’”
5:00 Break
5:15 Paul Anderer: “Endings”
5:40 Comments: Toeda Hirokazu (Waseda University)
6:00 Closing Remarks: Indra Levy
Participants:
John Carpenter (Metropolitan Museum of Art)
Nina Cornyetz (NYU)
Stephen Dodd (SOAS)
Joan Ericson (Colorado College)
Chris Hill (University of Michigan)
Indra Levy (Stanford)
Seiji Lippit (UCLA)
David Lurie (Columbia)
Yi-Ping Ong (Johns Hopkins)
Sunyoung Park (USC)
Janet Poole (University of Toronto)
Charlotte Pu (Columbia College)
Eliza Shapiro (New York Times)
Jean-Emmanuel Shein (Uniqlo)
Nate Shockey (Bard College)
Toeda Hirokazu (Waseda University)
J. Keith Vincent (BU)
Tyler Walker (Kalamazoo College)
Kerim Yasar (USC)
Anri Yasuda (UVA)
Eve Zimmerman (Wellesley)
Jonathan Zwicker (UC Berkeley)
Sponsored by the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP
New Directions in Japanese Studies
Commemorating the 70th Anniversary of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute
November 1 - 3, 2019
Columbia University
Co-sponsored by Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures
FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 1
918 International Affairs Building
7:00 - 8:30 pm
VIDEO SCREENING
Japanese “Magic Lantern” Films of the 1950s
Introduced by TOBA Kōji (Waseda University)
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2
918 International Affairs Building
10:00 - 10:30 am
COFFEE & REGISTRATION
10:30 am - 12:30 pm
KEYNOTE LECTURE
“Reconsidering Historical Comparability”
Harry HAROOTUNIAN (Columbia University)
Response
Carol GLUCK (Columbia University)
12:30 - 2:00 pm
LUNCH BREAK
2:00 - 5:30 pm
PANEL ONE
New Directions in Japanese Studies: Perspectives from Japan
IWASAKI Minoru (Tokyo University of Foreign Studies)
NARITA Ryūichi (Japan Women’s University)
TOBA Kōji (Waseda University)
TSUBOI Hideto (International Research Center for Japanese Studies)
WATANABE Eri (Shizuoka University)
WATANABE Naoki (Musashi University)
Discussion will be in Japanese & English.
SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 3
918 International Affairs Building
10:00 - 10:30 am
COFFEE & REGISTRATION
10:30 am - 12:30 pm
PANEL TWO
New Directions in Japanese Studies: Perspectives from America
Informal presentations by current doctoral students about their research interests. Discussion will be in Japanese & English.
Participants:
Yan CHANG (University of Minnesota)
Stephen CHOI (Columbia University)
Tianyuan HUANG (Columbia University)
Mairead HYNES (Columbia University)
Isaac TAN (Columbia University)
Xinyi ZHAO (Columbia University)
and others
Respondents:
NARITA Ryūichi (Japan Women’s University)
Jordan SAND (Georgetown University)
TOBA Kōji (Waseda University)
This workshop is free and open to the public. Please contact the workshop administrator, Isaac Tan (ct2810@columbia.edu), to register.
Edward Kamens
Sumitomo Professor of Japanese Studies, Yale University
The Three Jewels (Sanbōe), Revisited
Thursday 14 November, 6pm, 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
No registration required.
The Sacred, Discrimination, and Spirits of the Dead in Japan
International Research Center for Japanese Studies and Columbia University
Thursday 5 December, 5pm, 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
Jun’ichi ISOMAE (Nichibunken), “The Sacred, Discrimination and Public Sphere in History of Japanese Religions”Manami YASUI (Nichibunken), “Imaging the Spirit of a Deceased Pregnant Woman: Towards a Transcultural Study of the Spiritual World”
Discussants: Haruo Shirane (EALAC) and Michael Como (Religion/EALAC)
Cosponsored by EALAC, Department of Religion, Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture
Mari Yoshihara
Professor and Chair, Department of American Studies The University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa
Dearest Lenny: Letters from Japan and the Making of the World Maestro
