| OCTOBER
2009 |
Graduate Student/Faculty Reading Group
Dept. of East Asian Studies
715 Broadway, Room 312
Meets every other week
After reading "The Coming Insurrection", we decided to read Spinoza's Ethics, in order to think through more productively the question of "politics of singularity" and what that possibly mean.
We meet on Friday at 15h for 2-3 hours.
Below is the program so far:
10/18 The Invisible Committee. "The Coming Insurrection" (1st half)
10/25 The Invisible Committee. "The Coming Insurrection" (2nd half)
10/12 Spinoza. "Ehtics" Part I & II
10/23 Spinoza. "Ethics" Part III
11/06 Spinoza. "Ethics" Part IV & Balibar on Spinoza*
11/20 Spinoza. "Ethics" Part V & Deleuze on Spinoza*
12/04 Articles around Spinoza and politics*
*the articles are not decided yet.
For more information about future meetings, please contact Christophe Thouny |
Korean Studies Colloquium at NYU
Photo Exhibition: Our Yongsan, Our Lives: A Red-light District to be Demolished
Monday, Oct. 26th - Friday, Nov. 6th
The Gallatin Galleries
715 Broadway, 4th floor West Gallery
http://www.nyu.edu/gallatin/gallery/
This exhibition presents forty photographs selected from more than a thousand images taken by women in the Yongsan red-light district, Seoul, South Korea, some of whom have worked and lived in the area for as long as 40 years. The red-light district, located near Yongsan Railway Station in central Seoul, is one of the oldest red-light districts in South Korea. As part of the urban renewal project, the area will be demolished by the end of 2009. These photographs are a form of personal histories written onto the space and architecture of the red-light district, indicative of how it is home to these women who have lived on the margins of Korean society. |
Translatio and Difference: Western Classics in Modern Japan
Yasunari Takada
A Chapter in Classics and National Cultures ed. Phiroze Vasunia and Susan Stephens, OUP 2009
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 13TH
2:00-4:30PM
715 BROADWAY, RM. 312
Yasunari Takada is a professor in transcultural studies at the University of Tokyo. His major interest lies in Medieval & English literature and the comparative reception studies of Western Classics in modern cultures. His publications include, Cicero: An Intellectual Tradition in Europe (Iwanami-shoten, 1999 [in Japanese]), Transcendental Descent: Essays in Literature and Philosophy (University of Tokyo Center of Philosophy, 2007). Among forthcoming publications are Critical Moment: Origins of Criticism and Recognition of Crisis (University Press of Nagoya [in Japanese]) and “Translatio and Difference,” The Classics and National Cultures, eds S. Stevens & P. Venusa (Oxford UP). |
| SEPTEMBER
2009 |
The Department of East Asian Studies at NYU presents
A Conversation
with Lee Moon-Sook, Oh Jae-Shik, and Paik Nak-Chung
three influential leaders from South Korea's academic, philanthropic, and religious communities discuss:
- North Korea - South Korea - U.S. Relations
- Peace and Cooperation in Northeast Asia
September 17, 2009
10 am – 12:30 pm
715 Broadway, 3rd Floor
East Asian Studies seminar room (Room 312)
Continental breakfast served.
Speakers:
Lee, Moon-Sook- General Secretary of Korea Church Women United and a key organizer in movements and organizations that promote reconciliation between North and South Korea
Oh, Jae-Shik- Executive Director of the Asia Institute in Seoul and a long time leader in peace and justice movements in Asia and organizations that promote inter-Korea reconciliation
Paik, Nak-chung- Professor Emeritus at Seoul National University, editor of Changjak kwa pip’yŏng, and for many South Korea’s most respected and influential thinker
Seating is limited. Please R.S.V.P. to Eunju Na: en29@nyu.edu |
Department of East Asian Studies
Welcome Reception
Friday, Sept. 11th at 3pm
in room 312 at 715 Broadway |
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