| May
2008 |
Monsters--Japanese Toys & the Global Imagination
Monday, May 5, 6:30 PM
From sushi and karaoke to martial arts and technoware, the currency of made-in-Japan cultural goods has skyrocketed in the global marketplace during the past decade. The globalization of Japanese "cool" is led by youth products: video games, manga (comic books), anime (animation) and cute characters that have fostered kid crazes from Hong Kong to Canada. Drawing on popular examples from Pokémon to Sailor Moon, Anne Allison speaks about the popularity of Japanese goods today, and the relationship of these products to the cultural and historical context in which they were both developed and consumed. Dr. Allison is Professor and Chair of the Department of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University, and author of Millennial Monsters: Japanese Toys and the Global Imagination.
Moderated by Thomas Looser, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at New York University.
Followed by a reception.
Tickets: $10/$8 Japan Society members, $5 seniors & students. Purchase tickets online above or call the Box Office at (212) 715-1258, Mon. - Fri. 11 am - 6 pm, Weekends 11 am - 5 pm |
| MARCH
2008 |
CAS SCHOLARS LECTURE SERIES
"The New Architecture of Japan: Urbanism, Anime, and Capital"
THOMAS LOOSER
Tuesday, March 11th
5:00 pm
Silver Center, Jurow Lecture Hall, Rm 101
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| DECEMBER
2007 |
An Unfinished Double Critique of Cosmopolitanism and Nationalism: Rereading Lu Xun's 'Toward a Refutation of the Voices of Evil' (1908) in the Era of Globalization
WANG HUI
Thursday, December 6th
4:00 pm
Dept of East Asian Studies
715 Broadway
Room 312 |
| NOVEMBER
2007 |
Chinese Views of Life and Death, with Special Reference to the Confucian Tradition
Yu Ying-shih
Yu is an Emeritus Professor of East Asian Studies and History at Princeton University. During his academic career, which began in 1962, he has taught at Princeton, Harvard, Yale, and the University of Michigan. He also served concurrently as president of New Asia College, Hong Kong, and vice chancellor of Chinese University of Hong Kong from 1973 to 1975. He spent the bulk of his academic career at Princeton, where he taught from 1987 to 2001. He is a member of various scholarly societies. In 1970 Yu published an interpretive article in Chinese, “A Consideration of the History of the Qing Thought from the Perspective of the Development of Song-Ming Confucianism.” In 1972 he published groundbreaking research on the major thinker Fang Yizhi (1611-1671). Asked in the 1990s to write a short historical introduction to the collected works of Zhu Xi (1130-1200), the most influential Confucian after Confucius himself, Yu read so deeply in the source material that he ended by writing a 600-page book that fundamentally reinterpreted this towering figure.
In 2006 he was the co-winner of the Kluge Prize for lifetime achievement in the humanistic and social sciences by the U.S. Library of Congress.
Thursday, November 29th
4:00-6:00pm
Kimmel Center
60 Washington Square South
Room 907
Sponsored by the Departments of East Asian Studies, History, the Morse Academic Plan, and Presidential Scholars' Program of the College of Arts and Science. |
Globalization, Minority Politics, and Contemporary Chinese Cultural Production
A workshop featuring Laikwan Pang (Chinese University of Hong Kong) and Kwai-cheung Lo (Hong Kong Baptist University).
Tuesday, November 13th
12:30-3:00pm
Dept of East Asian Studies
715 Broadway
Room 312
Co-sponsored by the Departments of Cinema Studies and East Asian Studies. |
Theories of Translation and the Question of the Event
TANI BARLOW
Professor, History and Women's Studies
University of Washington
Tuesday, November 6th
5:00pm-7:00pm
Dept of East Asian Studies
715 Broadway
Room 312
Sponsored by the Department of East Asian Studies and the History Department |
CINEMA = MOVEMENT: Intersections of Japanese Art & Politics
5 Programs of Film/Video + Panel Discussion
November 2 - 4 • at Anthology Film Archives
Co-sponsored by the Department of East Asian Studies
While the films of the Japanese New Wave, which emerged out of the studio system, are fairly well-known, much of radical postwar Japanese film culture, including a considerable amount of independent work, remains unknown and unseen. This program attempts to address this gap by presenting a series of truly underground works inspired as much by political as by aesthetic events in Japan, the US, and the world. Indeed, for these filmmakers, it was in the interweaving of the artistic and the political that both could be explored and interrogated with unprecedented and challenging results. These films testify to the spirit of that time in their provocative play with performance, sexuality, urban space, collage, camp and kitsch, as well as in their observations of the metamorphosing power structure.
Symposium:
In addition to the screenings, there will be a one-day symposium addressing issues and themes raised by the films. The discussion will be held on Sunday afternoon from 3-5 pm, and is free and open to the public. Reflecting on cinema in particular, the panel will explore the problem of radical arts and politics in Japan during the 60s and 70s and the meaning of those struggles for our contemporary moment. Presenters include NYU Professor of History and East Asian Studies Harry Harootunian, film activist and historian Hirasawa Go, and graduate students Yuriko Furuhata (Brown University) and Phil Kaffen (NYU). Each will give a brief presentation which will be followed by open discussion. This series is organized by Hirasawa Go, Sharon Hayashi (York University), Phil Kaffen (NYU), Sabu Kohso, Harry Harootunian (NYU) and Wendy Dorsett (Anthology), and is being held in cooperation with New York University/Department of East Asian Studies. There will be other events surrounding the series at Anthology announced at a later date. For more information and updates please visit: www.anthologyfilmarchives.org
PROGRAM 1
Adachi Masao, Matsuda Masao, Sasaki Mamoru, etc.
AKA: SERIAL KILLER
1969, 90 min, 35mm.
Friday, November 2 at 8:00.
PROGRAM 2
Nihon University Cinema Club
WAN/RICE BOWL (1961, 25 min, 16mm)
OTHER FILMS TO BE DETERMINED
Saturday, November 3 at 6:00.
PROGRAM 3
Jonouchi Motoharu
HI RED CENTER SHELTER PLAN (1964, 18 min, 16mm)
WOLS (1964, 18 min, 16mm)
GEWALTOPIA TRAILER (1969, 13 min, 16mm)
SHINJUKU STATION (1974, 14 min, 16mm)
Saturday, November 3 at 8:00.
Symposium - Sunday, November 4 at 3:00
Free and open to the public!
PROGRAM 4
Oe Masanori PROGRAM
S NO. 1 (1967, 5 min, 16mm)
HEAD GAMES (1967, 10 min, 16mm)
NO GAME (1967, 17 min, 16mm)
SALOME'S CHILDREN (1968, 7 min, 16mm)
BETWEEN THE FRAME (1967, 10 min, 16mm)
GREAT SOCIETY (1967, 17 min, 16mm-multi screen projection, shown on video)
Sunday, November 4 at 6:00.
PROGRAM 5
Okabe Michio
CRAZY LOVE
1968, 93 min, 16mm.
Sunday, November 4 at 8:00. |
| SEPTEMBER
2007 |
EAS Welcome Back Reception
Wednesday, September 19
6:00 pm
Dept of East Asian Studies
715 Broadway
Room 312 |
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