The Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture - Donald Keene Center Events Calendar Fall 2011



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Donald Keene Center Events Calendar Fall 2011

  SEPTEMBER | OCTOBER | NOVEMBER | DECEMBER

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SEPTEMBER 2011

September 16th-17th, 2011 (Friday & Saturday) 8:30 AM
International Symposium on Japanese Visual Culture:
Performance, Media, and Text
Venue: Room 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
For preregistration and further information,
contact Shiho Takai at:
*Sponsored by National Institute for Japanese Literature, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and Department of Archeology and Art History at Columbia University

Symposium Information:
The symposium is an outgrowth of a multi-year research project by an international team of scholars, sponsored by the National Institute of Japanese Literature, of visual artifacts and texts in collections in the United States, notably at the Spencer Collection in the New York Public Library, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Mary Griggs Burke Collection of Japanese Art, John C. Weber Collection, and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. The symposium focuses on a cluster of key issues foregrounded by these visual artifacts: 1) the place of other worlds, from animals and plants to the supernatural, and their intersection with orthodox religious views, 2) the reconstructions of court culture and their variegated functions in the medieval and Edo periods, 3) the role of famous places and cultural topography, and 4) the role of samurai narratives and their relationship to performance, painting, and gender. Through these four major themes, the symposium examines the larger issues of media, performance, and texts, with particular attention to the rich interrelationships among painting, literary culture, religion, and theater.

Friday September 16th
  • 8:30-9:15 – Registration
  • 9:15-9:45 – Keynote Speech: Haruo Shirane, Columbia University
    "Cultures of the Book, the Parlor, and the Roadside: Muromachi Tales and Issues of Text, Picture, and Media"

    • Literature of Other Worlds, Animals, and Plants:
    From Folk Literature to Picture Scrolls

    Session 1
  • 10:00-10:25 – Komine Kazuaki, Rikkyō University (in Japanese)
    “In Search of the Dragon Palace: Representations of an Other World”
  • 10:25-10:50 – Saitō Maori, NIJL (in Japanese)
    “Alien Creatures and Pictorial Expression: Tales of Messengers from the Gods and Buddhas”
  • 10:50-11:15 – R. Keller Kimbrough, University of Colorado
    “Sacred Charnel Visions: Painting the Dead in Illustrated Scrolls of the Demon Shuten Dôji”
  • 11:15-11:45 – Discussant: Bernard Faure (Columbia University)

    • Session 2
  • 13:00-13:25 – Max Moerman, Barnard College/Columbia University
    “Demonology and Eroticism: Islands of Women in the Japanese Buddhist Imagination”
  • 13:25-13:50 – Tokuda Kazuo, Gakushūin Women's College (in Japanese)
    “Images of Monsters—the Achievement of Muromachi Tale Picture Scrolls”
  • 13:50-14:20 – Discussant: Michael Como (Columbia University)

    • Famous Places and Cultural Topography

    Session 3
  • 14:30-14:55 – Takagishi Akira, Tokyo Institute of Technology (in Japanese)
    “The Intersection of Temple Origin Myths and Buddhist Paintings — Illustrated Scrolls of the Shrine Origin Myth of Kitano Tenjin and the Development of Medieval Paintings of the Six Paths”
  • 14:55-15:20 – Matthew P. McKelway, Columbia University
    “When Famous Places Become Narrative: Gukei's 'Handscrolls of Scenes of City and Country'”
  • 15:20-15:50 – Discussant: Sinead Kehoe (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

    • Session 4
  • 16:00-16:25 – Tomoko Sakomura, Swarthmore College
    “Visual Remembrances: Flower Viewing, Poetry, and Yoshino in Text and Image”
  • 16:25-16:50 – Suzuki Jun, NIJL (in Japanese)
    “Image and Text in Hokusai’s Azuma Asobi (Playing in the Eastern Provinces)”
  • 16:50-17:20 – Discussant: Robert Goree (Columbia University)

Saturday September 17th
  • 8:30-9:15 – Registration
  • 9:15-9:45 – Keynote Speech: Imanishi Yūichirō, Director General of NIJL (in Japanese)
    “Illustrated Books and Graphemes”
  • Discussant: David Lurie (Columbia University)

    • Reconstructing Court Culture: From Emaki to Edo Visual Culture

    Session 5
  • 10:00-10:25 – Terashima Tsuneyo, NIJL (in Japanese)
    “Portraits of Poetic Immortals and Classical Poetry: The Origins and Development of Kasen-e”
  • 10:25-10:50 – Ishikawa Tōru, Keiō University (in Japanese)
    “Japanese Court Culture as Represented in Tale of Genji Illustrations and Nara Ehon”
  • 10:50-11:20 – Discussant: Masako Watanabe (Metropolitan Museum)

    • Session 6
  • 11:30-11:55 – Melissa McCormick, Harvard University
    “Flower Personification and Imperial Regeneration in The Chrysanthemum Spirit”
  • 11:55-12:20 – Andrew Watsky, Princeton University
    “Representation in the Non-representational Arts: Poetry and Pots in Sixteenth-Century Japan”
  • 12:20-12:50 – Discussant: John Carpenter (Metropolitan Museum of Art)

    • Performance and Painting: Women and Samurai Narratives

    Session 7
  • 14:00-14:25 – Kobayashi Kenji, NIJL (in Japanese)
    “Illustrated Texts of Kōwaka Performance Narrations: The Case of the Takebun Screen Painting”
  • 14:25-14:50 – Suzuki Hiroko, Tezukayama University (in Japanese)
    “Female Characters in History Puppet Plays (Jidai Jōruri)”
  • 14:50-15:15 – Roberta Strippoli, Binghamton University, State University of New York
    “Song without Music, Dance without Rhythm: Illustrating Shirabyōshi in Early Modern Scrolls and Albums"
  • 15:15-15:45 – Discussant: Joshua Mostow (University of British Columbia)
  • 15:45-16:00 Closing Remarks: Haruo Shirane
 

 

OCTOBER 2011

October 3rd, 2011 (Thursday) 12:00 - 1:30 PM
Weatherhead East Asian Institute: Brown Bag Lecture
"The Labor of Cute: Net Idols, Cute Culture, and the Social Factory in Contemporary Japan"
Gabriella Lukács, University of Pittsburgh
Venue: 918 International Affairs Building, Columbia University
No registration required
*Co-sponsored by the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, the Department of Anthropology, and the Center of Japanese Economy and Business

 

October 4th, 2011 (Tuesday) 2:00 - 4:00 PM
“From Gold Soup to Iron Chef: The Culture and History of Japanese Cuisine”
A Panel Discussion
Jordan Sand, Georgetown University; Eric Rath, University of Kansas; Gabriella Lukács, University of Pittsburgh
Venue: 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University

 

25th Anniversary Event
October 4th, 2011 (Tuesday) 6:00 - 8:00 PM
Cooking Demonstration and Lecture by “Iron Chef” Morimoto
Venue: Casa Italiana, Columbia University
Admission is free
RSVP by September 30th to:
*This program is made possible by the generous support of the Orient Finance Co. Endowment for the Donald Keene Center and the Sen Lectureship Endowment

Demonstration Information:
Star of the hit television show Iron Chef, Masaharu Morimoto is acclaimed for his ability to integrate Western ingredients into traditional Japanese cuisine such as tempura, sushi, and sashimi. Offering uniquely contemporary Japanese cuisine, Morimoto has revolutionized the restaurant scene in New York and beyond. A cooking demonstration by Chef Morimoto will be followed by a dialogue with food historian Jordan Sand (Georgetown University) and a Q-and-A session with audience members.
 

October 13th, 2011 (Thursday) 6:30 PM
2011 Donald Keene Center — Shirato Lecture
“The Identity of Older Japanese Women in Conversational Narratives”
Yoshiko Matsumoto, Stanford University
Venue: Julius Held Auditorium (304 Barnard Hall)

 

October 14th-15th, 2011 9:00 AM
Buddhism and the Performing Arts (geinō)
A Columbia Center for Japanese Religion Symposium
Click here to download a complete schedule of the symposium.
Venue: 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
This symposium has been made possible by the generous support of Dr. John C. Weber

 

October 20th, 2011 (Thursday) 6:00 PM
“Utopia and Dystopia in Modernist Fiction”
Angela Yiu, Sophia University
Venue: 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
*Co-sponsored with the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures

 

 

NOVEMBER 2011

November 3rd, 2011 (Thursday) 6:00 PM
“The World in Japanese”
Ian Hideo Levy, Independent Scholar, Novelist, and Translator
Venue: Room 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
Sponsored by Columbia University Press, Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University

Lecture Information:
Levy Hideo, the first westerner to become a critically acclaimed novelist in Japanese, will relate the story of his own "life in a new language." In doing so he will refer to the inspiration he received both from ancient Japanese literature and from the minority and bilingual novelists at the forefront of contemporary writing in Japan. This event is in commemoration of the publication of A Room Where the Star-Spangled Banner Cannot Be Heard, the first translation of his work into English.
 

November 11th, 2011 (Friday) 9:00 am – 5:45 pm
“The Makino Collection at Columbia:
The Present and Future of an Archive”
Download the Symposium Schedule here
Venue: Room 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
Organized by Paul Anderer, Jim Cheng, Hikari Hori, and Beth Katzoff
Partially funded by the Orient Finance Co. Endowment for the Donald Keene Center

 

November 17th, 2011 (Thursday) 4:30 PM
“The Geopolitics of Collaboration: Colonial Korean Culture after the ‘Manchurian Incident’”
Nayoung Aimee Kwon, Duke University
Venue: Room 918 IAB, Columbia University
*Co-sponsored with the Center for Korean Research

 

November 18th, 2011 (Friday) 9:00 AM
“Sixty Years after the San Francisco Peace Treaty:
Peace, Conflict, and Historical Reconciliation in the Asia-Pacific”
Venue: 501 Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University
Download the full symposium schedule here
*Sponsored by the Center for Korean Research and the Northeast Asian History Foundation

Co-sponsored by APEC Study Center, the Donald Keene Center, the Harriman Institute, the Institute for the Study of Human Rights, and the Center for Korean Legal Studies

 

 

DECEMBER 2011

December 8th, 2011 (Thursday) 6:30 PM
“Furs and Fears: The Eighteenth-Century Little Ice Age and the ‘Closing’ of Japan”
Ronald Toby, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana
Venue: Room 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University

 


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