Symposium: “Censorship, Media, and Literary Culture in Japan: From Edo to Postwar”
March 6th, 2009 (Friday) and March 7th, 2009 (Saturday)
Symposium: “Censorship, Media, and Literary Culture in Japan: From Edo to Postwar”
Location: 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University (116th St. and Amsterdam Ave.)
This two-day international symposium takes both diachronic (historical) and synchronic (cross-media) approaches, seeking to bring recent research on early modern censorship into dialogue with studies of 19th and 20th century Japanese literary and visual culture. The symposium begins with Edo-period print culture and kabuki theatre, examines prewar literature, analyzes newsreels and popular visual materials from World War II through the Occupation period, as well as Occupation-period literature, film, and popular culture, and finally concludes with research on contemporary linguistic regulations in Japan.
* Reservations are required. RSVP by February 27th by email
( donald-keene-center@columbia.edu ) or by fax (212-854-4019).
