Donald Keene Center Events Calendar
Fall 2001
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• All events at Columbia are free and open to the public.
• Unless otherwise indicated, all of the programs listed below take
place at Columbia University, 116th Street between Broadway and
Amsterdam Ave.
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September 24 (Monday)
Lecture: The Making of Nationalism
in Modern Japan
Professor Shinji Sudo (Professor of
Political Science, Kyoto Sangyo University)
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University (116th St. & Amsterdam
Ave.)
6:00 PM
September 26 (Wednesday)
Lecture: How the Japanese Think of
'Peace' in History
Please note this lecture will be presented in JAPANESE
Professor Shinji Sudo (Professor of
Political Science, Kyoto Sangyo University)
918 International Affairs Building, Columbia University
(118th St. & Amsterdam Ave.)
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7:30 PM-9:30 PM
Presented by the
Nihon Benkyo Kai of the School of International and
Public Affairs, with the support of the Donald Keene Center
9/18/01: Due to recent events, the Shinto Symposium
has been postponed. As of this date we are unsure
whether or not this event will be rescheduled. We
will post any new details on this page as soon as
they become available.
October 5 (Friday)
Symposium: New
Perspectives in the Study of Shinto
Coordinated by Professor Ryuichi
Abe (Kao Associated Professor of Religion &
Department Chair, Columbia University)
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University (116th St. &
Amsterdam Ave.)
10:00 AM-6:00 PM
International symposium with scholars from Japan,
Europe and the U.S.
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· Panel 1: Shinto and
Methods of Modern Academic Studies
· Panel 2: Shinto and Its Interaction with
Other Religions
· Panel 3: Shinto and Japanese Studies
· Panel 4: Shinto Art as an Academic Field
· Panel 5: Shinto and Contemporary Issues |
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Co-sponsored by the International
Shinto Foundation, and the
Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies
October 18 (Thursday)
Note: This program was originally scheduled for 1:00 PM ~
4:00 PM
Workshop: Setsuwa (Folk
Literature) and Media
Professor Kazuaki Komine (Professor
in the Department of Literature, Rikkyo University; Visiting
Fellow of the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture)
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University (116th St. & Amsterdam
Ave.)
10:30 AM-1:30 PM
Please note that parts of this workshop will be conducted in
Japanese. If you have any questions or would like more
information, please call the Donald Keene Center at
212-854-5036 or email us at
donald-keene-center@columbia.edu
This workshop will take a fresh look, from a
setsuwa-oriented perspective, at emaki (picture
scrolls) as a medium. Beginning with gajushi, the
words written in emaki, we will analyze the negotiations and
interrelationships between emaki and setsuwa. We will
examine such emaki texts as Choju giga (Scrolls of
Frolicking Animals) and Junirui emaki (Scrolls of the
Twelve Animals) from a variety of perspectives.
Co-sponsored by the
Institute for Medieval Japanese Studies and the
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures
Professor Komine is a
Visiting Fellow of the Donald Keene Center, under a
program supported by
the United
States-Japan Foundation
November 14 (Wednesday)
Booktalk: The Tale of Genji
 Translator
Royall Tyler (Visiting Professor, Department of East
Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard
University)
Discussion with Professor Haruo Shirane (Shincho
Professor of Japanese Literature, Columbia
University)
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University (116th St. &
Amsterdam Ave.)
6:00 PM
Widely acknowledged as the world's first novel, and
considered by many to be one of the finest, The
Tale of Genji was written by Murasaki Shikibu in
the first decade of the eleventh century. In this
booktalk, Royall Tyler, recently retired from
Australian National University and currently a
Visiting Professor at Harvard University, will
discuss his recently published translation of Lady
Murasaki's exquisite portrait of court life in
medieval Japan, only the third English translation
of the novel in its entirety. Professor Tyler's
eagerly anticipated translation, detailed and
poetic, remains scrupulously true to the Japanese
original while appealing immediately to the modern
reader as well. Tyler considers his version "a new,
more detailed and more fully engaging Genji
than has yet been seen in a language outside
Japanese." |
December 12 (Wednesday)
Lecture: Contemporary Japanese
Views of Death and Life (Gendai Nihonjin no Shiseikan)
Professor Masao Fujii (Professor in
the Department of Literature, Taisho University; Visiting
Scholar, Edwin Reischauer Institute, Harvard University )
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University (116th St. & Amsterdam
Ave.)
5:00 PM
Please note that this lecture will be given in Japanese
December 13
(Thursday)
Lecture: 'Men at Work':
What Does Professional Baseball Demonstrate In
Contemporary Japan?
Professor William Kelly
(Sumitomo Professor of Japanese Studies, Department
of Anthropology, Yale University)
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University (116th St. &
Amsterdam Ave.)
6:00 PM
 One
of the sillier contrasts of professional baseball in
the US and in Japan is the claim that the Japanese
athletes are grim “men at work” whereas we Americans
are spirited “boys at play.” Like most national
characterizations, it has a kernel of insight
wrapped in layers of self-serving stereotypes.
Japanese have more clearly recognized that
professional baseball teams are workplaces, that
they are constructed socially of work relations and
ideologically of authority claims. In particular,
since the mid-1960s, an effort has been made to
construct them as corporate workplaces. Professor
Kelly asks why this came about and why it has not
been particularly successful, and considers what
audiences have made of this thoroughly compromised
organizational form. He proposes that a central
fascination of baseball fans is savoring the gaps
between the corporate image mongering and a more
complex, occasionally sordid reality of team life
and player careers. |
Co-sponsored by the
Department of Anthropology
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