Donald Keene Center Events Calendar
Fall 2003
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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 25 (Thursday)
Lecture: Visualizing the Tale of
Genji: The Case of Wakamurasaki*
Professor Haruki Ii (Department of
Japanese and Asian Literature, Osaka University)
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University (116th St. and Amsterdam
Ave.)
6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
*Lecture to be given in Japanese
October 2 (Thursday)
Lecture: Eight Million Ways to
See: Japanese Artists' Books, 770-2000
1st of a three part lecture series
on< Ehon: The Japanese Artists' Books
Professor Roger Keyes (Department of
East Asian Studies, Brown University)
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University (116th St. and Amsterdam
Ave.)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
An overview of the history of Japanese artists' books and an
introduction to some of their special characteristics.
October 4 - November 5
YASUJIRO OZU: A CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION
A special event of the 41st New York Film Festival
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Ozu's Late Spring
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Thanks to the Film Society of Lincoln Center, Columbia
students and faculty are eligible to purchase discounted
rush tickets at $5.00 per ticket for the upcoming Yasujiro
Ozu retrospective at the New York Film Festival from October
4 through November 5. To purchase tickets, present your
Columbia ID at the Alice Tully Box office (Broadway between
65th and 66th Streets) on the day of the screening; you may
purchase up to two tickets for $5.00 each. There will be no
advanced sales at this discounted rate - advance sales will
be at the regular $7.00 student rate.
Check
here for a complete listing of screenings.
October 11 & 12 (Saturday & Sunday)
YASUJIRO OZU: INTERNATIONAL
PERSPECTIVE
Two day symposium held at the Lincoln Center and Columbia
University
October 11 (Saturday)
Walter Reade Theatre |
2 PM -
4 PM: THE PLACE OF OZU WITHIN
JAPANESE FILM HISTORY
Moderator: Daisuke Miyao (Columbia
University)
Panelists: Richard Combs; Keiko
McDonald; Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto; Tadao
Sato |
4: 30
PM - 6:30 PM: OZU OUTSIDE: THE
INTERNATIONAL RESPONSE TO OZU'S WORK
Moderator: Zhang Zhen (New York
University)
Panelists: Claudio España; Andrew
Sarris; Chuck Stevens
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October 12 (Sunday)
Italian Academy, Columbia University
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2 PM -
4 PM: OZU AND MODERNITY
Moderator: Dudley Andrew (Yale
University)
Panelists: Shiguehiko Hasumi;
Charles Tesson; Robin Wood;
Yoshishige Yoshida |
4:30 PM
- 6:30 PM: OZU TODAY AND TOMORROW
Moderator: James Schamus (Columbia
University)
Panelists: Phillip Lopate; Paul
Schrader |
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Organized by Professor Paul
Anderer (Columbia University) and Professor Richard Peña
(Columbia University)
Co-sponsored by the
Film
Society of Lincoln Center, the
Weatherhead East Asian Institute, the
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, and the
National
Endowment for the Arts.
October 16 (Thursday)
Lecture: New Perspectives on
Munakata Shiko
Professor Allen Hockley (Department
of Art History, Dartmouth College)
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University (116th St. and Amsterdam
Ave.)
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Co-sponsored by the
Ukiyo-e
Society of America, Inc.
October 23 (Thursday)
Lecture: From Kôetsu to Sekka:
Kyoto Artists' Books in the Early Modern Period
2nd of a three part lecture series
on Ehon: The Japanese Artists' Books
Professor Roger Keyes (Department of
East Asian Studies, Brown University)
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University (116th St. and Amsterdam
Ave.)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
A close examination of Kôetsu's Michimori (c. 1605),
Yoshikiyo's Shidare yanagi (1702), Soken's Yamato
jinbutsu gafu (1800), Kihô's Kafuku ninpitsu
(1808), and Sekka's Momoyogusa (1909)
October 27 (Monday)
Lecture: Enough of French
Painting! The Japanese Struggle for Leadership in the Arts
during World War II
Professor Michael Lucken (National
Institute of Oriental Languages and Civilizations, Paris)
612 Schermerhorn, Columbia University (118th St. and
Amsterdam Ave.)
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5:45 PM
Co-sponsored by the
Department of Art History and Archaeology
November 5 (Wednesday)
Discussion: An Afternoon with Kiju
Yoshida and Mariko Okada
Moderated by Professor Daisuke Miyao
(Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University)
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University (116th St. and Amsterdam
Ave.)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Award-winning director Kiju Yoshida and renowned actress
Mariko Okada will discuss their work, the legacy of Yasujiro
Ozu, and their most recent collaboration, Women in the
Mirror (Kagami no onnatachi, 2002)
Co-sponsored by the the
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
November 6 (Thursday)
Lecture: Looking at Chushingura
Prints and Books
Henry D. Smith II & Chelsea Foxwell
(Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia
University)
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University (116th St. and Amsterdam
Ave.)
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Co-sponsored by the
Ukiyo-e
Society of America, Inc.
November 13 (Thursday)
Lecture: Ehon and the Transmission
of Knowledge
3rd of a three part lecture
series on Ehon: The Japanese Artists' Books
Professor Roger Keyes (Department of
East Asian Studies, Brown University)
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University (116th St. and Amsterdam
Ave.)
4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
A consideration of the relationships between pictures, text
and form in Japanese artists' books and the types of
knowledge they convey.
December 1 (Monday)
Brownbag Lunch: Teaching Hiroshima
and the Holocaust
Professor Alan Tansman (Department of
East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of California,
Berkeley)
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University (116th St. and Amsterdam
Ave.)
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
| "But it is the knowledge of
how contingent my unease is, how dependent on a baby
that wails beneath my window one day and does not
wail the next, that brings the worst shame to me,
the greatest indifference to annihilation." |
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J.M. Coetzee, Waiting For The Barbarians,
1980
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 The
Nazi murder of the Jews and the dropping of the Atomic bomb
on Hiroshima have occupied our modern historical and
literary imaginations. The imprint of these events, after
more than half a century, is deep and indelible.
Nevertheless, the comparison of the two events will strike
some as distasteful. Dare we ask whether the Japanese were
victims the way the Jews were? The very question seems to
suggest that degrees of suffering can be measured and that
styles of mourning can be judged. It risks robbing victims
of their claim that their suffering was uniquely their own
and that the particular history that caused their pain was
unprecedented and unparalleled. Comparing suffering leads us
to judge suffering‹and that is a delicate thing to do.
In this lecture Professor Tansman will discuss his
experience teaching this comparison in the American
university classroom.
Co-sponsored by the the
Weatherhead East Asian Institute
December 10 (Wednesday)
Lecture: Can the Hanshin Tigers
Save Japan? Performance as Narrative in a Japanese Baseball
Season
Professor William W. Kelly
(Department of Anthropology, Yale University)
963 Schermerhorn Extension, Columbia University (118th St.
and Amsterdam Ave.)
4:00 PM - 6:00 Pm<
Co-sponsored by the
Department of Anthropology
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