Donald Keene Center Events Calendar
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October 6 (Wednesday) Lecture Series: New Horizons in Japan Historywriting: The Books and Their Authors
Mapping Early Modern Japan: Space, Place, and Culture in the Early Modern Period, 1603-1868 Prof. Marcia Yonemoto (Assistant Professor of History, University of Colorado at Boulder ) 918 International Affairs Building (118th St. and Amsterdam Ave.) » Campus Map 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM The books and Xeroxes of proofs or manuscripts will be available for purchase before talks. Please contact Arie Bram at 212-854-4591. Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute October 7 (Thursday) Lecture: A Buddhist Chameleon Prince Shotoku: An Evolutionary Adaptive Image Surviving Time Sayoko Sakakibara (Historiographical Institute, University of Tokyo) 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University (116th St. and Amsterdam Ave.) 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM October 8 (Friday) Presentation: Electronic Databases of the Historiographical Institute Wakabayashi Haruko, Sakakibara Sayoko, Roy Ron (Historiographical Institute, University of Tokyo) 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University (116th St. and Amsterdam Ave.) 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM October 13 (Wednesday) Lecture Series: New Horizons in Japan Historywriting: The Books and Their Authors Rearranging the Landscape of the Gods:The Politics of a Pilgrimage Site in Japan, 1573-1912 Sarah Thal (Assistant Professor of History, Rice University) 918 International Affairs Building (118th St. and Amsterdam Ave.) » Campus Map 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM The books and Xeroxes of proofs or manuscripts will be available for purchase before talks. Please contact Arie Bram at 212-854-4591. Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute October 14 (Thursday) Donald Keene Center Special Lecture Series: Collateral Damage (And Other Rules of War in Early Medieval Japan) Karl Friday (Professor of History, University of Georgia) 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University (116th St. and Amsterdam Ave.) 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
November 4 (Thursday) Donald Keene Center Special Lecture Series: Too Close to the Sun: Korean Writers under Japanese Rule
John W. Treat (Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University) 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University (116th St. and Amsterdam Ave.) 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM November 10 (Wednesday) Lecture Series: New Horizons in Japan Historywriting: The Books and Their Authors
The Dawn That Never Comes: Shimazaki Toson and Japanese Nationalism Prof. Michael Bourdaghs (Assistant Professor of Modern Japanese Literature, Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures, University of California, Los Angeles) 918 International Affairs Building (118th St. and Amsterdam Ave.) » Campus Map 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM The books and Xeroxes of proofs or manuscripts will be available for purchase before talks. Please contact Arie Bram at 212-854-4591. Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute November 17 (Wednesday) Lecture Series: New Horizons in Japan Historywriting: The Books and Their Authors
House and Home in Modern Japan Prof. Jordan Sand (Assistant Professor of Japanese History and Culture, Georgetown University) 918 International Affairs Building (118th St. and Amsterdam Ave.) » Campus Map 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM The books and Xeroxes of proofs or manuscripts will be available for purchase before talks. Please contact Arie Bram at 212-854-4591. Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute November 18 (Thursday) Lecture: The Life of the Death of the Buddha: The Parinirvâna in Japanese Iconography David Max Moerman (Assistant Professor, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures, Barnard College) 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University (116th St. and Amsterdam Ave.) 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
December 2 (Thursday) Donald Keene Center Special Lecture Series: First, Foremost and Famously Accused: An Etymology of the Decorative in Japanese Art Barbara Ford (Curator, Department of Asian Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art) 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University (116th St. and Amsterdam Ave.) 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Dismissed as dazzling to the eye but lacking in truth by eleventh-century Chinese critics and adulated for exemplary fidelity to nature by new admirers in nineteenth-century Europe and America, the decorative character of Japanese art is invariably if variously noted. More recently the Japanese art historian Tsuji Nobuo championed the Japanese propensity toward decoration, dubbing it Kazari, 
an ancient Japanese term for adornment. His work and others'
highlight the diversity and pervasiveness of decorative
expression in Japan and focus on cultural underpinnings
peculiar to Japan, studies that culminated in the exhibition
"Kazari" held at the Japan Society and the British Museum in
2002. To date, less attention has been given to more distant
but profound roots of decorative art in Buddhist practice
based on the notion of shôgon
that will be explored in this talk.December 4 (Saturday) Symposium: Global Fantasies: Godzilla in World Culture Altschul Auditorium, 417 International Affairs Building (118th St. and Amsterdam Ave.) » Campus Map 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM » Click here for schedule SPEAKERS: • Anne Allison (Duke University) • Aaron Gerow (Yale University) • Theodore Hughes (Columbia University) • Yoshikuni Igarashi (Vanderbilt University) • Gregory Pflugfelder (Columbia University) • Alan Tansman (University of California, Berkeley) • William Tsutsui (University of Kansas) Through December 2004 Exhibition: Godzilla Conquers the Globe: Japanese Movie Monsters in International Film Art C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Kent Hall, Columbia University (116th St. and Amsterdam Ave.) Marking the 50th anniversary of the original Godzilla film's release, we are pleased to present an exhibit of film posters and related movie ephemera from different parts of the world. The exhibit, which extends across three rooms in the historic C.V. Starr East Asian Library, is curated by Gregory M. Pflugfelder (Associate Professor of Japanese History, Columbia University), from whose private collection many of the items are drawn. » Click here for details |
