Donald Keene Center Events Calendar
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January 29 (Thursday) Lecture: Curating Golden Fantasies Rosina Buckland (Institute of Fine Arts, New York University) Kress Room, C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Columbia University (116th St. and Amsterdam Ave.) » Starr Library Floor Plan 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Rosina Buckland, curator of Golden Fantasies: Japanese Screens From New York Collections at the Asia Society, will use works from the exhibition to illustrate this relationship between history and art in early modern Japan.
February 3 (Tuesday) Discussion: Japan in Hollywood: An Evening of Conversation Paul Anderer (Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures), David Lurie (Assistant Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures), Daisuke Miyao (Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University), Richard Peña (Director, Film Society of Lincoln Center and Associate Professor, Film Division, Columbia University), Gregory Pflugfelder Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures), and Henry D. Smith (Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures) 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University (116th St. and Amsterdam Ave.) 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM From Lost in Translation to Kill Bill to The Last Samurai, Japan's profile in American popular film has become very conspicuous of late. The Keene Center is pleased to sponsor an evening of informal conversation on the significance of these contemporary trends in Hollywood moviemaking and about the historical, cultural, and aesthetic issues that they raise. February 10 (Tuesday) Booktalk: Yoshimasa and the Silver Pavilion: The Creation of the Soul of Japan
Professor Donald Keene (Professor Emeritus, Columbia University) 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University (116th St. and Amsterdam Ave.) 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Yoshimasa may have been the worst shogun ever to rule Japan. He was a failure as a soldier, incompetent at dealing with state business, and dominated by his wife. But his influence on the cultural life of Japan was unparalleled. In this talk, Professor Keene will speak about his book and how Yoshimasa was the only shogun to leave a lasting heritage for the entire Japanese people. February 19 (Thursday)
George Mann (private collector) 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University (116th St. and Amsterdam Ave.) 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM George Mann is a longtime collector and is reputed to have the finest collection of Ukiyo-e prints in this country. He is a member of the Art Institute of Chicago's Board of Trustees and its Committee on Asian Art. His lecture at the Donald Keene Center will be mainly about his experiences as a collector. Co-sponsored by the Ukiyo-e Society of Japan, Inc. February 20 (Friday) Lecture: Prince Shôtoku and the Chinese Ritual Calendar Michael Como (College of William and Mary) 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University (116th St. and Amsterdam Ave.) 4:30 PM - 6:30 PM Professor Michael Como will be speaking about the early cult of Prince Shotoku.
March 9 (Tuesday) Lecture: Sumo in Global Spaces: The Politics of Representation R. Kenji Tierney (Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University) 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University (116th St. and Amsterdam Ave.) 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute March 12 (Friday) Lecture: Envisioning the Prince: The Life of Images in the Shôtoku Cult Kevin Carr (Princeton University) 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University (116th St. and Amsterdam Ave.) 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM March 26 & 27 (Friday & Saturday) Conference: Translation Matters: East Asian Literatures in Transnational Perspective Location: Buell Hall, Columbia University (116th St. and Amsterdam Ave.) 9:00 AM - 6:30 PM  With
the help of writers from across East Asia, along with translators,
scholars, and publishers from around the world, we will explore the
integral relations between translation and the way that literature
is conceived, practiced, transmitted, and studied. Not a mere
by-product of literature, translation "matters", shaping literary
and cultural traditions from their beginnings. We will investigate,
in particular, how translation figures crucially in the formation of
modern Chinese, Japanese, and Korean literatures, as well as in the
rise of the disciplines which study them. Mapping the spatial and
temporal migration of literary forms, examining the practice and
production of translation, tracing the expansionary forces at work
within national literary languages - our various inquiries will all
reassert the crucial role of translation in literary creation and in
the advance of the humanities.Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Center for Chinese Cultural and Institutional History, and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University. March 29 (Monday) Lecture: Inaka Genji: Pictures and Text Satoru Sato (Jissen Women's University, Japan) 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University (116th St. and Amsterdam Ave.) 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Lecture to be given in Japanese
April 9 (Friday) 2003-2004 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize Ceremony for the Translation of Japanese Literature Main Reading Room, C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Kent Hall, Columbia University (116th St. and Amsterdam Ave.) 6:15 PM RSVP REQUIRED PLEASE E-MAIL the Donald Keene Center at donald-keene-center@columbia.edu or call 212-854-5036 by April 2nd if you plan to attend. The Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture will hold an award ceremony and reception honoring the winners of the 2003-2004 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature: • Classical Category: Charles S. Inouye - Japanese Gothic Tales, Volume Two by Izumi Kyoka • Modern Category: Shogo Oketani & Leza Lowitz - America and Other Poems by Ayukawa Nobuo April 13 (Tuesday) Lecture: Watanabe Kazan: Painter, Patriot, and Prisoner Donald Keene (Professor Emeritus, Columbia University) 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University (116th St. and Amsterdam Ave.) 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM Watanabe Kazan (1793-1841) was the first successful Japanese portraitist in the Western style, but in his day he was even more renowned for traditional paintings in the Chinese manner. Although a high-ranking samurai, he lived in poverty most of his life and painted mainly in order to earn desperately needed income. His growing interest in the West led to his imprisonment, his abiding belief in Confucian ideals led to suicide. Professor Keene will speak about his forthcoming book about this painter. April 16 (Friday) Lecture: Nuns, Court Ladies, and Shôtoku Worship in Kamakura-Period Japan Lori Meeks (University of Puget Sound, Stanford University) 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University (116th St. and Amsterdam Ave.) 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM April 21 (Wednesday) Lecture: Avant-Garde Art and Politics in Early 1960s Japan: The Yomiuri Indépendant and the Readymade Critique of Everyday Life William Marotti (Postdoctoral Fellow, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University) 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University (116th St. and Amsterdam Ave.) 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM
Through December 2004 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 |
