Fall 2011:
December 8: Lecture on the artist Kawamura Kiyoo by Tanaka Yuji, Curator at the Edo-Tokyo Museum, UNC, New West 219, 4:30pm
November 18: Symposium on “Communities, Resource Management, and Health in Modern Japan”, UNC, 210 Gardenr Hall, 3:30-5:30pm
November 9: Heidi Gottfried (Wayne State University), “Precarious Work in Japan: Old Forms, New Risks”, UNC, FedEx Global Education Center, Room 2008/2010, 5:30-7:00pm
November 8: Ian Condry (MIT, Comparative Media Studies), “Miku: Japan’s Virtual Idol as Social Media Platform”, Duke, Hull Studio, Dance Laboratory,2:50-4:20pm
October 28: Marié Abe (Boston University), “Sounding Imaginative Empathy: Musical Advertisement on the Streets in Contemporary Japan,” Musicology Lecture Series, Duke University. 4:30 pm, Room 104, Mary Duke Biddle Music Building
October 26: Workshop: Relocating Colonial Korea and the Japanese Empire, ”Roundtable (Zadankai) Dialogues from Late Colonial Korea,” SHIN Ji-Young (Rikkyo University); “Literary Criticism of Colonial Collaboration: The Case of Yi Kwangsu,” WATANABE Naoki (Musashi University); “The Concept of ‘Nation’ in Colonial Korea through Historian Sin Ch’aeho’s Oeuvre,” RYU Ch’unghee (Tokyo University), Duke University
October 24-25: Narita Ryuichi (Professor of History, Japan Women’s University) and six colleagues from Japan will lead a workshop on nuclear weapons and nuclear power from the perspectives of history, literature, and cultural studies, NCSU, Withers 331, 5-8 pm
October 3: Lori Meeks (Associate Professor, Departments of Religion and East Asian Languages and Cultures, University of Southern California), “Making Sense of the Blood Bowl Sutra: Early-Modern Commentaries on Women’s Salvation in Japanese Buddhism,” York Room, 229 Gray (Duke West Campus)
September 29: APSI Forum: Matthew Mitchell, Ph.D. candidate in the Religion will discuss the ways in which the subtemples of Zenkôji functioned during Japan’s early modern period. Jui-an Chao, a Ph.D. candidate in Literature, will discuss her research on otokonoko as transgender fantasy in Japan.
September 9-10: UNC History Department: “Making Modern Citizens: Politics, Cultures, and Struggles for Social Reform.” Seven scholars from a Japanese project team of thirteen historians will visit the UNC campus for a two-day workshop that will be open to the public. In June, 2012, three historians from UNC will travel to Japan for a symposium that will be open to the public at Senshu University in Tokyo. A central theme of the project is the spread of “modernity” during the nineteenth and twentieth century as a global diffusion of ideas, attitudes, and values that merits analysis from multiple transnational perspectives. The papers will focus on Japan, the United States, Britain, and Germany.
Spring 2011:
April 30: Triangle East Asia Colloquium (TEAC) – ”Recent Trends in the Study of Science and Technology in East Asia”, NCSU, Withers 331, 10:00 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.
April 26: Helen Hardacre (Reischauer Institute Professor of Japanese Religions and Society, Harvard University), “State Shinto in Manchukuo,” 4:30–6:00 pm, 229 Gray York Room), Duke West Campus
April 15, 3 p.m.: Seungsook Moon, Professor and Chair, Department of Sociology at Vassar College, “Living with the US Military Empire in South Korea: Camptown Women and KATUSAs,” Franklin Center Room 240, 2204 Erwin Road, Duke University
April 20: Tomiko Yoda, ”Between Pop and Radical: Feminism, Media Culture and the Female Nude in 1970s Japan,” UNC, New West 219, 5:15 p.m.
April 10: Cine-East Film Series, “Rashomon” (Akira Kurosawa, 1950, 88 min, Japan, Japanese w/ English Subtitles, Black & White, DVD), Richard White Auditorium, East Campus, at Duke, 7-8:30 p.m.
April 8-10: “Boundaries in Question: Japanese and French Empires in East Asia” conference, NCSU
March 31: Cine-East Film Series, “Ikiru” (Akira Kurosawa, 1952, 143 min, Japan, Japanese w/ English Subtitles, Black & White, DVD) in the Richard White Auditorium, East Campus, at Duke, 7-9:30 p.m.
March 18: Kären Wigen (History, Stanford), “Geographies of Restoration, The Curious Career of an Ancient Province in Early Modern Japan,” 4 p.m., Boyd Seminar Room (229 Carr Building), Duke East Campus.
March 18: Kären Wigen (History, Stanford), lunch workshop on her 2010 book, A Malleable Map: Geographies of Restoration in Central Japan, 1600-1912, UNC, New East 102, 12:00 pm.
March 1: Paul Groner (University of Virginia), “What did it mean to be a monk in pre-modern Japan? Reflections on the history of monasticism in Japanese Tendai,” 4:30 pm, Gray 229 (York Room), Duke.
February 22:Yuriko Doi, Workshop on “The Wild Words and Moves” of Kyōgen theatre, Rm 104, Center for Dramatic Art, UNC, 1:30-3:00 pm
February 21: Yuriko Doi (artistic director and producer of Theatre of Yugen in San Francisco), “The Classical Japanese Comic Theatre Form—Kyōgen”, Rm 105, Center for Dramatic Art, UNC, 11 am-12:10 pm
February 18: Alice Tseng (Art History, Boston University), “Between a World City and a World Heritage City: Lessons from the Kyoto Station Building Competition,” UNC, Greenlaw 318, 4:00 pm
February 1: Ken Kawashima (University of Toronto, History and East Asian Studies), “For the Indispensably Disposable: Crisis, Biopolitics, and Everyday Life,” Duke, Smith Warehouse, Room C107 (Bay 4, 1st floor), 4:00pm
January 19: Gabi Lukasc (University of Pittsburgh, Anthropology Department), “Mass media (television), new media technologies (Internet, cellular phones), capitalism, subjectivity, labor, and neoliberal governmentality in contemporary Japan,” Duke, Franklin Center, Room 240, 7:00pm
January 14-16: Southeastern Conference of the Association for Asian Studies, UNC
Fall 2010:
December 3: Triangle Japan Forum – Simon Partner (Duke, History), “Mummies, Mudras and Madmen: In Search of God in the Mountains of Japan.” UNC, 328 Phillips Hall, 4:00-5:30pm
November 15: APSI Speaker Series - Jonathan Abel (Pennsylvania State University, Comparative Literature), “The Language of Slaves: Nakano Shigeharu’s Redactionary Literature.” Duke, Franklin Center, Room 240, 4:45-6:15 pm
November 10: Ackland Tea Lecture Series – Morgan Pitelka (UNC, Asian Studies), “Drinking Tea and Collecting Art in Early Modern Japan,” Ackland Art Museum, UNC, 2:00-4:00pm
October 28: ,Triangle Japan Forum – Barbara Ambros (UNC, Religion), Morgan Pitelka (UNC, Asian Studies), and Brett Walker (Montana State University, History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies), “Animals and Historical Agency in Early Modern Japan”, UNC, Hamilton Hall, 12:15-2:15pm
October 27: Brett Walker (Montana State University, History, Philosophy, and Religious Studies), “Toxic Archipelago: A History of Industrial Disease in Japan”, Duke, Breedlove Room (204 Perkins Library, 3:00-4:30pm
October 20: David Roh (Old Dominion University, English), “Japanese and American Scientific Management: The Construction of Korean Labor in Younghill Kang’s ‘East Goes West”, Duke, 225 Friedl Building, 3:00pm
October 6: REAP (Relocating Empires in the Asia-Pacific), Reading - Mark Driscoll (UNC, Asian Studies), ”Absolute Erotic, Absolute Grotesque” (Duke UP, 2010), Duke, Duke Trent Hall Conference Room (2F), 7:00pm
October 1: Pamela Runestad University of Hawaii, Graduate Student in Medical Anthropology), “What People Think Matters: The Relationship Between Perceptions and Epidemiology in the Japanese HIV Epidemic”, Duke, Perkins Library, Breedlove Room