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Cats in Ukiyo-e at Japan Society
http://www.japansociety.org/page/programs/gallery/life-of-cats
LIFE OF CATS: SELECTIONS FROM THE HIRAKI UKIYO-E COLLECTION
Fri, Mar 13 – Sun, Jun 7, 2015
Since arriving in Japan aboard Japanese ships transporting sacred Buddhist scriptures from China in the mid-sixth century, cats have proceeded to purr and paw their way into the heart of Japanese life, folklore, and art. Life of Cats: Selections from the Hiraki Ukiyo-e Collection illustrates the depth of this mutual attraction by mining the wealth of bravura depictions of cats to be found in ukiyo-e woodblock prints of the Edo Period (1615-1867).
Ninety ukiyo-e prints in the exhibition are on loan from the esteemed Hiraki Ukiyo-e Foundation whose holdings are revered in Japan. Select prints, paintings, sculptures, and other works borrowed from U.S. collections complement these prints, making the exhibition over 120 artworks. With cross-cultural and multi-generational appeal, Life of Cats takes viewers on a wild ride through Japan’s love affair with our feline friends.
Roughly 50 items will be replaced with new works halfway through Life of Cats—Rotation 1 will be on view from March 13 until April 26; Rotation 2 will be on view from April 29 until June 7.
Life of Cats is divided into five sections: Cats and People, Cats as People, Cats versus People, Cats Transformed and Cats and Play. View selected pieces from the exhibition below!
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Nippon in New York: Ghibli premiere, L’arc~en~Ciel, Steve Aoki, Rinko Kikuchi
Some J-related events in this month!
http://www.examiner.com/article/nippon-new-york-ghibli-premiere-l-arc-en-ciel-steve-aoki-rinko-kikuchi
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Ritual Surveillance: Seeing Gods on a Japanese Island Michael Dylan Foster
March 5, 2015 (Thursday) 6:00 PMat Room 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
Ritual Surveillance: Seeing Gods on a Japanese Island
Michael Dylan Foster (Associate Professor of Folklore, Indiana University)
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
Please join us next week for a fascinating talk by Michael Dylan Foster.
Michael Dylan Foster (Associate Professor of Folklore, Indiana University)
Ritual Surveillance: Seeing Gods on a Japanese Island
Thursday 5 March, 6 PM
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
This presentation will introduce “Koshikijima no Toshidon,” a New Year’s Eve ritual performed annually on the island of Shimo-Koshikijima off the southwest coast of Kagoshima Prefecture, Japan. During the event, men masked and costumed as frightening demon-deity creatures enter individual households in order to “discipline” and “educate” young children. Performed since at least the Edo period, in 2009 the ritual was inscribed on UNESCO’s Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity. This talk will focus particularly on the way in which the dynamics of “seeing and being seen” inform the performance of Toshidon and to a certain extent the everyday lives of the islanders. An understanding of Toshidon through the lens of vision and the gaze provides insight into broader questions of tourism, UNESCO, and the production of heritage in Japan and elsewhere.
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$125 a day for Mandarin speakers
From: Abe Tawil
Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2015 8:06 AM
To: Patricia Imbimbo
Subject: Help
- Mandarin Speakers Needed
- We need some Mandarin-speaking students to help with a group of educators from Beijing on Monday 2/23,Tuesday 2/24, and Thursday 2/26 from 7:30 AM to 4:30 PM each day. You would be meeting at Days Hotel; 215 West 94th Street in Manhattan. The stipend is $125 cash per day. Lunch is included. You can sign up for 1 day or for all three. If you are interested, please contact Doris at dpokras@projectvisiongroup.comas soon as possible.
ABE
Abe D. Tawil MBA, MA, MD, JD
Deputy Chair
Narendra Paul Loomba Department of Management
Baruch College, CUNY
55 Lexington Avenue B9-240 NYC 10010
646 312-3658
http://www.baruch.cuny.edu
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The Kadokawa Culture Promotion Foundation Media-Content Research Project
http://kadokawa.iii.u-tokyo.ac.jp/summer_program/
The Kadokawa Culture Promotion Foundation Media-Content Research Project in conjunction with the University of Tokyo will host an annual summer program focusing on various aspects of Japanese popular media culture. The main theme of the program for its second year is “Mediated Worlds: Sociality, Publicness and Celebrity.”
The goal of this year’s program is to better understand how media technologies have transformed the category of celebrity and fame in Japan to produce new modes of socially mediated publicness. Consumer-information society has given rise to a culture of celebrity, wherein fascination with stars, pop idols, and personalities has erased the distinction between the public and private lives of individuals, and produced a society wherein spectacle, self-promotion, and surveillance structure everyday life and politics.
This year’s program will be focusing on film, television, and social media. It will examine socially mediated publicness in its many forms, including idols, voice actors, film stars, and television and net celebrities. It will examine how audiences are organized into fan communities for the consumption of goods and services, how fan and social activities are productive of capital, and how public figures hold affective and social meanings for audiences and collaborators.
The two-week summer program consists of two parts: lectures and experiential learning. The main organizers, Jason G. Karlin (University of Tokyo) and Patrick W. Galbraith (Duke University), have designed an intensive two-week program that will explore the theoretical and methodological connections between celebrity studies (persona studies) and audience studies (fan studies). The first week of the program will focus on transformations in the presentation of the public self. Professor P. David Marshall (Deakin University), serving as keynote speaker, will discuss how celebrity has become a powerful and pervasive trope in contemporary culture. For the second week, Professor Matt Hills (Aberystwyth University) will frame how audiences are attracted to and shaped by their shared interest in media objects as fans. Other lecturers tentatively include Gabriella Lukács (University of Pittsburgh), Noriko Manabe (Princeton University), Hideaki Fujiki (Nagoya University), Takako Inoue (Daito Bunka University), Akiko Takeyama (Kansas University), Kazumi Nagaike (Oita University), and Shunsuke Nozawa (Dartmouth College).
Taking the discussion out of the lecture hall, the program also includes various opportunities for experiential learning. In addition to visiting media archives, the program will conduct surveys at various fan events, as well as structured group interactions with media industry insiders and aspiring idols, voice actors, and Internet stars.
The summer program will provide participants with various opportunities to engage with contemporary Japanese media culture. Our hope is that the participants will pursue work related to Japanese media and popular cultures in the future, whether as critics, researchers, creators, producers, or editors. The program will accept 15 graduate students from universities around the world, who will collaborate with graduate students from the University of Tokyo. The program will be conducted mainly in English (though Japanese will help facilitate encounters and interactions outside of the classroom).
One of the aims of the program is to produce an edited volume with contributions from the participants in the summer program. This volume will be produced for undergraduate education on Japanese popular media culture. Each participant’s contribution to the planned edited volume will be about 3,000 words and will be prepared and submitted in the months following the summer program. Details regarding the participants’ submissions to the edited volume will be discussed during the summer program.
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