Next Week: February 21, 2014 (Friday) 1:00-5:00 PM at 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
Workshop: Women and Other Worlds in Japan
KOMINE Kazuaki (Renmin), GAO Yang (Tsinghua), KIM Youngsoon (Rikkyo), Haruo SHIRANE (Columbia)
Dear Friends and Colleagues,
We hope everyone is staying warm on this Valentine’s Day and enjoying the wintry weather.
Please join us next week for a workshop on “Women and Other Worlds in Japan.”
February 21st, 2014 (Friday) 1:00-5:00 PM
KOMINE Kazuaki (Renmin), GAO Yang (Tsinghua), KIM Youngsoon (Rikkyo), Haruo SHIRANE (Columbia)
Workshop: Women and Other Worlds in Japan
Presentations in Japanese.
Venue: 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
Pre-register at donald-keene-center@columbia.edu
Sponsored by the Orient Finance Co. Endowment for the Donald Keene Center.
Visit our website at www.keenecenter.org
Upcoming Events for Spring 2014
February
Workshop – Women and Other Worlds in Japan
KOMINE Kazuaki (Renmin), GAO Yang (Tsinghua), KIM Youngsoon (Rikkyo), Haruo SHIRANE (Columbia)
Friday 21 February, 1:00 – 5:00 PM
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
Emotionalism and Social Harmony in Mid-Tokugawa Literary Thought
Peter Flueckiger (Associate Professor of Japanese, Pomona College)
Friday 28 February, 12:00 Noon
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
March
Reading The Mirror of Yoshiwara Beauties, Compared in Context
Julie Nelson Davis (Associate Professor of the History of Art, University of Pennsylvania)
Thursday 6 March, 6:00 PM
612 Schermerhorn, Columbia University
The Wind from Vulture Peak: The Buddhification of Japanese Waka in the Heian Period
Stephen D. Miller (Associate Professor, University of Massachusetts Amherst) and Patrick Donnelly (Director, The Frost Place Poetry Seminar)
Thursday 13 March, 6:00 PM
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
Symposium – Catastrophe and Aesthetics: The Arts after Fukushima
Peter Eckersall (CUNY), Barbara Geilhorn (Freie Universitat, Berlin), Marilyn Ivy (Columbia), Kristina Iwata-Weickgenannt (Nagoya), Thomas Looser (NYU)
Monday 31 March, 1:00 – 6:00 PM
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
April
THE 2014 SOSHITSU SEN XV DISTINGUISHED LECTURE ON JAPANESE CULTURE
Keeping Tradition and Creating Tradition
TOMITA Jun (master weaver)
Tuesday 15 April, 6:00 PM
Diana Event Oval, Barnard College [W117th St. & Broadway]
From “Sacred Cow” to “Kobe Beef”: Japan’s Bovine Revolution
Daniel Botsman (Professor; Chair, Council on East Asian Studies, Yale University)
Thursday 17 April, 6:00 PM
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
A Critical Reflection on Liberal Humanism in Japan’s Modernization
Katsuya Hirano
(Associate Professor, Dept. of History, UCLA)
Thursday 24 April, TBA [rescheduled from Jan. 30th]
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
We look forward to seeing you at our upcoming events!
