Film Screen and Talk Event (Friday, March 11th, 2022)

The Japanese program in the Department of Modern Languages and Comparative Literature cordially invites you to join us for the film screening event of a Japanese film, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Wife of a Spy, followed by Dr. Marie Thorsten’s talk.

1. Film Screening

Kiyoshi Kurosawa, dir. Wife of A Spy (2021)

The film can be watched by the following link with your Baruch ID.

https://cuny-bb.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CUNY_BB/9ca7v4/alma9994461449006122

2. Dr. Marie Thorsten’s Lecture

Dr. Marie Thorsten will discuss two Japanese films Sea and Poison (Kumai Kei, 1986) and Wife of a Spy (Kurosawa Kiyoshi, 2021). Her lecture, entitled “Visual within Visual: Ethics of Viewing,” draws attention to the visual medium within the medium to bring focus to the act of viewing itself. This lecture is funded by the WSAS dean’s office (Global Lecture Series), organized by the Japanese Program at Baruch College. The flyer was made by Baruch Japan Club.

Date: March 11th, 2022 (Friday)

Time: 11:30 am to 1:00 pm during the class of “Film and Moving Image Culture in Japan” (open to the Baruch community)

Venue: on Zoom (Register for access to the Zoom link below)

https://forms.gle/Zqj7ktCumTeC7wMX6

Contact: Shige (CJ) Suzuki, PhD
E-mail: [email protected]

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Japan Parade Art Contest 2022″, organized by Japan Day @ Central Park.

Japan Day is a highly anticipated annual event in the spring in Central Park, which celebrates Japanese culture. 
In this year 2022, Japan Day is organizing the first-ever Japan Parade in New York City on Saturday, May 14.

This year marks the 10th art contest as well as the first-ever Japan Parade Art Contest.

We are currently accepting submissions for our art contest, to decide on the official image & design for the upcoming event.
The chosen artwork will be used for the event’s collateral materials including official poster, official program,T-shirt etc.
The winner will also receive round-trip Economy class tickets to Japan for two, provided by ANA/ All Nippon Airways Co., Ltd. and Brand Watches by CITIZEN WATCH AMERICA.
Please visit our website for more details.
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NY Future Lab Podcast

NY Future Lab is a online podcast that focuses on “Gen Z” and “Millennials” who are the protagonists of the coming era. NY Future Labs delivers an insiders view on what young Americans usually think, what they are influenced by, and what their characteristics and perceptions of Japanese Culture.

Join the podcast here: https://ny-future-lab.com/

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Japanese Pop Culture: Connecting the World through Manga and Anime

Japanese pop culture, symbolized by manga and anime, has become an increasingly significant part of the cultural conversation across the globe.

Join us for a live webinar on the topic on Tuesday, February 15 at 7:00pm ESTJapanese Pop Culture: Connecting the World through Manga and Anime! Manga artist Julia Mechler and author Roland Kelts offer their insights into the industry in this webinar moderated by Bill Tsutsui, author of Japanese Popular Culture and Globalization. This is the fifth and final event in our five-part Living Traditions webinar series. 

This is a free event, with advance registration required. Participants can submit questions through YouTube during the live stream. Register here for free!

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At The Table With New York Times Food Writer Eric Kim (Nov. 4, 2021)

Eric Kim

Foodies at Baruch won’t want to miss this event! 

Join us for a delicious and in-person writing workshop with this semester’s Harman Fellow, food writer Eric Kim. Kim is currently a staff writer for the New York Times and regularly has recipes featured in NYT Cooking. Many of these recipes call upon his Korean-American background, and the fusion between both cultures. Oftentimes they feature backstories, sometimes historical, sometimes personal, but always written in a style that is wonderfully unreserved and engaging.

Kim has also worked as a contributing editor at Saveur, a digital manager at Food Network, a teacher of writing and literature at Columbia and as a senior editor at Food52.
While working at Food52, he won over readers with his column “Table For One”, a series of pieces all focused on the joy and catharsis of dining alone. His writing has been featured in The Washington Post and Bon Appétit, and his debut cookbook, Korean American: Food That Tastes Like Home is scheduled for release in March 2022. Kim is our first Harman Fellow food writer.

Click here for a taste of his work.
Reserve your spot ASAP! Email [email protected]
*Seating limited at 20*

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Licentious Fictions: Ninjō and the Nineteenth-Century Japanese Novel (Nov.11, 2021)

Licentious Fictions

11 November 2021, Virtual Event, Columbia University

Licentious Fictions: Ninjō and the Nineteenth-Century Japanese Novel

Please join us next month and welcome Professor Daniel Poch of the University of Hong Kong. The starting time on Zoom will be 7:00 PM EST.

Professor Daniel Poch
Associate Professor, Japanese Studies, The University of Hong Kong
Licentious Fictions: Ninjō and the Nineteenth-Century Japanese Novel
Thursday, 11 November, at 7:00 PM EST
followed by a roundtable discussion with Wei Shang (Columbia), Peter Flueckiger (Pomona), and Tomi Suzuki (Columbia), moderated by Haruo Shirane (Columbia)
Pre-register by clicking here to receive Zoom link.
A copy of the book may be purchased here. Use discount coupon code: CUP20

Why did Natsume Sōseki, today canonized as one of Japan’s most important novelists, start writing novels in the early twentieth century despite his suspicion, if not dislike, of the genre? The talk explores the clash between premodern and modern conceptions of “literature” within Sōseki’s novels, asking what consequences the intersection of the modern novel with older, didactic conceptions of literature held for his representation of love, desire, and emotion. It also contextualizes the contradictions inherent in Sōseki’s literary project within the broader contentions surrounding “human emotion” (ninjō) in the nineteenth-century Japanese novel, across the early modern-modern divide—the subject of my recently published book Licentious Fictions (Columbia University Press, 2020).

Daniel Poch is an Associate Professor in Japanese Studies at the University of Hong Kong, specializing in early modern and modern Japanese literature. He earned his Ph.D. from Columbia University in 2014. His first book, Licentious Fictions: Ninjō and the Nineteenth-Century Japanese Novel, was published by Columbia University Press in 2020. Other recent peer-reviewed publications include the article “Reclaiming Ethics Through Love: ‘Literature’ in Natsume Sōseki’s Novel Sorekara (Japan Forum 2020), as well as articles on Sōseki’s literary theory and early Meiji translation published in such journals as Monumenta Nipponica and Japanese Language and Literature.

Free and open to the public. www.keenecenter.org

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Boston Career Forum ONLINE 2021 Info Session (Oct. 19, 2021)

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Boston Career Forum ONLINE 2021 Info Session
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The world’s largest job fair for Japanese-English bilinguals is currently being held online.
CFN staff will hold an online info session designed to provide participants useful information regarding the event and how you can prepare for a successful experience.

Date: Oct. 19 (Tues.)
Time: 3-4PM (ET)
Register here: Zoom Registration

Boston Career Forum ONLINE 2021: Career Forum Information
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8th Annual International Conference of Undergraduate Research at Baruch College (Sept. 27-29, 2021)

ICUR


8th Annual International Conference of Undergraduate Research (ICUR) at Baruch College


Baruch students will join undergraduates from around the world in presenting their own original research on panels throughout the day at the 8th Annual International Conference of Undergraduate Research (ICUR), Sept. 27-29.
 

See here for full schedule of panels that include Baruch participants. 

This conference is free and open to the public to attend through the ICUR App, which features the full schedule of panels taking place at 15 universities in 12 countries on 5 continents, all coordinated by Monash University in Australia and the University of Warwick in the UK. (Register on the ICUR app here or through the website.)  The app allows participation in question and answer sessions.

Baruch’s 28 participants come from all three Baruch schools and many different fields. They’ll be on panels linked in real time with undergraduates at universities in England, Australia, South Africa, Belgium, and France, all presenting their own research. WSAS History Professor Katherine Pence is coordinating Baruch’s participation in the conference, which is supported by Baruch’s Office of the Provost.

Follow the conference at #icur2021 and @icurstudents.  For more information see www.icurportal.com or email [email protected]

Monday, Sept. 27-Wednesday, Sept. 29,
Location: Zoom via the ICUR App

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Brooklyn SciFi Film Festival Streaming 3 Japanese SciFi Films (Sep.21, 2021)

Japanese SciFi

FREE TICKETS: https://watch.brooklynscififilmfest.com/event-japanese-scifi

STREAMING TUESDAY  9/21 – 7:00 PM ET

Brooklyn SciFi Film Festival in association with Jimbocho Movie Festival presents three Japanese SciFi short films.  Filmmaker interviews to be announced.  Special thanks to Hiroshi Kono of the New York Japan CineFest for curating the evening. Go to watch.brooklynscififilmfest.com to begin viewing films.

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JET Program Information Session (Sep., 23rd, 2021)

JET PROGRAM
INFORMATION SESSION
@Baruch College via ZOOM
Date: Thursday, Sept. 23, 2021
Time: 12:40PM – 2:00PM
Join:
https://baruch.zoom.us/j/84155014753
Meeting ID 841 5501 4753

 

 

 

 

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