Brown Bag Lecture Featuring: Susumu Kawata, Professor of Asian Area Studies, Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan Moderated by Gray Tuttle, Leila Hadley Luce Associate Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures International Affairs Building, Room 918 No registration required. For press inquiries, please … [Read more...]
“Placing the Anthropocene: The Pacific Ocean in Planetary History”
Lecture Featuring Gregory T. Cushman, Associate Professor of International Environmental History, University of Kansas Moderated by Paul Kreitman, Assistant Professor of Japanese History, Columbia University In its conventional form, the Anthropocene is a Eurocentric and terracentric concept that needs to be provincialized. What might a history of the Anthropocene look … [Read more...]
“Legacies of Leftism in Film and Media Theory: East Asia and Beyond”
International Symposium “Legacies of Leftism in Film and Media Theory: East Asia and Beyond” Roundtable Discussion Thursday, February 28 7:30 PM – 9:30 PM Faculty House Conference Friday, March 1 – Saturday, March 2, 2019 7:00AM – 6:00PM Lenfest Center for the Arts, Katharina Otto Bernstein Screening Room Evening Screenings: … [Read more...]
Mon. March 11th: “A Note from Japan on Contemporary Tibet: The CCP’s Religious Policies and the Emergence of Religious Space in Eastern Tibet”
Brown Bag Lecture Featuring: Susumu Kawata, Professor of Asian Area Studies, Osaka Institute of Technology, Japan Moderated by Gray Tuttle, Leila Hadley Luce Associate Professor of Modern Tibetan Studies, Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures 4:10 PM-6:00 PM International Affairs Building, Room 918 No registration required. For press … [Read more...]
Residual Futures: The Urban Ecologies of Literary and Visual Media of 1960s and 1970s Japan
STUDIES OF THE WEAI BOOK SERIES Franz Prichard (Columbia University Press, 2019) For information from the publisher, please click here. In the postwar years, an eruption of urbanization took place across Japan, from its historical central cities to the outer reaches of the archipelago. During the 1960s and 1970s, Japanese literary and visual media took a deep … [Read more...]
