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| Yukiko Shigeto, University of Washington
Tenkô and the Specter of Language
Thursday, January 8, 2009 |
Steven Brown, University of Oregon
'Once their strings are cut, they easily crumble': Uncanny Dolls in Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence
Friday, 9 May 2008 |
Dennis Washburn, Dartmouth College
From Biological Racialism to Cultural Racialism: Some Reflections on the Imperial Subject in Tôson's Hakai and Yokomitsu's Shanhai
Monday, 28 April 2008 |
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Michael Bourdaghs, University of Chicago
Ideologies and Theories of Literature:
Tsubouchi Shôyô's Shôsetsu shinzui (Essence of the Novel, 1885-6) as a Mirror for Natsume Sôseki's bungakuron (Theory of Literature, 1907)
Monday, 21 April 2008 |
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Careers Using Foreign Language Skills
in the US Department of State
Robert B. Laing
Diplomat in Residence, Arizona State University
Wednesday, 16 April 2008 |
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Haeree Park, University of Washington
Variability and Consistency of Chinese
Writings from the Warring States Period (480-221 B.C.)
Friday, 14 March 2008 |
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Tomiko Yoda, Duke University
All Frills: Girlie Taste and Consumer Culture in Japan
Friday, 7 March 2008 |
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Marilyn Ivy, Columbia University
The World is Superflat: Art and Politics in Contemporary Japan
Monday, 25 February 2008 |
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Contemporary Japanese Author Series:
Kakuta
Mitsuyo
Simpson Center for the Humanities
Friday, 15 February 2008
This event is made possible by support from the Japanese Consulate in Seattle and Kodansha International. |
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Jiwon Shin, University of California at Berkeley
Collecting Su Shi: Material Culture and Literati Self-Fashioning in Early Nineteenth Century Korea
Monday, 11 February 2008 |
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Michio Tsutsui,
University of Washington
Is there a copula in Japanese?
Thursday, 24 January 2008 |
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Cheng Yu-yu, National Taiwan University
Visiting Professor, Harvard University
Correlative Thinking, Recitation and the
Realization of Desire in early Han Fu
Friday, June 1, 2007 |
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Patronage, Performance, Procession and Pilgrimage: Channels of the Flow of Religious Exchange in Early Modern India
Speakers include Monika Boehm-Tettelbach, University of Heidelberg, Véronique Bouiller (Paris), Hans Bakker (Groningen, the Netherlands), Jack Hawley, Columbia University, Navina Haider, Metropolitan Museum, NY, Vasudha Dalmia, UC Berkeley, and many others
Friday & Saturday, 18-19 May 2007
The Department of Asian Languages and Literature, Comparative Religion Program, and South Asia Center will co-sponsor with the Scholarly Exchange Program of the College of Arts and Sciences this international symposium. Speakers are important scholars from India, Paris and Germany and the US (New York, Berkeley, and Chicago). |
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Participants include (but are not limited to):
Monika Boehm-Tettelbach (University of Heidelberg): Pārasbhāg: Bhāī Aḍḍaṇ’s Translation of Al-Ghazālī’s Kimiyā-i Sa ‘ādat
Véronique Bouiller (Paris): The Pilgrimage to Kadri Monastery (Mangalore, Karnataka): a Nāth Yogῑ Performance
Navina Haidar (Metropolitan Museum, NY): Piety With Humor: Separate Currents in Kishangarh Paintings
Heidi Pauwels (UW): Where "Urdu" meets "Braj": Nāgrīdās’ Engagement with Rekhtā
Prem Pahlajrai (UW): Niścaladāsa: a 19th century Vedāntin Dādῡpanthī Philospher
Anand Mishra (University of Heidelberg):Shifting Parameters of Religious Discourses: A Study of Śrī-satsiddhānta-martaṇḍa
Jack Hawley (Barnard College, Columbia University, NY):The Bhāgavata Mahātmya in Context
Vasudha Paramasivan (University of California, Berkeley) Earthly/Unearthly pilgrimage: The Journey to Ayodhya in the Ᾱnand laharῑ
Hans Bakker (University of Groningen, The Netherlands): Rāma Devotion in a Śaiva Holy Place: The Case of Vārāṇasī
Purnima Dhavan (UW): Possible Pasts: Ram Sukh Rao's Jassa Singh Binod: The Writing of a Sikh
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Vasudha Dalmia (Berkeley):Pilgrimage, Fairs and the Secularization of Space in Modern Hindi Narrative
Discourse
Ulrike Stark (Chicago): Publishers as Patrons and the Commercialization of Religious Texts
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Hosea Hirata, Tufts University
National Nostalgia:
The Phenomenon of the 'Otoko wa tsurai yo' Film Series
Tuesday, 8 May 2007
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Richard Calichman, City College of New York
Overcoming Modernity: Toward a General Theory of Cultural Dissemination
Thursday, 19 April 2007 |
Edward Fowler, University of California at Irvine
Edo/Tokyo from Asakusa to Azuma: Temple, Theater, Brothel, Buraku
Thursday, 12 April 2007 |
Contemporary Japanese Author Series:
Kirino Natsuo
Simpson Center for the Humanities
Monday, 9 April 2007
This event is made possible by support from the Japanese Consulate in Seattle and Kodansha International. |
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Katsura Koharudanji, Special Advisor
For Cultural Exchange, Agency For Cultural Affairs,
Japan
落語 Rakugo: Traditional
Japanese Comic Storytelling
Wednesday, 28 February 2007
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2006
 The 39th International Conference on Sino-Tibetan Languages & Linguistics, hosted by the Department of Asian Languages & Literature
September 14-17, 2006
Over 100 scholars from around the world met in Seattle in mid-September for this annual conference on the Sino-Tibetan language family. The hundreds of Sino-Tibetan languages (including Chinese, Burmese, and Tibetan) are spoken across a large part of Asia ranging from India to Vietnam. The 92 presentations included three invited keynote addresses: "Nominalization in Rawang, with an excursus on 'descriptive' linguistics and linguistic theory" by Randy LaPolla, "The Lingua Franca cycle and the map of Tibeto-Burman Languages" by Robbins Burling, and "Proto-Min numerals" by Jerry Norman (UW emeritus). The full program, presentation abstracts, and other information are available on the conference web site. |
D. Cuong O'Neill, University of California, Berkeley
Portrait of a Writer in Tokyo, 1910: Mori Ôgai's Seinen
Monday, 1 May 2006 |
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Kôno Kensuke, Nihon University
Modernity in Samurai Films
Tuesday, 25 April 2006 |
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Alisa Freedman, University of Oregon
Modernist Sketches
of Tokyo Stations: How Stories of Ordinary Places
Recall What History Forgot
Thursday, 16 February 2006 |
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Contemporary Japanese Author Series:
Tawada Yôko
Simpson Center for the Humanities
Monday, 13 February 2006
This event is made possible by support from the Japanese Consulate in Seattle and Kodansha International. |
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2005
World of Grand
Kabuki at the Seattle Asian Art Museum
A special event held in conjunction with the performances of
Nakamura Ganjiro's world-famous Grand Kabuki Troupe on June 11 and 12 at the Paramount
Theatre in Seattle.
Panel Discussion on the Kabuki play The
Love Suicides at Sonezaki
Participants: Professor Laurence Kominz (Portland State University),
Professor Ted Mack (University of Washington), and legendary
performer Nakamura Ganjiro III of the Chikamatsu-za Kabuki Troupe.
Make-up, Wig and Costume Demonstration: Members
of the Chikamatsu-za Kabuki Troupe.
Saturday, 11 June 2005
Stimson Auditorium, Seattle
Asian Art Museum |
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Two Japanese Short Stories
Read by Ichiji Nanako, Kai Daisuke, Kanai Keiko
Kôda Aya's "Otôto" and Ishimure Michiko's "Kûkai jôdo"
Thursday, 26 May 2005
This performance will be presented entirely in Japanese.
No English interpretation will be provided. |
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Sex and Food in the Films of Asia
Moderated by Professors Davinder Bhowmik and Sudeshna Sen (University of Washington)
Itami Jûzô's "Tampopo" (1985)
Sunday, 22 May 2005 |
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Paul Anderer, Columbia University
Kurosawa in Black and White
Wednesday, 4 May 2005
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A Special Public Lecture Presented in Japanese
Professor Keiko Kanai, Waseda University
Masaoka Shiki and the Appeal of Haiku
Thursday, 21 April 2005 |
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John Christopher Hamm, University of Washington
Faculty publication talk: Paper Swordsmen: Jin Yong and the Modern Chinese Martial Arts Novel (University of Hawai'i Press)
Thursday, 10 March 2005
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2004
Sudeshna Sen, University of Utah
Sublime Darkness in Heian Diary Literature
Wednesday, 17 November 2004
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John Treat, Yale University
Colonial Seoul in Japanese and Korean Fiction: Scenes from a Forgotten Landscape
Sunday, October 24, 2004
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Mori Tatsuya, director of the ground-breaking documentaries A and A2 on the Aum Shinrikyô religion, visited the University of Washington to speak before a screening of A2. The showing was followed by a panel discussion and a question-and-answer session.
Sunday, May 16, 2004 |
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Christine Marran,
University of Minnesota
Submissive Masculinity or Transhistorical Femininity?: Reading Okamoto Kanoko and the Japanese Romantics
Tuesday, May 11, 2004 |
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2003
James Dorsey,
Dartmouth University
Narrating the Heroes of Pearl Harbor: Literary Imagination in Wartime Japan
Monday, November 24, 2003
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Tom Hare,
Princeton University
Vision, Freedom and Forgetfulness: Towards an Ethics of Performance in Medieval Japan
Friday, October 24, 2003
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Japanese
Humanities Lecture Series
Monday, April 28 - Friday, May 30, 2003
Li
Fang-Kuei Symposium
August 15-17, 2002
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