Events
09 / 21
Start: 1:30 pm
End: 4:00 pm
Room 119, Thomas Jefferson Building, Library of Congress A free public symposium in conjunction with the exhibition. Joining Associate Librarian for Library Services Deanna Marcum and Asian Division Chief Peter Young are four speakers who will discuss the past, present, and future of the Library’s Japanese Collection. They include Manabu Yokoyama, professor at Notre Dame Seishin University in Japan; Ellen Hammond, curator of the East Asia Library at Yale University; Kakugyo Chiku, professor at Kanazawa Institute of Technology in Japan; and Eiichi Ito, Japanese reference librarian of the Asian Division. Seating is limited; reservations are required by close of business on Monday, September 13. Contact Mari Nakahara, (202) 707-2990, mnak@loc.gov. | ||
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09 / 30
Start: 7:10 am
Start: Sep 30 2010 - 07:10
End: Oct 2 2010 - 07:10
International Conference organized by Conference venue: Cultural Institute of Japan, Cologne (www.jki.de) *Program* Thursday, 30 September 2010 Registration 11.30-13.00 Paper Presentation 1: Ph.D. Students Workshop 14.00-14.35 Felix Giesa (Cologne, Germany) & Jens Meinrenken (Berlin, Germany): 20th century toy, I wanna be your boy: Character and identity in Urasawa Naoki’s “20th Century Boys” 15.10-15.20 Break 15.20-15.55 Nele Noppe (Leuven, Belgium): Translating the visual languages of Japanese fan comics and North American and European fan art 16.35-17.00 Break: Coffee Paper Presentation 2: Manga in Asia outside Japan 17.00-17.35 Helmolt Vittinghoff (Cologne, Germany): Chinese Comics: Amusement or/and propaganda? 18.15-19.00 Break: Snack Keynote Lecture 19.00-20.00 Frederik L. Schodt (San Francisco, United States): Creation of a manga-comic hybrid Reception at the Cultural Institute of Japan, Cologne Friday, 1 October 2010 Paper Presentation 3: Historical perspectives on manga 09.30-10.15 Ronald Stewart (Hiroshima, Japan): “Manga” as a form of “Western” resistance against traditional Japanese Expression: Kitazawa Rakuten and the early discourse on “manga” 11.00-11.15 Short Break Paper Presentation 4: “gekiga” movement revisited 11.15-12.00 Roman Rosenbaum (Sydney, Australia): From the national to the transcultural: Tatsumi Yoshihiro’s “gekiga” 12.45-13.45 Lunch Paper Presentation 5: Transmedial and transcultural aspects 1 13.45-14.30 Maheen Ahmed (Bremen, Germany): Hybrid methodology for La Nouvelle Manga 15.15-15.30 Short break Paper Presentation 6: Transmedial and transcultural aspects 2 15.30-16.15 Thomas Becker (Berlin, Germany): Premedialisation as symbolic capital in the intercultural communication of graphic arts 16.45-17.15 Break: Coffee Paper Presentation 7: Manga in Europe 17.15-18.00 Marco Pellitteri (Trento, Italy): Manga in Europe: A short study of market and fandom 18.45-19.00 Break 19.00-20.00 Panel Discussion with female German mangaka: Christina Plaka, Anne Delseit & Martina Peters Dinner (restaurant, just for speakers) Saturday, 2 October 2010 Workshop: The sort of manga, which dominates the perception of Japanese comics worldwide in the early 21st century, is hardly to be characterized by intercultural relations, that is, exchanges between discrete entities. 9.30-9.40 Introduction: Steffi RICHTER (chair) Part 1: A Media Product and its Crosscultural Mediators 9.45-10.05 Radoslaw BOLALEK (Warsaw, Poland): NARUTO on the Polish comics market: Observations from the perspective of a (researching)publisher 11.15-12:00 Discussion 12.00-13.00 Lunch Part 2: National ‘Odor’ 13.00-13.20 YAMANAKA Chie (Echizen, Japan): NARUTO as a manhwa: On the reception of Japanese popular culture in the Republic of Korea 13:40-14:10 Discussion Part 3: Gendered Readership 14.15-14.35 FUJIMOTO Yukari (Tokyo, Japan): Women in NARUTO, women reading NARUTO 14:55-15:20 Discussion Part 4: Beyond Comics 15.20-15.40 Martin ROTH (Leipzig, Germany): Playing NARUTO: Gaming experience, databases and unit operations 16:00-16:15 Coffee Break 16:15-17:00 Final discussion | ||
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(all day)
Start: Sep 30 2010 - 07:10
End: Oct 2 2010 - 07:10
International Conference organized by Conference venue: Cultural Institute of Japan, Cologne (www.jki.de) *Program* Thursday, 30 September 2010 Registration 11.30-13.00 Paper Presentation 1: Ph.D. Students Workshop 14.00-14.35 Felix Giesa (Cologne, Germany) & Jens Meinrenken (Berlin, Germany): 20th century toy, I wanna be your boy: Character and identity in Urasawa Naoki’s “20th Century Boys” 15.10-15.20 Break 15.20-15.55 Nele Noppe (Leuven, Belgium): Translating the visual languages of Japanese fan comics and North American and European fan art 16.35-17.00 Break: Coffee Paper Presentation 2: Manga in Asia outside Japan 17.00-17.35 Helmolt Vittinghoff (Cologne, Germany): Chinese Comics: Amusement or/and propaganda? 18.15-19.00 Break: Snack Keynote Lecture 19.00-20.00 Frederik L. Schodt (San Francisco, United States): Creation of a manga-comic hybrid Reception at the Cultural Institute of Japan, Cologne Friday, 1 October 2010 Paper Presentation 3: Historical perspectives on manga 09.30-10.15 Ronald Stewart (Hiroshima, Japan): “Manga” as a form of “Western” resistance against traditional Japanese Expression: Kitazawa Rakuten and the early discourse on “manga” 11.00-11.15 Short Break Paper Presentation 4: “gekiga” movement revisited 11.15-12.00 Roman Rosenbaum (Sydney, Australia): From the national to the transcultural: Tatsumi Yoshihiro’s “gekiga” 12.45-13.45 Lunch Paper Presentation 5: Transmedial and transcultural aspects 1 13.45-14.30 Maheen Ahmed (Bremen, Germany): Hybrid methodology for La Nouvelle Manga 15.15-15.30 Short break Paper Presentation 6: Transmedial and transcultural aspects 2 15.30-16.15 Thomas Becker (Berlin, Germany): Premedialisation as symbolic capital in the intercultural communication of graphic arts 16.45-17.15 Break: Coffee Paper Presentation 7: Manga in Europe 17.15-18.00 Marco Pellitteri (Trento, Italy): Manga in Europe: A short study of market and fandom 18.45-19.00 Break 19.00-20.00 Panel Discussion with female German mangaka: Christina Plaka, Anne Delseit & Martina Peters Dinner (restaurant, just for speakers) Saturday, 2 October 2010 Workshop: The sort of manga, which dominates the perception of Japanese comics worldwide in the early 21st century, is hardly to be characterized by intercultural relations, that is, exchanges between discrete entities. 9.30-9.40 Introduction: Steffi RICHTER (chair) Part 1: A Media Product and its Crosscultural Mediators 9.45-10.05 Radoslaw BOLALEK (Warsaw, Poland): NARUTO on the Polish comics market: Observations from the perspective of a (researching)publisher 11.15-12:00 Discussion 12.00-13.00 Lunch Part 2: National ‘Odor’ 13.00-13.20 YAMANAKA Chie (Echizen, Japan): NARUTO as a manhwa: On the reception of Japanese popular culture in the Republic of Korea 13:40-14:10 Discussion Part 3: Gendered Readership 14.15-14.35 FUJIMOTO Yukari (Tokyo, Japan): Women in NARUTO, women reading NARUTO 14:55-15:20 Discussion Part 4: Beyond Comics 15.20-15.40 Martin ROTH (Leipzig, Germany): Playing NARUTO: Gaming experience, databases and unit operations 16:00-16:15 Coffee Break 16:15-17:00 Final discussion | ||
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End: 7:10 am
Start: Sep 30 2010 - 07:10
End: Oct 2 2010 - 07:10
International Conference organized by Conference venue: Cultural Institute of Japan, Cologne (www.jki.de) *Program* Thursday, 30 September 2010 Registration 11.30-13.00 Paper Presentation 1: Ph.D. Students Workshop 14.00-14.35 Felix Giesa (Cologne, Germany) & Jens Meinrenken (Berlin, Germany): 20th century toy, I wanna be your boy: Character and identity in Urasawa Naoki’s “20th Century Boys” 15.10-15.20 Break 15.20-15.55 Nele Noppe (Leuven, Belgium): Translating the visual languages of Japanese fan comics and North American and European fan art 16.35-17.00 Break: Coffee Paper Presentation 2: Manga in Asia outside Japan 17.00-17.35 Helmolt Vittinghoff (Cologne, Germany): Chinese Comics: Amusement or/and propaganda? 18.15-19.00 Break: Snack Keynote Lecture 19.00-20.00 Frederik L. Schodt (San Francisco, United States): Creation of a manga-comic hybrid Reception at the Cultural Institute of Japan, Cologne Friday, 1 October 2010 Paper Presentation 3: Historical perspectives on manga 09.30-10.15 Ronald Stewart (Hiroshima, Japan): “Manga” as a form of “Western” resistance against traditional Japanese Expression: Kitazawa Rakuten and the early discourse on “manga” 11.00-11.15 Short Break Paper Presentation 4: “gekiga” movement revisited 11.15-12.00 Roman Rosenbaum (Sydney, Australia): From the national to the transcultural: Tatsumi Yoshihiro’s “gekiga” 12.45-13.45 Lunch Paper Presentation 5: Transmedial and transcultural aspects 1 13.45-14.30 Maheen Ahmed (Bremen, Germany): Hybrid methodology for La Nouvelle Manga 15.15-15.30 Short break Paper Presentation 6: Transmedial and transcultural aspects 2 15.30-16.15 Thomas Becker (Berlin, Germany): Premedialisation as symbolic capital in the intercultural communication of graphic arts 16.45-17.15 Break: Coffee Paper Presentation 7: Manga in Europe 17.15-18.00 Marco Pellitteri (Trento, Italy): Manga in Europe: A short study of market and fandom 18.45-19.00 Break 19.00-20.00 Panel Discussion with female German mangaka: Christina Plaka, Anne Delseit & Martina Peters Dinner (restaurant, just for speakers) Saturday, 2 October 2010 Workshop: The sort of manga, which dominates the perception of Japanese comics worldwide in the early 21st century, is hardly to be characterized by intercultural relations, that is, exchanges between discrete entities. 9.30-9.40 Introduction: Steffi RICHTER (chair) Part 1: A Media Product and its Crosscultural Mediators 9.45-10.05 Radoslaw BOLALEK (Warsaw, Poland): NARUTO on the Polish comics market: Observations from the perspective of a (researching)publisher 11.15-12:00 Discussion 12.00-13.00 Lunch Part 2: National ‘Odor’ 13.00-13.20 YAMANAKA Chie (Echizen, Japan): NARUTO as a manhwa: On the reception of Japanese popular culture in the Republic of Korea 13:40-14:10 Discussion Part 3: Gendered Readership 14.15-14.35 FUJIMOTO Yukari (Tokyo, Japan): Women in NARUTO, women reading NARUTO 14:55-15:20 Discussion Part 4: Beyond Comics 15.20-15.40 Martin ROTH (Leipzig, Germany): Playing NARUTO: Gaming experience, databases and unit operations 16:00-16:15 Coffee Break 16:15-17:00 Final discussion | ||
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10 / 7
Start: 6:00 pm
Start: Oct 7 2010 - 18:00
End: Oct 9 2010 - 00:00
The Columbia Center for Japanese Religion presents Columbia University The Columbia Center for Japanese Religions announces the first annual John C. Weber International Symposium on Japanese Religion and Culture. The 2010 symposium, entitled Images and Objects in Japanese Buddhist Practice, will be held in Room 301 Philosophy Hall at Columbia University from October 7th to the 9th, 2010. It will begin with a keynote address on the evening of Thursday October 7 and will be followed by two days of papers and discussion on Friday and Saturday, October 8th and 9th. The symposium will bring together scholars of Japanese Buddhist art from Japan, Europe, and North America to critically examine the historical use of objects of visual and material culture in Japanese Buddhist practice. Through the presentation and discussion of new scholarly work from diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives, this symposium will explore the relations between images, objects, and ritual in the history of Japanese Buddhism. The symposium is free and open to the public. CCJR offers travel grants to help cover the expenses of any graduate student who wishes to attend.
6:30 - 8:00pm Mimi Yiengpruksawan, Yale University 10:50 - 11:45am Nedachi Kensuke, Kyoto University 1:00 - 1:55pm Cynthea Bogel, University of Washington 4:00 - 4:55pm Sherry Fowler, University of Kansas 10:50 - 11:45am Yui Suzuki, University of Maryland 1:00 - 1:55pm Yonekura Michio, Sophia University 2:30 - 3:25pm Bernard Faure, Columbia University 4:00 - 4:55pm Abe Yasuro, Nagoya University | ||
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(all day)
Start: Oct 7 2010 - 18:00
End: Oct 9 2010 - 00:00
The Columbia Center for Japanese Religion presents Columbia University The Columbia Center for Japanese Religions announces the first annual John C. Weber International Symposium on Japanese Religion and Culture. The 2010 symposium, entitled Images and Objects in Japanese Buddhist Practice, will be held in Room 301 Philosophy Hall at Columbia University from October 7th to the 9th, 2010. It will begin with a keynote address on the evening of Thursday October 7 and will be followed by two days of papers and discussion on Friday and Saturday, October 8th and 9th. The symposium will bring together scholars of Japanese Buddhist art from Japan, Europe, and North America to critically examine the historical use of objects of visual and material culture in Japanese Buddhist practice. Through the presentation and discussion of new scholarly work from diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives, this symposium will explore the relations between images, objects, and ritual in the history of Japanese Buddhism. The symposium is free and open to the public. CCJR offers travel grants to help cover the expenses of any graduate student who wishes to attend.
6:30 - 8:00pm Mimi Yiengpruksawan, Yale University 10:50 - 11:45am Nedachi Kensuke, Kyoto University 1:00 - 1:55pm Cynthea Bogel, University of Washington 4:00 - 4:55pm Sherry Fowler, University of Kansas 10:50 - 11:45am Yui Suzuki, University of Maryland 1:00 - 1:55pm Yonekura Michio, Sophia University 2:30 - 3:25pm Bernard Faure, Columbia University 4:00 - 4:55pm Abe Yasuro, Nagoya University | ||
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End: 12:00 am
Start: Oct 7 2010 - 18:00
End: Oct 9 2010 - 00:00
The Columbia Center for Japanese Religion presents Columbia University The Columbia Center for Japanese Religions announces the first annual John C. Weber International Symposium on Japanese Religion and Culture. The 2010 symposium, entitled Images and Objects in Japanese Buddhist Practice, will be held in Room 301 Philosophy Hall at Columbia University from October 7th to the 9th, 2010. It will begin with a keynote address on the evening of Thursday October 7 and will be followed by two days of papers and discussion on Friday and Saturday, October 8th and 9th. The symposium will bring together scholars of Japanese Buddhist art from Japan, Europe, and North America to critically examine the historical use of objects of visual and material culture in Japanese Buddhist practice. Through the presentation and discussion of new scholarly work from diverse theoretical and methodological perspectives, this symposium will explore the relations between images, objects, and ritual in the history of Japanese Buddhism. The symposium is free and open to the public. CCJR offers travel grants to help cover the expenses of any graduate student who wishes to attend.
6:30 - 8:00pm Mimi Yiengpruksawan, Yale University 10:50 - 11:45am Nedachi Kensuke, Kyoto University 1:00 - 1:55pm Cynthea Bogel, University of Washington 4:00 - 4:55pm Sherry Fowler, University of Kansas 10:50 - 11:45am Yui Suzuki, University of Maryland 1:00 - 1:55pm Yonekura Michio, Sophia University 2:30 - 3:25pm Bernard Faure, Columbia University 4:00 - 4:55pm Abe Yasuro, Nagoya University | ||
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10 / 12
Start: 12:00 am
Location: Korean Auditorium (Panel I and II) and Art Auditorium (Panel III) Location: Korean Auditorium (Panel I and II) and Art Auditorium (Panel III) Mini-Exhibition “Porcelain Kendi as Transcultural Trade Goods” is shown at the John Young Museum of Art in conjunction with the Utsushi symposium Symposium Schedule 9:00 – 9:20 Registration/ Opening Remarks 9:20 – 9:50 9:50 – 10:20 10:20 – 10:40 Tea/Coffee and Cookies at Moore 319 10:40 – 11:10 11:10 – 11:40 11:40 – 12:00 Panel and Audience Discussion 12:00 – 1:20 Lunch 1:20 - 2:10 Keynote Lecture Iconography and Copying: The Ise Stories and Sôtatsu Panel II: Copying as Iconographical Transmission 2:10 – 2:40 2:40 – 3:10 3:10 – 3:40 3:40 – 4:00 Panel and Audience Discussion 4:00 – 4:30 Tea/Coffee and Cookies Panel III: Copying as Strategic Adaptation and Pedagogy 4:30 – 5:00 5:00 – 5:30 5:30 – 6:00 6:00 – 6:20 Panel and Audience Discussion 6:20 Epilogue: Gay Satsuma (University of Hawaii at Manoa, CJS Vice Director) Sponsored by: Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University Center for Japanese Studies, University of Hawaii at Manoa Consulate General of Japan in Honolulu Digital Humanities Center for Japanese Arts and Cultures, Ritsumeikan University Japan-America Society of Hawaii Japan Foundation John Young Museum of Art, University of Hawaii at Manoa Honolulu Foundation Tetsuko S. Ho, CPA., Inc. Pre-registration is required for this free and public event. Please send your name, affiliation, contact information and email to Kazuko Kameda-Madar (symposium organizer) at kazukokameda@msn.com no later than October 2nd. Should you have any questions regarding this symposium, please email or call Kazuko’s cell at 808 688 7473. Start: 6:00 pm
End: 8:00 pm
JASA (Japanese Art Society of America)sponsored lecture, free to all attendees. Institute of Fine Arts, New York University, 1 East 78 Street, NYC Lecture by : Monika Bincsik, art historian (PhD) of Japanese decorative arts, especially lacquer. Research Assistant at the Art Research Center in Kyoto. Present project is digitizing and surveying Japanese lacquers in "foreign collections" for the Ritsumeikan University, Kyoto | ||
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10 / 21
Start: 12:24 am
Start: Oct 21 2010 - 00:24
End: Oct 23 2010 - 00:24
HELD AT THE CLOSING OF THE 15TH ANNIVERSARY OF THE MANGGHA MUSEUM OF JAPANESE ART AND TECHNOLOGY, IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE INTERNATIONAL YEAR OF FRÉDÉRIC CHOPIN LOCATION: The Manggha Museum of Japanese Art and Technology in Krakow THE MANGGHA MUSEUM Organizers: The conference is prepared in cooperation with: | ||
