<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><b><font color="#BF0000"><font size="6"><span style="font-size:24pt"><br> </span></font></font></b><span style="font-size:11pt"> </span></font><div align="CENTER"> <font color="#970000"><font size="6"><font face="Bernard MT Condensed"><span style="font-size:24pt">East Asia in Motion: Literature, Cinema, Dance<br> </span></font></font></font><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:12pt"><i>A symposium sponsored by the Council on East Asian Studies, the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, and the Whitney Humanities Center<br> </i></span></font><font size="5"><font face="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial"><span style="font-size:18pt"> <br> </span></font></font><font size="4"><font face="Arial"><span style="font-size:14pt">Yale University<br> Whitney Humanities Center Auditorium, 53 Wall Street<br> <font color="#970000"><b>February 27 to March 1, 2009<br> </b></font> <br> Featuring presentations by artists<br> </span></font></font><font color="#970000"><font size="5"><font face="Bernard MT Condensed"><span style="font-size:18pt">Kanai Katsu and Shen Wei </span></font></font></font> </div><div> <font size="5"><span style="font-size:18pt"><font face="Helvetica, Verdana, Arial"> <br> </font></span></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:12pt">T</span></font><span style="font-size:12pt"><font face="Arial">his symposium seeks to extend the breadth of current scholarship on East Asia by focusing on literary, cinematic, and choreographic manifestations of movement. Oriented around the multivalent theme of “movement,” participants practicing a range of analytical and creative methodologies will collaboratively interrogate the limits of “East Asia” as presently configured while simultaneously exploring new avenues for engaged scholarly inquiry. By putting pressure on the multiple ways in which the cinematic, literary, choreographic, and political overlap and interpenetrate through the figure of movement, we hope to remain critically mindful of the extent to which any discursive motion, “East Asian” or otherwise, is always contoured and compelled by a range of ideological forces. Presentations will gesture beyond the staid borders of the “national” and outstrip the confines of singular academic disciplines. This will be done in the hope that the symposium’s theme of “movement” might provide a provisional pivot point in response to which participants can venture individual contributions to a dynamic, rigorous communal conversation about the ways in which East Asia moves and means in a planetary context.<br> <br> The symposium will move beyond the borders of a normal academic conference by featuring the transnational work of two artists: the independent, avant-garde filmmaker Kanai Katsu, showing his work in North America for the first time; and the Chinese choreographer and dancer Shen Wei, who helped choreograph the Opening Ceremony of the Beijing Olympics. Papers for the two Saturday panels will be made available for participants beforehand so as to concentrate on discussion.<br> </font><font face="Times New Roman"><br> </font><font face="Times, Times New Roman"> <br> <font color="#970000"><b>Registration required. </b></font><b>Please <font color="#970000">register</font> for this event by<font color="#970000"> February 23 </font>via email to <font color="#0000FF"><u><a href="anne.letterman@yale.edu">anne.letterman@yale.edu</a><br> </u></font></b></font><font face="Times New Roman"><br> </font></span><font size="5"><font face="Times, Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:16pt"> <br> </span></font><span style="font-size:16pt"><font face="Times New Roman"><b>Schedule<br> </b></font></span></font><font face="Times New Roman"><span style="font-size:12pt"><br> </span><font color="#970000"><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt"><b>Friday, February 27, 2009<br> </b></span></font></font><span style="font-size:12pt"><br> <font color="#970000"><b>6:00 pm </b></font> <b>Welcome Reception<br> </b> </span><span style="font-size:11pt">Room 108, Whitney Humanities Center<br> </span><font color="#970000"><span style="font-size:12pt"><b> <br> 7:00pm </b></span></font><span style="font-size:12pt"> <b>Independent Movement: The Cinema of Kanai Katsu<br> </b> <i>The Desert Archipelago</i> (Mujin rett?, 1969), 35mm, 55 min.<br> <i>Good-Bye</i> (1971), 16mm, 52 min.<br> <br> Coming at the tail end of the 1960s New Wave, Kanai Katsu became a pioneer of truly independent filmmaking that traversed Japan and Korea to surrealistically engage with issues of politics and identity. <i>The Desert Archipelago </i>won the Grand Prix at the Nyon International Film Festival.<br> <br> <font color="#970000"><b> 9:00 pm</b></font> <b>Roundtable discussion on Kanai Katsu<br> </b> Kanai Katsu – Japanese Filmmaker and Director<br> Markus Nornes – University of Michigan<br> Naoki Yamamoto – Ph.D student, Yale University<br> Seung-hoon Jeong – Ph.D student, Yale University<br> Aaron Gerow – Yale University <br> <br> </span><font color="#970000"><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt"><b>Saturday, February 28, 2009<br> </b></span></font></font><span style="font-size:12pt"><br> <font color="#970000"><b>10:00 am</b></font> <b>Panel One: Moving Images of Empire<br> </b> Michael Bourdaughs – University of Chicago<br> Jonathan Hall – University of California, Irvine<br> Yingjing Zhang – University of California, San Diego<br> <br> <font color="#970000"><b> 2:00 pm</b></font> <b>Panel Two: Becoming Animal: Zones of Exchange and the Post- Human Organism<br> </b> Victor Fan – Ph.D student, Yale University<br> Christine Marran, University of Minnesota<br> Christine Yano, University of Hawaii<br> <br> <font color="#970000"><b> 7:00 pm</b></font> <b>Lecture-Demonstration by Shen Wei<br> </b> <br> Choreographer, director, dancer, painter and designer, Shen Wei is widely recognized for his defining vision of an intercultural, interdisciplinary, utterly original mode of movement-based performance. Mr. Shen will discuss his artistic vision, past and current projects, and the ways in which his work pushes the boundaries of what it means to "move" as a dancer in a transnational context.<br> <br> <font color="#970000"><b> 8:30 pm </b></font><b>Roundtable discussion on Shen Wei<br> </b> Shen Wei – founder and director of Shen Wei Dance Arts <br> Paize Keulemans – Yale University<br> Reggie Jackson – Yale University <br> Karen Shimakawa – New York University <br> <br> </span><font color="#970000"><font size="4"><span style="font-size:14pt"><b>Sunday, March 1, 2009 <br> </b></span></font></font><span style="font-size:12pt"><br> <font color="#970000"><b>10:00 am</b></font> <b>Concluding Roundtable: Moving Forward: Further Questions and Trajectories<br> </b> Shu-mei Shih – University of California, Los Angeles <br> Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto – New York University<br> </span></font><font face="Calibri, Verdana, Helvetica, Arial"><span style="font-size:11pt"><br></span></font><br></div></body></html>