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<div class="field-item even"><h3 class="">Dr. Thomas Lamarre - Professor in East Asian Studies & Associate in Art History and Communication Studies, McGill University</h3></div>
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<div class="field-label-hidden field-type-datetime field-name-field-event-time field"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><span class="date-display-single">Tuesday, November 13, 2018 - <span class="date-display-range"><span class="date-display-start" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2018-11-13T16:30:00-05:00">4:30pm</span> to <span class="date-display-end" property="dc:date" datatype="xsd:dateTime" content="2018-11-13T18:00:00-05:00">6:00pm</span></span></span><div class="addtocal-processed addtocal" id="addtocal_node_5830">Add to Calendar</div><div class="item-list"></div></div></div></div><div class="field-type-location field-name-field-location field-label-hidden field"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="vcard location">
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</div></div></div><div class="field-type-image field-label-hidden field field-name-field-event-image"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><a href="https://ceas.yale.edu/sites/default/files/event-images/thomas_lamarre.jpg" title="" class="init-colorbox-processed cboxElement colorbox" rel="gallery-node-5830"><div class="none caption-wrapper" style="width: 176px; height: auto; float: none;"><img typeof="foaf:Image" src="https://ceas.yale.edu/sites/default/files/styles/medium/public/event-images/thomas_lamarre.jpg?itok=G3X0lHt4" alt="" title="" width="176" height="220" class=""><span class="caption"></span></div></a></div></div></div><div class="field-label-hidden field-name-body field field-type-text-with-summary"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even" property="content:encoded"><h3 class="">The Council is pleased to present the 20th Annual John W. Hall Lecture in Japanese Studies. </h3><p class=""><em class="">This lecture will be followed by a dinner reception at the New Haven Lawn Club (193 Whitney Ave).</em></p><p class="">This talk proposes to situate Japanese animation of the 1930s and
early 1940s at the intersection of three lines of historical
transformation. First, there was the emergence of new technologies of
animation and new ways of organizing animation production, which spurred
dreams of producing feature-length animated films whose liveliness
promised to rival that of cinema, and to push beyond the boundaries of
the cinematic. Second, this situation also saw animation to begin to
range across received boundaries of media — across media forms such as
comics, films, magic lantern, radio, records, toys, and games, and
across domestic and public sites of consumption. Finally, animation
explored new ways of imaging and enacting human-animal relations, at a
historical moment increasingly characterized by imperial conquest and
total war with their ideologies of dehumanization and bestialization.
Working across these three lines of technological, socio-medial and
geopolitical transformation, Dr. Lamarre hopes to address some of the
troubling legacies that continue to haunt animation as well as the
radical possibilities yet to be explored. </p>
<hr class=""><p class=""><strong class="">Thomas Lamarre </strong>teaches in East Asian Studies and
Communications Studies at McGill University. He is author of numerous
publications on the history of media, thought, and material culture,
with projects ranging from the communication networks of 9<sup class="">th</sup> century Japan (<em class="">Uncovering Heian Japan: An Archaeology of Sensation and Inscription</em>, 2000), to silent cinema and the global imaginary (<em class="">Shadows on the Screen: Tanizaki Jun’ichirô on Cinema and Oriental Aesthetics, </em>2005), animation technologies (<em class="">The Anime Machine: A Media Theory of Animation,</em> 2009) and television and new media (<em class="">The Anime Ecology: A Genealogy of Television, Animation, and Game Media</em>, 2018).</p>
<hr class=""><p class="">The John W. Hall Lecture Series in Japanese Studies was
established with generous support from Mrs. Robin Hall in memory of her
husband. Considered one of this past century’s finest scholars of the
history of Japan, John Whitney Hall was born in Tokyo in 1916 and
developed an interest in Japanese language, culture, and history at an
early age. After receiving his Ph.D. in East Asian Languages and
Literatures at Harvard, Hall began his academic career at the University
of Michigan in 1949 and came to Yale in 1961 as A. Whitney Griswold
Professor of History, a position he held until his retirement in 1983.</p><p class="">Professor Hall specialized in the Ashikaga through
Late Tokugawa periods, and throughout his career he wrote or edited some
of the most important and influential volumes on Japanese history. He
contributed to the study of Japan through not only his writing, but also
through service as chair of several local and national committees,
including the Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission, the Association for
Asian Studies, and the American Council of Learned Societies-Social
Science Research Council (ACLS-SSRC) Joint Committee on Japanese
Studies.</p><p class="">The Council on East Asian Studies hopes this lecture series will
enable young and old scholars alike to remember John Whitney Hall’s work
and grand contributions to the study of Japan.</p><div class=""><a href="https://ceas.yale.edu/events/vernacular-animism-cartoon-animals-and-multiethnic-empire" class="">https://ceas.yale.edu/events/vernacular-animism-cartoon-animals-and-multiethnic-empire</a></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></div></div></div></div></article></div></div></div></div></div></body></html>