Symposium Announcement

[Ono Seiko and Aaron Gerow]

Another cross-post from H-Japan that may be of interest to KineJapanners:

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From: James Finlay <jmf13 at cornell.edu>

             
SYMPOSIUM ANNOUNCEMENT

Reading, Empire, Mass Subjectivity in Modern Japan


To celebrate the acquisition by Cornell University's Kroch Library of the
private library of the late Maeda Ai, the East Asia Program, Society for
the Humanities, and Comparative Literature Departments will sponsor a
small symposium, "Empire of Readers," exploring relationships between
technologies of representation, imagined communities,  and the politics
of public, virtual, and transnational space. The symposium will be held
from November 6-8, 1998, on the Cornell campus.  A schedule will be made
available in late August. The conference is open to the public;
registration $20. For details, contact the East Asia Program, Cornell
University, 140 Uris Hall, Ithaca, NY 14853, or e-mail:
CUEAP at CORNELL.EDU
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