SYMPOSIUM IN HONOR OF MAEDA AI (Nov. 6-8) (fwd)

[David Desser]

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>Date: Mon, 12 Oct 1998 17:07:31 -0400 (EDT)
>From: "Frederic J. Kotas" <fjk2 at cornell.edu>
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>To: eastlib at listserv.oit.unc.edu
>Subject: SYMPOSIUM IN HONOR OF MAEDA AI (Nov. 6-8)
>
>Following completion of a successful two year effort to raise necessary
>funding, the Wason Collection on East Asia, Cornell University Library, has
>acquired the extensive private library of the late scholar and critic of
>Japanese literature, Maeda Ai.  Maeda's library contains more than 12,000
>volumes of monographs, and several thousand issues of serials. It includes
>approximately 500 titles (2000+ volumes) of late Edo and early Meiji
>stitchbound books, chief among which is the diary of the early Meiji
>journalist and author, Narushima Ryuhoku, recently published in Japan in a
>limited photoreprint edition. The Maeda Bunko is a marvelous treasure trove
>for scholars interested in the development of modern Japanese literature in
>the 19th and early 20th centuries, and, reflecting the wide ranging
>interests of its former owner, is rich in important material on all aspects
>of popular culture.
>
>To celebrate the establishment of the Maeda Bunko, to honor the memory of
>Maeda Ai, and to express gratitude toward the Maeda family and the generous
>members of the Cornell community who made this dream a reality, the Wason
>Collection, Cornell's East Asia Program, and the Society for the Humanities
>will sponsor a two day symposium, "Empire of Readers: Book, Image and Mass
>Subjectivity in Modern Japan : A Symposium in Honor of Maeda Ai."  The
>symposium will be held November 6-8 on the Cornell University campus, and
>will include presentations by leading Japanese and American scholars on
>Maeda Ai, his work, and some of the topics that most deeply interested him.
>
>Speakers will include Kamei Hideo, Nobuhiro Shinji, Nishikawa Yuko,
>Kawamura Minato, Narita Ryuichi, Hirata Yumi, Komori Yoichi, Ueno Toshiya,
>Furukawa Makoto, Marilyn Ivy, Henry Smith, James Fujii, Tom Lamarre, and
>others. Presentations will be in both English and Japanese; a substantial
>number of papers in Japanese should be available prior to the symposium. 
>All presentations will be followed by discussions and time for questions,
>in English or Japanese, from the audience.  The session on Saturday
>afternoon will be organized jointly with members of a second conference, on
>"French Cinematic Futures," that is being sponsored by Cornell's Society
>for the Humanities for Nov. 5-7. It will consist in a screening of and
>panel discussion focused on Chris Marker's new film, "Level Five." 
>
>The symposium is open to all interested parties; registration fee is $20. 
>For details, contact Cornell East Asia Program Office, 140 Uris Hall,
>Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853, (telephone: (607) 255-6222; e-mail: 
>cueap at cornell.edu) .
>
>

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