Japanese Proletarian Cultural Production event announcement

[Orna Shaughnessy]

Event Announcement:

The Center of Japanese Studies at the University of California, Berkeley, is
pleased to present a symposium, "Japanese Proletarian Cultural Production,"
at the Center for Japanese Studies, 2223 Fulton Street, 6th Floor, on
Wednesday, April 5, from 4:00 to 6:30.

For those of you coming to San Francisco for the AAS annual meeting, it's a
20-30 minute train ride on BART to the campus. Get off at the Downtown
Berkeley stop, walk up Center Street toward the campus one block to Oxford
Street, then make a right and go two blocks to where the road bends; the
Center is located in the six-story building on the left.

The schedule is roughly as follows:

The Japanese Empire, Internationalism, and Proletarian Arts
     Heather Bowen-Struyk, Japanese Literature, University of Notre Dame

 From Proletarian Realism to the Realism of Empire: Liberated Abjects and
     Laboring Subjects
     Mark Driscoll, Japanese and International studies, University of North
     Carolina

In the Tracks of Kobayashi Takiji, Forgotten/Cherished Martyr
     Norma Field, East Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of
     Chicago

Proletarian Home Movies
     Abe Markus Nornes, Film & Video Studies/Asian Languages and Cultures,
     Univ. of Michigan

Respondents:

Edward Fowler, UC Irvine

Jonathan Hunt, Santa Clara University

Co-sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages & Cultures and the Doreen B. Townsend 
Center for the Humanities.

For more information please contact the Center for Japanese Studies cjs at berkeley.edu or visit the 
events website http://ieas.berkeley.edu/events/2006.04.05b.html