Fwd: Symposium May 5th and 6th at Columbia University

[Aaron Gerow]

Begin forwarded message:
> From: Jordan Sand <sandj at georgetown.edu>
> Subject: Symposium May 5th and 6th at Columbia University
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> Symposium Announcement:
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> On May 5th and 6th, 2007, the Donald Keene Center at Columbia 
> University will host a two-day symposium on the theme of OBJECTS AND 
> IMAGES: EXPLORING VISUAL AND MATERIAL CULTURE IN JAPAN.  The symposium 
> honors the work of Henry DeWitt Smith II, professor of Japanese 
> history at Columbia and currently director of the Kyoto Consortium for 
> Japanese Studies.  A schedule for the symposium can be found below. 
> Each of the presenters was asked to select a single object or image 
> and analyze it in detail, physically, historically, and symbolically, 
> to suggest what it offers for new directions in the study of visual 
> and material culture in Japan. One of the central themes of the 
> symposium lies in the relationship _between_ the visual and the 
> material, since no image or object can exist without both.  The 
> presenters will have read one another?s papers in advance, but at the 
> symposium will offer brief introductions of their chosen objects and 
> images.  Comments and general discussion will take up the second half 
> of each panel.  The
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> event is cosponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the 
> Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia 
> University. Preregistration is not required.
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> Organizers: Jordan Sand (sandj at georgetown.edu 
> <mailto:sandj at georgetown.edu>) and Greg Pflugfelder(gmp12 at columbia.edu 
> <mailto:gmp12 at columbia.edu>)
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> For more information on the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, 
> please visit http://www.donaldkeenecenter.org/
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> note: macron lines and other special characters have been stripped 
> from this schedule for email program compatibility.
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> OBJECTS AND IMAGES: EXPLORING VISUAL AND MATERIAL CULTURE IN JAPAN
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> A Symposium Honoring the Work of Henry Smith
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> Dates: Saturday, May 5th and Sunday, May 6th, 2007
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> Location: EALAC Lounge, 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University, New York
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> SATURDAY, MAY 5th
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> 9:00 Coffee
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> 9:30 Welcoming Remarks: Greg Pflugfelder
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> 9:40-11:40 PANEL ONE
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> MIWAKO TEZUKA, Copies of Portrait of Minamoto no Yoritomo
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> JORDAN SAND, Chabudai at the Kodera Soy Sauce Shop, Edo-Tokyo Open-Air 
> Museum
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> AMANDA MAYER STINCHECUM, Reading minsa:  a narrow ikat sash from 
> Yaeyama
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> GILES RICHTER, Unfolding the N501i: A Mobile Phone as Cultural Artifact
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> Comments: Henry Smith
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> 11:40-1:00 LUNCH BREAK
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> 1:00-3:00 PANEL TWO
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> ALICE TSENG, Postwar Serenity and Loss in Domon Ken?s Portrait of 
> Kannon
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> KIM BRANDT, "There Was No East or West When Their Lips Met...":  
> Reflections on a Movie Poster for King Vidor's Japanese War Bride 
> (1952)
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> SARAH THAL, A Tale of Two Ema: Displays of Faith in a Changing World
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> ROGER PURDY, Daitoa: Projecting Greater East Asia in Nihon Nyusu?s 
> Production Logos
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> Comments: Alan Tansman
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> 3:00-4:15 AFTERNOON BREAK
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> 4:15-6:00 PANEL THREE
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> KEN TADASHI OSHIMA, Mediating Modernity between East and West: 
> Watanabe Yoshio?s Photograph of the Okada House
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> CHELSEA FOXWELL, Naturalizing the Double Reading: Hawks in a Ravine by 
> Kano Hogai
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> SATOW MORIHIRO, Death of an Author: Photography, Handwriting and 
> Memory in the Obituary of Natsume Soseki
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> Comments: Greg Pflugfelder
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> SUNDAY, MAY 6th
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> 10:00 Coffee
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> 10:30-12:30 PANEL FOUR
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> LEILA WICE, Whose Hakama: Layered Meanings of Dress and the Social 
> Fabric of 19th-Century Japan
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> MATTHEW MCKELWAY, The Tree of All Mothers: The Zoshigaya Gingko
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> MORGAN PITELKA, Function, Performance, and Reproduction in the Making 
> of "Large Sidearm" at Wakayama Castle
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> ELLEN CONANT, Pair of 8-fold Screens by Kishi Chikudo, Otsu
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> Karasaki, c.1876
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> Comments: TBA
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> 12:30-2:00 LUNCH BREAK
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> 2:00-4:00 PANEL FIVE
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> MIRIAM WATTLES, Kimyo zui, or, the Bizarre Lexical Play of Giga
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> TIMON SCREECH, On a Painting called The Full Moon, and the Voyage of 
> the New Year?s Gift
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> DAVID LURIE, The Suda Hachiman Shrine Mirror and the History of Failure
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> LOUISE CORT, A Chinese Jar and the Greening of Momoyama Ceramics
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> Comments: Max Moerman
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> 4:00-5:00 AFTERNOON BREAK
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> 5:00-6:00 WRAP-UP SESSION