Fwd: SYMPOSIUM: Restaging War and Peace: A Comparison of Japanese and Chinese War Movies

[Aaron Gerow]

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> From: Roberta Strippoli <robertas at iuo.it>
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> Dear Collagues,
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> This is a two-day symposium on Chinese and Japanese war movies.  Please contact the organizers directly if you need more detailed information.
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> Best,
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> Roberta Strippoli
> (Binghamton University SUNY)
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> Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University
> International Research Center for Multiple Collaborations in Humanities
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> INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP
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> co-hosted with
> Italian School of East Asian Studies
> cole Franaise d'Extrme-Orient
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> RESTAGING WAR AND PEACE:
> A COMPARISON OF JAPANESE AND CHINESE WAR MOVIES
> July 11-12
> Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto University (conference room, 4th floor)
> http://www.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/access/access.htm
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> Program
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> July 11, Monday
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> 09:00-09:20  Opening Remarks (Timothy Tsu and Tanaka Masakazu)
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> 09:20-10:10  The Afterlives of Wartime Newsreels in 1990s Hong Kong (King-fai Tam, Hong Kong Polytechnic University)
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> 10:10-11:00  Why are There so Few Dutch Movies about World War II in Indonesia? (Ralf Futselaar, Kwansei Gakuin University)
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> 11:00-11:20  Break
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> 11:20-12:10  Film and Soldier: Japanese War Movies of the 1950s (Sandra Wilson, Murdoch University)
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> 14:30-15:20  The Uses of Documentaries and Fiction in Recent Chinese War Movies (Sebastian Veg, French Center for the Study of Contemporary China)
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> 15:20-16:10   Japanese Atrocities on Chinese Screens: Complex Interactions of Memory, Trauma and Exploitation (Kristof Van den Troost, Chinese University of Hong Kong)
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> 16:10-17:15  Comments and General Discussion (Eyal Ben-Ari, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
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> July 12, Tuesday
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> 09:00-09:50 A Past to be Ashamed or Proud of? Echoes of the Fifteen Years' War in Japanese Film (Marco Del Bene, Sapienza University of Rome)
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> 09:50-10:40  Salvation and Modernity in Chinese and Japanese War Movies (Siu Leung Li, Lingnan University)
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> 10:40-11:00  Break
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> 11:00-11:50  Comments and General Discussion (Eyal Ben-Ari, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
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> 14:30-15:20
> Japan Undefeated: The Post-Occupation Body of Revisionist War Films by Shin-Touhou (Dick Stegewerns, University of Oslo)
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> 15:20-16:10  Imperfect Heroes and Incomplete Devils in Recent Chinese War Movies (Timothy Y. Tsu, Kwansei Gakuin University)
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> 16:10-17:00   Comments and General Discussion (Masakazu Tanaka, Kyoto University)
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> 17:00-17:15  Closing Remarks