Our popular cafe series at "Good Heavens" bar in Shimokitazawa.
Tokyo Humanities Cafe 11 was held on:
Thursday, January 9th, 2020, 7.30pm - 9.30pm
Thursday, January 9th, 2020, 7.30pm - 9.30pm
Photos from the event
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Details of previous cafes (THC 1 - 10)
Tokyo Humanities Project is excited to announce the next in our series of English-language humanities cafés, organized by the Tokyo Humanities team and compèred by Alex Watson (Meiji University).
We invite a series of speakers - researchers, artists, translators, and others - to present their work in an informal, supportive, and lively atmosphere.
The event brings research outside the university to a broader audience, and provides a space for people to meet and exchange ideas.
We invite a series of speakers - researchers, artists, translators, and others - to present their work in an informal, supportive, and lively atmosphere.
The event brings research outside the university to a broader audience, and provides a space for people to meet and exchange ideas.
Each presenter gives a 10-15 minute talk in English about any aspect of their work. For example, they might explain an ongoing research project, talk about a book of poetry or a translation they're working on, or discuss their photography career...
The talks are all pitched (TED-style) at a general audience - so no specialist knowledge is required. There'll also be plenty of time to relax with a drink and exchange ideas with other attendees.
speakers at THC 11
(Thursday, January 9th, 2019)
Yuiko Asaba
(Osaka University / University of Huddersfield)
"Tango in Japan: Performing a Distant Music"
about Yuiko
Yuiko Asaba is a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Global Research Fellow, affiliated to the University of Huddersfield and Osaka University. Her European Commission grant funded project focuses on music, migration and global history, paying particular attention to Japanese Tango musicians in China, 1920-1945. Previously she held positions as Visiting Lecturer at Royal Holloway, University of London (2018-19) and Tutor in Music at the University of Oxford (2017-18).
Megan Clune
(Arts Chiyoda 3331)
"Rethinking Listening in 20th and 21st Century Music"
about megan
Megan Alice Clune fluidly shifts between musician, composer and artist. Primarily, her work explores both the concept and aesthetics of ambient music through sound installation, collaboration and performance. Megan is the founding member of the Alaska Orchestra, and has presented work and undertaken residencies across Australia, Europe and North America, including the Bang on a Can Summer Music Festival (MA), Next Wave Festival, Underbelly Arts Festival, Performa 15 (NYC) and VividLIVE at the Sydney Opera House. From 2012-14 she curated MUSICAL ALASKA, a series of classical, experimental and electronic music performances at Alaska Projects, and is the founder of contemporary art/music magazine and record label, World’s Only.
Judith Pascoe
(Florida State University)
"On the Bullet Train with Emily Bronte:
Wuthering Heights in Japan"
Wuthering Heights in Japan"
about judith
Judith Pascoe is George Mills Harper Professor of English at Florida State University. She teaches classes on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century literature and culture, with special attention to collecting history and theory, voice recording, media theory, and absorption. She also teaches classes on prose style, focusing on the sentence and on innovations in critical writing. Pascoe was the director of a 2016-17 NEH Next Generation Humanities Ph.D. Planning Grant aimed at integrating rhetorical artfulness, digital humanities literacy, and flexible career preparation.
The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and a Fulbright Japan Lecturing Award, Pascoe has written about theatrical self-representation in the 1790s (Romantic Theatricality [Cornell UP, 1996]) and about romantic-era collectors (The Hummingbird Cabinet [Cornell UP, 2006]). Her third book, The Sarah Siddons Audio Files: Romanticism and the Lost Voice (U of Michigan P, 2011), was the recipient of the Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History. In On the Bullet Train with Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights in Japan (U of Michigan, 2017), Pascoe writes about the Japanese popularization and adaptation of Emily Brontë's masterwork, and also about intellectual mastery, foreign language learning, and literary longing.
The recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, an American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship, and a Fulbright Japan Lecturing Award, Pascoe has written about theatrical self-representation in the 1790s (Romantic Theatricality [Cornell UP, 1996]) and about romantic-era collectors (The Hummingbird Cabinet [Cornell UP, 2006]). Her third book, The Sarah Siddons Audio Files: Romanticism and the Lost Voice (U of Michigan P, 2011), was the recipient of the Barnard Hewitt Award for Outstanding Research in Theatre History. In On the Bullet Train with Emily Brontë: Wuthering Heights in Japan (U of Michigan, 2017), Pascoe writes about the Japanese popularization and adaptation of Emily Brontë's masterwork, and also about intellectual mastery, foreign language learning, and literary longing.
Toru Yamada
(Meiji University)
"Managing Japanese Study Abroad Programs"
about toru
Toru Yamada is Associate Professor in the School of Arts and Letters, Meiji University.
When and where is it?
Events are held at "Good Heavens" (グッドヘブンズ) bar, five minutes' walk from the south exit of Shimokitazawa station (see below for a map).
The bar regularly hosts comedy events and film screenings and has lots of comfy chairs and a cosy atmosphere.
How much is it?
Free!
(However, the bar asks that you buy at least one drink, so please make sure to do that - and maybe more - to thank them for supporting our event)
The bar regularly hosts comedy events and film screenings and has lots of comfy chairs and a cosy atmosphere.
How much is it?
Free!
(However, the bar asks that you buy at least one drink, so please make sure to do that - and maybe more - to thank them for supporting our event)
Photos from our inaugural event in June 2017
Any other questions?
Contact the main event organizer, Alex Watson
(Associate Professor, Department of Arts and Letters, Meiji University)
(Associate Professor, Department of Arts and Letters, Meiji University)
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