Our popular cafe series at "Good Heavens" bar in Shimokitazawa.
Tokyo Humanities Cafe 10 will be on:
Tuesday, September 17th, 2019, 7.30pm - 9.30pm
(click on poster below for higher-res image)
Tuesday, September 17th, 2019, 7.30pm - 9.30pm
(click on poster below for higher-res image)
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Details of previous cafes (THC 1 - 9)
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 10
(Tuesday, September 17th, 2019)
Fabien Arribert-Narce
(University of Edinburgh)
"Neo- and post-Japonism in contemporary literature"
about fabien
After completing his AHRC-funded PhD in French at the University of Kent and Université Paris III–Sorbonne nouvelle (2011), Dr Fabien Arribert-Narce successively worked as a Teaching Fellow in French at University College London (2011–12), as a JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow at the Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (2012-13) and the University of Tokyo (2013-14), and as an Associate Professor in French at Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo (2014-16). He joined the University of Edinburgh as a Lecturer in French in September 2016.
His research specialism is in 20th and 21st century French literature and visual culture, and his current research focuses on the reception of Japanese culture by French and Francophone writers and film-makers since 1945, and on literary and artistic responses to the Fukushima nuclear disaster of 2011 in Japan and Europe.
He is the author of "Photobiographies: pour une écriture de notation de la vie (Roland Barthes, Denis Roche, Annie Ernaux)" (Honoré Champion, 2014), and has also co-edited two multi-author volumes: "L’Autobiographie entre autres. Écrire la vie aujourd’hui" (Peter Lang, 2013); "Réceptions de la culture japonaise en France depuis 1945. Paris-Tokyo-Paris: détours par le Japon" (Honoré Champion, 2016).
His research specialism is in 20th and 21st century French literature and visual culture, and his current research focuses on the reception of Japanese culture by French and Francophone writers and film-makers since 1945, and on literary and artistic responses to the Fukushima nuclear disaster of 2011 in Japan and Europe.
He is the author of "Photobiographies: pour une écriture de notation de la vie (Roland Barthes, Denis Roche, Annie Ernaux)" (Honoré Champion, 2014), and has also co-edited two multi-author volumes: "L’Autobiographie entre autres. Écrire la vie aujourd’hui" (Peter Lang, 2013); "Réceptions de la culture japonaise en France depuis 1945. Paris-Tokyo-Paris: détours par le Japon" (Honoré Champion, 2016).
Hsiao-Chi Chang
(Children's book illustrator)
"After 1762 Days: How my illustration projects take shape"
about Hsiao-Chi
Hsiao-Chi Chang is an illustrator, born and raised in Taiwan. Her personal website is at http://www.hsiaochichang.com/
Lee Conell
(Writer and Japan-US Creative Artist Fellow)
Fiction reading
about Lee
Lee Conell is a Japan-US Creative Artist Fellow and author of the story collection Subcortical (Johns Hopkins University Press, November 2017), which was awarded The Story Prize Spotlight Award, an Independent Publisher Book Award, and an American Fiction Award. Her short fiction appears or is forthcoming in the Oxford American, the Chicago Tribune, Kenyon Review online, Guernica, The Collagist, Glimmer Train, and elsewhere. She has received creative writing fellowships from the Japan-United States Friendship Commission and the National Endowment for the Arts, the Tennessee Arts Commission, the Sewanee Writers’ Conference, Vanderbilt University, and the Yiddish Book Center. Her story “The Lock Factory” was awarded the grand prize in the Chicago Tribune‘s Nelson Algren Literary Arts contest. She currently is a lecturer in creative writing at Vanderbilt University and a faculty member in the Creative Writing MFA program at the Sewanee School of Letters. Her novel The Party Upstairs is forthcoming from Penguin Press.
Jordan Smith
(Poet, academic and translator)
Reading: "Tokyo Poetry Today"
about jordan
Jordan A.Y. Smith is Associate Professor of Intercultural Studies at Josai International 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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