 A three-part lecture series titled "Comparative Indigenous Studies: Ethnic Identity and Religious Conversion" at Waseda University's Institute of Advanced Study from Professor Guillermo Wilde, (National University of San Martin in Argentina). Professor Wilde's lectures explore interactions between missionaries and indigenous peoples in the Jesuit missions to colonial Latin America in the 17th century, attempting to move beyond reductive paradigms of "domination" and "resistance" to think about more complex shifts in spatial and ritual practices. The lecture series is as follows - 3/31 (10.40am) - "Beyond Domination and Resistance. Interactions between missionaries and indigenous peoples in Colonial Latin America" Abstract: "Mission towns of Colonial Latin America congregated indigenous population from many different and diverse geographical, cultural and linguistic origins that adapted themselves to the same socio-political pattern. In this talk I explore different aspects of the process of conversion to Christianity of these peoples. I take into account three aspects. First, the imposition of a new social, political, and cultural organization. Second, the adaptation of missionary practices to the local context. Third, indigenous people appropriations of the missionary regime." 4/7 (10.40am) - "Religious Conversion and the formation of Space-Time categories in the Borderland Missions" Abstract: "Most of the population inhabiting in the Jesuit missions of Colonial Latin America in the 17th century had been forced to move from their original regions to the new settlements, which entailed an accelerated process of demographic and territorial disintegration as well as a reconfiguration of cultural, political and economic practices. This talk focuses on the process of formation of new space and time categories and practices in the configuration of a mission culture." 4/21 (10.40am) - "In the Limits of Missionary Knowledge and Practice: Indigenous rites and beliefs in comparative perspective" Abstract: "In this talk I explore Jesuit missionaries´ accounts on the indigenous traditions of Colonial South American. I distinguish two levels of discourse. One more visible corresponds to the identification of native beliefs (concepts, terms) in the native languages and their translation into Christian ideas. Another level, less visible, corresponds to the Indian ritual practices themselves, which were either equated with sacraments or relegated to the sphere of innocuous customs that could be gradually domesticated. My argument is that in their descriptions of indigenous societies, Jesuits constructed an arbitrary separation of spheres (civil-religious), in order to control knowledge about those societies."  Plenty of events packed into the next few days, before the new academic year begins. The opening of the sakura in Tokyo are marked by a "Cherry Blossom Viewing" exhibition at Tokyo National Museum, with displays of artworks featuring cherry blossoms, haiku poetry gatherings, and other events. Also, the Institute of Italian Culture in Chiyoda-ku has a photo exhibition of the 2500 cherry trees at the "Japanese promenade" in Rome, donated after a visit by the Italian prime minister in the 1950s.
Lecture topics over the next few days include: two lectures on the press (one on press freedom in contemporary Japan, one on the East Asian press in the 1940s); politeness and material culture in eighteenth-century England; foreign relations in early modern Islamic states; Chinese films in Hollywood; and "Treacherous Translation". See below for a full list of lectures and art exhibitions. Intermediatheque in Marunouchi also has another in their series of their jazz gramophone concerts, which I keep meaning to go to... Lectures and Conferences (** = event in English / * = partly in English, or translation provided) **3/27 - Political Economy Tokyo Seminar lectures by Lawrence Klein (Cambridge), on "The Culture of Politeness in Eighteenth-Century Britain", and Maxine Berg (Warwick) on "Global Microhistory" (University of Tokyo, Kojima Hall, 2pm: https://politicaleconomyseminar.wordpress.com/) **3/27 - Asiatic Society of Japan meeting - Peter O'Connor, “The Japan Times, the Nippon Times and the Cuckoo Press of Greater East Asia, 1940-1945”, Shibuya Kyoiku Gakuen, 6.30pm 3/27 - Takehiko Kariya (Oxford), "Catching-up Modernity: Reflections in between the two academic communities", UTokyo UTCP, 1pm **3/27 - British Needlework Workshop, Japan-British Society, 1pm **3/27 - Serk Bae Suh and Ken Yoshida (University of California), "Treacherous Translations/Transactions in Language and Art", Waseda University Toyama Campus, 5pm *3/27 - "Early Modern Islamic States and the Surrounding World" symposium, TUFS, 1pm 3/28 - "中近世ヨーロッパにおける教会法、教会法学者と社会" (Potential of the New Notion of World History Symposium), Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, 13:30 *3/29 - Research meeting on Middle East and Islamic Studies, TUFS, 13:30 *3/30 - Film Workshop: Messages from Paradise, TUFS, 2pm **3/30 - Vanessa Frangville (Brussels), "Going to Hollywood with Non-Han Films: A Potential Soft Power Synergy?", Waseda Building 19, 10:45am 3/31 - Gramophone Concert Jazz Summit 37 ("Oh, Lady Be Good!"), 18:00, Intermediatheque **3/31 - "Press Freedom in Contemporary Japan" - Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies, Temple University, 7pm Exhibitions until (tbc) - "Tokyo Mosaic (2): The Face of New Japan", Intermediatheque 3/27 - 4/9 - Exhibition on cherry blossom in Rome (ローマの花見), Italian Cultural Centre 3/28 - 5/21 - Session: A Singular Painter, University Art Museum, Ueno from 4/1 - Opening of new general exhibition at the Goethe Museum Tokyo (http://goethe.jp/) until 4/1 - Performance of August Strindberg's Miss Julie / Dance of Death, Bunkamura Theatre Cocoon (http://www.bunkamura.co.jp/english/cocoon/20170310.html) until 4/2 - Special Exhibition on "Titian and the Renaissance in Venice", Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (http://www.tobikan.jp/en/exhibition/h28_titian.html) until 4/2 - "Revisiting Siebold's Japan Museum", Nagasaki Museum of History and Culture until 4/4 - Food design exhibition: "Jikifu: A Japanese Aesthetics of Taste", Intermediatheque until 4/5 - Treasures of the Waseda University Library exhibition until 4/5 - Seize the Uncertain Day (ふたしかなその日), Tokyo University of the Arts University Museum until 4/9 - Exhibit on "The Romanov Dynasty: Russia seen from Japan, Japan seen from Russia", Toyo Bunko (http://www.toyo-bunko.or.jp/museum/romanov.pdf) until 4/9 - "Edo and Beijing: Cities and Urban Life in the 18th Century", Edo-Tokyo Museum until 4/16 - "Parody and Intertextuality: Visual Culture in Japan around the 1970s", Tokyo Station Gallery until 4/16 - "This is Kyosai!" (これぞ暁斎), Bunkamura Museum of Art until 4/28 - "Tea utensils from the Tomioka Collection", Waseda University Aizu Museum (free) until 5/7 - "Cherry Blossom Viewing" exhibition, Tokyo National Museum until 5/28 - Special Exhibition: "Akamon Gate: From Yo-hime Palace to the University of Tokyo",University of Tokyo Museum until 6/5 - Alfonso Mucha Exhibition (ミュシャ展), National Art Center, Tokyo until 6/11 - Treasures of the Natural History Museum in London, National Museum of Nature and Science Ueno until 6/11 - Indian contemporary artist N.S. Harsha, Mori Art Museum, http://www.mori.art.museum/english/contents/n_s_harsha/ until 6/18 - "Old Masters from the State Hermitage Museum", Mori Arts Center Gallery until 6/18 - "The formation process of print typeface: from movable type to digital font", Printing Museum Tokyo  Another packed and diverse week of events, coinciding with the opening of the cherry blossoms in Tokyo. One major new exhibition should probably not be missed by anyone studying 16th to 18th century European culture: "Old Masters from the State Hermitage Museum" (Mori Arts Center Gallery, until 18 June), featuring a large collection of paintings from the collection of Catherine the Great (including Titian, Rubens, Rembrandt, and Gainsborough's "Portrait of a Lady in Blue", above).
On the lecture front: tomorrow (Monday) is the University of Tokyo English Society annual meeting, featuring a farewell lecture by the head of department, Professor Noriko Imanishi. On the 23rd begins a major international conference at Gakushuin on the "History of Consumer Objects", featuring plenaries from Maxine Berg and Lawrence Klein. In addition, David Attwell from the University of York will be giving two lectures at UTokyo Komaba on J.M. Coetzee. Other topics this week include arts and robotics, hate speech, Japanese indie bands, Alfonso Mucha, and another really fascinating-looking experimental film at Intermediatheque: see the complete list below for details. Also, check out the redesigned "What's on Next" page on our website: it has been rearranged to make events easier to see, with art exhibitions now on a separate page of their own. Lectures and conferences (* = partly in English. ** = main language of event is English) 3/20 - "Signature de la vie: arts et robotique", Franco-Japanese Forum, University of Tokyo, 2pm 3/20 - University of Tokyo English Society Annual Meeting (東大英文学会総会) - including farewell lecture by Professor Noriko Imanishi (今西典子先生). Flier for the event 3/20 - Symposium on the future of history teaching (歴史教育に関するシンポジウム9, Nihon University, 12.30pm (https://www.chs.nihon-u.ac.jp/information/20170320/) 3/21 - Half-day workshop "Japonya’da Sohbet-i Osmaniye-3" (on 17th - 19th century Ottoman Empire), Chiba University, 3.30pm (http://earlymodernstate.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2017/01/3-japonyada-soh.html) **3/21 - Vivian Shaw, "Hate Speech and the Gendered Burden of Care: Anti-Discrimination Politics in Japan", Sophia U Institute of Comparative Culture, 6.30pm 3/21 - Japanese Learners' Debate, TUFS, 12:15pm **3/21 - "The End of the Global Rule of Law?", conversation with Andrew Hurrell, Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford (United Nations University, 6.30pm) *3/22 - "Dynamics in Middle Eastern Societies During the Mongol Period", symposium at UTokyo IASA, 13:30, **3/23-03/25 - History of Consumer Culture: Objects, Desire, Sociability conference, Gakushuin University, Tokyo (http://www-cc.gakushuin.ac.jp/~20070019/HCC2017cfp.html) **3/24 - J. M. Coetzee’s The Schooldays of Jesus (2016), workshop with Professor David Attwell, Komaba Campus UTokyo, Building 18 1st Floor, 3pm. 3/24 - Film screening - "EXPRMNTL 1963 – Japanese Experimental Film in Blossom", 18:00, Intermediatheque **3/25 - "The Comedy of Seriousness in J.M. Coetzee", lecture by Professor David Attwell, Komaba Campus UTokyo, Building 18 4th Floor, 1pm. Followed by a special panel on Coetzee and Zoe Wicomb. **3/25 - "From Idols to Indie Bands- Explore the Japanese Music Scene with Music Writer Ian F. Martin", Kinokuniya Tokyo, 3pm 3/25 - Tokyo American Literature Society (日本アメリカ文学会東京支部) meeting, Keio University Mita Campus, 1pm 3/25 - Contested Concepts in Modern Japanese Philosophy, Toyo Bunko, 2pm (Japanese) 3/26 - Seminar on comparative study of etiquette history in East Asia (東アジアにおける比較儀礼史の研究), Ochanomizu University, 11am Art exhibitions and drama until 3/26 - "Matisse et Rouault" exhibition, Shiodome Museum (http://panasonic.co.jp/…/museum/exh…/17/170114/index_en.html) until 3/26 - "Murmur and Tumult. Masterpieces of Nabis from the Musee d’Orsay", Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum until (tbc) - "Tokyo Mosaic (2): The Face of New Japan", Intermediatheque until 3/20 - Performance of Dacia Maraini's "Mary Stewart" at the Bunkaza Theatre, Shin-moriya Building until 4/1 - Performance of August Strindberg's Miss Julie / Dance of Death, Bunkamura Theatre Cocoon (http://www.bunkamura.co.jp/english/cocoon/20170310.html) until 4/2 - Special Exhibition on "Titian and the Renaissance in Venice", Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (http://www.tobikan.jp/en/exhibition/h28_titian.html) until 4/2 - "Revisiting Siebold's Japan Museum", Nagasaki Museum of History and Culture until 4/4 - Food design exhibition: "Jikifu: A Japanese Aesthetics of Taste", Intermediatheque until 4/5 - Treasures of the Waseda University Library exhibition until 4/5 - Seize the Uncertain Day (ふたしかなその日), Tokyo University of the Arts University Museum until 4/9 - Exhibit on "The Romanov Dynasty: Russia seen from Japan, Japan seen from Russia", Toyo Bunko (http://www.toyo-bunko.or.jp/museum/romanov.pdf) until 4/9 - "Edo and Beijing: Cities and Urban Life in the 18th Century", Edo-Tokyo Museum until 4/16 - "Parody and Intertextuality: Visual Culture in Japan around the 1970s", Tokyo Station Gallery until 4/16 - "This is Kyosai!" (これぞ暁斎), Bunkamura Museum of Art until 4/28 - "Tea utensils from the Tomioka Collection", Waseda University Aizu Museum (free) until 5/28 - Special Exhibition: "Akamon Gate: From Yo-hime Palace to the University of Tokyo",University of Tokyo Museum until 6/5 - Alfonso Mucha Exhibition (ミュシャ展), National Art Center, Tokyo until 6/11 - Treasures of the Natural History Museum in London, National Museum of Nature and Science Ueno until 6/11 - Indian contemporary artist N.S. Harsha, Mori Art Museum, http://www.mori.art.museum/english/contents/n_s_harsha/ until 6/18 - "Old Masters from the State Hermitage Museum", Mori Arts Center Gallery  Opening on Saturday 18th March: an exhibition dedicated to the University of Tokyo's famous "Akamon" Red Gate (a celebrated symbol of the university in Japan). The current gate was built in 1827 to mark the marriage of the shogun's daughter Yohime to the lord of the Maeda clan. The exhibition discusses the history of the Maeda residence - now the University's Hongo Campus - and showcases some recent archaeological discoveries. Free / open to all (the English pdf is here: http://www.um.u-tokyo.ac.jp/exhibition/2017akamon_e.pdf).   It may be vacation time at most universities, but there are still plenty of humanities-related events on in Tokyo in March!
New art exhibitions this week include the treasures of the National History Museum in London (English link), on display at the Museum of Nature and Science in Ueno. The exhibition includes displays on the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century founders of the collection, including the famed collector Hans Sloane (above), and Richard Owen, the paleontologist who campaigned for the exhibits to be moved to their current site in South Kensington. Over 370 specimens will be on display in total, including the museum's "Archaeopteryx". Also on this week: more lectures on Trump's America and the US election last year, traditional Jewish dance and music at Meiji Gakuin, an international symposium on the medieval money system, and more. See below for a complete list of lectures, drama, and exhibitions. * = event partly in English, or translation provided ** = event in English lectures **15 March 2017 - "Polarization, Politics, and Religion in Trump's America", David Hempton (Dean, Harvard Divinity School), Temple University Japan ICAS, 7.30pm 18 Mar 2017 - Japan Comparative Literature Society (Tokyo Branch) seminar, Japan Women's University, 2pm (http://www.hikakutokyo.com/) **18 Mar 2017 - "なぜアメリカで女性大統領は誕生しなかったのか？ ジェンダーと多様性から考える2016年大統領選挙" (Why was there no female president in America? Gender and diversity in the 2016 presidential election), Ochanomizu U IGS Symposium, March 18, 3:30pm 18 Mar 2017 - "Traditional Jewish Music and Dance" (ユダヤの伝統音楽と舞踊), 2pm, http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/event/archive/…/2017-01-24.html 18 Mar 2017 - Ballad Society of Japan 9th Annual Meeting, Tokyo Polytechnic University (Nakano Campus), 1pm (http://j-ballad.com/) 18 Mar 2017 - Farewell lecture by Professor Toshinao Nakamura - "私とフランス文学―あるいは言葉の力について" - Ochanomizu University, 14:30 (http://www.ocha.ac.jp/event/20170111.html) 18 March 2017 - Inside Out～世界を変える視点 - University of Tokyo UTCP, 1pm **18 Mar 2017 - "The Medieval Monetary World: Money, Mint, and Moneyer" (provisional title), seminar at Rikkyo (9.30am) presentations by Dr. Adrian Popescu (The Fitzwilliam Museum), Dr. William Day (The Fitzwilliam Museum), Dr. Rory Naismith (King's College,University of London), and Professor Markus A.Denzel (University of Leipzig) (http://www.rikkyo.ac.jp/events/2017/03/18684/) 19 March 2017 - Saussure and Historical Linguistics symposium (ソシュールと歴史言語学), 研究社英語センター, 1pm 19 March 2017 - "State, Religion, and Authority in the Post-Mongol Persianate World and Beyond", 10:30am, IASA, UTokyo 19 March 2017 - "Economic Activities and Behaviours Based on Islam" forum, TUFS, 1pm exhibitions and drama until 26 March - "Matisse et Rouault" exhibition, Shiodome Museum (http://panasonic.co.jp/…/museum/exh…/17/170114/index_en.html) until 26 March - "Murmur and Tumult. Masterpieces of Nabis from the Musee d’Orsay", Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum from March 9th - "Tokyo Mosaic (2): The Face of New Japan", Intermediatheque 17-20 Mar 2017 - Performance of Dacia Maraini's "Mary Stewart" at the Bunkaza Theatre, Shin-moriya Building until 2 April 2017 - Special Exhibition on "Titian and the Renaissance in Venice", Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (http://www.tobikan.jp/en/exhibition/h28_titian.html) until 2 April - "Revisiting Siebold's Japan Museum", Nagasaki Museum of History and Culture until 4 April 2017 - Food design exhibition: "Jikifu: A Japanese Aesthetics of Taste", Intermediatheque 17 Mar to 5 April 2017 - Treasures of the Waseda University Library exhibition *until 9 April 2017 - Exhibit on "The Romanov Dynasty: Russia seen from Japan, Japan seen from Russia", Toyo Bunko (http://www.toyo-bunko.or.jp/museum/romanov.pdf) until 9 April 2017 - "Edo and Beijing: Cities and Urban Life in the 18th Century", Edo-Tokyo Museum until 16 April 2017 - "Parody and Intertextuality: Visual Culture in Japan around the 1970s", Tokyo Station Gallery until 16 April 2017 - "This is Kyosai!" (これぞ暁斎), Bunkamura Museum of Art until 28 April - "Tea utensils from the Tomioka Collection", Waseda University Aizu Museum (free) until 5 June 2017 - Alfonso Mucha Exhibition (ミュシャ展), National Art Center, Tokyo until 1 April 2017 - Performance of August Strindberg's Miss Julie / Dance of Death, Bunkamura Theatre Cocoon (http://www.bunkamura.co.jp/english/cocoon/20170310.html) 18 March - 5 April 2017 - Seize the Uncertain Day (ふたしかなその日), Tokyo University of the Arts University Museum 18 March to 11 June 2017 - Treasures of the Natural History Museum in London, National Museum of Nature and Science Ueno |
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