 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  Looking for ways to spend the spring vacation? We have a plethora of events on in Tokyo this week, including recently-opened exhibitions on Kyosai, Japanese tea ceremony utensils, 18th century Tokyo/Beijing, and postwar Tokyo - not to mention ongoing events on Titian, Matisse, and N.S. Harsha. In theatre: August Strindberg's Miss Julie / Dance of Death is on at the Bunkamura. (The image above is from the display on Shinichiro Ogata's food design and "Japanese Aesthetics of Taste", opening on the 9th at Intermediatheque).
On the lecture side, there are several events on American politics, including Nancy Snow's lecture on "Trumpaganda", a lecture by Itoh Keiko on the history of Japanese in Britain, and a Keio event on the phenomenology of the art object. Also, the robot Natsume Soseki (or Roboseki, I am determined to call him) is speaking at a symposium at Nishogakusha. See below for a complete list of events. * = partly in English, or translation provided ** = event mainly in English lectures and symposia **6 March 2017 - "Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine: Evolutionary Theory and Religion in Modern Japan", C. Clinton Godart (Hokkaido U), U Tokyo IASA, 4pm **7 Mar 2017 - New Directions in Empirical Research of Humanity, Keio University (University of Vienna International Symposium), 1:30pm (http://www.tgu.keio.ac.jp/docs/keio-vienna_symp.pdf) 7 Mar 2017, workshop on "Diversity in Japanese Subculture", UTokyo UTCP, 6pm **8 March 2017 - "Moments of Pleasure: Time, Ethics, and Desire in Contemporary Egypt", UTokyo IASA, 2pm **8 Mar 2017 - Lecture by Itoh Keiko on "Japanese in Britain, 1863 - 2001: A Photographic Exhibition", International House of Japan, 7pm (https://www.i-house.or.jp/…/progra…/library_reading20170308/) 9 Mar 2017 - 《西洋中世学会版》リサーチ・ショーケース (Research Showcase in Medieval Studies, University of Tokyo (Hongo Campus) (http://www.medievalstudies.jp/general/aboutseminar201703/) **9 Mar 2017 - "Persuader in Chief: Deconstructing Trumpaganda", Nancy Snow (Kyoto U of Foreign Studies), at Temple University Japan, Azabu Hall 1F, 7:30pm **10 March 2017 - International symposium, "Looking back on the Postwar Era from 2017", UTokyo Komaba campus, 1pm **11 Mar 2017 - Discussion on women's rights in Japan and USA (「女性の権利 アメリカと日本どう違う？～現在・過去・ 未来において～」), Knox English Network (event for school and college students) 11 Mar 2017 - Waseda University symposium on protecting cultural assets ("文化財を守るために1"), 1pm (https://www.waseda.jp/flas/hss/news/2017/02/01/2931/) 11 Mar 2017 - Japan Association of English Romanticism (イギリス・ロマン派学会) spring meeting, Japan University, 4pm (https://sites.google.com/site/jaeromanticism/home/events#20170208) 11-12 Mar 2017 - Symposium on Natsume Soseki and Chinese kanbun poetry (漢文脈の漱石), Nishogakusha University exhibitions and drama until 11 March 2017 - "Wisdom and Works of Tibetan Pastoralists", TUFS (http://www.tufs.ac.jp/english/2017/02/ilcaa-2017feb-mar-event.html) 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 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 9 Mar to 4 April 2017 - Food design exhibition: "Jikifu: A Japanese Aesthetics of Taste", Intermediatheque *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) 8 March to 5 June 2017 - Alfonso Mucha Exhibition (ミュシャ展), National Art Center, Tokyo 10 Mar - 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 until 11 June 2017 - Indian contemporary artist N.S. Harsha, Mori Art Museum, http://www.mori.art.museum/english/contents/n_s_harsha/  This Tuesday 28th sees Professor George Hughes's final lecture in Tokyo at the University of Tokyo English Poetry society (from 1pm; lecture at 4pm), on Alexander Pope's "Eloisa to Abelard" (1717). Pope's story of violent love - doomed by vengeful parental castration and monastic imprisonment - became one of the eighteenth century's most enduringly popular poems, translated into many European languages and an important influence on the Gothic and Romantic traditions. It also encouraged a trend for clandestine correspondence between young lovers: Soon as thy letters trembling I unclose, That well-known name awakens all my woes. Oh name for ever sad! for ever dear! Still breath'd in sighs, still usher'd with a tear ... Also on this week: a talk from the former editor of the economist, Bill Emmott, on Brexit and Trump; a workshop on the academic novel, David Damrosch (Harvard) on Japan in world literature, modern Malaysian history, the French Romantic painter Théodore Chassériau, and a British Council language-learning workshop on British versus American English. * = partly in English, or translation provided ** = event in English lectures **27 Feb 2017 - "New Perspectives on Modern Malay(sian) History", TUFS, 4pm **27 Feb - 1 March - David Damrosch, series of lectures on "Japanese Literature in the World", University of Tokyo *28 Feb 2017 - UTokyo English Poetry Society (英詩研究会) meeting, Hongo Campus, Department of English Dictionary Room (文学部3号館、英文辞書室(5F)) 13:30. Meeting includes talk in English by Professor George Hughes titled "Eloisa to Abelard" ー Alexander Pope" from 16:00. **28 Feb 2017 - Kourken Michaelian (U Otago), "The Epistemology of Generative Memory", UTokyo TFAP (http://tf-ap.com/program/#124) 2 Mar 2017 - Vincent Pomarède (Musée du Louvre), “Chassériau and Nature” (French lecture with Japanese translation), National Museum of Western Art (https://www.nmwa.go.jp/en/events/index.html) **2 Mar 2017 - Bill Emmott, lecture on "Brexit, Trump and threats to the liberal international order: what Japan and the UK can do", Japan-British Society, 18:30 (4,000 yen for non-members) **2 March 2017 - "Traveling Ethics Textbooks in East Asia", Professor Nam Nguyen (Vietnam National U), 33rd GJS Seminar, University of Tokyo IASA 4 Mar 2017 - Workshop on the academic novel (大学という物語 ― Academic Novelを中心に), 3pm, Soundings English Literary Association (http://soundings.lekumo.biz/blog/) 4 Mar 2017 - British English vs American English Workshop (イギリス英語vs.アメリカ英語 ワークショップ), British Council, 18:30 (https://www.britishcouncil.jp/events/english-british-american-workshop2017) exhibitions and drama until 3 Mar 2017 - Exhibition on Christian icons and prayer aids (キリスト教信仰のかたち―祈りの道具にみる多様性―), Kokugakuin University Museum (http://museum.kokugakuin.ac.jp/event/detail/2016_christ.html) until 5 Mar 2017 - "World Book Design" exhibition at the Printing Museum, Tokyo (http://www.printing-museum.org/exhibi…/…/161203/img/zoom.pdf) until 11 March 2017 - "Wisdom and Works of Tibetan Pastoralists", TUFS (http://www.tufs.ac.jp/english/2017/02/ilcaa-2017feb-mar-event.html) 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 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 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 28 May 2017 - Exhibition on "Théodore Chassériau : Parfum exotique", National Museum of Western Art (https://www.nmwa.go.jp/en/exhibitions/2017chasseriau.html) 8 March to 5 June 2017 - Alfonso Mucha Exhibition (ミュシャ展), National Art Center, Tokyo 8 April to 25 June 2017 - "Japan, the Archipelago of the House: Contemporary Japanese houses seen through photographs by a French architect" (日本、家の列島), Shiodome Museum Rouault Gallery until 11 June 2017 - Indian contemporary artist N.S. Harsha, Mori Art Museum, http://www.mori.art.museum/english/contents/n_s_harsha/  Tokyo humanities events this week: post-war Japanese animation, Professor George Hughes on the English novel, space hippos, Yeats's "At the Hawk's Well", post-secularism, medieval papacy, sharia law, the identity theory of truth, foreign images of the Qing Dynasty, and Tibetan pastoralists. See below for a full list of lectures / symposia / art shows / drama.
(image: costume for Yeats's "At the Hawk's Well, 1916) * = event partly in English, or translation provided ** = main language English Lectures and Symposia **13 Feb 2017 - Giovanna Miolli (U of Padova), "To Dress Up a Truism in High-flown Language": McDowell and the Identity Theory of Truth", UTokyo TFAP, 4pm (http://tf-ap.com/program/#124) **13 Feb 2017 - Tomoya Kimura, "The process and factors for the domestic production of animation in Japan after World War II", University of Tokyo, 4pm (http://utcp.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/events/2017/02/related_event_the_process_and/index_en.php) 13 Feb 2017, Zhang Shiming (Renmin U of China), "Painting and Photography in Foreigners’ Construction of an Image of Qing Dynasty Law", UTokyo IASA (check time) (http://www.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng/news/news.php?id=20170202133727) (in Chinese) 15 Feb 2017 - Rikkyo U. Symposium on "人文学の将来とは ― ＜ことば＞と＜ひと＞の原点へ ―" (The Future of Humanities - From the Starting Point of People and Words), 6.30pm (http://www.rikkyo.ac.jp/events/2017/02/18679/) 16 Feb 2017 - Noh production of Yeats's "At the Hawk's Well", Bunkamura Orchard Hall (https://www.artscouncil-tokyo.jp/en/events/12439/) **17-19 Feb 2017 - International Symposium on "Medieval Papacy: Governance, Communication, Cultural Exchange", Rikkyo University (http://www.medievalstudies.jp/information/news20170104b/) **17-18 Feb 2017 - International Workshop on "State and Sharia in Pre-20th Century Middle East", TUFS (http://earlymodernstate.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2017/01/state-and-shari.html) **17 Feb 2017 - International Workshop: "Imagining an Alternative 'Post-Secular' State: Historicizing and Comparing National Struggles over Re-secularization", TUFS, 10am **18 Feb 2017 - Lectures by Professor George Hughes on "Reading Novels: Misunderstandings over an 'English Style'" and Professor Clair Hughes on "Novel Hats", U Tokyo Komaba, 1pm (http://iasil.jp/…/George-and-Clair-Hughes-Schedule_english_…) Exhibitions, Drama, Art Shows until 14 Feb 2017 - "Romeo & Juliette", TBS Akasaka Act Theatre (http://romeo-juliette.com/) 9 Feb - 19 Feb 2017 - 海外戯曲リーディング - International Drama reading festival, Sengawa Theatre (http://www.sengawa-gekijo.jp/kaigaigikyoku/) 13 Feb - 11 March 2017 - "Wisdom and Works of Tibetan Pastoralists", TUFS (http://www.tufs.ac.jp/english/2017/02/ilcaa-2017feb-mar-event.html) 17 Feb - 19 Feb 2017 - "Yes This Night" (Canadian fringe theatre double bill with Haley McGee and 'Space Hippo' Shadow Puppetry - World Peace Theatre, Kawasaki (http://ytg.jp/en/shows-en/upcoming-shows-en/500-yes-this-night-a-midwinter-double-bill) until 19 Feb 2017 - "Lascaux: The Cave Paintings of the Ice Age", National Museum of Nature and Science, Ueno (http://www.timeout.com/…/lascaux-the-cave-paintings-of-the-…) until 26 Feb 2017 - Exhibition on "Marie Antoinette, Queen at Versailles", Mori Arts Center Gallery Roppongi (http://www.ntv.co.jp/marie/outline/) until 3 Mar 2017 - Exhibition on Christian icons and prayer aids (キリスト教信仰のかたち―祈りの道具にみる多様性―), Kokugakuin University Museum (http://museum.kokugakuin.ac.jp/event/detail/2016_christ.html) until 5 Mar 2017 - "World Book Design" exhibition at the Printing Museum, Tokyo (http://www.printing-museum.org/exhibi…/…/161203/img/zoom.pdf) 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 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 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 11 June 2017 - Indian contemporary artist N.S. Harsha, Mori Art Museum, http://www.mori.art.museum/english/contents/n_s_harsha/  With most universities in the middle of entrance exams, next week is dominated by arts events. Two new exhibitions have just opened: one on Indian contemporary artist N.S. Harsha, Charming Journey, at the Mori Art museum, the other on the French post-impressionist Nabis painters at Mitsubishi Ichigokan. The annual Yebisu International Festival opens on the 10th in the Photographic Museum in Ebisu, on the theme of "Multiple Future" (multiple but still singular?). Finally, the director of the Art Museums of Skagen will give a lecture on the Scandinavian Skagen painters at the National Museum of Western Art on the 11th (pictured above is Michael Ancher's A Stroll on the Beach, 1896).
Lectures are thinner on the ground this week but topics include: the Ogasawara islands, Confucian role ethics, Professor Bruce Grant of NYU on politics in the Caucasus, and a Soseki/Shiki symposium. If this is your first visit to our new website, welcome! and please feel free to look around: we have a blog, list of Tokyo humanities links, and other useful features. LECTURES AND CONFERENCES 5 Feb 2017 - Arts Council Tokyo Traveling Research Laboratory - discussion of Ogasawara Islands, 2pm (https://www.artscouncil-tokyo.jp/en/events/17069/) 9 Feb 2017 - Roger Ames (Peking U) "Theorizing "Person" for Confucian Role Ethics : A Good Place to Start", UTokyo 2pm (http://utcp.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/events/2017/02/confucian_role_ethics_a_challe/) 10-12 Feb 2017 - Reading of Alex Buzo's play "Norm and Ahmed" at Sengawa Theatre(http://japan.embassy.gov.au/tkyo/events.html) 10 Feb - "The Donkey Wars: Satire and Political Imagination in the Caucasus", Prof. Bruce Grant (NYU), Toyo Bunko, 3pm (http://earlymodernstate.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2017/01/post-aa44.html) 10 Feb - 26 Feb 2017 - Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2017, theme of "Multiple Future" (マルチプルな未来) (http://www.yebizo.com/) 11 Feb 2017 - "150th Birthday Commemoration Soseki/Shiki Symposium "Words, Things, the World", TUFS 13:30pm **11 Feb 2017 - Lisette Vind Ebbesen (Director, the Art Museums of Skagen), lecture on "The Skagen Painters", National Museum of Western Art, 2pm (https://www.nmwa.go.jp/en/events/index.html) EXHIBITIONS AND DRAMA until 14 Feb 2017 - "Romeo & Juliette", TBS Akasaka Act Theatre (http://romeo-juliette.com/) 9 Feb - 19 Feb 2017 - 海外戯曲リーディング - International Drama reading festival, Sengawa Theatre (http://www.sengawa-gekijo.jp/kaigaigikyoku/) until 19 Feb 2017 - "Lascaux: The Cave Paintings of the Ice Age", National Museum of Nature and Science, Ueno (http://www.timeout.com/…/lascaux-the-cave-paintings-of-the-…) until 26 Feb 2017 - Exhibition on "Marie Antoinette, Queen at Versailles", Mori Arts Center Gallery Roppongi (http://www.ntv.co.jp/marie/outline/) until 3 Mar 2017 - Exhibition on Christian icons and prayer aids (キリスト教信仰のかたち―祈りの道具にみる多様性―), Kokugakuin University Museum (http://museum.kokugakuin.ac.jp/event/detail/2016_christ.html) until 5 Mar 2017 - "World Book Design" exhibition at the Printing Museum, Tokyo (http://www.printing-museum.org/exhibi…/…/161203/img/zoom.pdf) 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 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 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 11 June 2017 - Indian contemporary artist N.S. Harsha, Mori Art Museum, http://www.mori.art.museum/english/contents/n_s_harsha/ |
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