On in Tokyo this week (13 - 19 February 2017)

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)
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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/