On this week in Tokyo (20 - 26 February 2017)

​Plenty on this week in Tokyo, beginning with Liberlit tomorrow at Tokyo Woman's Christian University, dedicated to "discussion and defense of the role of literary texts in the English curriculum".

Other lecture topics include: Elizabeth Bowen, clothing in the nineteenth century novel, Enlightenment political economy, autobiography, Inazo Nitobe, and Original Sin (fortunately these are all separate lectures...)

There's also a new exhibition at Tokyo Station Gallery on visual culture and parody in Japan in the 1970s (above is a cover from the legendary Shibuya subculture magazine, "Bikkuri House").


lectures

(** = in English / * = translation provided)

**20 Feb 2017 - 8th Annual Liberlit Conference (exploring English literature in Japanese university education) (http://www.liberlit.com/new/)

** 20 Feb 2017 "Mismatches between Signed and Spoken Languages", Professor Asli Goksel, TUFS 3pm (http://www.tufs.ac.jp/event/general/asl_gksel.html)

**20 Feb 2017 - "Between Istanbul and Gujarat: Descriptions of Mecca in the Sixteenth-Century Indian Ocean", Guy Burak (NYU), Toyo Bunko 5pm (https://sites.google.com/s…/tbkenkyubulecture/tokubetu-danwa)

**21 Feb 2017, "Kanun and Taxation in the Ottoman Empire", Toyo Bunko symposium with presentations by Dr Keiko Iwamoto (JSPS) and Professor Linda Darling (Arizona), 4pm (https://sites.google.com/s…/tbkenkyubulecture/tokubetu-danwa)

**22 Feb 2017 - Lecture by Professor George Hughes at Gakushuin, 2:30pm, on "Imagining a Ghost: On Elizabeth Bowen and 'The Back Drawing-Room'" (http://iasil.jp/…/George-and-Clair-Hughes-Schedule_english_…)

**22 Feb 2017 - Roger T Ames (Beijing), "Confucian Role Ethics: A Challenge to the Ideology of Individualism", UTCP 3pm (http://utcp.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/…/confucian_role_e…/index_en.php)

**23 Feb 2017 - Seminar by Bradford Bow (Yonsei, South Korea), 'Lord Kames on the Political Economy of Enlightened Husbandry'. Respondent: Chikashi Sakashita (Tokyo Women's Christian University), Kojima Conference Room, Level 2, Kojima Hall, Hongo Campus, University of Tokyo. (https://politicaleconomyseminar.wordpress.com/)

**23 Feb 2017 - Lecture by Professor Clair Hughes at UTokyo (Hongo), on "Dressing for Success: Costume in the Nineteenth Century Novel", 5pm (http://iasil.jp/…/George-and-Clair-Hughes-Schedule_english_…)

**23 Feb 2017 - Kate Hodgkin, "Constructions of the self: memory, time and space in seventeenth-century English autobiography", Toyo University, 14:30 (http://www.toyo.ac.jp/site/ihs/314937.html)

24 Feb 2017 - "Nitobe Inazo and His Activities Seen from a Point of View of Public Diplomacy", Kazuma Ueshina (Waseda), Hosei University 18:30

24 Feb 2017 - Lecture by novelist Hiroyuki Itsuki at Gakushuin, "文学のチカラとは?" (The Power of Literature), 3pm (http://www.univ.gakushuin.ac.jp/…/3de235a1b8d1116ac63d467ec…)

**25 Feb 2017 - Kate Hodgkin, "Unofficial Histories: Raphael Samuel and the History Workshop movement", Toyo University, 13:30 (http://www.toyo.ac.jp/site/ihs/314937.html)

25 Feb 2017 - Farewell lectures of Professor Kubota and Professor Kawano, Otsuma Women's University English Department (http://www.otsuma.ac.jp/news/2016/20170208101452​)

26 Feb 2017 - Sophia University symposium on Women and Original Sin in Biblical interpretation (教父の聖書解釈から考える原罪と女性), 13:20pm


art exhibitions and drama


until 26 Feb 2017 - Exhibition on "Marie Antoinette, Queen at Versailles", Mori Arts Center Gallery Roppongi (http://www.ntv.co.jp/marie/outline/)

until 9 April 2017 - "Edo and Beijing: Cities and Urban Life in the 18th Century", Edo-Tokyo Museum

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 2017 - "Matisse et Rouault" exhibition, Shiodome Museum (http://panasonic.co.jp/…/museum/exh…/17/170114/index_en.html)

until 26 March 2017 - "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 16 April 2017 - "Parody and Intertextuality: Visual Culture in Japan around the 1970s", Tokyo Station Gallery

until 11 June 2017 - Indian contemporary artist N.S. Harsha, Mori Art Museum, http://www.mori.art.museum/english/contents/n_s_harsha/