Japan
Survey of major monuments in the visual arts of ancient and early medieval Japan with attention to the conditions and thought worlds of cultural production. Emphasis on the arts practices and philosophies of Buddhism and Shintō in juxtaposition with the courtly arts from narrative handscrolls to integrations of poetry and painting in landscape screens and picture albums.
For students with advanced Chinese, Japanese, or Korean language skills who wish to pursue a close study of the East Asia region, not otherwise covered by departmental offerings. May be used for research, a special project, or a substantial research paper under faculty supervision. A term paper or its equivalent and regular meetings with an adviser are required. Ordinarily only one term may be offered toward the major or for credit toward the degree.
For students with advanced Chinese, Japanese, or Korean language skills who wish to pursue a close study of the East Asia region, not otherwise covered by departmental offerings. May be used for research, a special project, or a substantial research paper under faculty supervision. A term paper or its equivalent and regular meetings with an adviser are required. Ordinarily only one term may be offered toward the major or for credit toward the degree.
In celebration of the upcoming launch of NANG’s new special online issue focused on “Independent Cinema Spaces in Asia,” five specialists will gather for a panel discussion focused on independent film exhibition across Asia and their importance to media culture in the region. Speakers will cover a range of theaters and exhibition spaces in China, Hong Kong, Indonesia, Japan, the Philippines and South Korea. The discussion will be followed by a Q&A. This panel discussion is organized by NANG as part of its “Independent Cinema Spaces in Asia” project and made possible through the auspices...
Speakers Susan E. Brownell, University of Missouri- St. Louis William Kelly, Yale University John Horne, Waseda University Registration Register in advance for this webinar: https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_IPASee6GSfajz0-tXKJJrg After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar.
Part of the Council of East Asian Studies at the MacMillan Center, the Digital Tokugawa Lab is a group of scholars working on digital humanities projects with a focus on pre-modern Japan. Inspired by the idea that some forms of knowledge production require a range of expertise and a scale of labor that cannot be covered by a single individual, the lab was established in fall 2019 by Fabian Drixler and has four other full-time lab members. For details, please see Digital Atlas of Tokugawa Japan....
SEATTLE, WA—During the Pacific War, more than 200,000 Korean girls were forced into sexual servitude for Japanese soldiers. They lived in horrific conditions in “comfort stations” across Japanese-occupied territories. Barely 10 percent survived to return to Korea, where they lived as social outcasts. Since then, self-declared comfort women have come forward only to have their testimonies and calls for compensation largely denied by the Japanese government. Kim Soom tells the story of a woman who was kidnapped at the age of thirteen while gathering snails for her starving family. The horrors...
This paper engages with debates within feminism to rethink woman, gender, body, and agency as conceptual categories for reading medieval Japanese literary/Buddhist texts. It questions the unreflexive transposition of contemporary categories of thought that have emerged out of a specifically European history on to worlds that were shaped by very different histories and religious/cultural traditions. The paper argues that in medieval Japanese texts gender did not function as a ‘social’ category posited against the ‘natural’ fact of sex and that gender was instead a kind of script in which the...
In 2019, novelist Kawakami Mieko returned to her 2008 novella Chichi to ran and published a newly expanded version of the story under the title Natsumonogatari. In this talk, David Boyd will discuss the relationship between Chichi to ran and the expanded novel. He will then speak about the process of co-translating Natsumonogatari into English with Sam Bett as Breasts and Eggs, focusing especially on the voices of the three women at the heart of Kawakami’s original novella. David Boyd is Assistant Professor of Japanese at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He has translated...
What are the effects and limits of soft power in the modern era? The Yale University Conference on Japanese Soft Power in East Asia showcases new research considering these questions, with contributions from leading scholars in soft power, international relations, and East Asian politics. Click here for schedule and event participants. Registration Register in advance for this webinar: https://yale.zoom.us/webinar/register/...
This international symposium explores Japan’s role in the First Global Age through a comprehensive and interdisciplinary investigation of its cultural and intellectual production from about 1500 to 1700. Convening at Kyushu University, researchers from top-institutions around the world and from a wide disciplinary range, will bridge the classical humanities (history, art history, literature, religious studies, intellectual history) and history of science (astronomy, cartography, military technology). This symposium is co-organized and co-funded by Kyushu University’s Faculty of Humanities and...
This international symposium explores Japan’s role in the First Global Age through a comprehensive and interdisciplinary investigation of its cultural and intellectual production from about 1500 to 1700. Convening at Kyushu University, researchers from top-institutions around the world and from a wide disciplinary range, will bridge the classical humanities (history, art history, literature, religious studies, intellectual history) and history of science (astronomy, cartography, military technology). This symposium is co-organized and co-funded by Kyushu University’s Faculty of Humanities and...
This international symposium explores Japan’s role in the First Global Age through a comprehensive and interdisciplinary investigation of its cultural and intellectual production from about 1500 to 1700. Convening at Kyushu University, researchers from top-institutions around the world and from a wide disciplinary range, will bridge the classical humanities (history, art history, literature, religious studies, intellectual history) and history of science (astronomy, cartography, military technology). This symposium is co-organized and co-funded by Kyushu University’s Faculty of Humanities...
This international symposium explores Japan’s role in the First Global Age through a comprehensive and interdisciplinary investigation of its cultural and intellectual production from about 1500 to 1700. Convening at Kyushu University, researchers from top-institutions around the world and from a wide disciplinary range, will bridge the classical humanities (history, art history, literature, religious studies, intellectual history) and history of science (astronomy, cartography, military technology). This symposium is co-organized and co-funded by Kyushu University’s Faculty of Humanities...
This international symposium explores Japan’s role in the First Global Age through a comprehensive and interdisciplinary investigation of its cultural and intellectual production from about 1500 to 1700. Convening at Kyushu University, researchers from top-institutions around the world and from a wide disciplinary range, will bridge the classical humanities (history, art history, literature, religious studies, intellectual history) and history of science (astronomy, cartography, military technology). This symposium is co-organized and co-funded by Kyushu University’s Faculty of Humanities and...
This international symposium explores Japan’s role in the First Global Age through a comprehensive and interdisciplinary investigation of its cultural and intellectual production from about 1500 to 1700. Convening at Kyushu University, researchers from top-institutions around the world and from a wide disciplinary range, will bridge the classical humanities (history, art history, literature, religious studies, intellectual history) and history of science (astronomy, cartography, military technology). This symposium is co-organized and co-funded by Kyushu University’s Faculty of Humanities and...
This workshop will be conducted in Japanese. Flyer can be downloaded here. Dr. Chieko Nakagawa will demonstrate how to teach Japanese pronunciation using the materials she has developed. The workshop will consist of two sessions: Session 1 will be focused on how to teach novice and beginner levels. Session 2 will be spent on how to teach intermediate and advanced levels...
This workshop will be conducted in Japanese. Flyer can be downloaded here. Dr. Chieko Nakagawa will demonstrate how to teach Japanese pronunciation using the materials she has developed. The workshop will consist of two sessions: Session 1 will be focused on how to teach novice and beginner levels. Session 2 will be spent on how to teach intermediate and advanced levels...
Interested in becoming an East Asian Languages & Literatures or East Asian Studies Major? Come for an informal get-together with the DUS for EALL and the DUS for EAST! Please RSVP to eastasian.studies@yale.edu by October 30th to receive Zoom link. For more...
In this talk, I discuss the development of anti-imperialist politics in Japan and West Germany in reaction to the American war in Vietnam and the move from protest to armed resistance in the late 1960s and early 1970s. In particular, I highlight the transfer of ideas and people across borders and the forces inspiring political mobilization that flowed between Japanese and West German radical groups. Images of Japanese student street fighters and theories of direct action against an “imperialist” alliance with the US helped motivate West German radicals in their own fight against the state. I...
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