Centre for Japanese Research:
Opening Reception, Desk spaces available, and
CJR's Tea series: How Tea Became Japanese!
Nation-Work: How Tea Became Japanese
Friday, October 19, 2018
Time: 4:30 PM
C. K. Choi Building, Room 120 (1855 West Mall)
Dr. Kristin Surak (University of London)
Meet the author of
Award-winning new book: Making Tea, Making Japan: Cultural Nationalism in Practice. Dr. Kristin Surak will be dropping by UBC to talk about how
the tea ceremony from an aesthetic pleasure of elite men became a hobby of housewives from merely the privileged few, to the nation as a whole and how it makes a nation.
Lunchtime Series:
Narrative, Performance, and "Premodern" Forms:
Ishimure Michiko's Contemporary Noh Play Okinomiya
and its Costuming by Shimura Fukumi
Tuesday, October 23rd
Time: 12:30pm
Asian Centre, room 604
Dr. Christina Laffin
Join Dr. Laffin as she examines Ishimure's contemporary noh play Okinomiya and its production from the perspective of translator and tangential contributor. Her presentation will talk about how scholars and interlocutors have approached Ishmure's complex use of narrative, voice, and dialect by sometimes reducing it to an interaction with classical, traditional, or premodern forms.
What does this tell us about our understanding of the "premodern" and why is a noh play about war, natural disaster, and human sacrifice being painstakingly produced
in 2018?
That's all for now
Have a great week!
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