The Anthropology of Asia Talk Series: Dr. Ayami Nakatani
"Listing Cultures: Politics of Boundaries and Heritagization of Handwoven Indonesian Textiles"
The Anthropology of Asia (organized by Millie Creighton)
Dr. Ayami Nakatani
Tuesday, November 19, 2019
2:00-3:30
AnSo room 2107
The Literature and Calligraphy Introduced by Kukai
Dr. Kono Kimiko
Nov 20, 2019
12:00-1:00 p.m.
C.K. Choi 351
This lecture will consider what writing meant in terms of calligraphy, letters, script, and the objects on which these were produced, focusing on the correspondence the monk Kukai (774
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835) sent to Emperor Saga (786
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842, r. 809-823) after returning to Japan from an official journey to Tang China. The gifted objects reveal the state of writing, Sinographic exchange, and the artistic use of media in ninth-century Japan and show how manuscripts and inscription could be used to display intellectual prowess and prove to a sovereign one's cultural knowledge.
*This talk will be conducted in Japanese
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The "History Wars" and the "Comfort Woman" Issue:
Revisionism and the Right-wing in Contemporary
Japan, U.S., and Canada"
Dr. Tomomi Yamaguchi and Satoko Oka Norimatsu
Nov 21, 2019
7-9pm
C.K Choi 120
Based on Dr. Yamaguchi's anthropological fieldwork on the Japanese right-wing activities in the U.S. and Japan, as well as the experiences of people involved in the making of the "comfort women" memorials in the U.S., Dr. Yamaguchi will demonstrate how this issue functions as an important rallying point to tie together disparate right-wing forces in and outside Japan.
Dr. Yamaguchi will also highlight how the acts of remembering and commemorating the survivors' experiences of wartime violence against women become such a contentious, political issue that mobilize the Japanese right-wing so intensively and emotionally both in Japan and the United States.
Following Dr. Yamaguchi's talk, Satoko Oka Norimatsu, Yamaguchi's fellow Asia-Pacific Journal: Japan Focus
editor and a Vancouver-based author, will introduce "history wars" in Canada, in 2015 over the plan to build a "comfort women" statue in Burnaby, and in 2018 over the movement to establish a Nanjing Massacre Commemorative Day in Canada.
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