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C.V. Starr Library New Acquisition: Documents of the Proletarian Cultural Movement in Prewar Japan

C.V. Starr Library New Acquisition: Documents of the Proletarian Cultural Movement in Prewar Japan

A new DVD on Documents of the proletarian cultural movement of the prewar Shōwa era (昭和戦前期プロレタリア文化運動資料集) has been acquired and is now accessible through the dedicated Japanese language CD/DVD-ROM workstation in the Starr Reading Room (300 Kent Hall).

This DVD, newly compiled by Shōwa Senzenki Puroretaria Bunka Undō Shiryōshū Kenkyūkai, contains various important resources from various sources.

More details, please refer to the CLIO record: https://clio.columbia.edu/catalog/12807594

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Two Thought Provoking Talks by Alisa Freedman

Alisa Freedman (Associate Professor, Japanese Literature & Film, University of Oregon) visited Columbia on the 16th and 17th of November for two talks organized by the Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture. She was voted by the graduate students of the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures for her exciting and diverse areas of research. The first talk dealt with the topic of Japanese women who studied in the United States between 1949 and 1966, which was an enlightening account of U.S.-Japan interaction that brought to attention an overlooked postwar history of Japanese female intellectuals, some of whom pursued graduate studies at Columbia University. The personal life stories of these women enable a reading of U.S.-Japan relations during the postwar/Cold War period as well as the role that female intellectuals played within the interplay of foreign policy, all the while living out their individual goals and aspirations. The second talk was a fascinating insight into fights (literary rather than physical) among prominent figures in the Japanese literary circles that caused a promising young writer to leave the literary field. The textual interactions which she calls “snarks” provide new ways of narrating the history of modern Japanese literature and arriving at a new understanding of that history through a study of affective relationships among writers. Over dinner and lunch following the talks, faculty members and graduate students got a chance to discuss the details of Professor Freedman’s research and enjoy her delightful company.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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Professor Theodore Hughes awarded Heyman Center Fellowship for 2018-2019

Professor Theodore Hughes awarded Heyman Center Fellowship for 2018-2019

Professor Theodore Hughes, Director of the Center for Korean Research and Korean Foundation Professor of Korean Studies at Columbia University, has been awarded a Heyman Center Fellowship for the 2018-2019 academic year.

Funded by Office of the Executive Vice-President of the Arts and Sciences, this yearlong fellowship provides course relief, allowing scholars to work on proposed research projects and to participate in the Heyman Center Fellows Seminar. Comprising other faculty and dissertating graduate student fellows and chaired by Mark Mazower, the Seminar Director of the Heyman Center Fellows, this seminar provides the opportunity to present work-in-progress and foster discussion across fields and disciplines in other ways, creating opportunities for collaborative research and teaching in future semesters.

The EALAC Department hopes you join us in congratulating Professor Hughes on his tremendous achievement.