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Japanese Theater, Publishing Culture, and Authorship: An International Workshop at Columbia University

Japanese Theater, Publishing Culture, and Authorship: An International Workshop at Columbia University

March 2 (Friday), 2018, 2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
March 3 (Saturday), 2018, 9:30 AM – 1:00 PM
403 Kent Hall, Columbia University, New York City
[in Japanese unless otherwise indicated]

Pre-registration required. Only limited seating is available due to the larger number of participants. Please register at www.keenecenter.org to be included on the waiting list and wait for tickets to be released. RSVP NOW

Workshop Schedule (click here)

The age of new media (with its incessant borrowing, remixing, rewriting, and transmedial cross-overs) has led to a world in which cultural production often emerges out of groups and multiple mediators, raising the question of authorship and ownership. This workshop rethinks the notion of the “author,” moving away from an author-centric model to explore notions of collective and collaborative production. What are the implications of a non-author-centric model for understanding theater, for understanding issues of training, actor lineage, and performance? The workshop also addresses the role of publishing and print in the construction of the early-modern and modern author.

This workshop follows up on the earlier symposium “Rethinking Authorship in Japan and
the World” (March 2017) but with a focus on Japanese theater (Noh and Kabuki) and publishing
culture.

Presenters
Ryūichi Kodama (Waseda University)
Haruo Shirane (Columbia University)
Tomi Suzuki (Columbia University)
Mikio Takemoto (Waseda University)
Misa Umetada (Waseda University)

Discussants
Lewis Cook (Queens College of the City University of New York)
Kazuaki Komine (Rikkyo University Emeritus; Waseda University Senior Scholar)
Sung-si Lee (Waseda University)
Mo Li (Columbia University)
Yuika Kitamura (Kobe University)
Satoko Shimazaki (University of Southern California)
Shiho Takai (Waseda University)
Hirokazu Toeda (Waseda University)

Organizers
Haruo Shirane (Columbia University)
Tomi Suzuki (Columbia University)
Hirokazu Toeda (Waseda University)
Director of the Ryusaku Tsunoda Center of Japanese Culture
Sung-si Lee (Waseda University)
Columbia University Japanese Literature PhD Students (Assistants)
Stephen Choi, Yuki Ishida, Ekaterina Komova, Rachel Mei, Maho Miyazaki, Yiwen Shen,
Tyler Walker, Oliver White, Chi Zhang

Administrative Staff
Yoshiko Niiya (Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, Columbia University)
Anri Vartanov (Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University)
Tony Lee (Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University)
Yumi Jōkō (Waseda University)

Sponsors
Donald Keene Center of Japanese Culture, Columbia University
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University
Ryusaku Tsunoda Center for Japanese Culture, Waseda University
Global Japanese Studies Model Unit, Waseda University Top Global University (TGU) Project,
supported by Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology – Japan

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History of Distant Reading in Japan

Hoyt Long, University of Chicago

This talk offers a history of quantitative approaches to modern Japanese literature. The impulse to reason about texts quantitatively goes back at least to Natsume Sōseki’s Theory of Literature (1907). More recently, computational techniques and the availability of digital corpora have taken this impulse further, promising new ways of engaging with Japanese literary history. Before diving into this possible future of reading, however, it is worth looking back at its antecedents. To this end, I trace a genealogy of quantitative imagining that begins with Sōseki’s formula for capturing the experience of reading, walks through the psycholinguistic and early stylometric analyses of the pre- and post-war periods, and ends with recent work that borrows from natural language processing and machine learning methods. This genealogy allows us to reflect on why others have previously turned to numbers to reason about words; why we might want to do so now, and generally what it means to distant read Japanese literature in this day and age.

Hoyt Long is Associate Professor of Japanese Literature at the University of Chicago. He is the author of On Uneven Ground: Miyazawa Kenji and the Making of Place in Modern Japan (2012), and has published extensively in the field of media history and digital humanities. Most recently, he has co-authored “Literary Pattern Recognition: Modernism Between Close Reading and Machine Learning” (Critical Inquiry, Winter 2016) and “Turbulent Flow: A Computational Model of World Literature” (Modern Language Quarterly, Fall 2016). He founded the Chicago Text Lab with Richard Jean So and now co-directs the Textual Optics Lab.

Time: Thursday, Feb. 15th, 6-8PM

Location: Kent 403

 

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“Music in Ancient Japanese Temples”: Yoshikawa Shinji

The talk will be in Japanese.

“日本古代の音楽 (Music in Ancient Japanese Temples)”

Shinji Yoshikawa (吉川真司), visiting Professor of East Asian Studies at Princeton University, specializes in ancient Japanese history from the 7th through the 11th century. He has focused mainly on the political system. His research is based on documents,  both official and private ones, including variety of diaries of Heian aristocrats.

Also, he is interested in Chinese culture, which had a great influence on  ancient Japan. In recent years, he visited many historical sites in China and neighboring countries to get firsthand look.

At Princeton, he will teach courses to read historical materials in ancient Japan, such as legal texts, histories, inscriptions, documents and diaries.

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