Japanese Literature

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]

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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