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SUMMARY:Screening and Talk of AKUTAGAWA: Modern Tales Retold in Traditional Japanese Puppetry
DESCRIPTION:AKUTAGAWA is a stage portrait of Ryūnoske Akutagawa\, influential modernist Japanese short\nstory writer and author of Rashōmon. Told through stunning traditional Japanese and\ncontemporary puppetry and an amalgam of five of his short stories (Rashōmon\, Hell\nScreen (Jigokuhen)\, The Dragon\, Toshishun and Kappa)\, AKUTAGAWA is a lush\, visual\nexploration of the process of artistic creation. AKUTAGAWA is a collaboration by Japanese fifth\ngeneration master puppeteer Koryū Nishikawa V and puppeteer Tom Lee. \nScreening (1-3:30 pm): In-person only | Talk (3:30-5 pm): HybridRegistration \nRSVP required via Google Form [https://forms.gle/TaPLmDNx1nZiWQLK7] | Registration ends April 19th\, 5PM \nSpeaker:\nTom Lee\, Puppet Artist and Director of AKUTAGAWA\nMr. Lee is an Asian American designer\, director and puppet artist who has performed on\nBroadway in War Horse\, at the Metropolitan Opera in Madama Butterfly\, in addition to creating\ncritically acclaimed original work fusing technology and contemporary puppetry techniques. \nDiscussant:\nJoshua Rogers\, Assistant Professor of Japanese Literature at Queens College\, CUNY\nJoshua Rogers is an assistant professor of Japanese Literature at Queens College\, City University\nof New York. An alumnus of Columbia University\, Joshua currently researches the intersection\nof literature\, science\, and religion in early twentieth-century Japan. Joshua’s first manuscript\,\ntitled Secularity and Enchantment in Prewar Japanese Literature\, will argue that many authors\,\nincluding Akutagawa Ryūnosuke\, shaped their theories of fiction around an “enchanted”\nmetaphysics\, defined by skepticism of both scientific materialism and organized religion. \nOrganizers (Benkyōkai)\nKim Martinez (kem2238@columbia.edu)\nXiaoke Yang (xy2504@columbia.edu) \nCo-sponsor\nColumbia Weatherhead East Asian Institute \nPromotional Material Design\nKim Martinez and Xiaoke Yang (poster)\nXiaoke Yang (social media banner) \nPhoto Credit\nRichard Termine \nVideo Credit\nCourtesy of Japan Society \n
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