March 2026
“MoMentum: Mobilization & East Asian Documentary in Trans-Pacific Context”
Focus is on social change in historical moments that resonate in the present from a comparative international perspective. Events set up dialogue across cultures around political questions: how documentary making was historically aligned with movements for independence, agitation for change, citizen revolt, labor reform, and immigrant struggle. Conference participants rethink the discourse around documentary non-fiction in widest circulation starting from the premise that documentary moving image-making developed worldwide in “times of crisis”: 1920s Soviet agit-prop in revolutionary Russia, 1930s US Depression-era documentary, pre and post-World War…
Find out more »When “Camera as Gun” is not a Metaphor: Violence in the Art & Life of Adachi Masao
Markus Nornes Professor of Asian Cinema, University of Michigan Wednesday, 4 March 2026, 6:00PM EST (preregister by Monday, 2 March) Columbia University, Kent Hall, Room 403 Preregistration required. Register HERE.
Find out more »“MoMentum: Mobilization & East Asian Documentary in Trans-Pacific Context”
Focus is on social change in historical moments that resonate in the present from a comparative international perspective. Events set up dialogue across cultures around political questions: how documentary making was historically aligned with movements for independence, agitation for change, citizen revolt, labor reform, and immigrant struggle. Conference participants rethink the discourse around documentary non-fiction in widest circulation starting from the premise that documentary moving image-making developed worldwide in “times of crisis”: 1920s Soviet agit-prop in revolutionary Russia, 1930s US Depression-era documentary, pre and post-World War…
Find out more »“MoMentum: Mobilization & East Asian Documentary in Trans-Pacific Context”
Focus is on social change in historical moments that resonate in the present from a comparative international perspective. Events set up dialogue across cultures around political questions: how documentary making was historically aligned with movements for independence, agitation for change, citizen revolt, labor reform, and immigrant struggle. Conference participants rethink the discourse around documentary non-fiction in widest circulation starting from the premise that documentary moving image-making developed worldwide in “times of crisis”: 1920s Soviet agit-prop in revolutionary Russia, 1930s US Depression-era documentary, pre and post-World War…
Find out more »“MoMentum: Mobilization & East Asian Documentary in Trans-Pacific Context”
Focus is on social change in historical moments that resonate in the present from a comparative international perspective. Events set up dialogue across cultures around political questions: how documentary making was historically aligned with movements for independence, agitation for change, citizen revolt, labor reform, and immigrant struggle. Conference participants rethink the discourse around documentary non-fiction in widest circulation starting from the premise that documentary moving image-making developed worldwide in “times of crisis”: 1920s Soviet agit-prop in revolutionary Russia, 1930s US Depression-era documentary, pre and post-World War…
Find out more »A Seat for the Novice Sage: Feathered Seal Script Folding Screen as Calligraphy
Akiko Walley Maude I. Kerns Associate Professor of Japanese Art, Department of the History of Art and Architecture, College of Design, University of Oregon Wednesday, 25 March 2026, 6:00PM EST (preregister by Monday, 23 March) Columbia University, Kent Hall, Room 403 Preregistration required. Register HERE
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