Yanai Initiative workshop: "Reading Place in Edo & Tokyo"

[Emmerich Michael]

Dear Colleagues

UCLA and Waseda University are pleased to invite applications to the second annual Yanai Initiative workshop, “Reading Place in Edo & Tokyo.”

 

The three-day workshop, which will take place from August 10–12, 2016, at UCLA and the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens, will focus on learning to identify and analyze the importance of particular places in theater, film, and literature set in Edo and Tokyo. Workshop leaders will introduce a variety of materials and techniques, from maps to prints and photographs, for researching places. They will also share their own investigations into the role places such as Sumidagawa, Ginza, Asakusa, and Shibuya play in works as diverse as Kawatake Mokuami’s kabuki play Kosode Soga azami no ironui (1858), Nagai Kafū’s novella Sumidagawa (1909), and Kawashima Yūzō’s film Suzaki Paradaisu akashingō (1956).

 

The workshop will be lead by five prominent scholars whose areas of specialization cover theater, literature, film, and linguistics:

 

Robert Campbell (Tokyo University)

Saitō Ayako (Meijigakuin University)

Tanaka Yukari (Nihon University)

Toeda Hirokazu (Waseda University)

Umetada Misa (Waseda University)

 

Travel, lodging, and meals will be generously subsidized. Because space in the workshop is limited, priority will be given to graduate students, postdocs, and junior faculty whose research would benefit most from the workshop.

 

To apply, please send a CV and brief description of your current research to Yixin Zhu at yixi...@humnet.ucla.edu by June 20, 2016.

 

The workshop is co-sponsored by the Tadashi Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities at UCLA and Waseda University and the Huntington Library, Art Collections and Botanical Gardens.

 

Sincerely yours,

Michael Emmerich

Associate Professor

Asian Languages and Cultures

UCLA