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[Publication] Perspectives on Oshima Nagisa (UTCP-Uehiro Booklet 7)

7 March, 2015 Mark ROBERTS, Publications Permalink

UTCP-Uehiro Booklet 7 has been published: Perspectives on Oshima Nagisa.

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[Report] Film Screening: "At Berkeley"

10 December, 2014 Mark ROBERTS Permalink

On December 1st, UTCP hosted a public screening of Frederick Wiseman's documentary At Berkeley (2013). Following the screening, Prof. Satō Yoshiaki and director Funahashi Atsushi joined Mark Roberts of UTCP for an in-depth discussion with the audience.

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[Report] Presentation by Elise Domenach: "Denial and recognition in films on 3.11"

9 July, 2014 Mark ROBERTS Permalink

On June 2nd, Elise Domenach gave a presentation entitled "Denial and recognition in films on 3.11", focusing on several recent documentaries concerning the disaster in Tohoku.

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[Report] Film Screening: "No Man's Zone"

19 February, 2014 Mark ROBERTS Permalink

On January 24th, UTCP hosted a public screening of Fujiwara Toshi's documentary No Man’s Zone. Following the screening, Fujiwara-san joined Mark Roberts and Élise Domenach of UTCP for an in-depth discussion with the audience.

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[Report] Presentation by Antoine de Mena: "Yamanaka Sadao's Cinema and Records of War Experience"

11 November, 2013 Mark ROBERTS Permalink

On November 6th, filmmaker Antoine de Mena gave a presentation entitled "Yamanaka Sadao's Cinema and Records of War Experience: An Example of Resistance to Narratives of Empire".

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[Report] Lecture by Prof. Max Ward "Philosophical Conversion and the Displacement of History"

5 October, 2013 Mark ROBERTS Permalink

On July 22nd, UTCP was pleased to host a presentation by Max Ward (Middlebury College) entitled "Philosophical Conversion and the Displacement of History: An Unorthodox Reading of Tanabe Hajime’s Zangedō to shite no tetsugaku".

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[Report] Lecture by Prof. Akira Mizuta Lippit "Medium Disaster 311"

2 October, 2013 Mark ROBERTS Permalink

On June 26, Akira Mizuta Lippit (University of Southern California) gave a presentation entitled "Medium Disaster 311".

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[Report] Lecture by Prof. Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano "2 + 1 Travelogues: Memories from the Empire of Japan"

14 August, 2013 Mark ROBERTS Permalink

On April 19, Mitsuyo Wada-Marciano (Carleton University) gave a presentation entitled "2 + 1 Travelogues: Memories from the Empire of Japan".

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[Report] Film Screening: "Ashes to Honey"

21 May, 2013 Mark ROBERTS Permalink

On September 12th, 2012, UTCP hosted a public screening and discussion of Kamanaka Hitomi's documentary film Ashes to Honey. Following the screening, Kamanaka-san joined for a lengthy discussion with the audience, moderated by David McNeill of Sophia University, and Mark Roberts of UTCP.

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[Report] Symposium on Media Histories / Media Theories and East Asia

3 April, 2013 Mark ROBERTS Permalink

On February 7th and 8th, I attended the Media Histories / Media Theories & East Asia symposium at U. C. Berkeley.

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[Report] Film Screening: "Nuclear Nation"

15 December, 2012 Mark ROBERTS Permalink

On November 28th, UTCP hosted a public screening of Funahashi Atsushi's documentary Nuclear Nation. Following the screening, Funahashi-san and Prof. Sato Yoshiaki joined for an in-depth discussion with the audience.

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[Report] Sandra Laugier "Attention to Ordinary Others"

11 June, 2012 Mark ROBERTS, KOBAYASHI Yasuo Permalink

On May 28th, 2012, Professor Sandra Laugier gave a presentation entitled "Attention to Ordinary Others: Ethics of 'Care,' Vulnerability, and Human Security". Professor Laugier teaches philosophy at L'Université de Paris I, Sorbonne, and has worked as the deputy director at the Institut des sciences humaines et sociales (INSHS).

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[Publication] Place and Space in Japanese Cinema (UTCP Booklet 23)

4 April, 2012 Mark ROBERTS, ARAKAWA Toru, Publications Permalink

UTCP Booklet 23 has been published: Place and Space in Japanese Cinema: From Inside to Outside the Frame.

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[UTCP Short Term Program] Methods of Cultural and Aesthetic Criticism

26 August, 2011 Mark ROBERTS, └Methods of Cultural and Aesthetic Criticism, Short-Term Programs Permalink

In this study group, we will examine some of the major topics and methods of twentieth-century critical and literary theory. We will explore and discuss a variety of critical approaches, situating them in larger debates, both historical and contemporary.

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[UTCP Juventus] Mark ROBERTS

21 August, 2011 Mark ROBERTS, UTCP Juventus Permalink

During summer vacation, young researchers at UTCP introduce themselves in the UTCP Juventus series. Today, Mark Roberts introduces his research interests and current project.

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[Report] Modernism and Humor: Reflections on the Critical Cinema of the Shōwa 30s

4 July, 2011 Mark ROBERTS, NAKAZAWA Eisuke Permalink

On June 22, M. Downing Roberts gave a presentation entitled "Modernism and Humor: Reflections on the Critical Cinema of the Shōwa 30s". Dr. Roberts is a research fellow at UTCP, and this presentation draws from his ongoing study of postwar cinema.

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[Report] Patrick Noonan, Being By Others: Cinema and Subjectivity in Yoshida Kijū’s Film Theory

28 April, 2011 Mark ROBERTS, NAKAZAWA Eisuke, Visiting Speaker Series Permalink

On April 26, 2011, Patrick Noonan gave a talk entitled “Being By Others: Cinema and Subjectivity in Yoshida Kijū’s Film Theory”. Mr. Noonan is a doctoral candidate at the University of California, Berkeley, and this talk was based upon his dissertation research. Many young international scholars joined the lecture, and participated in a discussion following the talk.

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[Report] Michael Raine, Film as a 'Synthetic Art'

24 February, 2011 Mark ROBERTS, Visiting Speaker Series Permalink

On December 14th, Michael Raine (University of Chicago) gave a presentation entitled Film as a 'Synthetic Art': Imitation, Copyright Infringement, and Masquerade in the Toho Film Musical. As a point of departure, Raine invites us to consider the theme of "deprovincializing film studies", not merely in the sense of exploring non-Western theories of film, but by recalling alternatives to auteurist and political modernist approaches to the study of cinema. This inquiry was developed through an intellectual exchange with Miriam Hansen, in particular around the concept of "vernacular modernism".

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[UTCP Juventus] Mark ROBERTS

30 August, 2010 Mark ROBERTS, UTCP Juventus Permalink

During summer vacation, young researchers at UTCP introduce themselves in the UTCP Juventus series. Today, Mark Roberts introduces his research interests and current project.

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[Report] UTCP Lecture "Containing the 'masses': Critiquing Neoliberal Narratives of Equivalence in Japan"

20 August, 2010 Mark ROBERTS, Visiting Speaker Series Permalink

How has neoliberal discourse legitimated itself in Japan? How should we locate it as an historical and cultural phenomenon? What strategies may be fruitful for critiquing it? These are some of the questions addressed by Prof. Richard Reitan in this lecture.

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[Report] The Birth of Aesthetics as a Philosophical Discipline

14 June, 2010 Mark ROBERTS, KOBAYASHI Yasuo, KONDO Gaku, Visiting Speaker Series Permalink

On June 4, Jacqueline Lichtenstein gave a presentation entitled "La naissance de l’esthétique comme discipline philosophique" (The Birth of Aesthetics as a Philosophical Discipline). Starting from its appearance in Germany in the middle of the eighteenth century, Lichtenstein charts the importation of the notion of aesthetics to France, and its gradual acceptance as a philosophical concept.

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