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Spring 2007 Event Photo Galleries
Tamagawa University Taiko & Dance Ensemble
The Tamagawa University Taiko & Dance Ensemble performs at Lang Concert Hall, April 10, 2007. Earlier in the day, students from the Tamagawa Ensemble shared lunch with Swarthmore students studying Japanese language. See Photo Gallery.
Delaware Valley Teachers of Japanese annual Speech Happyoukai
Students from Swarthmore College present speeches in japanese as part of the Delaware Valley Teachers of Japanese annual Speech Happyoukai, held at Widener University on March 31, 2007. See Photo Gallery.
SKIT PRESENTATION & PARTY
Wednesday, December 12, 2007• 11:30 am • Kohlberg Hall 115
The REAL FUN comes at the end! Please join us to see our first and
second year Japanese students perform in their original skits. Meet the
finest actors and actresses in the hood. Don’t miss out on your fellow
Swatties’ hidden talents! Light refreshments will be served.
STUDY ABROAD IN JAPAN!
Thursday, November 15, 2007• 4:15 pm • Kohlberg Hall 115
Students interested in studying in Japan for a semester or academic year are cordially invited to attend this meeting, speak with members of the Japanese Language Section and former study abroad participants, and enjoy refreshments.
For more information, contact Prof. Masayo Kaneko at mkaneko1
JET Information SessionMonday, October 29, 2007 • 4:15pm • Scheuer Room
Each year The JET Program, sponsored by the Japanese government, sends over 6,000 college graduates from around the world to teach languages and work with local organizations in Japan.
Refreshments will be served!
Japanese Movie Night, Fall 2007
UGETSU
Thursday, October 25, 2007 • 7:00pm • Kohlberg Hall 116
ALWAYS SANCYOUME NO YUUHI
Thursday, October 4, 2007 • 7:00pm • Kohlberg Hall 116
"Culture of Space and Space of Culture: a case of UCHI (inside) and SOTO (outside)"
A talk by Professor Seiichi Makino, Princeton University
Friday, February 9, 2007 • 4:15 pm • Sheuer Room
Professor Seiichi Makino is one of the foremost authorities on Japanese Lingusitics, and a leader in the field of Japanese language pedagogy. In addition to numerous books and articles on Japanese linguistics, he is the author of several widely-used reference books and textbooks, including NAKAMA: Japanese Communication, Culture, Context (with Y.Hatasa & K. Hatasa), (Houghton Mifflin, 1999/2000). His talk will touch on material from his recent book, Uchi to Soto no Gengo-Bunka-Gaku----Bunpoo o Bunka de Kiru, (ALC, 1996).
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Tokyo Chigakukai Concert
Tuesday, September 26, 2006 @ 7:00 p.m.
Science Center 101
Six performers from Japan will present the music of the Kikusuji style of jiutasokyoku, classical Japanese music for voice, koto, shamisen, and kokyu (pictured below). The program will feature compositions from the 17th to the 21st centuries.
For more information, please contact Prof. Gardner.
SHAKUHACHI
Shakuhachi (Japanese Bamboo Flute) Concert
James Nyoraku Schlefer and Ensemble
Thursday, April 13, 2006
7:30 p.m.
Science Center 101
James Nyoraku Schlefer is a Grand Master of the shakuhachi, a Japanese
bamboo flute. The shakuhachi is both a fascinating concert instrument and a
spiritual aid that has been employed for centuries in a special form of Zen
meditation. James Nyoraku Schlefer will perform both contemporary and
traditional compositions with an ensemble of shakuhachi, koto, and shamisen.
More information on the performers:
http://www.nyoraku.com
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Cha no yu events
Crafting Nature - The Art of Japanese Tea Ceremony Events:
As for the Crafting Nature: The Art of Japanese Tea Ceremony
A careful twist of the bowl, the delicate spray of flowers, the precise angle at which a tea scoop is poised on its holder, the time-honored aesthetics of tea - come explore and enjoy the nuanced rituals and meticulous elegance of Chanoyu, the Japanese Tea Ceremony. Along with a demonstration by Morgan Beard of Urasenke La Salle in the lobby, the library will also feature authentic tea displays and student interpretations of the tea ceremony in its exhibit cases, from Professor Tomoko Sakomura's Crafting Nature: The Art of Japanese Tea Ceremony class and Syd Carpenter's The Pottery Wheel. Other events surrounding the exhibit include a film screening of Rikyu, the story of the tea master, who four centuries ago brought the art of the tea ceremony to perfection. And a lecture/tea demonstration on the tea ceremony by Mariko LaFleur, Ichigo, Ichie: One time, One Meeting, graduate of the Kyoto Urasenke Professional Japanese Cultural Institute in Japan.
Sponsored by the Art Department, the Japanese Section of the Modern Languages Department, the Freeman Foundation, Urasenke La Salle, and the Swarthmore College Library. Exhibit on display in McCabe Library Lobby: Wednesday, March 1 - Thursday, April 21, 2006.
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Anime Club Special Events
Part One:
Anime Club Showing: Paranoia Agent Episodes 1-4
Friday, November 11, 2005 at 8:00 pm
Kohlberg 228
Part Two:
Lecture: "The Cyber Sublime & the Virtual Mirror: Exploring New Media Futures Through Japanese Animation" by Prof. William Gardner. Will include discussion of "Ghost in the Shell" & "Paranoia Agent."
Wednesday, November 16, 2005 at 7:00 pm
Science Center 199
“Koreans in Japan”
a lecture by Sonia Ryang, Associate Professor of Anthropology,
Johns Hopkins University
Thursday, April 7, 2004 • 4:15 PM • Kohlberg 115
Professor Ryang is an authority on the Korean minority in Japan, and has recently also begun writing on Asian American identities. Her major publications include North Koreans in Japan: Language Ideology and Identity (1997), her edited volume on Koreans in Japan: Critical Voices from the Margins (2000) and Japan and National Anthropology (2004). Her talk will address recent tension between North Korea and Japan and its implications for the Korean community in Japan.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, the Japanese Section of the Department of Modern Languages and Literatures, and the Asian Studies Program.
Is History About the Past? Yoji Sakate's Theatrical Adaptation of Mr. Smith Goes to Tokyo
a talk by Dr. Kyoko Hirano Director, Film Center of the Japan Society, New York
Wednesday, March 2, 2005 • 4:15 pm • Science Center 199
Dr. Hirano's groundbreaking study Mr. Smith Goes to Tokyo: Japanese Cinema Under the American Occupation 1945-1952 was the basis for the award-winning play Tenno to Seppun (The Emperor and the Kiss, 1999) by the contemporary theater director Yoji Sakate. Sakate's adaptation connected occupation era issues discussed in Dr. Hirano's study, such as American censorship and cold war politics, with contemporary Japanese political and social issues, such as the re-institution of the national anthem and national flag in Japanese high schools. Dr. Hirano will discuss her research on the cultural policies of the American occupation and their significance in contemporary Japan, as reflected in Sakate's theatrical adaptation.
Film Screening: Go
Friday April 8, 2004 • 7:00 PM • Science Center 101
The most talked about film of 2001 in Japan and the Japanese entry to the Academy Award foreign language category, Isao Yukisada's Go features Yosuke Kubozuka as a third-generation Korean-Japanese boy in Japan. Hip, upbeat and refreshing, the film explores the boy's search for identity through conflict with his father, his resistance against the Korean ethnic school and his romance with a Japanese girl.
Directed by Isao Yukisada (2001, 122 min). With Yosuke Kubozuka, Ko Shibasaki, Shinobu Otake and Tsutomu Yamazaki.
Migration of Movement Forms in Japanese Performance
April 4, 2004 • 7:30 pm • Lang Performing Arts Center
An evening of movement arts of Japan seen through the lens of Contemporary Japanese Dance, Kabuki Theater, Japanese Folk Dance, and Taiko Drumming. Dance Theatre LUDENS represents the best of new choreographic work coming out of Japan; Isaburoh Hanayagi is a consummate artist and teacher, a master of classic folk forms of Japanese Dance, Kabuki performance, and Taiko drumming; the Tamagawa Dance and Taiko Group is an award winning international touring group based at Tokyo's Tamagawa University.
Japanese Movie Night: Ping Pong
Thursday, March 17, 2004 • 7:00-9:00 pm • Kohlberg 228
"Despite being a little cliché, Ping Pong is a hell of a lot of fun."
— Ross Williams, FILM THREAT
"Perhaps the best sports movie I've ever seen."
— Eugene Novikov, FILM BLATHER
"Surprisingly wonderful. Ultimately transcends
the ka-plink ka-plink ka-plink of little plastic
balls on wooden tables — it becomes an elegant
tango of the mind and soul."
— Joshua Tanzer, OFFOFFOFF
"This film is so endearing and entertaining that
it's hard to understand why it hasn't gone on to
take the world by storm ... igniting a ping pong
craze in the process!"
— Rich Cline, SHADOWS ON THE WALL
Japanese Calligraphy Workshop
Led by the Reverend Patricia DaiEn Bennage Roshi, Head Priest at Mount
Equity Zendo, Pennsdale, PA, with Eric Daishin. McCabe Library.
Monday, November 15, 2004 at
4:30-5:30 pm.
“Cultures of Defeat: Occupied Japan after World War Two”
2004/05 Lecture Series, War and Occupation: The East Asian Experience
A visiting lecture by John W. Dower,
Ford International Professor of History, MIT.
Thursday, September 23, 2004 at
4:15 p.m in the
Scheuer Room, Kohlberg Hall.
Professor John W. Dower, Pulitzer Prize winning author of Embracing
Defeat will give a visual presentation on "Cultures of Defeat:
Occupied Japan after World War Two," providing detailed insight into
everyday life and the rebuilding of Japan under the
U.S. Occupation. Professor Dower is not only an authority on postwar
Japanese history, but a gifted speaker and writer, who has contributed
to discussions on the Occupation of Iraq in The New York Times, The
Nation, and other national publications. His talk will be illustrated
by rarely seen photographs of the Occupation of Japan.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, the
Department of History, Peace and Conflict Studies, the Asian Studies
Program, the Japanese Section of the Department of Modern Languages
and Literatures, the Freeman Foundation, and the President's Office.
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