Omnibus "Tricultural" Lecture Series

Associate Professor, the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, Faculty of Science and Technology, Keio University

Feminist critic and Novelist

Professor, School of Letters, Senshu University,  Theatre Critic
 

President & Chief Executive Officer
Hayakawa Publishing Corporation

Fantasy Writer and Performer

Associate Professor, Political Science Department
Syracuse University

 

Professor, Department of English, Faculty of Letters
Keio University

Professor, International Literary and Cultural Studies
Goldthwaite Professor of Rhetoric, International Literary 
and Cultural Studies at Tufts University
 

Mack Professor Emeritus of Humanities
Professor of Japanese Literature
Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University

The Eighth Lecture
Title:  "Soseki as Teacher"

Professor Emeritus of English, Hofstra University

The Seventh Lecture

Title Melville and Mutiny: From the Pacific to Wall Street

A former Japan Society Film Program Curator (1986-2004)

The Six Lecture

Title: Mr. Smith Goes To Tokyo

The Fifth Lecture

Yoji Sakate,
Keio University / Theater Company RINKOGUN

Title: "Theater and the World"

Professor Ian Condry from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology(MIT).

The Forth Lecture

 The lecture is titled Anthropology and Japanese Popular Culture:  Hip-Hop, Anime, and Spatial Sound. Chairman Tsuchiya will join the discussion.

Professor of Yale University ( Film Studies)

The First Lecture:

Title: Viewing Japanese Cinema: The Peculiar Case of Ozu Yasujiro

Content: Even though many Japanese know little of their country’s film history, Japanese film remains one of the most important cinemas in cinematic history. Why should we watch Japanese cinema and how?

Professor in the Department of Asian Studies at Cornell University

The Third Lecture:

Title: Poetry Across Media in Contemporary Japan 
Content:  How do poets in current-day Japan make use of multiple media forms, going beyond the pages of a book and towards the internet, video games, augmented reality, and more? This talk will focus on how poets rethought "new media" throughout the 21st century and found a new place for poetry in contemporary society. 

Science Fiction and Fantasy Critic, ex-vice president of Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of Japan, ex-chair of the Japan PEN Club’s Women Writers’ Committee

The Second Lecture: 

Title: Vampire Unbound : An Overview of Translocal Gothic 
Synopsis: Vampire is a foreign cultural product that had never existed in Japan before 1930.  However, it is noteworthy that vampire is a cultural complex of the Others of gender, class and race.  This lecture attempts to illustrate the concept of trans-locality with a number of analogies between western and Japanese cultures.