{"id":1705,"date":"2024-01-23T10:56:55","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T18:56:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/?page_id=1705"},"modified":"2024-01-23T10:56:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T18:56:57","slug":"spring-2020-events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/spring-2020-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring 2020 Events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\n\n \n \n
\n \n
\n\n
\n\n \n
\n\n \n

\n Confusion over Cathay: Attitudes to Chinese Material in Mediaeval Japanese Poetic Criticism<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
\n\n \n

January 30, 2020<\/b>
\n4:00 PM to 5:30 PM<\/p>\n

The complex nature of premodern Japanese literary production, and Japanese writers\u2019 use of a continuum of scripts and languages, ranging from pure Japanese to pure Chinese, depending upon the genre, purpose and audience of their writing, is well known, however, little attention has yet been pa…<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n <\/a>\n \n\n<\/div>\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n
\n\n
\n\n \n
\n\n \n

\n Tales That Haven\u2019t Been (and Sometimes Can\u2019t Be) Told<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
\n\n \n

February 13, 2020<\/b>
\n4:00 PM to 5:30 PM<\/p>\n

In some sense, every tale\u2014and every poem\u2014tells a story that\u2019s never been told in the exact same way. But some tales and poems, under certain circumstances, cannot be told or are forbidden to be told for reasons that are sometimes not clear or are clearly political. Recently, it&rsq…<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n <\/a>\n \n\n<\/div>\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n
\n\n
\n\n \n
\n\n \n

\n New Book Talk \u2014 “Seeking Sakyamuni: South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism”<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
\n\n \n

February 14, 2020<\/b>
\n4:00 PM to 5:30 PM<\/p>\n

Professor Richard Jaffe (Duke University) will speak about his new book Seeking Sakyamuni: South Asia in the Formation of Modern Japanese Buddhism (University of Chicago, 2019).\u00a0Jaffe reveals the experiences of the first Japanese Buddhists who traveled to South Asia in search of Buddhist knowle…<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n <\/a>\n \n\n<\/div>\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n
\n\n
\n\n \n
\n\n \n

\n Neither Monk Nor Layperson: Categories of Buddhist Leaders in Japan, Korea, and America<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
\n\n \n

February 15, 2020<\/b>
\n10:00 AM to 1:00 PM<\/p>\n

In Buddhism\u2019s adaptations in the modern West, much has been made of trends in new categories of Buddhist leaders who occupy a place that is neither monastic nor fully lay, but something in-between. This workshop explores similar categories as found in historical and modern traditions in Asia a…<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n <\/a>\n \n\n<\/div>\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n
\n\n
\n\n \n
\n\n \n

\n “Seamless”, A Play: Japanese American Incarceration and the Afterlife of Historical Trauma<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
\n\n \n

February 23, 2020 to February 23, 2020<\/b>
\n4:00 PM to<\/p>\n

Seamless\u00a0revisits the Japanese American incarceration and dissolution of the American Dream during World War II, exploring the ways the past haunts the present. Written by USC professor\u00a0Dorinne Kondo\u00a0and published in her most recent book,\u00a0Worldmaking: Race, Performance, and the W…<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n <\/a>\n \n\n<\/div>\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n
\n\n
\n\n \n
\n\n \n

\n On the Relation Between Beef and Film: If Film Is Meat, then is Digital Film Beyond Meat<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
\n\n \n

February 27, 2020<\/b>
\n4:00 PM to 5:30 PM<\/p>\n

This lecture interrogates a forgotten relation between film and beef. Before digitalization, gelatin, mainly extracted out of cattle was an indispensable material for fabricating film. \u00a0Beef is not only represented on film, but also forms the substantial basis of its image. Anaylyzing…<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n <\/a>\n \n\n<\/div>\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n
\n\n
\n\n \n
\n\n \n

\n POSTPONED Japan in the Long 1940s: A New History<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
\n\n \n

April 3, 2020<\/b>
\n10:00 AM to 5:00 PM<\/p>\n

While there have been many studies and conferences on colonial, wartime, and postwar Japan, there has been much less attention paid to the connections between the era of total war and military occupation during the 1940s which ultimately shaped how we remember and write about the empire, the war, an…<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n <\/a>\n \n\n<\/div>\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n
\n\n
\n\n \n
\n\n \n

\n POSTPONED: Feminizing Art in Modern Japan<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
\n\n \n
April 23, 2020<\/b>
\n12:00 PM to 2:00 PM<\/p>\n

A talk with Prof. Yurika Wakamatsu (Occidental College). Late nineteenth-century Japan saw the emergence of new conceptions of art and gender, and strikingly, the feminization of art became a vital part of the modern ideals of Japanese womanhood. Indeed, art came to be perceived as a practice approp…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n <\/a>\n \n\n<\/div>\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n
\n\n
\n\n \n
\n\n \n

\n POSTPONED: Mapping Medieval Japan<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
\n\n \n

April 25, 2020 to April 25, 2020<\/b>
\n12:00 PM to<\/p>\n

THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE. Please check our website for more information.\u00a0 Maps have long been a crucial element in historical studies: they not only help us to determine locations but also to analyze connections and conflict among people, and to understand how peopl…<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

\n\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n \n \n \n <\/a>\n \n\n<\/div>\n\n \n <\/div>\n\n \n <\/div>\n \n\n <\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":584,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-content-detail.php","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1705","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"\nSpring 2020 Events - Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/spring-2020-events\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Spring 2020 Events - Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/spring-2020-events\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-01-23T18:56:57+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/spring-2020-events\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/spring-2020-events\/\",\"name\":\"Spring 2020 Events - Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2024-01-23T18:56:55+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2024-01-23T18:56:57+00:00\",\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/spring-2020-events\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/spring-2020-events\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/spring-2020-events\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Spring 2020 Events\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/\",\"name\":\"Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture\",\"description\":\"Dornsife Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Spring 2020 Events - Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/spring-2020-events\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Spring 2020 Events - Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture","og_url":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/spring-2020-events\/","og_site_name":"Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture","article_modified_time":"2024-01-23T18:56:57+00:00","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/spring-2020-events\/","url":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/spring-2020-events\/","name":"Spring 2020 Events - Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/#website"},"datePublished":"2024-01-23T18:56:55+00:00","dateModified":"2024-01-23T18:56:57+00:00","breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/spring-2020-events\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/spring-2020-events\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/spring-2020-events\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Spring 2020 Events"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/#website","url":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/","name":"Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture","description":"Dornsife Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1705","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/584"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1705"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1705\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1716,"href":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1705\/revisions\/1716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1705"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}