シンポジウム:「モノとイメージ」

5月5日と6日に、ニューヨークのコロンビア大学で、「モノとイメージ――日本における視覚文化と物質文化を考える」と題されたシンポジウムが開かれます。コロンビアの日本史の教授、ヘンリー・スミス氏の業績を顕彰するシンポジウムで、同僚、教え子、関係者勢揃いの大シンポジウムになるということで、僕も遠路、馳せ参じます。
シンポジウムの主旨は、以下にもある通り(題目のざっとした訳を付けておきます)、発表者それぞれが一点、モノあるいはイメージを選び、それを記述、分析したのち、共同討議するという形になる予定です。採りあげられる対象は、絵画、写真、映画、陶芸はもとより、ちゃぶ台から携帯電話、織物、服飾、老木、映画のロビー・カードなどなど、とにかく幅広くなるようです。僕は、漱石の訃報記事について発表します。

  • Symposium Announcement:
    • On May 5th and 6th, 2007, the Donald Keene Center at Columbia University will host a two-day symposium on the theme of OBJECTS AND IMAGES: EXPLORING VISUAL AND MATERIAL CULTURE IN JAPAN. The symposium honors the work of Henry DeWitt Smith II, professor of Japanese history at Columbia and currently director of the Kyoto Center for Japanese Studies. A schedule for the symposium can be found below. Each of the presenters was asked to select a single object or image and analyze it in detail ― physically, historically, and symbolically ― to suggest what it offers for new directions in the study of visual and material culture in Japan. One of the central themes of the symposium lies in the relationship between the visual and the material, since no image or object can exist without both. The presenters will have read one another’s papers in advance, but at the symposium will offer brief introductions of their chosen objects and images. Comments and general discussion will take up the second half of each panel. The event is cosponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University. Preregistration is not required.
  • Organizers: Jordan Sand and Greg Pflugfelder


OBJECTS AND IMAGES: EXPLORING VISUAL AND MATERIAL CULTURE IN JAPAN

  • A Symposium Honoring the Work of Henry Smith
    • Dates: Saturday, May 5th - Sunday, May 6th, 2007
    • Location: EALAC Lounge, 403 Kent Hall, Columbia University
  • SATURDAY, MAY 5th
    • 9:00 Coffee
    • 9:30 Welcoming Remarks: Greg Pflugfelder
    • 9:40-11:40 PANEL ONE
      • MIWAKO TEZUKA, Copies of Portrait of Minamoto no Yoritomo (源頼朝像の複製)
      • JORDAN SAND, Chabudai at the Kodera Soy Sauce Shop, Edo-Tokyo Open-Air Museum(江戸東京たてもの園内の小寺醤油店のちゃぶ台)
      • AMANDA MAYER STINCHECUM, Reading the Minsa Sashes of Yaeyama(八重山ミンサーを読む)
      • GILES RICHTER, Unfolding the N501i: A Mobile Phone as Cultural Artifact(N501iを開ける――文化的器物としての携帯電話)
        • Comments: Henry Smith
    • 11:40-1:00 LUNCH BREAK
    • 1:00-3:00 PANEL TWO
      • ALICE TSENG, Postwar Serenity and Loss in Domon Ken’s Portrait of Kannon(土門拳の観音像写真における戦後の静穏と喪失)
      • KIM BRANDT, Lobby Card for an Occupation Era Movie(占領期の映画のロビー・カード)
      • SARAH THAL, A Tale of Two Ema: Displays of Faith in a Changing World(二つの絵馬の物語――変容する世界における信仰の展示)
      • ROGER PURDY, Daitôa®: Projecting Pan-Asianism in Nihon Nyûsu’s Title Credits(大東亜®――『日本ニュース』のタイトル・クレジットにおける汎アジア主義の投影)
        • Comments: Alan Tansman
    • 3:00-4:15 AFTERNOON BREAK
    • 4:15-6:00 PANEL THREE
      • KEN OSHIMA, Mediating Modernity between East and West: Watanabe Yoshio’s Photograph of the Okada House(東と西のモダニティの媒介――渡辺義雄による岡田邸の写真)
      • CHELSEA FOXWELL, Naturalizing the Double Reading: Hawks in a Ravine by Kano Hôgai(二重の読みを自然化する――狩野芳崖《渓間雄飛図》)
      • SATOW MORIHIRO, Death of an Author: Photography, Handwriting and Memory in the Obituary of Natsume Sôseki(ある作家の死――夏目漱石の訃報記事における写真、肉筆、記憶)
        • Comments: Greg Pflugfelder
  • SUNDAY, MAY 6th
    • 10:00 Coffee
    • 10:30-12:30 PANEL FOUR
      • LEILA WICE, Whose Hakama: Layered Meanings of Dress and the Social Fabric of 19th-Century Japan(誰の袴か?――19世紀日本の衣裳と社会的組織における多重的な意味)
      • MATTHEW MCKELWAY, The Tree of All Mothers: The Zôshigaya Gingko(全ての母なる樹――雑司ヶ谷の銀杏)
      • MORGAN PITELKA, Raku Waste-Water Container (Kensui) in the Mitsui Collection(三井コレクションの楽の建水)
      • ELLEN CONANT, Pair of 8-fold Screens by Kishi Chikudô, Ôtsu Karasaki, c.1876(岸竹堂による八曲屏風《大津唐崎図》)
        • Comments: TBA
    • 12:30-2:00 LUNCH BREAK
    • 2:00-4:00 PANEL FIVE
      • MIRIAM WATTLES, Kimyô zui, or, the Bizarre Lexical Confusion of Giga(『奇妙図彙』、あるいは戯画の奇妙で辞書的な混乱)
      • TIMON SCREECH, On a Painting called The Full Moon, and the Voyage of the New Year’s Gift(満月という絵画と年賀の旅について)
      • DAVID LURIE, The Suda Hachiman Shrine Mirror and the History of Failure(隅田八幡鏡と失敗の歴史)
      • LOUISE CORT, A Chinese Jar and the Greening of Momoyama Ceramics(中国の壺と桃山陶の緑化)
        • Comments: Max Moerman
    • 4:00-5:00 AFTERNOON BREAK
    • 5:00-6:00 WRAP-UP SESSION