Month: February 2017

Friday, February 24, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. in CEAS 319 (1155 E. 60th St.)

Aliz Horvath, “Confucianism as Method: From the History of Rituals to Digital Philology”

Please join us this Friday as we host Aliz Horvath (PhD Candidate, EALC). Aliz will present an overview of her dissertation project with particular attention to source material and method. She describes her project as follows:

This talk will consist of multiple components: I will first introduce the broader context of my dissertation project which showcases the combination of “traditional” and digital methods in a transnational framework by exploring the role of Confucianism in early modern Japan based on the study of the controversial and underresearched history writing project of the Mito school, entitled the Dai Nihon shi (The History of Great Japan), and the architect of the project, Tokugawa Mitsukuni (1628-1700), the second daimyo of Mito domain who became a celebrated part of contemporary Japanese popular culture. Subsequently, I am going to present a snapshot of the analysis of my main primary source (as part of the larger project) by analyzing how the scholars of Mito understood the concept of history and Japaneseness in Tokugawa Japan. Finally, using the abovementioned as a starting point, I will invite the participants of the workshop to an open discussion on intellectual history and the strengths, merits, and potential limitations of digital methods as opposed to more “traditional” approaches.

The paper is available at this link. If you have not received the password for the post, or if you have concerns about accessibility, please feel free to contact Alex Murphy at murphya1@uchicago.edu.

Friday, February 10, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. in CEAS 319 (1155 E. 60th St.)

William Carroll, “The Filmography of Suzuki Seijun, as Viewed Retroactively in the Wake of the Suzuki Seijun Incident”

This Friday, please join us as we host William Carroll (PhD Candidate, Cinema and Media Studies/EALC). William will present a draft of the first chapter of his dissertation. He summarizes the chapter as follows:

This is a draft of the first chapter of my dissertation.  It is a history of the Suzuki Seijun Incident, and laying out the way Suzuki becomes claimed by two different theoretical/critical strands (the New Left, which had been around for the duration of the 1960s, on the one hand and the newly emerging shinefiru-ha on the other).  It is probably my most historical and least film-oriented chapter as it goes somewhat into the changes in the film industry leading up to Suzuki’s firing and the relationship between the Suzuki Seijun mondai kyoto kaigi and the student movement of the 1960s.  However, there is also a brief comparison between Oshima Nagisa’s Cruel Story of Youth with Suzuki’s Everything Goes Wrong as a way of looking at his relationship with the Japanese New Wave.

The paper is available at this link. If you have not received the password for the post, or if you have concerns about accessibility, please feel free to contact Alex Murphy at murphya1@uchicago.edu.