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Pedagogy Roundtable: Syllabi Workshop

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Sohye Kim, PhD Candidate in EALC; David Krolikoski, PhD Candidate in EALC; Kyle Peters, PhD Candidate in EALC; Yiren Zheng, PhD Candidate in EALC
Pedagogy Roundtable: Syllabi Workshop
Friday, May 18th, 3:00pm-5:00pm in Wieboldt 301N

Please join us Friday (5/18) from 3:00pm-5:00pm as we host a pedagogy roundtable of PhD Candidates from the East Asian Languages and Civilizations department. Roundtable participants will submit drafts of syllabi for the workshop’s consideration, and the following discussion will provide opportunity for workshop participants not only to give feedback on the particular syllabi drafts that have been circulated, but also to consider issues of creating East Asia-related syllabi for undergraduates: balancing area studies and discipline, managing the constraints and benefits of the quarter system, and transforming one’s own expertise and research into teaching material.

The syllabi are available directly below, or at this link. If you have not received the password, or have questions about accessibility, please feel free to contact Helina Mazza-Hilway (mazzah@uchicago.edu) or Susan Su (susansu@uchicago.edu).

Hoyt Long

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Hoyt Long (Associate Professor of Japanese Literature in the East Asian Languages and Civilizations Department)

“A History of Distant Reading in Japan”

Friday, April 13th, 3:00pm-5:00pm in CEAS 319

Discussant: Alex Murphy (PhD Candidate in EALC)

Please join us Friday (4/13) from 3:00pm to 5:00pm as we host Professor Hoyt Long (Associate Professor of Japanese Literature). He will present a draft chapter from his book project, which he summarizes as follows:

In Japan, the impulse to reason about literature with numbers is at least as old as Natsume Sōseki’s Theory of Literature (1907). Most recently, computational methods and the availability of digital corpora have channeled this impulse toward new ways of engaging with Japanese literary history. In this essay I consider the relation of Japan’s quantitative pasts with its quantitative futures by tracing a genealogy of quantitative reasoning that begins with Sōseki’s attempts to read literature physiologically, moves through early stylistic and psycholinguistic analyses of the 1930s and 1950s, and ends with the linguistic turn of the 1980s. I use this genealogy to reflect on when it has seemed necessary to reason about literature with numbers; on the ways that the methodological infrastructure for this reasoning was built and borrowed; and on what this history can tell us at a time when numbers seem necessary and useful once again.

The paper is available directly below, or at this link. If you have not received the password, or have questions about accessibility, please feel free to contact Helina Mazza-Hilway (mazzah@uchicago.edu) or Susan Su (susansu@uchicago.edu).

Spring Quarter 2018 Calendar

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Cho Boo-soo, 수련 (Water lily), 116.8×91cm, Acrylic on Canvas, 2010.

3/30   Yujie Li, PhD Student in History
“Birth of the Phoenix Bicycle: Standardization and Socialist Firm Formation in the Early PRC”
Time & location: 3:00-5:00pm in CEAS 319

4/13   Hoyt Long, Associate Professor of Japanese Literature in EALC
“A History of Distant Reading in Japan”
Time & location: 3:00-5:00pm in CEAS 319

5/1   Corey Byrnes, Assistant Professor of Modern Chinese Literature at Northwestern University
“Defining the Chinese Landscape of Desolation in Teaching and Research“
Time & location: 5:00pm-7:00pm in Cochrane-Woods Art Center 152
Co-sponsored with the Visual and Material Perspectives on East Asia Workshop

5/18   Sohye Kim, PhD Candidate in EALC; David Krolikoski, PhD Candidate in EALC; Kyle Peters, PhD Candidate in EALC; Yiren Zheng, PhD Candidate in EALC
Pedagogy Roundtable: Syllabi Workshop
Time & location: 3:00-5:00pm in Wieboldt 301N

6/1   Jun Hee Lee, PhD Candidate in History 
“Let the People Sing: Politico-Musical Ideas and Practices in the Early Utagoe Movement, 1948-1955″
Time & location: 3:00-5:00pm in CEAS 319

Paride Stortini

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Hirayama Ikuo, “Ancestral Buddhism,” 1959. Saku Municipal Museum Modern Art Collection.

Paride Stortini (PhD Student, Divinity)
“Imagining a Cosmopolitan “Furusato”: India and Buddhism in the Silk Road Imaginaire of Hirayama Ikuo”
Monday, March 5th, 12:00pm-1:15pm in Swift Hall’s Marty Center Library
Discussant: Sandy Lin (PhD Student in Art History)
Co-sponsored with the Religion and the Human Sciences Workshop

Please join us Monday (3/5) from 12:00pm-1:15pm as we host Paride Stortini (PhD Student in Divinity). He will present a draft of his qualifying exams paper in progress, which he summarizes as follows:

This paper is on a topic that is not directly linked to my dissertation research and will not be included in my dissertation, which will be focused on India in Meiji Japan. Nevertheless, many of the theoretical references, as well as the general issue of Buddhism and pan-Asianism, will certainly end up in my dissertation. In addition, I plan to present the last section of the paper at a conference in Delhi at the end of March on “India in the Silk Road,” and plan to keep this material for future research projects and single article publication. In this paper I am working on a chronological period (post-WWII Japan) with which I am less familiar than the Meiji period, and I use a lot of art, with which I am definitely not familiar, that is why any suggestion from colleagues with more expertise will be greatly appreciated.
The paper is available directly below, or at this link. If you have not received the password, or have questions about accessibility, please feel free to contact Helina Mazza-Hilway (mazzah@uchicago.edu) or Susan Su (susansu@uchicago.edu).

 

Alex Murphy

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Clockwise from left: Fumiko Kawabata, Eiga no Tomo (July 1938), flyer for Zenkoku Nomin Sogo Taikai (April 1935), in-studio session for JOAK program ‘santo no bunka wo kataru (1933), promotional image for NHK Tokyo station JOAK.

Alex Murphy (PhD Student, EALC)
“The Era of the Voice: Performance, Technology, and Politics in Japan, 1918-1942”
Wednesday, February 14th, 4:30-6:30pm in CEAS 319
Discussant: Nicholas Lambrecht (PhD Candidate, EALC)

Please join us Wednesday (2/14) from 4:30-6:30pm as we host Alex Murphy (PhD Student in EALC). He will present a draft of his dissertation proposal, which he summarizes as follows:

The 1920s and 30s in Japan witnessed a striking degree of attention converge on the voice in poetry, theater, and popular music. Alert to recent advances in radio, commercial recording, and sound film, artists, intellectuals, and activists sought to reckon with the human voice both as an increasingly powerful medium of public self-expression as well as a material and aesthetic object of mediation itself. For poets and musicians in turn, sound technology seemed at once to enliven new modes of vocal expression while ironically threatening the very sense of immediacy and authorial presence that drew many to the voice in the first place. At the same time, the transit of voices and bodies on records and radio waves across the Pacific and throughout Japan’s heterogeneous empire invited unruly expressions of subjectivity across audible markers of race, gender, and culture. By addressing this historical moment as an ‘era of the voice,’ then, my dissertation project explores how these discursive and technological currents manifested in embodied vocal practice, and how an attunement to these sounds might help to rethink the culture and politics of interwar Japan.

The paper is available directly below, or at this link. If you have not received the password, or have questions about accessibility, please feel free to contact Helina Mazza-Hilway (mazzah@uchicago.edu) or Susan Su (susansu@uchicago.edu).

Sohye Kim

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Friday, November 17th, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. in CEAS 319 (1155 E. 60th St.)

Sohye Kim, “An Invitation to the Cinematic Dream of Diaspora: Zhang Lu’s Fashioning of Spectatorship in South Korea”
Discussant: Emily Jungmin Yoon (PhD student, EALC)
Please join us Friday, November 17th as we host Sohye Kim (PhD candidate in East Asian Languages and Civilizations.) She will present a draft of her dissertation chapter, which she summarizes as follows:

This chapter analyzes a Korean-Chinese filmmaker, Zhang Lu’s films and their South Korean reception. As a third-generation member of the Korean diaspora in China, Zhang Lu has self-consciously captured in films what he aptly terms “the scenery of strangers,” transcending nationally-defined issues and depicting those lives pushed to the peripheries and boundaries between nation-states, by featuring ethnic Koreans across China, Korea, and Mongolia. However, since 2012, when Zhang Lu temporarily shifted his main base for filmmaking to South Korea, issues related to Korean diaspora did not surface explicitly in any of his recent films, such as Gyeongju (2014), Love and… (2015), and A Quiet Dream (2016). Far from viewing Zhang Lu’s “homecoming” as a fait accompli, I argue that his recent work reveals another journey taken, in the very act of homecoming, by this film director with a hyphenated identity. His return to Korea involves another departure for him, which initiates long overdue conversations on collective memory with its homeland audience. By examining Zhang Lu’s cinematic rendition of his history of displacement and envisioning of an intersubjective cinematic experience, this paper explores not just collective memories of the past in the homeland and sites of diaspora, but also a new sense of communication and community-building between historically and spatially divided lands and nations.

The paper is available directly below, or at this link. If you have not received the password, or have questions about accessibility, please feel free to contact Helina Mazza-Hilway (mazzah@uchicago.edu) or Susan Su (susansu@uchicago.edu).

 

 

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