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SUMMARY:North American Japanese Literary Forum in Vancouver
DESCRIPTION:North American Japanese Literary Forum in Vancouver\nQuestioning\, “What am I?”  「私とは何か？という問い」\nMonday\, March 18\, 2024 @ 1:00 PM – 2:45 PM \nRSVP Required | Lecture | UBC Asian Centre Auditorium \n*Light refreshment will be served at the venue. \n \nHIRANO Keiichiro is an award-winning author of novels such as A Man and At the End of the Matinee. In March 2024\, he will visit Vancouver to share his personal experiences as a writer of Japan’s “Lost Generation\,” defined as a generation whose socio-economic stability declined dramatically following the collapse of the country’s asset price bubble. Mr. HIRANO will also discuss the characteristics of writers of the generation before and after him\, delve into the question of identity\, and as a current member of the Akutagawa Prize selection committee\, touch upon recent trends in Japanese literature. \nRegister here \n**EVENT UPDATE: MEET & GREET with MR. KEIICHIRO HIRANO** \nAfter the lecture\, there will be a 1-hour meet & greet session with Mr. Keiichiro Hirano at UBC Asian Centre from 3:00 PM. You can bring your own copy of Mr. Hirano’s work for his autograph. No book sales will happen at the venue. \nAs there is a high demand\, the tickets for the session will be given out on a first-come\, first-served basis to those who arrive early for this event. Please note that there is a limit of one autograph per attendee. The details will be announced during the event. We appreciate your understanding and cooperation. \n\nAbout the Speaker:\n\n\n\nHIRANO Keiichiro \nKeiichiro Hirano has published more than 15 novels since his debut work “The Eclipse” for which he won the prestigious Akutagawa Prize at the record age of 23. His deeply psychological fiction deals with profound and universal themes like self-love\, relationships and acceptance\, and spans from short stories and historical novels to essays\, love stories\, and literary sci-fi. \nAs a cultural envoy to Paris appointed by Japan’s Ministry of Cultural Affairs\, he traveled all over Europe giving lectures and many of his books have been translated and are widely read in France\, China\, Korea\, Taiwan\, Italy\, and Egypt. In his widely viewed TED talk\, he discusses what it means to really love oneself\, arguing that it’s not easy to holistically love ourselves without knowing all our “selves”\, good and bad\, but we can discover the “self” we like with the help of the person we love. \nBased on this theme\, his novel “At the End of the Matinee” was a runaway bestseller in Japan and released as a movie in November 2019. “A MAN” is the first of his novels to be translated into English. His second title in English “At the End of the Matinee” was released in April 2021. Following the 2019 picture adaptation of “At the End of the Matinee”\, his work keeps coming to life on screen with the 2022 series adaptation of “Fill in the Blanks” and picture adaptation of “A Man”. \nIn 2023\, the 20 years long work “Theory on Yukio Mishima” is finally getting published. Based on a thorough reading of 4 of Mishima’s novels\, the book is written upon both Mishima’s works as a man of Literature\, as well as his actions as a believer of the Emperor system. This Reiwa era ultimate edition of the theories on Mishima Yukio is the unmissable key to understanding Mishima’s beliefs and actions. \n[Awards]\n・120th Akutagawa Prize for The Eclipse（Nisshoku）(1999)\n・59th Education\, Science and Technology Ministers Art Encouragement Prize for New Writers for Breach（Kekkai） (2009)\n・19th Prix Deux Magots Bunkamura for Dawn (2009)\n・ the Watanabe Junichi Literary Prize for At the End of the Matinee（2017）\n・ the Yomiuri Prize for Literature for A MAN（2018）\n・ the Kobayashi Hideo Prize for Theory on Yukio Mishima（2023）\n\nAbout the Coordinator:\n\n\n\nSATO Ayako \nAyako Sato\, born in Tokyo\, Professor Emerita at Meiji Gakuin University\, translator\, President of The Canadian Literary Society of Japan\, and Executive Director of Japan PEN. Specialized in Canadian Literature and American Literature. \nHer translation works include Margaret Atwood’s The Robber Bride\, Alias Grace\, Payback: Debt and the Shadow Side of Wealth\, and The Year of the Flood as well as Tomson Highway’s Dry Lips Oughta Move to Kapuskasing. \nShe is a co-author of J.D. Salinger Bungaku no Kenkyu\, Kebekku o shiru tame no 54 sho\, and Kanada o tabi suru 37 sho. \n\nCo-presented by Japan P.E.N. Club\, UBC Asian Studies\, and The Japan Foundation\, Toronto. \n  \n 
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LOCATION:Asian Centre\, University of British Columbia\, 1871 West Mall\, Vancouver\, BC\, V6T 1Z2\, Canada
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SUMMARY:Ainupuri: Giving Voice to Museum Objects
DESCRIPTION:Ainu were once described and perceived as “exotic” people of Hokkaido (Ainu Mosir in the Ainu)\, in Northern Japan. The Ainu became a very popular research subject both internationally and domestically from the late 19th century to the mid-20th century. Thousands of Ainu objects were collected from Hokkaido\, Sakhalin\, and Kurile islands\, which are now stored in many museums worldwide. \nThis presentation will focus on hidden stories and narratives of the Ainu museum collections from the eye of Dr. Kanako Uzawa\, an Ainu scholar and artist. She will discuss the process and challenges she faces through ongoing Ainu art exhibition curation in collaboration with the University of Michigan Museum of Art. Lastly\, she will introduce her most recent art video production\, Ainupuri\, in which she reconstructs the counter-narratives of Ainu objects stored in the Historical Museum of Oslo University in Norway. This tells her own story in the form of narration\, poetry\, song\, dance\, and performance; these personal and collective histories are mediated by Laura Liverani’s visual storytelling in a constant dialogue between the two artists. \n\n \nKanako UZAWA\nDr. Kanako Uzawa is a Norwegian-based Ainu scholar\, artist\, and advocate. Her work is published internationally by academic journals\, books\, magazines and museums. She engages with a number of academic and international forums\, lectures\, and artistic work on Indigenous identity-making. Her Ph.D. focuses on urban Ainu livelihood and its contemporary expressions based on her auto-ethnography as one of the research methods. She is an Assistant Professor for the Global Station for Indigenous Studies and Cultural Diversity at Hokkaido University in Japan as well as an associated researcher at the Museum of Cultural History at the University of Oslo in Norway. She is also an editorial board member of AlterNative: an International Journal of Indigenous Peoples in New Zealand. As an Ainu dancer and performer\, she recently participated in the Intercultural Indigenous Choreographers Lab at the Banff Centre in Canada. She is currently involved in a curatorial exhibition project on the Ainu contemporary art in collaboration with the University of Michigan Museum of Art in the US. \n\nImages by Laura Liverani; Kanako Uzawa @ Historical Museum\, University of Oslo \n  \n\n \nEnrich Your Understanding of Ainu with JFT Library before/after the event: Ainupuri: Giving Voice to Museum Object \nDiscover the rich cultural tapestry of the Ainu people through our curated collection of JFT Library items\, selected in conjunction with the presentation & film screening event Ainupuri: Giving Voice to Museum Objects on Monday\, March 18. Our event guest presenter Dr. UZAWA Kanako’s insights are informed by her pivotal role as a contributor to the groundbreaking book Beyond Ainu Studies [Ebook]\, which seeks to reinvigorate the landscape of Ainu research; Ainu Spirits Singing [Physical book & Ebook] offers a nuanced study and English translation of Ainu’s rich oral performance traditions; see Ainu culture through the eyes of the characters in the historical fiction manga/anime Golden Kamuy [ebook(EN) & Blu-ray(EN/JP) & physical book(JP)] by NODA Satoru; and more! You can borrow our physical items by visiting JFT library in person during our hours and/or borrow ebooks by accessing JF Canada Digital Library\, available 24/7. \nApply for a new library card or renew your expired card here. \nCheck library item list
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LOCATION:The Japan Foundation\, Toronto\, 2 Bloor St. East\, 3rd Floor\, Toronto\, ON\, M4W 1A8\, Canada
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