CENSORSHIP, MEDIA AND LITERARY CULTURE IN JAPAN: FROM EDO TO POSTWAR

Announcement from H-Japan:

CENSORSHIP, MEDIA AND LITERARY CULTURE IN JAPAN: FROM EDO TO POSTWAR
International Symposium at Columbia University, March 6-7, 2009

This two-day international symposium takes both diachronic (historical) and synchronic (cross-media) approaches, seeking to bring recent research on early modern censorship into dialogue with studies of 19th and 20th century Japanese literary and visual culture. The symposium begins with Edo-period print culture and kabuki theatre, examines prewar literature, analyzes newsreels and popular visual materials from World War II through the Occupation period, and finally concentrates on Occupation-period literature, film, and popular culture.

Registration is required.
RSVP by February 27 to donald-keene-center@columbia.edu