General Theme: Contemporary Japanese Arts and Poetic Imagination
Lecturer: Professor Yomota Inuhiko (
Assistance and Information: Dick Stegewerns
Time and place:
- Monday 14:15 -16:00, Undervisningsrom 3 Georg Sverdrups hus
Teaching: 1 March - 8 March and 22 March - Wednesday 10:15 -12:00, Grupperom 1 Georg Sverdrups hus ( 3 March to 24 March)
Teaching Schedule:
March1 Godzilla and the Image of Disaster
March 2 16:30-18:30, Auditorium 2, main Library: What is 'Kawaii'? Japanese Contemporary Aesthetic of Cuteness, Sweetness and miniature.
March 3 Voluntary Blindness; The Melodramatic Imagination of
March 8 Nakagami Kenji; A Novelist from the Outcast People
March 10 Ohno Kazuo; An Immortal Dancer of Butoh
March 15 Tamura Ryuichi; A Drunken poet
March 17 Eroticism in Japanese Art and Cinema
March 22 Okinawa; Representations of Another Side of
March 23 Deadline for the qualifying assignment: handing in a paper proposal/outline including a list of sources.
March 24 Yoshimasu Gozo; A Poet and Performer
March 24 16:30-18:30, Auditorium 2, main Library: Mishima Yukio, A Samurai Artist in Postwar Japanese Society. Including film screening.
The following lectures by Professor Yomota may also be of interest:
JAP 2501 Japanese Popular Culture
Sub-Theme: A Brief History of Japanese Manga
Wednesdays, 14:15-16:00
March 3 Sugiura Shigeru and his Descendants
March 10 Tezuka Osamu
March 17 Shirato Sampei
March 24 Radicalism and Nostalgia after 1968; Mizuki Shigeru, Tsuge Yoshiharu, Hayashi Seiichi and others.
Evening Lectures at the Norwegian Film Institute (Filmhuset) on the following films:
March 9 Yoshida Kijū, Kagami no onnatachi (The Women in the Mirror)
March 13 Tsukamoto Shinya, Tetsuo
March 16 Terayama Shūji, Denen ni shisu (Pastoral Hide-and-Seek Street)
March 23 Wakamatsu Kōji, Jitsuroku Rengo Sekigun (United Red Army)
NOTE! Dates and times provisional. Check schedule of the Cinemateket.
Lecture during the Annual Conference of the Nordic Association for the Study of Contemporary Japanese Society, University of
March 18 or 19 Kurosawa Akira at the Century