- Apr 29, 2013
On behalf of the organizer, Prof. Hiromu Nagahara (MIT History), I’m writing to invite you to an exciting talk and discussion on May 1 (Wed.) 4:30pm at MIT, Room E51-095 (map) by Prof. William Marotti (UCLA) who will be speaking about art and politics in 1960s Japan. Bill is the author of the new book, Money, Trains, and Guillotines: Art and Politics in 1960s Japan (2013, Duke U Press).
Free and open to the public, thanks to the Sahin Lecture Series at MIT. Please circulate to friends, students, and colleagues. I hope to see you there!
DETAILS:
Sahin Lecture Series at MIT
Perceiving Politics: Art, Protest, and Everyday Life in Early 1960s Japan
William Marotti, UCLA
Marotti explores politics, events, and timeliness, by examining the advent of a critical art of the everyday in Japan in the 1960s and its links to political action. Out of sync with eventful mass activism, artists sought to create eventfulness by engineering a perceptual politics against a state-promoted, depoliticizing daily life in the high growth economy.
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
4:30 – 6 PM
E51-095 (map)
Corner of Amherst and Wadsworth Streets, Cambridge
Sponsored by the MIT History Faculty.
For more information contact Hiromu Nagahara at nagahara at mit dot edu
Associate Professor
Head, Foreign Languages and Literatures
MIT Director of Undergraduate Studies, Comparative Media Studies
Our friends at the Boston’s Children’s Museum is seeking help in testing their website’s new pages about their Japanese House (“Kyo No Machiya”).
In the Boston Children’s Museum, there is one-of-a-kind exhibit called “Kyo No Machiya” Japanese house. This well-loved house has been a mainstay of our permanent exhibits and has bought a bit of Kyoto to generations of Boston families. Now, in our 100th year, we’re pleased to introduce a project that will bring the Kyo no Machiya to even more audiences around the world, and there will be more opportunities to get to know about this special house. This new project, the “Kyo no Machiya website”, will offer features like a virtual house tour, educational videos about the house and life in Kyoto, and a glimpse into our extensive Japanese collections. We hope that it will be a rich learning tool for people around the world who are interested in learning about Japan.
“When will this new website be available?”, you ask. Actually, that’s why we’re contacting you: we need your help. The website is nearly done but now needs the sort of test drive and constructive review. If you would be so kind as to take just 5-10 minutes out of your busy day and check out our beta site and a brief survey about it, we would be extremely grateful. The more people that take advantage of this sneak preview and complete the survey, the quicker we can put the finishing touches on this unique resource and make it available to families, students, educators and everyone in everywhere!
Thank you in advance for your time. We will be sure to let you know when this incredible new resource is officially complete.
Best regards,
Akemi Chayama
Japan Program Manager/Educator
- Apr 25, 2013
Thanks for coming by and thanks to Brian for taking the minutes!