{"id":20778,"date":"2023-01-31T15:20:59","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T06:20:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/?p=20778"},"modified":"2023-01-31T15:21:32","modified_gmt":"2023-01-31T06:21:32","slug":"event-report-wias-seminar-series-humanities-in-the-anthropocene-vol-7-open-lecture-analyzing-archipelagos-in-the-work-of-ishimure-michiko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/news-en\/2023\/01\/31\/20778\/","title":{"rendered":"Event Report: WIAS Seminar Series \u201cHumanities in the Anthropocene\u201d Vol. 7, Open Lecture &#8211; \u201cAnalyzing Archipelagos in the Work of Ishimure Michiko\u201d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This lecture was organized as the 7th public lecture in the seminar series &#8220;Humanities in the Anthropocene,&#8221; a research project of the Waseda Institute for Advanced Study. The lecture was attended by 36 participants from Japan and abroad, was followed by a lively discussion.<br \/>\n<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20747\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/01\/07-01-610x343.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"417\" height=\"235\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/01\/07-01-610x343.jpg 610w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/01\/07-01-940x529.jpg 940w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/01\/07-01-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/01\/07-01.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 417px) 100vw, 417px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"addicn\" href=\"https:\/\/eall.yale.edu\/people\/christine-marran\">Christine Marran<\/a>, a specialist in contemporary Japanese literature, discussed the concept of &#8220;Archipelagos&#8221; in the work of Michiko Ishimure. Using Michiko Ishimure&#8217;s <em>Hana no Okudo e<\/em> (Fujiwara Shoten, 2014) as a starting point, the lecture analyzed the concept of &#8220;Archipelagos&#8221; (chain of islands, archipelagos, and islets) developed in the book, and attempted to understand the Anthropocene through the painful history and narratives of disasters and pollution surrounding the Japanese archipelago.<\/p>\n<p>Discussing the connection with poet and literary critic \u00c9douard Glissant&#8217;s (1928-2011) work on &#8220;archipelagic thinking,&#8221; the lecture was a stimulating one, with the aim of establishing a new critical theory beyond ecocriticism.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-20748\" src=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/01\/07-02-610x343.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"398\" height=\"235\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The moderator was <a class=\"addicn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/other\/2020\/09\/01\/7168\/\">Dematagoda Udith<\/a> (Assistant Professor, Waseda Institutes for Advanced Study), who specializes in aesthetic analysis in modern and contemporary literature. Participants also asked questions and engaged in lively discussion, with Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/waseda.pure.elsevier.com\/en\/persons\/koji-toba\">Koji Toba<\/a> (Japanese Modern Literature) of the Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University and Professor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tama.ac.jp\/english\/sgs_teacher\/Kayoko_Komatsu.html\">Kayoko Komatsu<\/a> (Aesthetics) of Nagaoka University of Art and Design.<\/p>\n<h5>Event Details<\/h5>\n<ul>\n<li>Moderator: <a class=\"addicn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/other-en\/2020\/09\/01\/7167\/\">DEMATAGODA,\u00a0<\/a><a class=\"addicn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/wias\/other-en\/2020\/09\/01\/7167\/\">Udith<\/a>\u00a0(Assistant Professor, Waseda institute for advanced studies, Waseda University)<\/li>\n<li>Chair: <a class=\"addicn\" href=\"https:\/\/w-rdb.waseda.jp\/html\/100000692_en.html\">YAMAMOTO, Satomi<\/a>\u00a0(Professor, Faculty of Letters, Arts and Sciences, Waseda University)<\/li>\n<li>Date\/Time: November 5, 2022 (Sat.), 10:00-12:00 (JST)<\/li>\n<li>Location: Online meeting via Zoom<\/li>\n<li>Language: English<\/li>\n<li>Program<br \/>\n10:00-10:05 Opening Address: YAMAMOTO, Satomi<br \/>\n10:05-11:35 Analyzing Archipelagos in the Work of Ishimure Michiko: MARRAN, Christine<br \/>\n11:35-11:40 Break<br \/>\n11:40-12:00 Discussion between Speakers and Participants, Moderator: DEMATAGODA, Udith<\/li>\n<li>Prospected Audience: Faculty members, Researchers, Graduate students<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This lecture was organized as the 7th public lecture in the seminar series &#8220;Humanities in the Anthropoce [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":20741,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[97,111,96],"class_list":["post-20778","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news-en","tag-en-gj","tag-report-en","tag-gj"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20778","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20778"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20778\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20818,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20778\/revisions\/20818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.waseda.jp\/inst\/sgu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}