Events for 2015/06/09
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11:30 AM
“Ethnic relations and ideas of civilization in China’s Southwest” by Dr. Magnus Fiskesjö (June 9)
Date：June 9 (Tue), 11：30-13：30(Please bring your own lunch) Venue：Tonan-tei (Room 201), Inamori Foundation Memorial Building, Kyoto University Speaker：Dr. Magnus Fiskesjö (Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology,Cornell University) Title：The Southern Great Wall: Drawing the Line Between Raw and Cooked Barbarians Abstract： The northern Great Walls of China are widely known, but the project of the Ming and Qing imperial Chinese courts to copy the northern wall-building on the southern "barbarian" frontier remains almost unknown in scholarly circles. In this paper I review the Ming and Qing-era history of the construction and maintenance of an anti-barbarian wall, the "Miao frontier border wall," in what today is the Miao and Tujia borderland of the [ Read More ]
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Film Screening “S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine” and Lecture “Social Significance of Documentaries” by Rithy Panh (invited by the Japan Foundation Asia Center)
Date: Tuesday June 9th 15:00 (venue will be open at 14:30) Venue: Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Kyoto University Inamori Memorial 3rd floor, Large Meeting Hall Access: http://www-archive.cseas.kyoto-u.ac.jp/www/2016/en/access-2/ Program: 14:30 opening the venue 15:00‐16:50 Opening words Film screening “S21: The Khmer Rouge Killing Machine” 2002/France/Khmer Language with Japanese and English subtitles/101mins. http://www.yidff.jp/2003/cat015/03c027.html break 17:10 - 18:30 Lecture “Social Significance of Documentaries: How Can Documentary Film Depict and Communicate the Memories of Massacre” Q&A Moderator: Satoru Kobayashi (CSEAS) (with French/Japanese interpretation) ©BophanaCenter/VANN CHAN NARONGRithy Panh, film director, producer, founder and president of Bophana Audiovisual Resource Center. Rithy Panh was born in 1964, and graduated from the Institute of Advanced Cinematographic [ Read More ]
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