Professor Toeda Hirokazu (Waseda University) & Professor Seiji Lippit (UCLA)
Saturday, November 14
10:00am -1:30pm
CEAS Media Room (Harris School 319)
1155 E. 60th Street, Chicago, IL 60637
10:00 a.m.: Prof. TOEDA Hirokazu 十重田裕一 (Waseda University)「せめぎあう占領期日本の検閲と文学」(presentation in Japanese)
11:00 a.m.: Prof. Seiji Lippit (UCLA): "All of Tokyo is a Black Market" (presentation in English)
12:00 noon: lunch break
12:30 p.m.: Open discussion, moderated by Michael Bourdaghs (in English and Japanese)
Seiji M. Lippit is Professor in Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA. His research interests include modernism, mass culture, urban space, minority literature, as well as representations of decolonization, occupation, and the transformation of national consciousness in postwar Japan. His publications include Topographies of Japanese Modernism (2002), as well as the edited volume The Essential Akutagawa (1999). He also edited the translation of contemporary philosopher and cultural critic Kojin Karatani’s History and Repetition (2011). He is currently working on a book project entitled Postwar Tokyo: Capital of a Ruined Empire that examines the cultures of decolonization in Tokyo in the wake of empire’s collapse.
TOEDA Hirokazu is Professor in the School of Letters, Arts, and Sciences and Dean of the Cultural Affairs Division at Waseda University. With more than 100 publications, Dr. Toeda’s research interests revolve around relations between the publishing and film industries and literary production in the 20th century. He recently edited Kindai bungaku sōkō genkō kenkyū jiten [Encyclopedia of Research on Drafts and Manuscripts in Modern Literature] (2015). He has also worked on the issue of censorship during the Allied Occupation period, including extensive research in the Gordon W. Prange Collection. His edited volume Senryōki zasshi shiryō taikei: bungaku hen 1-5 [Compendium of Materials on Occupation-Period Journals: Literature Edition, vols. 1-5] (2009 – 2010) includes various censored literary articles published in magazines during the Occupation period, including the details of censorship for each article.
