CANCELLED due to snow-related flight problems.

Wednesdays at the Center

is pleased to present...

ANIMATION MEDIA MIX Image, Technology, Capital

a lecture by

THOMAS LAMARRE, Professor of East Asian Studies Communications Studies

McGill University

Wednesday, February 10, 2009

12:00 - 1:00 PM Room 240, John Hope Franklin Center

Co-sponsored the FHI Working Group in Trans-Asian Screen Cultures

Asian/Pacific Studies Institute Thomas LaMarre specializes in visuality in modern Japan, in addition to comparative philosophy and cultural theory, media and mass culture, and cultural and intellectual history. In Shadows on the Screen (2005), LaMarre turned to the long-neglected film work of the celebrated Japanese writer, Tanizaki Jun'ichirô, offering a series of commentaries with a sustained analysis of how Tanizaki grappled with the temporal paradoxes of non-western modernity in his film work. In Uncovering Heian Japan: An Archaeology of Sensation and Inscription (2000), LaMarre combined pathbreaking visual analysis of Heian period calligraphy with a more traditional textual analysis of the poetry, in order to challenge the assumption of a cohesive Japanese "national imagination" in this period, seeing instead an early Japan that is ethnically diverse, territorially porous, and indifferent to linguistic boundaries. LaMarre's edited collection Impacts of Modernities (with Kang Nae-Hui, 2003) explored the impact of Western modernity on East Asia. LaMarre also writes on "distributive vision" in anime and on contemporary digital art. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

ABOUT WEDNESDAYS AT THE CENTER

Wednesdays at the Center (WATC) is a topical weekly noontime series in which distinguished scholars, artists, journalists, and policymakers speak informally about their work in conversation with the audience. Presented by Duke University’s John Hope Franklin Center and the John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute in conjunction with other campus partners, all events in the series are free and open to the public. A light lunch is served. No reservations are necessary, and vouchers to cover a portion of the parking costs in the Duke Medical Center parking decks are provided (#2 & #3 in this map: http://jhfc.duke.edu/about/map.php