| Date |
March 7, 2023 |
| Location |
Momiji Lounge, Graduate School of Humanities, Osaka University (10F) |
| Zoom Link |
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81602913191?pwd=WWtHb3VLcExKanBzOW5SRmtiTlhSQT09
- Meeting ID: 816 0291 3191
- Passcode: 274555
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| Lecturer |
Dr. Francesca Orsini (SOAS, emerita) |
| Abstract |
Within the multilingual milieu of early modern north India, poetry circulated within and acrossseveral devotional and courtly "communities of taste" and reached listeners and practitioners acrossboundaries of script and literacy. But while devotional poets experimented with multilingual registersand "nuggets" of poetic language, others kept their languages in which they cultivated their poetictastes quite distinct. This talk tries to make sense of such different attitudes by considering thefunctions of poetry, the terms used for cultivating poetry in different languages (e.g. "strolling" vs "studying"), and the presence or absence of multilingual traces and clues in texts. In addition, a spatialapproach allows us to read together textual production and literary practices in different languages byactors who were active in the same area, whether they acknowledge each other or not. Suchmultilingual and located approach, the talk argues, produces quite a different, more textured, andentangled literary history than the ones of accounts centred on single languages. It involves aliterary comparatism "in one place" focused more on circulation and transmission than on translationand transregional movement. |
| Objective |
The Japanese translation of The Shadow of Imana, a masterpiece by Véronique Tadjo, one of the leading writers of African literature, was published in 2019 by édition F (translated by Haruse Murata). This is a literary work written in French that addresses the 1994 genocide in Rwanda. We are pleased to host Ms. Tadjo's first lecture in Japan and ask her about this work and her thoughts behind it. How can we look at the widespread destruction of humanity by man, and how can we look at it in relation to ourselves? What can literature do in such a situation? We will confront these core questions together with the writer.
As commentators, we welcome Mr. Moriyuki Hoshino, who specializes in French-speaking literature, and Mr. Masahiko Nishi, who has been exploring the memory of genocide from various perspectives in his literary research that transcends language borders.
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| Date |
March 2 (Thur), 2023, 14:00-16:30 (Entrance from 13:30) |
| Venue |
Hall, Bldg. 18, Komaba I Campus, The University of Tokyo + Zoom online |
| Registration |
Please pre-register if you plan to attend.
https://forms.gle/ERkt1jYyjsxDkY2M8 ZoomID will be provided after pre-registration. |
| Program (tentative) |
Moderator: Yuichi Sekiya (Professor, University of Tokyo)
Welcome Address: Prof. Takumi Moriyama (Dean, Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, The University of Tokyo)
Introduction of Guests of Honor and Congratulatory Telegrams
Introduction of the main purpose of the symposium
Lecture by Ms. Tadjo (Simultaneous interpretation scheduled)
Break (10minutes)
Commentator Ⅰ: Mr. Moriyuki Hoshino (Professor, University of Tokyo)
Commentator II: Mr. Masahiko Nishi (Professor Emeritus, Ritsumeikan University)
Dialogue with the floor
End (scheduled around 16:30)
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| Brief biography of Véronique Tadjo |
Born in Paris in 1955 to an Ivorian father and French mother. She grew up in Abidjan. She studied black American literature in France and the U.S. In 1983, her first book of poetry, Red Earth / Laterite (1984), won the ACCT Prize for excellence in French-speaking literature, and in 1998 and 1999, she participated in the literary project "Rwanda: writing as a duty to memory" to write about the Rwandan Genocide, which resulted in The Shadow of Imana (2000). In 2005, she won Grand prix littéraire d'Afrique noire for Queen Pokou (2004), a reinterpretation of an Ivory Coast legend; in 2021, her English translation of En compagnie des hommes (2017), about the spread of Ebola in West Africa, won the LA Times Fiction Award. She is also the author of numerous children's books, including the picture book Mamy Wata and the Monster (1993), which won the 1993 UNICEF Prize, and was listed in the "100 Best African Books of the 20th Century" in 2002, published at the Zimbabwe International Book Fair In 2021, the French In 2021, she was awarded the Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Ministry of Culture for her writing. Her other Japanese translation is the picture book Ayanda (translated by Haruse Murata, Futohsha, 2018). |
| Notes |
Organized by Indian Ocean World Studies Project, The University of Tokyo (TINDOWS)
Co-organized by Research Center for Sustainable Development, Institute for Advanced Global Studies, The University of Tokyo |
| Contact |
Indian Ocean World Studies Project, The University of Tokyo (TINDOWS)
4th floor, Building 14, Komaba I Campus, The University of Tokyo, 3-8-1 Komaba, Meguro-ku, Tokyo 153-8902, Japan
+81-(0)3-5454-6237
tindowsoffice[at]tindows.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp
Please use the "Contact Us" form on the official project website (https://www.gsi-iags-tindows.com/ ).
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| Date |
September 20, 2022 (17:00-18:30 Japan time, GMT+9) |
| Venue |
Online (Zoom) |
| Language |
English |
| Program |
- Lecturer: Dr. Rochana Bajpai (SOAS) : "Liberal ideas in India"
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[Abstract]
Liberal ideas in India remain understudied as liberalism, having been subsumed within Indian nationalism. Revisiting my earlier sketches of liberal ideas in India (Bajpai 2012, 2019), I distinguish three strands that were influential in nineteenth and twentieth-century India: colonial, nationalist, and radical. All shared a strong belief in the state as the principal agent of liberal reform and an acceptance of group-differentiated rights, reflected in the Indian Constitution. Even though liberal ideas have had a significant presence, strong liberalism has rarely been articulated – the need for limiting state power and protecting individual freedoms has rarely been elaborated, a key concern today. Liberalism is often located within Western colonialism in current debates in political theory. However, the decolonizing agenda also requires us to attend to the novel forms and emancipatory potential of liberal ideas and practices in non-Western contexts.
Moderator: Prof. Riho Isaka (The University of Tokyo)
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| Notes |
Co-organizer: Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS); Indian Ocean World Studies (TINDOWS), The University of Tokyo; South Asia Studies Center, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
https://www.gsi.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/event/4871/ |
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