THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 2019 - SUNDAY, MARCH 03, 2019
Legacies of Leftism in Film and Media Theory: East Asia and Beyond
3-day conference - February 28 to March 2, 2019, additional screening March 3, 2019.
Register below to reserve seats for 2 evening screenings. For conference schedule and maps, click here.
Thursday, February 28
Conference & Round Table: 7:30 - 9:30pm – Faculty House
Friday, March 1
Conference: 9:00am - 5:30pm - Lenfest Center for the Arts - Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room
Screening & Talk: 7:30pm - 10:30pm - Lenfest Center for the Arts - Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room
Treasures from World Film Archives – Japan and the U.S.
Talk: “Akira Iwasaki and Eric Barnouw: Prokino, the Bomb, and Columbia University”
Markus Nornes, Professor of Asian Cinema, University of Michigan
Screening: Effects of the Atomic Bomb (Ikira Iwasaki, Japan, 1945)
Saturday, March 2
Conference: 9:00 - 5:00 pm - Lenfest Center for the Arts - Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room
Screening: 7:30 pm - 10:30 pm – Lenfest Center for the Arts - Katharina Otto-Bernstein Screening Room
Treasures from Asian Film Archives – China
Introduction: Li DaoXin, Professor, School of Arts, Peking University
Screening: Under the Heel (Dir & sc: Wang Yuanlong, Da Zhonghua-Baihe Film Co., 1929)
60 minutes, silent with piano accompaniment
Sunday, March 3
Screening & Discussion: 7:00 pm - Butler Library - Rm. 203
Archiving Disappearing Worlds and World Views: Chinese Independent Documentary at Columbia
Discussion: Chi Wang, documentary film historian; Communication University of China; editor, Documenting & Methods and Contemporary Documentary Practice; guest editor: World Cinema (Beijing), Contemporary Cinema (Beijing); Co-author with Brian Winston and Gail Vanstone, The Act of Documentary
Screening: Tianamen (Shi Jian, China, 1991), River Elegy (Xia Jun, China, 1988)
** FREE AND OPEN TO PUBLIC **
Event Co-sponsors: The Society of Fellows and Heyman Center for the Humanities; Weatherhead East Asian Institute; Dragon Summit Fund, C.V. Starr East Asian Library, Donald Keene Center for Japanese Studies; Center for Korean Research; Academy of Korean Studies; Film and Media Studies, School of the Arts; Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought; Center for Chinese Literature and Culture; Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures; Institute for Comparative Literature & Society; Division of Humanities in Arts and Sciences Columbia University; Center for Comparative Media; School of the Arts Dean’s Global Programs; Sites of Cinema Faculty Seminar; Permanent Seminar on Histories of Film Theories; Columbia University Press; Executive Vice President of Arts & Sciences Columbia University; Columbia Global Center l Beijing