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Special Public Opening Symposium
"After Metahistory:
Lecture on Postmodernism by Professor Hayden WHITE"

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■Date: From 4:20 p.m. on October 22, 2009 (Thu) (Doors Open: 3:50 p.m.)

■Place: No.2 Hall, Igakukan Building, Kinugasa Campus, Ritsumeikan University
      56-1 Tojiin Kitamachi, Kita-ku, Kyoto City, Japan
  URL:http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/eng/profile/visit_rits/index.shtml#kinugasa

◆Overall Host:

YOSHIDA Hiroshi (Associate Professor, Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Ritsumeikan University)

◆Consecutive Interpretation:

HIRAGA Midori (English Writing Supervisor at Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Ritsumeikan University)

OKAMOTO Michihiro (Professor, Faculty of Literature, Toyo University)

◆Program

【Part I】(4:20~5:50 p.m.)
Thinking with Professor Hayden White: Seminar

・Research Report 1 KINJO Miyuki(Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Ritsumeikan University)
"What Can "the Holocaust" be Called?: Language, Politics, and Historical Imagination"
http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/acd/gr/gsce/news/200901022_repo_1-e.htm

・Research Report 2 NISHIJIMA Kazuhiro(Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences, Ritsumeikan University)
"Who Writes History, Why We Write History and How We Write History?:From the Movement for People’s History and the Movement of Life-Writing Circles in 1950s Japan"
http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/acd/gr/gsce/news/200901022_repo_2-e.htm

【Part II】(6:00~7:30 p.m.)
Postmodernism and Historiography~Lecture with Professor Hayden WHITE
http://www.ritsumei.ac.jp/acd/gr/gsce/news/200901022_repo_0-e.htm

・Introduction of Professor Hayden WHITE and Introduction(OKAMOTO Michihiro)

・Lecture by Professor Hayden WHITE
"Postmodernism and Historiography"

(※In Section I, two graduate students present their own research reports with a clue of Professor Hayden WHITE's works. Then Professor WHITE respond to the reports and have discussion including the floor. In Section II, you will be provided with Professor WHITE's paper and its Japanese version one. Consecutive interpretation (From English to Japanese) will be provided both in Part I and II.)

◆Profile of Professor Hayden WHITE
http://www.stanford.edu/group/Russia20/white_bio.htm

◆Host:
Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences at Ritsumeikan University

◆Co-host:
Institute of Human Sciences, Toyo University
Global COE Program Ars Vivendi/Research Center Ars Vivendi
Study Group on Narrative and History(Projects Led by Graduate Students at Ars Vivendi of Ritsumeikan University)
Study Group on Hitorical Sociology(Public Study Group, Graduate School of Core Ethics and Frontier Sciences at Ritsumeikan University)

◆Advance application is not necessary.

◆Free of Charge

◆Contacting Address:
Bureau, Research Center for Ars Vivendi at Ritsumeikan University (Person in Charge:Sayama) 56-1 Kitamachi, Tojiin, Kita-ku, Kyoto 603-8577, Japan TEL: +81-75-466-3335 FAX: +81-75-465-8371 E-mail ars-vive@st.ritsumei.ac.jp

※Since there is no parking lot, please use public transporation when you come.


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*Preparer:KONDO Hiroshi Translation:KATAOKA Minoru
Events Hosted (or Co-hosted) by Global COE Program Ars Vivendi in 2009

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