Tentative Schedule

Feb. 25 Chinese Film
Readings:
1) Stephen Teo "Promise and perhaps love: Pan-Asian production and the Hong Kong-China interrelationship" Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Vol. 9, No. 3, 2008, p.341-358
2) Chris Berry and Mary Farquhar "The National in the Transnational" from China On Screen: Cinema and Nation, NY: Columbia University, 2006, p.195-222 (Goldsmith Library: 791.430951 BER)
-inviting Chris Berry to speak to us (or at a later date?)
Film Screening: Peter Chan's "Perhaps Love" (2005) 107 min.

March 4
Readings:
1) Re-visit John Hutnyk's "Culture" + another Hutnyk text. John will (hopefully) be joining us for questions
2) Allen Chun "The Postcolonial Alien in Us All: Identity in the Global Division of Intellectual Labor" positions: east asia cultures critique, Vol. 16, No. 3, Winter 2008, p.689-710 (link)

March 11 Japanese in Film
Readings:
1) Koichi Iwabuchi "Lost in TransNation: Tokyo and the urban imaginary in the era of globalization" Inter-Asia Cultural Studies, Vol. 9, No. 4, 2008, p.543-556
2) David Morley- either a chapter from Spaces of Identity or something more recent
-inviting David Morley to speak to us (or at a later date?)
Film Screening: Sofia Coppola's "Lost in Translation" (2003) 102 min. + "Lost on Location: Behind the Scenes of 'Lost in Translation'" (2004) 30 min. / OR "Memoirs of a Geisha" (2005) 145 min.

March 18 Self-Orientalism in Music
Readings:
1) Tony Mitchell "Self-Orientalism, Reverse Orientalism and Pan-Asian Pop Cultural Flows in Dick Lee's Transit Lounge" from Rogue Flows: Trans-Asian Cultural Traffic, ed. Koichi Iwabuchi, Stephan Muecke, Mandy Thomas, Hong Kong University Press, 2004, p. 95-118 (Goldsmiths Library- 306.4095 ROG)
2) TBD
Music: Dick Lee's "Transit Lounge", Lee-Hom Wang's "Shangri-la"

March 25 TBA

Spring Break (March 27-April 27) Frankfurt School
Virtual dialogue through blog and Skype conference (Time: Montreal 8am, London 1pm, Tokyo 10pm)
Readings:
1) Adorno Culture Industry
2) Benjamin The Age of Mechanical Reproduction
3) Gramsci Prison Notes
4) Negri Empire + review of Empire (photocopy hand-out)

Other topics of interest: 'samuraisation', 'occidentalism'
* We've got a reading pack with most of the selected texts, so let us know if you can't access articles online