8:30 am – Registration – Lenfest Lobby
Welcome: 9:00 am Francesco Cassetti, Thomas E. Donnelley Professor of Humanities and Professor of Film, Yale University, Permanent Seminar on Histories of Film Theories
Panel 5: 9:15 am – 10:30 am
Chair: Noam Elcott, Associate Professor and Chair of Art Humanities, Columbia University
Alexander Zahlten, Associate Professor of EALAC, Harvard University: “From Media Environment to Media Ecology: Leftist Media Theory and the 1970s Occult Boom in Japan”
Franz Prichard, Assistant Professor of East Asian Studies, Princeton University: “Naked-Eye Reflex: Materiality and Mediation in Nakahira Takuma’s Photographic Praxis”
Respondent: Nick Kapur, Assistant Professor of History, Rutgers-Camden
Coffee Break – 10:30 am – 10:55 am – The Lantern – 8th floor
Panel 6: 11:00 am – 12:15 pm: Power & Precarity
Chair: Eugenia Lean, Associate Professor, East Asian Languages & Cultures; Director, Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University
Victor Fan, Senior Lecturer of Film Studies, King’s College London: “Hong Kong 1967: Cinemas of Political Precarity––Then and Now”
Lingzhen Wang, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, Brown University: “Socialist Feminism and Chinese Women's Mainstream Experimental Cinema”
Respondent: Liang Luo, Associate Professor of Chinese Literature and Culture, University of Kentucky
12:15 pm – 1:45 pm – Lunch Break
Panel 7: 1:45 pm – 3:00 pm: Colonial/Post-Colonial
Chair: Claudia Breger, Villard Professor of German and Comparative Literature, Columbia University
Travis Workman, Associate Professor of Asian Languages & Literatures, Univ. of Minnesota: "The Problem of Repetition in Colonial and Postcolonial Korean Film and Film Theory"
Moonim Baek, Professor of Korean Language and Literature, Yonsei University: “Leftist Invention of Tradition: Colonial Korean Case”
Respondent: Theodore Hughes, Korea Foundation Professor of Korean Studies, East Asian Literature and Culture, Columbia University
Coffee Break: 3:00 pm – 3:25 pm – Lenfest, The Lantern, 8th floor
Panel 8: 3:30 – 4:45 pm: Technique, Technology and Visuality
Chair: Paul Anderer, Mack Professor of Humanities & Professor of Japanese Literature, Columbia University
Aaron Gerow, Professor of Film Studies and East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University: “Miura Tsutomu’s Anti-Montage Dialectics”
Takuya Tsunoda, Assistant Professor of Japanese Cinema and Media, East Asian Languages and Cultures, Columbia University: “Method of Science Film: Tsuchimoto Noriaki and some Notes on Film Techniques”
Respondent: Nate Shockey, Assistant Professor of Japanese, Bard College
5:00 pm – 7:00 pm – Dinner Break
Evening Screening: 7:30 pm – 10:30 pm
Treasures from Asian Film Archives – China
Traditional Chinese prelude music
Introduction: Li DaoXin, Professor, School of Arts, Peking University
Translation: Wentao Ma, Columbia University
Under the Heel (Dir & sc: Wang Yuanlong, Da Zhonghua-Baihe Film Co., 1929) rt. 60 min.
Silent piano accompaniment: Makia Matsumura