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From the Director

The Center for Japanese Studies wishes you a Happy New Year! Japanese greeting cards might say "Geishun," ("Welcome Spring ") for the same, but our current environment offers little that reminds us of the vernal season. The picnic tables and chairs in the courtyard below the CJS office windows on the third floor have completely disappeared under the heavy mass of alternately melting and freezing snow. Children's schools have closed more days than we can remember. But the weather is no reflection on the lively atmosphere at the Center and the University. Under the auspices of the International Institute, the Center continues its interdisciplinary and inter-regional engagement on the question of "Global Processes of Privacies," a project which is part of the Ford Foundation's "Crossing Borders" initiative. The seventeen participants representing Japan, China, Russia, West Europe, Africa, and the Middle East who met last October are now planning to push further the scope of their investigation into the meaning and function of "privacy and the private" across cultures and time. Meanwhile, as the deadlines for admissions and fellowships applications arrive, the staff is busily organizing files and faculty members are devoting their time to writing recommendations. The Center has also begun planning the summer and fall film series. You can look forward to Japanese "Anime" in the summer, and to some of the best Japanese films of the 1990s in the fall. Additionally, the annual CJS faculty grant is open to faculty across the campus. For information on these and other programs check the on-line CJS calendar and other on-line resources at: http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/cjs/.

The Center community is composed of students, faculty members, visitors, librarians, researchers, alumni/ae, friends, and staff. In this issue, we have inaugurated a series that profiles our eminent faculty members. We do so dramatically with our colorful and beloved Professor William Malm whose formal retirement just over a year ago seems to be marked by ever-active engagements in public presentations, performances, and publications. We look forward to introducing other distinguished CJS faculty members in future issues. I also wish to introduce here another irreplaceable component of the CJS community --a group of hard-working and talented specialists who contribute their skills and expertise. Our loyal readers may have noticed that the visual format of the Newsletter has undergone some changes with the last issue. Credit for this innovation in design goes to Ms. Seiko Semones, CJS's chief and veteran graphic artist. Ms. Semones has designed all the posters -- including those for the film series-brochures, and fliers the Center has put out over the last four years. She also designs book jackets for the Center for Japanese Studies Publications Program. Her first-rate art is a fusion of sharpness of image, warmth of cultural sensitivity, and often a touch of humor. Mr. Yasuo Watanabe is our translation expert. The Center publishes two issues of this Newsletter annually and he translates the fall issue into Japanese. Mr. Watanabe renders the translated Japanese into a natural prose without the artificiality that is often produced in crossing the two significantly different languages. As of this academic year, the Center is also pleased to add to our group of experts Dr. Brett R. Johnson, our Program Coordinator. Many readers are already familiar with Brett, as he is the "knowledgeable young man" (according to one outside letter to CJS) who provides introductions to the Friday films. Indeed, he coordinates all film series, organizes intellectual activities, such as the "Privacies" seminar, and authors articles in ii: The Journal of the International Institute and this newsletter, among many other activities. These experts along with the competent editorial team in the CJS Publications Program (Executive Editor Bruce Willoughby, Assistant Editor Robert Mory, and Ellen O'Connor), the directorial members in the East Asia Business Program and Japan Technology Management Program (Jeffrey Liker and Heidi Tietjen), the Acquisition, Research, and Cataloguing staff at the Asia Library (Mari Suzuki, Kazuko Anderson, and Miya Shimada), the Exhibit Preparator at the U-M Museum of Art and the designer of the CJS tatami space (Mark Nielsen), the CJS administrator (Lori Coleman), secretary (Linda Williams), student staff (Wan-Chi [Elaine] Cheng, Nicole Erickson, Vincent Fike, Joo Kim, Kevin Martin, Heather Schluckbeier, and Peter Shapinsky), Japanese-language correspondent and consultant (Ms. Yoko Watanabe), and calligrapher (Mr. Kaoru Onishi), among others, all contribute to promoting the many CJS programs, learning, and funding opportunities available to the university community and our friends around the globe.

It is with much gratitude to everyone in the Center community that I sign off with this column as I anticipate stepping down from the directorship at the end of this summer. Over the four years of my tenure as the Director, the Center has affirmed old friendships and found new ones. Many have contributed generously to our activities and programs. While the Toyota Visiting Professorship continues to bring eminent visitors and the Calvin French Fund provides resources in Art History, a new fellowship for students--the Grant K. Goodman Fund--and a new book series named for John Whitney Hall have also been inaugurated. We celebrated our 50th Anniversary in a big way and moved from Lane Hall to the new School of Social Work Building. We renewed our solid links with Japanese business, educational, and academic communities both here in the Detroit area and in Japan. We sadly bade farewell to Professor Robert Lyons Danly, and have instituted a memorial lecture series to commemorate his life and work. On campus, students and faculty in Japanese studies have played a major role in University curricular interests founded on principles of intellectual excellence and cultural diversity. I thank everyone for the strong support I received in all of my endeavors as the CJS Director, and wish us all well as we forge ahead.

Hitomi Tonomura

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From Publications

Among our fall publications, the Center for Japanese Studies is pleased to note that The Shade of Blossoms, by Ôoka Shôhei, translated with an introduction by Dennis Washburn of Dartmouth College, received a very positive review in the New York Times Book Review. The review called it "a bracing alternative to the more familiar geisha stories that have appealed to romantic American readers." This is the fourth Center title to be reviewed in the New York Times and the third within the last few years. The Shade of Blossoms, provides a disturbing view of lives at the margins of Japanese society-the setting is the demimonde of the Ginza bar scene in the 1950s; the subject is the aging bar hostess Yôko. The novel is powerfully ethical literature that describes the inner search for meaning and identity in a world where received values have been disrupted by war and by social upheavals (Monograph No. 22, ISBN 0-939512-87-4, cloth, $28.95; ISBN 0-939512-88-2, paper, $12.95).

Titles forthcoming this spring include a paperback reissue of Long, Long Autumn Nights: Selected Poems of Oguma Hideo, 1901-1940, translated and with an introduction by David G. Goodman of the University of Illinois. The book, which received glowing reviews when it was first published in 1989, won a prestigious design award at the Chicago Book Show and won the 1990 Translation Award from the Translation Center at Columbia University. Oguma Hideo, a Japanese avant-garde poet who stood for cultural tolerance in a repressive, imperialistic age, cried out against the darkness that enveloped the human soul in the deepening twilight of World War II. He accomplished what few Japanese writers have accomplished before or since: a truly compassionate, multicultural worldview (Monograph No. 3, ISBN 0-939512-94-7, paper, $8.95).

Karen E. Sandness explains the evolution of Japanese suffixes and aids scholars in reading classical Japanese with The Evolution of the Japanese Past and Perfective Suffixes. In her work, Karen Sandness succeeds in (1) presenting an internally consistent and workable analysis of classical Japanese suffixes, (2) explaining the evidence for the evolution and disappearance of these suffixes, and (3) pointing out the ways in which the dialectological and literary evidence support and contradict each other (Monograph No. 26, ISBN 0-939512-92-0, cloth, $32.95).

The book Essays on the Modern Japanese Church: Christianity in Meiji Japan, by Yamaji Aizan, translated by Graham Squires, with introductory essays by Graham Squires and A. Hamish Ion, contains a translation of Gendai Nihon kyôkai, published in 1906 and the first Japanese-language history of Christianity in the Meiji period. This is a firsthand account of the role Christianity played in the social, political, and intellectual life of Meiji Japan. It describes the reintroduction of Christianity to Japan and its crucial role in shaping the growth of that country (Monograph No. 27, ISBN 0-939512-93-9, cloth, $28.95).

Finally, we are pleased to announce publication of the proceedings of the November 1997 symposium celebrating the fiftieth anniversary of the Center for Japanese Studies. Japan in the World, the World in Japan: Fifty Years of Japanese Studies at Michigan provides an intimate look at the growth of Japanese studies at the University of Michigan. As the first American interdisciplinary institute devoted to education and research on Japan, the Center has a path-making legacy. This volume reflects that legacy and the University's long and continuing involvement in Asia, which dates back to the 1870s. Anyone with an interest in the history of the Center and Japanese studies at Michigan should enjoy these reflections (ISBN 0-939512-95-5, paper, $11.95).

To order these and other titles, please contact

University of Michigan Press
839 Greene St., P.O. Box 1104
Ann Arbor, MI 48106-1104
Tel: 734.764.4392
Fax: 734.936.0456
E-mail: um.press.bus@umich.edu

Bruce Willoughby

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From the Librarian

Selected New Acquisitions (Please consult the Asia Library Homepage at http://asia.lib.umich.edu/ for the latest information from the Asia Library). Nihon joseishi ronshu, 10 vols. (Yoshikawa Kobunkan); Kokin wakashu zenhyoshaku, 3 vols. (Kodansha); Sakoku to kokusai kankei, (Yoshikawa Kobunkan); Waka no fukei, (Sunagoya Shobo); Goka "Genji-e" no sekai Genji Monogatari, (Gakushu Kenkyusha); Rodo undo no tenkai to roshi kankei (Ochanomizu Shobo); Anpo, Okinawa mondai to shudanteki jieiken, (Shin Nihon Shuppansha); Nihon kindai josei bungakuron: yami wo hiraku, (Sekai Shisosha); Nihon kindai monzoku bungakuron, (Ofu); Bukkyo ni miru sabetsu no kongen: sendara, etori hoshi no gogen, (Akashi shoten); Ocho bungaku no utakotoba hyogen, (Wakakusa Shobo); Keizai fukko to sengo seiji, (Tokyo Daigaku Shuppankai); Jenda to tabunka: mainoriti wo ikiru monotachi, (Akashi shoten); Josei to jinken: rekishi to riron kara manabu, (Nihon Hyoronsha); Kabane no seiritsu to tenno, (Yoshikawa Kobunkan); Tenno to seppun: Amerika senryoka no Nihon eiga kan'etsu, (Soshisha); Inseiki no Bukkyo, (Yoshikawa Kobunkan); Manyoka no shudai to isho, (Hanawa Shobo); Shiki sengoku shiryo no kenkyu, (Tokyo Daigaku Shuppankai); Nihon kigyo no gijutsu iten: Ajia shokoku e no teichaku (Nihon Keizai Hyoronsha); Yamada Koichi no Nihon eigashi, (Waizu Shuppan); Soshiki bunka to inobeshon, (Chikura Shobo); Nihon gendai bijutsu, (Shinchosha); Tendai kyogaku to hongaku shiso, (Hozokan); Kyokasho ga oshienai rekishi, 4 vols. (Sankei Shimbun Nyusu Sabisu); Media ga tsukuru jenda: Nichi-Doku no danjo, kazokuzo wo yomitoku=Das Geschlect als Konstrukt der Medien, (Shin'yosha); Kin'yu kaikaku to Nihon keizai: bigguban ni yoru Nihon keizai no saisei (Seisansei Shuppan); Nichi-Ei taisho Joseigaku bukku gaido=A women's studies bibliography, (Sanshusha); Kindai Nihon joshi shakai kyoiku seiritsushi: Shojokai no zenkoku shoshikika to shido shiso, (Akashi shoten); Rojin kaigo mondai hatsugen, (Unmo shobo); Kinsei toshi shakai no mibun kozo, (Tokyo Daigaku Shuppankai); Taisho jidai ni okeru Nihon to Chugoku no aida, (Kenbun Shuppan); Bakamatsu Choshu-han yogakushi no kenkyu, (Shibunkaku Shuppan); Shosenkyoku hirei daihyo heiritsusei no majutsu, (Seiji Koho Senta); Tezuka Osamu: Maboroshi no meisakushu, (Futabasha)

Mari Suzuki

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Special Events

Noon Lecture Series
The CJS Noon Lecture Series resumed January 14th with Andrew Watsky, Assistant Professor of Art History at Vassar College speaking on "Locating the Sacred in Early Modern Japan: The Places Where Benzaiten Dwells." Other lecturers slated for the series include: Leslie Pincus, U-M History Professor; Andrew Isaacs, President of California Technology International Inc.; Sadashi Inuzuka, Assistant Professor, U-M School of Art and Design; Mieko Yoshihama, Assistant Professor, School of Social Work; Rod Wallace, U-M Ph.D. Candidate in Economics; Mikiro Kato, Toyota Visiting Professor (Associate Professor of Film Studies, University of Kyoto); Hitomi Tonomura, U-M History Professor; and Lili Selden, U-M Ph.D. Candidate in Japanese Literature. All Noon Lectures are held on Thursdays from 12-1 p.m. on the first floor of the SSWB, Room 1636. Please refer to the calendar on the back page for other titles and all dates.

Toyota Visiting Profesor Seminar In Japanese Cinema
Mikirô Katô will be the Winter 1999 CJS Toyota Visiting Professor. As an associate professor at the University of Kyoto specializing in film studies, Professor Katô will be offering the one-credit AS 491: "Seminar: Japanese Cinema." This is to be an intensive study of Japan's national cinema in a historical, sociocultural context with emphasis on deconstructive analysis. The course focuses on questions of style and meaning of particular Japanese filmmakers such as Hiroshi Shimizu, Heinosuke Gosho, Kenji Mizoguchi, Mikio Naruse, Yasujirô Ozu. Some Japanese language ability is recommended for participants. The class will meet from 6-9 p.m. on 3/17, 3/24, 3/31, 4/7, 4/14 (all Wednesdays) SSWB Room 1644.

Asian Business Conference
On January 28-29, 1999, the 9th Annual Asian Business Conference will focus on the outlook for business in Asia as countries recover from the financial crisis of 1997-98. The conference brings together over 30 top business, government, and academic leaders from around the world and will feature: regional panels on Greater China, India, Japan, Korea, and Southeast Asia, functional panels related to specific industries, and opportunities to meet top business people. Speakers include: Makoto Ariga, Director of Human Resources, Delphi Automotive, Japan; Mark Breedlove, President, Asian Automotive Operations, Allied Signal; Mark Chamberlain, Vice President, Strategic Planning, American Express; Andy Fang, Vice President, TRW (China); Andrew M. Isaacs, President, California Technology International; Dorodjatun Kuntorojekti, Ambassador to the United States, Indonesia; Suk Chae Lee, Former Vice Minister of Finance, Republic of Korea; K.K. Maheswari, President, Thai Polyphosphate & Chemical; Randy Salim, International Director, Yahoo!; Shigeru Shimizu, Komerz Asset Management International (Japan); Peter Trager, Managing Director, BankBoston; and many others.

The conference will be free for all students, faculty, and staff, and the registration form can be found online at http://www.umich.edu/~asiabus. The form can be faxed to 734.763.0686 or mailed to:
Asian Business Conference
2769 IOE Building
1205 Beal Avenue
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-2117

For more information, e-mail asiabus.1999@umich.edu or call the East Asia Business Program, Tel. 734.764.2349.

Negotiating With the Japanese
The East Asia Business Program's "Negotiating with the Japanese" is an intensive executive seminar emphasizing problem solving and hands-on learning to be held February 3-5, 1999. It features lectures and discussions, videotapes of negotiating situations, and a simulated negotiation with Japanese counterparts. Contact Heidi Tietjen at tel. 734.764.2349, fax 734.763.0686, e-mail jtmp@umich.edu or visit the website at http://www.umich.edu/~umjtmp/.

Lean Manufacturing Study Tour
February 28-March 2, the Japan Technology Management Program (JTMP) sponsors a trip to view lean manufacturing techniques at Toyota Motor Manufacturing in Kentucky. The tour visits Toyota and two supplier companies-Summit Polymers and Johnson Controls-and begins in Ann Arbor with a simulation exercise and lunch on North Campus. Participation is open to full-time students, faculty, and staff at all U-M campuses. A short application form is required. Contact JTMP at jtmp@umich.edu, tel. 734.763.3258, http://www.umich.edu/~umjtmp/.

Lean Manufacturing Conference: "Lean Thinking for the Auto Industry"
Held May 5-7, this gathering includes a May 5 seminar "Making Lean Happen in Your Plant" which highlights, among other topics, Value Stream Mapping. May 6 and 7 feature speakers such as James Womack, co-author of The Machine that Changed the World; John Shook, Director of Lean Manufacturing Programs for the Japan Technology Management Program; and other industry speakers in concurrent sessions on product development, value chain management, the extended value stream, retail distribution, plant management, process engineering, and management/accounting/finance. To register call 734.764.2349. For more information see http://www.umich.edu/~umjtmp/.

Workshop On Japanese Film Studies
Japanese Cinema Studies in the Rear View Mirror: Re-Viewing the Discipline, March 26-28, 1999
With scholars approaching Japanese cinema from history, literature, area studies, anthropology, comparative literature, and other disciplines, it is time to ask where Japanese film studies have come from, where are they going, what is the shape of the field, and what are the most pressing issues for future work? This workshop will deal specifically with meta-critical and methodological issues concerning the disciplinary and institutional problems of Japanese film scholarship. For more information contact A.M. Nornes, tel. 734.764.0147, fax 734.936.1846, amnornes@umich.edu.

1999 Japan Cultural Festival
On Sunday, March 14, the Japan Student Association presents its eighth annual all-day Japan Cultural Festival highlighting both the modern and traditional culture of Japan. You will be able to explore Japanese martial arts, the tea ceremony, cooking, toys and games, art and calligraphy, popular music, sumo, TV and animation, and more in the Michigan Union Ballroom. For more information e-mail jsao@umich.edu.

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Japan at U-M Online

If you haven't explored the Center for Japanese Studies yet, please take an opportunity to access our web site. It is constantly changing to meet the challenges of our new environment. One of the more recent developments is the expansion of the Japan Technology Management Program page. Check their URL: http://www.umich.edu/~umjtmp/ to see what's new and exciting in the East Asian Business Program. To find out more about Center for Japanese Studies' (CJS) events and activities, simply explore http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/cjs. This site provides information on events, special exhibits, and lecture and film series. Additionally, the site provides information on the center and its staff, funding opportunities, academic programs and faculty, upcoming events, recent publications, and resources on Japan which are available at the University and elsewhere, including the new and always growing film database: Japan on Film: A WWW Guide to Japanese Film Prints. The WWW guide is designed for educators (but great for fans) who wish to use films when teaching about Japan. It includes plot information, availability, discussion suggestions, bibliographic references, a simple search engine, and a list of Japanese literary works that have been made into films. At 100 films and growing, the guide is updated regularly. Visit it at: http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/cjs/events/film.html.

CJS Library
The CJS library has been catalogued and classified into: 1) books published by the Center for Japanese Studies Publication Programs, 2) books authored by CJS faculty, and 3) books authored by the visiting friends of CJS. A complete listing of titles will soon be on the CJS web pages.

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Faculty Profile: William P. Malm
Serendipity, Enthusiasm Define a Career, Reshape a Discipline

Professor William Malm strode into the opening session of his fall semester freshman music classes wearing full academic regalia (cap and gown). With the complete attention of his amazed students-it was the first college class many had ever attended-Dr. Malm would energetically proclaim "Welcome to the University of Michigan." There was a very definite method to this "madness." Students remember both Professor Malm's classes and, more importantly, the material he covered.

Born into a family that liked to sing, Bill Malm eventually pursued music composition and theory, fields, as he says, for someone who likes to analyze things. Given the distance between Illinois, where he grew up, and Japan, where he made his reputation as a renowned ethnomusicologist, it is not surprising that Malm's trip between the two was circuitous and marked by serendipity, enthusiasm, and hard work.

As a young man, Malm took clarinet and piano lessons, and in college at Northwestern played in a dance band. As a college sophomore, he took a geology class he liked, eventually led a lab, and was offered a summer job on a dig in Colorado. The weekend before he was to leave he got a special delivery letter informing him that the man who had hired him had decided it was cheaper to employ a professional surveyor. Suddenly Bill Malm was facing the prospect of an empty summer. To fill the time, he took classes at Northwestern's School of Music and began his pursuit of music composition.

Another summer job was his first exposure to Asian music. In 1947, he took a job as a pianist at a dance camp in Massachusetts (Jacob's Pillow). Every weekend the camp put on a show and one weekend a Balinese troupe was set to perform. Because of the Indonesian revolution, the dancer showed up but her musicians did not. Bill Malm and another pianist made up some "Balinese" music for her on the spot, even though they had never heard any! Malm would spend two months traveling with the Balinese troupe, heavily made up to look like a "native" and learning how to become a one-man gamelan (an Indonesian orchestra of bowed stringed instruments, flutes, and a great variety of percussive instruments). When the tour was done he had become hooked on Asian music.

Finishing college, Malm got a job teaching in Illinois. He was 22 years old and he was hired for a job described as 2/3 music theory, 1/3 physical education for women (what we now call a dance department). Within five months however he was drafted into the army. Eventually, he would teach music at the navy school in Washington D.C. In his spare time, a curious Bill Malm had the luxury of being able to go to the Library of Congress to pursue his growing interest in Asian musical instruments. Even there, however, he couldn't find anything he wanted to know. Except for India and Indonesia all he could learn about the music of Asian countries was more or less the names of the instruments. Out of the army in February two years later, he had to bide his time until his teaching job opened back up in the fall. Malm got work playing piano for modern dance studios in New York including Julliard, where no one had time to play for such things.

When Malm was living in New York, his older brother was serving as a doctor in the Navy and on a stop in Japan bought and mailed Malm a shamisen. Malm knew what the instrument was but couldn't play it or even read the music for it. He made up his mind to learn, he would go back to college.

While at UCLA, in 1954, Malm married the woman of his dreams, a dancer he had met while he was a summer pianist at the American Dance Festival in New London Connecticut, but who was from California. Studying Japanese-from a 1936 textbook-and music, Malm also managed to find a shamisen player in Los Angeles who agreed to take him on as a student. With Ethnomusicology just coming into being as a discipline, it took some creative writing for Malm to land a Ford Foundation grant to study: "Music as an Accultrational [sic] Phenomenon in Urban Areas of Japan." When he finally arrived, he spent two years studying kabuki music. The Ford Foundation got two books and a mass of research materials as a return on their investment.

Through a friendship with Donald Richie in Tokyo, Malm was introduced to Tex Weatherby, the chief editor for Tuttle Publishing in Japan. Tex immediately asked if the young graduate student would be interested in writing a book on Japanese music. At the time, Malm had been in Japan only three months. He signed a contract and 18 months later handed over Japanese Music and Musical Instruments (1959). Pounded out on a portable Royal typewriter, but chock full of glossy photos, illustrations, and a Japanese/English lexicon, it was the first book on the topic in English in nearly 50 years. Malm's Ph.D. thesis Nagauta: The Heart of Kabuki Music was published in 1963 and won a monograph prize from the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. By the time he was 30 years old, the now Dr. Malm had, almost accidentally, became the foremost American expert of Japanese music. It was now time to share his knowledge.

Professor Malm's long teaching career began at Michigan in 1960, and he would run the newly developing program in Ethnomusicology. Three of his students would eventually become heads of the Society of Ethnomusicology, including Judith Becker, the current Director of the Center for South and Southeast Asian Studies. Professor Malm developed a program in Ethnomusicology which included world music surveys seminars and performance ensembles, particularly in Japanese kabuki (nagauta) and Indonesian gamelan music. In 1980, he became director of the Stearns Collection of Musical Instruments and pursued new approaches to display such as holography and computer methods for cataloging and research. Malm himself has been president, treasurer, and office manager of the Society for Ethnomusicology.

As an interested and involved observer, Professor Malm has written extensively in a wide variety of fields. His Music Cultures of the Pacific, the Near East and Asia (1967, 1979, 1996) was a pioneering step toward world music textbooks. Six Hidden Views of Japanese Music came from his lectures as the Ernst Block Professor of Music at the University of California, Berkeley (1981), and Theater as Music (1990) is a study of the music of Japan's puppet theater. Professor Malm has been a distinguished professor at several schools and has lectured extensively around the world. Research grants have sent him to such places as Japan, Malaysia, Australia, the East-West Center in Hawaii, and Villa Serbelloni in Italy. Among his honors at Michigan are the Henry J. Russel and State Legislature awards for excellence in undergraduate teaching, and internationally, the Koizumi Fumio Prize for Ethnomusicology. A favorite with his college students for decades, Professor Malm educates as he entertains, maintaining his lifelong focus on teaching.

In all his work, Professor Malm's enthusiasm has stood him in good stead-ask him sometime about the gamelan which was delivered to him at the Burton Memorial Tower, but dumped in tens-of-boxes on the ground outside at his feet-and has served as an inspiration to his students and his peers. Professor Malm's current projects include the revision of his first book Japanese Music and Musical Instruments-which he hopes to republish to include a CD of its music-as well as filling the role of travelling lecturer for the Association for Asian Studies' Distinguished Lecturer Series which will send him to Montana in May of 1999. Professor Malm also hopes to catch up on some travel in Japan that he has been meaning to get to for years. That's good news for us all, because William Malm is arguably the best ambassador to Japan and Japanese music there is, and who knows what he will bring back to us next time.

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Faculty & Associate News

Professor Aileen Gatten was a Visiting Professor at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken) in Kyoto (15 Sept 1998-14 Jan 1999), and her recent publications include: "Fact, Fiction, and Heian Literary Prose: Epistolary Narration in 'Tonomine Shosho Monogatari,'" Monumenta Nipponica 53:2 (1998); and "Monogatari as Mirror: The Outsider in 'Genji monogatari' and Heian Society," Asiatica Venetiana (forthcoming). During her stay at Nichibunken she participated in seminars including the study of cursive characters (soshotai), reading old documents (komonjo), and hentaigana (variant kana). All were designed to help Japanese and Western scholars improve their ability to read old Japanese script.

Professor Hugh de Ferranti who holds a joint appointment in Asian Languages and Cultures and the School of Music received a Graduate Media Assistance project grant from the Language Resource Center to develop materials for the courses "Japanese Popular Music" and "Introduction to Japanese Theatre." In addition to organizing last September's Noh Workshop, Professor de Ferranti presented "Solace Through Biwa Performance," on a panel called 'Music and Healing' at the Society for Ethnomusicology's annual Conference in October at the University of Indiana (Bloomington). His new book entitled Japanese Musical Instruments is set for publication in May of 1999 as part of the Oxford University Press "Images of Asia" series.

Fusae Ekida, a lecturer in Japanese, is pleased to announce the publication of her "Poems of May" -A Collection of Miscellaneous Poems by Terayama Shuji, The Edwin Mellen Press, 1998. Ekida-san is currently researching Kajii Motojiro and Terayama Shuji.

Professor Sadashi Inuzuka of the School of Art and Design is currently a Fellow at the Institute of Humanities and has received both Rackham and CJS grants for research in Japan in 1999. In addition to numerous workshops, Inuzuka's 1998 exhibitions included: "Two Person Show" Connecticut College, New London, CN; "Exotic Species," Davis Art Center, Davis, CA; "Bienale Barro de America," Maracaibo, Venezuala "International Ceramic Public Art," Taipei County Cultural Center, Taipei, Taiwan; "International Academy of Ceramics Members Exhibition," Waterloo, Canada; "East of the Sun," Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI; "Inside/Out," George R. Gardiner Museum, Toronto, Canada; "Made By Hand," Canadian Craft Museum, Vancouver, Canada; "Contemporary Canadian Ceramics" Itabashi Museum, Tokyo, Japan. Recent publications include: "Review" New York Times, Sunday November 29, 1998, p. 20; "Exhibit Weaves Strands of Memory," Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, Wednesday, March 25, 1998; "Interview," CBS Sunday Morning, 1998; as well as contributions to a number of catalogues.

Professor Yuki Johnson is on sabbatical from her position as coordinator of Japanese Language teaching in ALC, but is happy to report the completed CIC (Committee on Institutional Cooperation) project on "Computer Assisted Instruction Materials for Japanese Language Learners." Professor Johnson received both a 1998 Rackham Grant and a Rackham Fellowship to help with the publication of an upcoming book on Japanese linguistics. Her review of Business Japanese by H. Takamizawa (Tokyo: Japan Times, 1998) is forthcoming in the Journal of the Association of the Teachers of Japanese, 1999. Professor Johnson also saw two other articles go to press at the end of 1998: "Modality Riron no Meikaku-ka o Motomete" [Seeking a Better Understanding of the Theory of Modality] Nihongo-gaku to Nihongo Kyoiku (Japanese Linguistics and Japanese Language Education) Tokyo: Kurosio Press, 1998. 145-160, and "Birds of a Feather: An Examination of the Aspectual Forms Te-iru and Nai," Proceedings of the 6th Princeton Japanese Language and Pedagogy Conference, 1998, 103-113.

Noriko Kamachi, Professor in the Social Sciences Department at U-M Dearborn, is a member of both the Centers of Chinese and Japanese Studies. Since the beginning of the 1998 academic year, she has also been serving as the Director of Publications for the Center for Chinese Studies. Professor Kamachi was a discussant at a conference on social changes in contemporary China organized by the Joint Committee of Japanese and French Sinologists for Study of Contemporary China, held at the Centre d'Edudes et de Recherches Internationales, Paris, March 29-30, 1998. Her most recent work is the completion of a manuscript for a book on Japan in a series tilted "Cultures and Customs of Asian Nations." The series is designed as reference works for high school and college libraries, and Professor Kamachi's contribution is on track for publication by the Greenwood Publishing Group in 1999.

Professor Jeffrey Liker, Director, Value Chain Analysis Program and on the faculty in Industrial and Operations Engineering was the editor of Becoming Lean: Inside Stories of U.S. Manufacturers, Portland, Oregon: Productivity Press, 1997, winner of the 1998 Shingo Prize for Excellence in Manufacturing Research. In addition to the following book, Liker, J.K., Fruin, M., and Adler, P. (editors), Remade in America: Transplanting and Transforming Japanese Production Systems, N.Y.: Oxford University Press, forthcoming Spring, 1999, Professor Liker has a number of journal articles due out in 1999. Among these articles are: "Principles from Toyota's Set-Based Concurrent Engineering Process," to appear in Sloan Management Review (third author with Durward Sobek and Allen Ward). "Collaborating with Suppliers in Product Development: A U.S. and Japan Comparative Study," to appear in IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management (second author with Nazli Wasti), and "Involving the Supply Chain in Design," in Handbook of Total Quality Management, London: Chapman & Hall, forthcoming (with N. Wasti; primary author). Professor Liker continues to teach at a number of conferences and seminars, training interested parties in the area of Lean Manufacturing both within and without the Japan Technology Management Program.

Donna Nagata, Associate Professor of Psychology, is the author of a chapter titled "Intergenerational Effects of the Japanese-American Internment" in the International Handbook of Multigenerational Legacies of Trauma (1998), edited by Y. Danieli and published by Plenum Press. Professor Nagata also presented a paper co-authored with Yuzuru Takeshita entitled "Japanese American Internees: Gender, Age, and Reactions to Redress" at the American Psychological Association Convention (August 1998).

Professor Abé Markus Nornes curated the recent film retrospective and visit by popular Korean film director Lee Myung-Se. In addition to organizing a Japanese Cinema Studies workshop to be held on campus in March with film scholars from around the world (see Special Events), Professor Nornes has articles forthcoming in two film journals. An article in Film Quarterly on subtitling translation theory, and an article in Cinema Journal on competing translations of Western film theory in Japan in the 1930s. The latter article is also being presented at a Stirling, Scotland Documentary Film Conference in January.

Jennifer Robertson, Professor and Associate Chair of Anthropology, was awarded the Ruth Benedict Prize for Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan (University of California Press, 1998), by the American Anthropological Association, 1998. She was also the recipient of an LS&A Excellence in Education Award (University of Michigan) in 1998, and the LS&A Dean's Faculty Award (University of Michigan) for 1998-2003. Among her 1998 articles were "It Takes a Village: Internationalization and Nostalgia in Postwar Japan" pp. 209-239; notes 611-623 in Mirror of Modernity: Invented Traditions in Modern Japan, University of California Press; "When and Where Japan Enters: American Anthropology, 1945 to the Present," pp. 295-335 in Postwar Development of Japanese Studies, E.J. Brill; and "Weltreich im Spiel: Japanische Freizeitpolitik im Zweiten Weltkrieg" pp. 253-283, in Japan: Reich der Spiele, published by Iudicium Verlag. Due out in 1999 are "Dying to Tell: Sexuality and Suicide in Imperial Japan, " in Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society, Spring or Winter issue; the Japanese edition of her Takarazuka book: Odoru teikokushugi: Takarazuka ni miru kindai nihon no sei to bunka no shokuminchifu (Dancing Imperialism: The Colonization of Sex and Culture in Modern Japan as Framed by the Takarazuka Revue), published by Gendai Shokan; Out of Japan: Rereading Colonialism Past and Present, (edited volume consisting of translations of recent Japanese scholarship on colonialism and neo-colonialism, to be published by University of California); Beauty and Blood: Making Japanese Colonial Cultures, (book manuscript in progress on the cultural experience, dimensions, and strategies of Japanese colonialism for University of California Press); and her work as General Editor of Colonialisms, a University of California Press book series Professor Robertson initiated on the histories and practices of colonialism and imperialism outside of Western Europe and the United States, 19th-21st centuries). Professor Robertson will also be giving invited lectures in 1999 on topics ranging from Japanese eugenic programs and colonial practices, to modes of sexualities at the University of British Columbia, Stanford University, the University of North Carolina, and the University of Vienna, among other venues.

Professor Robert Sharf, together with colleagues in the Buddhist Studies program, organized a symposium entitled "Marketing the Dharma: The Publishing Industry and the Western Construction of Buddhism," held here at U-M on October 10, 1998. His fall paper presentations included "On the Buddha-Nature of Insentient Things (or: How to Think about a Zen Koan)" at Kobul-Ch'ongnim, Paekyang-sa (a Buddhist monastery) in Chonnam, Korea, August 1998; "How to Worship a Buddhist Icon" at a Cleveland Museum of Art symposium entitled "Instruments of Enlightenment as Works of Art," September 26, 1998; and "On the Ritual Function of the Ryokai Mandala" which was presented at a Kyoto National Museum, symposium entitled "Art and Prayer at the Imperial Court," November 14, 1998. Professor Sharf's recent publications include "Experience," in Critical Terms for Religious Studies, edited by Mark C. Taylor (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1998), pp. 94-116, and "On the Allure of Buddhist Relics," to appear in Representations vol. 66 (Spring, 1999).

Professor of Psychology and Fellow at the Center for Human Growth and Development, Harold Stevenson recently participated in a conference on Japanese child development and education organized by former graduate student, Gary DeCoker, and held at the Green Gulch Conference Center, north of San Francisco. Participants from Japan and the United States spent three days discussing a broad set of issues, ranging from Japanese textbooks to the Kumon method of teaching mathematics. Conference proceedings will be published in 1999. Professor Stevenson continues to supervise the publication of five volumes that resulted from the Case Study Project of the Third International Mathematics and Science Study. The volume on Japan (The Educational System in Japan) summarizes the results of over 500 hours of conversations with students, parents, and teachers and scores of hours of observation in Japanese classrooms by a team of researchers including Carol Kinney, Gerald LeTendre, Hidetada Shimizu, and Douglas Trelfa. All five volumes are available on the internet: http://www.ed.gov/BASISDB/EDPUB/search/SF/. Parallel volumes deal with German and U.S. data. A background volume edited by Stevenson and colleagues and a comparative volume written by Stevenson and Roberta Nerison-Low complete the set.

Professor of Law Mark West is busily adapting to his new Michigan home, and has two new publications in his current research area sokaiya (corporate law regimes): "Naze sokaiya ha nakuranainoka ? Yusuri to kabunushi sokai no ho to keizaigaku" [Why Don't Sokaiya Go Away? The Law and Economics of Blackmail and Shareholders' Meetings], in three parts: 1145 Jurisuto 60, 1146 Jurisuto 114, 1147 Jurisuto 97 (November -December 1998), and "Information, Institutions, and Extortion in Japan and the United States: Making Sense of Sokaiya Racketeers," 93 Northwestern University Law Review (forthcoming Summer 1999).

Seon Ae Yeo, Associate Professor in the School of Nursing, writes a bimonthly commentary for Igakushoin's New Medical World Weekly. These commentaries can be found at http://www.igaku-shoin.co.jp/. Professor Yeo recently presented a paper titled "Thermoregulatory Adjustment During Pregnancy Protects Fetus from Exposure of Exercise-Induced Hypothermia" at the Third International Nursing Research Conference in Tokyo where she also moderated a session on Women's Health Issues. This past August, Professor Yeo and Dr. Michael Fetters (Family Practice) also gave a workshop on "Japanese People's Health Care Needs" to U-M Hospital administrators.

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STUDENTS AND ALUMNI

Recent CJS M.A. graduate Jonathan Crow is back in Ann Arbor and lecturing in Film/Video Studies (FV360 World Cinema). He is also heading the Asian film section of "AllMusicGuide" a massive database on music and movies. A recent trip to Russia resulted in an article in Razor, a cyberzine available for your perusal at http://www.razormag.com.

Political Science Ph.D. candidate Margaret Gibbons is taking full advantage of an 18-month Mombusho Fellowship by pursuing research in political participation and democratic development at Japan's Okayama University law department. The topic currently occupying most of her time is taxpayer lawsuits against local governments as a form of political participation. Less a January trip to Michigan, she will be in Japan until March of 2000, but still can be reached at gibbons@umich.edu.

Center for Japanese Studies Program Coordinator Brett Johnson had a successful December defense of his Ph.D. thesis. Brett graduated from the University of Minnesota Department of Theatre Arts and Dance with a thesis titled "Theatrical Speed Tribes: A Discursive Archive and Performative Record of Contemporary Theatre Troupes in Tokyo, Japan."

Distinguished U-M alumnus (sponsor of the Grant K. Goodman Fellowship) Grant K. Goodman is the compiler of "The American Occupation of Japan: A Retrospective View" available from the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Kansas ceas@falcon.cc.ukans.edu.

Andrew Masterman, Class of 1992, wrote the Center to report that he married Cheryl Aylesworth in October of 1997. Effective September 1, 1998, Walbro Corporation promoted Andrew to Regional President, Asia Pacific. Congratulations, Andrew! In his new position, he will become a member of the Walbro Operating Committee and be responsible for all Walbro operations in Asia, including Japan, China and Korea. Walbro Corporation, based in Michigan, is a designer and manufacturer of precision fuel systems and products for automotive and small engine markets. It has subsidiaries and joint ventures throughout the world, including North and South America, Europe and Asia. Walbro common stock is traded on the Nasdaq under the symbol WALB.

Yoshimi Miyake successfully defended her U-M linguistics dissertation titled "The Japanese Prefix O: A Natural History" this past December and is now pursuing a career in academe. Currently in Israel, she hopes to make it back to the states for the AAS Conference in March.

G. Raymond Nunn (U-M 1952-1957 Ph.D. Far Eastern Studies) is Professor Emeritus in History and Asian Studies at the University of Hawaii and has just published Canada and Asia, A Guide to Manuscript and Archive Sources in Canada (2 volumes, 1,304 pages, Mansell, 1998). These volumes complement his earlier Asia and Oceania, a Guide to Archival and Manuscript Sources in the United States (5 volumes, 2456 pages, Mansell, 1985) and together provide a comprehensive survey of all unpublished material on Asia in North America. Both guides contain substantial Japan-related references.

After a three-year assignment working at the Japanese headquarters of Sony Corporation, James C. Roche (M.A./M.B.A. 1989) returned to the Chicago area in 1994 to begin his current assignment as a regional audio sales manager for Sony Electronics in the U.S. James was recently able to report that in 1997, he officially became a "Samurai." To be more specific, he was inducted in to the Sony Samurai Society, a group that recognizes consistent sales excellence and business contributions to the company. He continues to work for Sony in Chicago.

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Visitors

In November of 1998, Toyota Visiting Professor Hiroyuki Hashimoto was a discussant for "Systèms de Représentations et Société," at the Programme Franco-Japonais de Recherche: Identités, Marges, Médiations, in Paris. Professor Hashimoto's recent presentations include: "What's Next?: Changing Ideas and Images of the National Museum of Japanese History," at the 4th Colloquium of the International Association of Museums of History: Museums and Politics in Quebec, and "The Discipline on Display" at the 1998 American Folklore Society Annual Meeting in Portland. His most recent publication is "Exhibiting Japanese History and Culture," in Curator: The Museum Journal 41 (3), September 1998.

Professor Mikirô Katô joins us on March 7 for a two-month stay in Ann Arbor as a Toyota Visiting Professor. Professor Katô has a B.A. and M.A. from Tsukuba University, in Comparative Culture and English Literature respectively, and a Ph.D. from Kyoto University in Human and Environmental Studies. He specializes in cinema studies, both Japanese and Hollywood films, and has been a Fulbright Visiting Research Fellow at the University of California at Berkeley, UCLA, and New York University. He is currently an Associate Professor in The Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies at Kyoto University pursuing research on the history of movie theaters in Japan, emotion in the films of Naurse Mikio, and a genetic analysis of Ito Daisuke. Dr. Katô's publications include: What is Jidaigeki: A New Film Study Jimbunshoin, 1997 (co-editor/co-author); Cinema: Politics of the Gaze Chikumashobo, 1996; and On Film Genres: Hollywood Style Pleasures, Heibonsha 1996. During his appointment in Ann Arbor, Professor Katô will offer a seminar on Japanese cinema (Asian Studies (323) Course 491 Section 001). This is to be an intensive study of the national cinema in a historical, sociocultural context with emphasis on deconstructive analysis. The course focuses on questions of style and meaning of particular Japanese filmmakers such as Hiroshi Shimizu, Heinosuke Goshô, Kenji Mizoguchi, Mikio Naruse, and Yasujirô Ozu. Dr. Katô will also be making a presentation on director Kenji Mizoguchi as part of the Noon Lecture Series on April 1.

Visiting Scholar Sook Young Wang, Chair of the Japanese Studies Department Inha University, Inchon Korea, is currently in Ann Arbor preparing a book on Sogi, the 15th-Century Renga Poet. Professor Wang is already the author of Jisanka kochu soran [A Comprehensive Survey of Classical Commentaries on Jisanka Poetry], Tokai University Press, 1995, and one of the editors of Nihon koten shiika [Japanese Classical Poetry], Japanese Studies Series, no. 6, Japanese Studies Association of Korea, 1997.

Faculty and Student Resources, Fellowships, and Deadlines

CJS Newsletter/Expanded Calendar Available Online
Please note that this newsletter (and a listing of past editions) is available on-line in a text-only version at: http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/cjs/about/newsletters/newsletters.html. Also, the calendar normally found on the back page of the newsletter, is also available on-line in an expanded version that lists many events around the area related to Japan and Japan studies. It can be found at: http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/cjs/events/calendar.html.

Teaching and Job-Search Help for Graduate Students
The Asian Languages and Cultures Pedagogy Workshops that were held for graduate students throughout 1997 and 1998 (sponsored by the Rackham-funded Pedagogy Initiative Project) have been summarized in a workbook of benefit to anyone pursuing an academic career. The workbook includes succinctly particularized advice on a range of topics including "Teaching Across Disciplinary and Generic Bounds," Designing Exams," Creating Energy in the Classroom," "Preparing for a Job Interview," and "Job Search Secrets" among others. Whether you're a temporary GSI or on-track for a teaching career this book could help. To get a copy, e-mail Lili Selden at lselden@umich.edu.

Looking For Articles
ii: The Journal of the International Institute (University of Michigan) looks for articles with an international aspect or focus. Past articles have ranged from an examination of health issues in Africa to the debate over whether to prosecute Bosnian war crimes in international or national courts. The Journal's 10,000-member readership encompasses both scholars and general readers. Submissions, therefore, should appeal to a general intellectual audience. Feature articles should be 2,000 to 4,000 words in length. Contact: Michelle Harper, Bonnie Brereton, John Ramsburgh, Editors, The Journal of the International Institute, tel. 734.936.8680, fax 734.763.9154.

Bentley Historical Library
Much of the history of the Center for Japanese Studies, and therefore an important part of the history of Japan studies in the United States (among many other artifacts), is archived in the form of original documents at the Bentley Historical Library on North Campus. The archives include photographs, films, videotapes, audiotapes, administrative files, correspondence, course materials, faculty files, financial statements, special activities files, and more covering the period from the late 1940s to the present. A finding aid is available at the library. Because the Bentley deals in original materials, there are special rules for examining and handling their collections. For more information see the Bentley Historical Library web page at http://www.umich.edu/~bhl/index.html, or tel. 734.764.3482.

Fellowship Deadlines
Foreign Language Area Studies (FLAS) fellowship deadline is January 15, 1999.

Center for Japanese Studies U-M Faculty Associates Instructional/Course Development Seed Grants deadlines: February 1 and May 1. Please contact the CJS Administrator (lcoleman@umich.edu) for more detailed information about these opportunities.

The Center for Japanese Studies sponsors an annual competition for grant awards supporting research on Japan. The competition is open to all University of Michigan faculty pursuing research that investigates any aspect of Japanese society and culture. Grants are awarded in a range from $500 to a maximum of $30,000. Funds may support individual or group projects and are designed to provide support for travel, lodging, salaries and benefits for the principal researcher and research assistants, supplies, and books directly related to the project. Award recipients report at the end of the award period and offer a presentation in the Center's Noon Lecture Series. The Center for Japanese Studies wishes to invite interested faculty to submit proposals for the next award cycle. Interested individuals should contact the Center for Japanese Studies for an application form and more information. The application deadline for grants to be awarded for 1999-2000, including Summer 1999, is February 15, 1999.

Deadlines for Center for Japanese Studies Students Specializing in Japanese Area Studies Conference Travel Support are November 30, January 31, and March 31 annually.

Mombusho deadlines are April 1 for Japanese Studies Scholarships for undergraduates and the In-Service Training for Teachers Scholarships. The interview and language testing will take place on April 8 at the Japan Consulate in Detroit.

The NSEP (National Security Education Program) Fellowships for Undergraduates' deadline is January 15, 1999. Please submit applications directly to the Office for International Programs.

Looking for Updates
CJS invites all faculty, associates, students, and alumni to send in news about what you've been doing. Additionally, if this newsletter has been forwarded to you, if you have moved or are planning to move, or if you have not been receiving a copy of the CJS Newsletter regularly, please let us know:

or e-mail Linda Williams at: umcjs@umich.edu

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SOCIAL

The Zatsudan Club, a Japanese conversation group for native and non-native speakers, meets more or less regularly to chat over coffee in Ann Arbor. They are always seeking new friends to join them. For more information, contact: Ann Hooghart, tel. 616-965-2326, e-mail: Anne_M._Hooghart@glfn.org

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JANUARY

3 Deadline Admission to CJS M.A. program application

14 Lecture "Locating the Sacred in Early Modern Japan: The Places Where Benzaiten Dwells," Andrew Watsky*

15 Deadline Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowship application; NSEP fellowships for undergraduates.

21 Lecture "A Salon for the Soul: The Postwar Culture Movement in Hiroshima," Leslie Pincus

21 Reception and Book Signing Takarazuka: Sexual Politics and Popular Culture in Modern Japan by Jennifer Robertson, Professor and Associate Chair of Anthropology

26 **Film Rashomon (4:00 p.m., Angel A, 16mm)

28 Lecture "Financial Realities and Broken Dreams: Japan Grapples with an Uncertain Future," Andrew Isaacs*

28-29 Conference Asian Business Conference

31 Deadline Student Conference Travel Support

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FEBRUARY

1 Deadline Course development seed grants

2 **Film Tokyo Story (4:00 p.m., 1300 Chem, 16mm)

3-5 Seminar "Negotiating with the Japanese"

4 Lecture "Contradictions in Harmony: Traditional and Avant-Garde Ceramics," Sadashi Inuzuka

11 Lecture "War and Remembrance: A Reassessment of Early Samurai Warfare," Karl Friday*

15 Deadline CJS Faculty Research Grants

18 Lecture "Public Hospital Drugs: Competition or Collusion," Rodney Wallace

25 Lecture "Love, Lust, and Virtue in the Kingdom of Origuchi Shinobu," Lili Selden

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MARCH

1-3 Study Tour JTMP "Lean Manufacturing Study Tour" to Toyota Motor Manufacturing in Kentucky

4 No Noon Lecture (Spring Break)

11 No Noon Lecture (AAS)

14 Japan Cultural Festival, Japan Student Association

16 **Film Death by Hanging (4:00 p.m., 1300 Chem, 16mm scope)

18 Lecture To be announced

22-29 Visit Professors Yasuaki Onuma and Kichimoto Asaka, both of the University of Tokyo, visiting the Law School (dates approximate)

25 Lecture Meiko Yoshihama

26 Film: Tale of the Late Chrysanthemums (6:45pm, 1636 SSWB), in support of April 1 Noon Lecture.

26-28 Workshop "Japanese Cinema Studies in the Rear View Mirror: Re-Viewing the Discipline"

30 **Film Hana-Bi (4:00 p.m., Angel A, 35mm)

31 Deadline Student Conference Travel Support

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APRIL

1 Lecture "Mizoguchi Kenji's 'Tale of Late Chrysanthemums' and Japanese Cinema," Mikiro Kato*

1 Deadline Mombusho

12 **Film Violence at Noon (4:00 p.m., Angel A, 16mm scope)

19 **Film An Actor's Revenge (4:00 p.m., 1300 Chem, 16mm scope)

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MAY

1 Deadline Course development seed grants

An asterisk (*) denotes a lecturer from outside the University. Unless otherwise noted, all lectures take place in Room 1636, 1080 S. University and begin at noon.

** Several times this semester, Prof. Mark Nornes will be showing films for his course "Seminar in Japanese Image Culture". These films will be shown in large lecture halls on campus, and any interested students are invited to attend. Since these films are being shown for a course, there will likely be short discussions afterwards, which you are also welcome to attend. As this is a classroom setting, please act accordingly.