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litsci-l-digest         Tuesday, May 30 2006         Volume 01 : Number
180



In this issue:

     FWD: 'Rethinking Embodiment: A Japanese Contemporary Perspective'
     Fwd: book announcement: Noises of American Literature

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Date: Mon, 22 May 2006 09:09:56 -0400
From: "Wayne Miller" 
Subject: FWD: 'Rethinking Embodiment: A Japanese Contemporary
Perspective'

FOR INFORMATION

SCHOOL OF ORIENTAL AND AFRICAN STUDIES
CSJR WORKSHOP, 5-6 JUNE 2006
 
'Rethinking Embodiment: A Japanese Contemporary Perspective'
A Workshop in Commemoration of Professor Yasuo Yuasa (1925-2005)
 
The Centre for the Study of Japanese Religions at the School of
Oriental and
African Studies (SOAS), will be holding an international workshop in
commemoration of Professor Yasuo Yuasa on 5th and 6th June 2006. The
event
is free and open to all.
 
For information, please contact Ornella Corazza. E-mail:
ornella.corazza@soas.ac.uk 
 
For registration, please contact Sara Hamza at the Centres and
Programmes
Office of SOAS. Email: sh87@soas.ac.uk or
telephone 0207-898-4893.
 
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WORKSHOP PROGRAMME
 
MONDAY 5 JUNE 2006
 
2:00 pm Brian Bocking (SOAS), Ornella Corazza (SOAS)
 
Welcome and Introduction
 
2:15 pm Manabu Watanabe, Nanzan University, Japan
Yasuo Yuasa (1925-2005): An Introduction to His Life and Work
 
2:45 pm Nagatomo Shigenori (Keynote Speaker), Temple
University, US
Yasuo Yuasa's Theory of the Human Body
 

3:30 pm Coffee Break
 
4:00 pm Matteo Cestari, University of Turin, Italy
Body and Knowledge in Nishida's Philosophy
 

4:45 pm Gay Watson, SOAS, UK
Embodied Knowledge: Buddhism, Psychotherapy and Neuroscience
 

5: 30 pm Response and Discussion
 
6.00 pm Finish
 

TUESDAY 6 JUNE 2006
 
 
 
10:00 am Tea and Coffee Reception
 
 
 
10:30 am Manabu Watanabe, Nanzan University, Japan
Imagining the Body in the Contemporary Japanese Context: Yasuo Yuasa's
Contribution
 
 
 
11:15 am Yukihisa Kurasawa, Obirin University, Japan
Rethinking Yuasa's 'The Body--Toward an Eastern Mind-Body Theory'
 
 
 
12:00 pm Lunch
 
 
 
1:30 pm Round Table Discussion
 
 
 
 
 
DISCUSSANTS:
 
 
 
Chair: Dr Peter Fenwick, President, International
Association for Near-Death Studies,
 
UK, Riken Brain Science Institute, Japan
 
Donna Dickenson Birkbeck College
 
Cosimo Zene SOAS
 
Brian Bocking SOAS
 
Ornella Corazza SOAS
 
Manabu Watanabe Nanzan University
 
Nagatomo Shigenori Temple University
 
Gay Watson SOAS
 
Matteo Cestari University of Turin
 
James Robinson University of Wales, Lampeter
 
 
 
3 pm Close
 
 
 
 
 
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Date: Tue, 30 May 2006 09:25:58 -0400
From: "Wayne Miller" 
Subject: Fwd: book announcement: Noises of American Literature

Philipp Schweighauser
The Noises of American Literature, 1890-1985: Toward a History of
Literary =
Acoustics
University Press of Florida
Details:  272 pages     6x9
Cloth: $55.00   ISBN: 0-8130-2947-3
http://www.upf.com/book.asp?id=3DSCHWES06 

The University Press of Florida is proud to announce the publication of
=
_The
Noises of American Literature, 1890-1985: Toward a History of Literary
Acoustics_ by Philipp Schweighauser. Schweighauser traces the acoustic
imagination of American literature from naturalism to postmodernism. He
=
reads
the noises writers represent as fictional responses to the social, =
cultural,
and political changes and conflicts of modernity and postmodernity. =
Exploring
the social functions of literature, he also suggests that literature =
itself, in
its constant search for new language forms, has become a source of =
revitalizing
noise in the channels of cultural communication.
     The author provides substantial new readings of a broad range of =
canonical
texts, from the naturalism of Theodore Dreiser, Frank Norris, and
Stephen =
Crane
to the modernism of Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, John Dos Passos,
and =
Djuna
Barnes, to the postmodernism of Thomas Pynchon, Ishmael Reed, and Don =
DeLillo.
Across almost 100 years of literary history, he listens to the hum of =
traffic
and the fracas of war and to immigrant accents and African-American
vocalization. From the late 19th-century writers' often anxious
responses =
to the
new soundscapes brought about by industrialization and urbanization, to
=
the
modernists' decision to let the noises of social discontent seep into
the =
very
forms of their texts, to late 20th-century literary oscillations between
acoustic mysticism and ecological critique, he shows that changing
representations of sound indicate writers' stances on issues of class, =
gender,
and race.
     Drawing on soundscape studies, systems theory, sociology, media
archaeology, and literary theory, this book explores the acoustic worlds
=
and
changing social functions of American literature.  =20

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Dr. Philipp Schweighauser, Department of English, University of Berne,
L=E4nggassstrasse 49, 3000 Bern 9, Switzerland. Phone: ++41 31 631 81
45; =
Fax:
++41 31 631 36 36.  http://www.cx.unibe.ch/ens/staff/schweighauser.htm 



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