BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Date iCal//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.20.2// METHOD:PUBLISH BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD DTSTART:20231105T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20240310T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:calendar.3202.events_uoft_date.0@www.humanities.utoronto.ca CREATED:20240313T132801Z DESCRIPTION:\nWhen and Where: \nMonday, March 25, 2024 2:00 pm to 4:30 pm \n Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library 8th floor \n Robarts Library \n 130 S t George St, Toronto, ON M5S 1A5 \n\nDescription: \nThis event series is being held in-person at multiple dates and locations in the John P. Robar ts Research Library. Faculty, students, staff, and the public are cordi ally invited to this event series. Registration is required.Photobook work shop: Monday, March 25, 2024 (2:00-3:30 PM) & Opening Reception of Art E xhibitionArtist talk: Thursday, March 28. 2024 (3:00-5:00 PM)This event s eries encompasses an art exhibition and book display, a photobook worksho p, along with an artist talk. It highlights the photographic works of Kao ri Nakasone and Satoko Nema, two artists from Okinawa, and the scholarsh ip of Mayumo Inoue, a scholar specializing in comparative literature from Tokyo, Japan. Through photographic art and artist and scholarly exchange , this event series seeks to engage the University of Toronto community w ith the question of “living otherwise”: What does it mean to live in our t imes marked by senses of precarity, grief, and violent losses? What cond itions could enable the possibilities for “living otherwise”—that is, to live in just and relational terms in the face of difference and absence?In the workshop, the artists will discuss with the participants how their e xperiences of producing, publishing, and distributing photobooks and ind ependent magazines in Okinawa constitute an alternative image politics tha t refuses prevalent imaginings of Okinawa as either a tourist paradise or a militarized site. The artist talk with Kaori Nakasone and Satoko Nema, featuring Professor Mayumo Inoue from Hitotsubashi University, Professor Wendy Matsumura from the University of California, San Diego, and Profes sor Elizabeth Wijaya from the University of Toronto as discussants, will investigate how artistic practices, both from and beyond Okinawa, can co ntribute to critical insights on broader issues such as transnational capi talism, logistical technologies, and geopolitics of mobility and immobil ity across the Pacific.ABOUT THE SPEAKERSArtistsKaori Nakasone is a photog rapher based in Tokyo and Okinawa, Japan. She held solo exhibitions 'Temp orality' (Kobunesha Studio, Naha, 2023) and “Unframed” (Kiyoko Sakata Ga llery, Naha, 2016) and participated in group shows including “Transit Re public: The Pan-Pacific Collective Edition'' (arena 1 gallery, Los Angele s, 2017) and “the 27th Hitotsubo Photography Exhibition” (Guardian Garden , Tokyo, 2006). Having served as an editor of photography magazine LP fr om 2008 to 2010, Nakasone began publishing las barcas in 2011 as its chie f editor. She co-wrote the essay 'Between Studium and Punctum: Tomatsu Sho mei and Nakahira Takuma between ‘Japan’ and ‘Okinawa'' with Mayumo Inoue. It appeared in Voice of Photography (issue 28) in Taiwan and in the edited volume Epistemic Decolonization and the End of Pax Americana (Routledge, 2023). She published a photobook Temporality in 2023.Satoko Nema is an ar tist born and based in Okinawa, Japan. She teaches as an adjunct instruct or at the Okinawa Prefectural University of Arts. She held solo exhibition s “Marginalia” (Naha Cultural Arts Theater NAHArt, Naha, 2023), “Simula cre” (Renemia, Naha, 2019), and “Paradigm” (Omotesanto Gallery, Tokyo\ ; space aotsubame, Kobenesha, gallery atos, Okinawa, 2016). She also p articipated in group shows including “LAS ISLAS SOLITARIAS” (Sugarcane Roo m gallery, Miyagi Island, 2023; sponsored by the Okinawa Arts Council)\ , “Artist Today” (Okinawa Prefectural Museum and Art Museum, Naha, 2019- 2020), “Sharing as Caring #6 Trans-Affekte: Geschichten, Leben und Lands chaften (Heidelberger Kunstverin, Germany, 2018-1019), “Transit Republi c: The Pan-Pacific Collective Edition” (arena 1 gallery, Los Angeles,201 7), “Untimely Encounter 2016: Moment” (Alternative Space LOOP, Korea, 2 016-2017), among others. She published two photobooks, Paradigm in 2015 and Simulacre in 2019. In 2023, she co-founded the artist group Aotsubame , whose members established the art gallery Sugarcane Room in Miyagi Isla nd, Okinawa.DiscussantsMayumo Inoue is an associate professor of comparat ive literature at Hitotsubashi University. His publications include the co -edited collection Beyond Imperial Aesthetics: Theories of Art and Politic s in East Asia (with Steve Choe, Hong Kong University Press, 2019) as we ll as the articles on aesthetics and poetics in the works by Theresa Hak K yung Cha, Charles Olson, and Kiyota Masanobu in the imperial context of the U.S. and East Asia including Okinawa in A Blackwell Companion to Ameri can Poetry, Discourse, and American Quarterly. His essays in Japanese ha ve appeared in journals such as Gendai Shiso, Ecce, and las barcas. He i s also a founding member of an Okinawa-based art journal las barcas. Eliza beth Wijaya is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Visual Studies at the University of Toronto (Mississauga) and Graduate Faculty in the Cin ema Studies Institute at the University of Toronto (St. George). She is th e Director of the Southeast Asian Seminar Series at the Asian Institute, Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy. Her work has been publish ed in Verge, Cultural Critique, Discourse, Parallax, Derrida Today, P acific Affairs, and the edited volume, Ecology and Chinese-Language Cine ma. She is the Associate Producer for Taste (dir. Lê Bảo, 2021), Co-Prod ucer for Mongrel (dir. Chiang Wei Liang, in post-production), and Assist ant Producer for Viet and Nam (dir. Truong Minh Quý, in post-production). She is a co-founder of E&W Films and co-editor of World Picture Journal.W endy Matsumura is Associate Professor of modern Japanese history and Okina wa studies at UC San Diego. She received her Ph.D. in History from New Yor k University in 2007. She is the author of two monographs, both from Duke University Press. The first, published in 2015, The Limits of Okinawa: Japanese Capitalism, Living Labor, and Theorizations of Community, trac ed the way that Okinawa, an entity that only came into existence as a ter ritorial and political category in the late 1870s transformed into a diasp oric, cultural community included in, but distinct from the Japanese nat ion-state by the early 1930s. It argued that the production of a belief in Okinawa as an organic, trans-historical community was inextricably linke d to capitalist crises that found their temporary resolution in appeals to the Okinawan community. Matsumura’s second monograph, published in 2024\ , Waiting for the Cool Moon: Anti-Imperialist Struggles in the Heart of Ja pan’s Empire, traced the transformation of the Japanese small farm househ old (shono noka) into the material and discursive foundation of the nation al community and its members into conquistador humanists following the pos t-World War One agrarian crisis. In addition to conventional academic venu es, her work has been published in Viewpoint magazine, The Funambulist, Society & Space, and other more public-facing outlets.ModeratorsSabrina Teng-io Chung is a Ph.D. candidate in East Asian Studies at the University of Toronto. Her dissertation examines the U.S. and Japanese colonial gove rnance of Okinawa’s urban built environment through the lens of transpacif ic studies, inter-Asia cultural studies, and critical infrastructure stu dies. Her publication has appeared in Society and Space (online edition). She translated investigative reporting articles from independent Chinese-l anguage news outlets including The Reporter and Initium Media. She also co -founded the 'Thinking Infrastructures in Global Asia: New Perspectives an d Approaches' Working Group, which is sponsored by the Jackman Humanities Institute. Her research has been supported by the School of Cities Gradua te Fellows Program and the MOFA Taiwan Fellowship.Ji Eun (Camille) Sung is an Arts & Science Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of East Asian Stu dies at the University of Toronto. Her primary research interest lies in a rtistic practices that actively employed non-conventional media, with a f ocus on their conversation with and operation within the socio-political c onditions in Korea, and more broadly, in East Asia. Her research interes ts also include queer and feminist art practice, activism, and theory an d the relationship between critical theory and praxis. She has worked as a curator and art critic, producing exhibitions, installations, and inde pendent publications, particularly as a member of the Korean feminist vis ual art collective No New Work. Her work has been published in the Journal of History of Contemporary Art and will be included in the Routledge Comp anion to Art History and Feminisms.This event is organized by the JHI Work ing Group, “Thinking Infrastructures in Global Asia: New Perspectives and Approaches.” Contact Sabrina.chung@mail.utoronto.ca for more information. \nSponsors Jackman Humanities Institute Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Library D r. David Chu Program in Asia-Pacific Studies, Asian Institute Southeast A sia Seminar Series, Asian Institute Asian Institute Department of East As ian Studies School of Cities School of Graduate Studies Department of Hist ory Hart House Good Ideas Funds UTGSU Japan Foundation, Toronto \n\nConta ct Information: \n Sabrina Teng-io Chung Sabrina.chung@mail.utoronto.ca \n \nSponsors \nJackman Humanities Institute, Cheng Yu Tung East Asian Libra ry, Dr. David Chu Program in Asia-Pacific Studies Asian Institute, South east Asia Seminar Series Asian Institute, Asian Institute, Department of East Asian Studies, School of Cities, School of Gr \n130 St George St, Toronto, ON M5S 1A5 \n\nCategories \n DiscussionExhibitionJHI Event \n\n Audiences \n All DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240325T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240325T163000 LAST-MODIFIED:20240313T134731Z LOCATION:130 St George St, Toronto, ON M5S 1A5 SUMMARY:Art and Scholarly Dialogue Series: Living Otherwise: Perspectives o n Time, Space, and Sense-Making from Okinawa URL;TYPE=URI:https://www.humanities.utoronto.ca/events/art-and-scholarly-di alogue-series-living-otherwise-perspectives-time-space-and-sense-making END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR