INAGA Shigemi (More info)

Books

2000
I bunka rikai no rinri ni mukete (Ethics of Understanding Different Cultures) (author and ed.), The University of Nagoya Press (in Japanese).
1993
Hanasu to iu koto (Ce que parler veut dire by Pierre Bourdieu) (Japanese translation from French), Fujiwara Shoten.

Articles

2009
“The Interaction of Bengali and Japanese Artistic Milieus in the First Half of the Twentieth Century (1901–1945): Rabindranath Tagore, Arai Kanpō and Nandalal Bose,” Japan Review, No. 21, International Research Center for Japanese Studies, 2009, pp.149-181.
1995
"Negative Capability of Tolerance: The Assassination of Igarashi Hitoshi." In The Condition of Reciprocal Understanding, A Centennial Conference, International House, The University of Chicago, Sep.12-17, 1992. (French version: "Epiphanie et alterité," Dédale, revue internationale Nos. 1-2, 1995.)
1988
"L'impossible avant-garde au Japon," Transcultura, Connaissance et reciprocité Ciaco Editeur. (English translation: " The Impossible Avant-Garde in Japan," Yearbook of Comparative and General Literature 41, 1993.)
1983
"La réinterpréation de la perspective linéaire au Japon (1740-1830) et son retour en France (1860-1910)," Actes de la recherche en sciences sociales 49. (English abridged version: "Reinterpretation of the Western Linear Perspective in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Japan: A Case of Cultural Translation," Dodonaeus in Japan, Leuven University Press.

Other (Presentations at Academic Conferences, etc.)

2009
“Distance Reading-Migration of Meaning and Metempsychosis through Translation,” Old Margins and New Centers/Anciennes frontières et nouveau centres: The Legacy of European Literatures in a Global Age/L’héritage littéraire européen dans une ère de globalisation, ICLA, Université Libre de Bruxelles, August 26, 2009.
2004
"La Prise de position critique des arts et metiers tranditionnels dans le Japon d'aujourd'hui," Centre culturel du Japon a Paris, 25 mai 2003 "Arts and Crafts in Japanese context," Manggha Center for Japanese Art, Krakov, Oct 31
2000
"The Making of Museums and Collections in Modern Japan," Interpreting Asian Cultures in Museums, Displays, Activities, Strategies, International Workshop, The British Museum/The Museum of Mankind, London.
1999
"Rethinking Okakura Tenshin as the Inventor of Oriental Art History," Association for Asian Studies, Boston.
Disclosing Double Mirror: Further Analysis in Nagasawa Mitsuo's Adult Video Actress in the light of Judith Herman's Traum and Recovery, Visions, Revisions, Incorporations: Theorizing Gender, the Body and the Visual in Contemporary Japanese Popular and Mass Culture, L'Université de Montréal, Canada.
 
"Édourad Manet's Posthumous Struggle for Glory," The Donald Keene Center for Japanese Culture, Department of Art History, Columbia University.
1998
"Confession and Exposure: Nagasawa Mitsuo's Adult Video Actress and Japan's Male Intellectual Consciousness," Keynote speech, 7th Midwest Association of Japanese Literary Studies, Purdue University.
 
"Reconsidering the Mingei Undo as a Colonial Discourse: The Politics of Visualizing Asian Folk Craft," Rethinking the Urban Mass-Culture in 1920's and 30's in Japan, Universität Zürich, Zürich.
 
"Réputation de Hokousaï dans le contexte du Japonisme," La Culture et la Société du Japon à l'ére Tokugawa: nouvelles docouvertes et nouvelles interpretations: Centre cuturel du Japon.
 
"Reinterpretation of the Western Linear Perspective in 18-19th Century Japan: A Case of Cultural Translation," Keynote speech, Translation of Culture and Culture of Translation, Leuven Catholic University, Leuven.

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