Invited Lectures, Conference Papers, Talks
2000
‘The Task of the Ethnographer: Temporality and Ritual Artifacts’ (w/ K. Dean & B. Massumi), Impacts of Modernities, 22-24 Sept 2000, Ehwa University, Seoul.
‘Haptic Space, and the Intuition of Time,’ Uncommon Senses, Concordia University, Montreal, April 28-30, 2000.
1999
‘Lines of Sight, Lines of Force: The Problem of Gender in Reading Genji monogatari emaki.’ Center for Japanese Studies Lecture Series, University of Michigan, 23 September 1999.
‘Early Cinema, Late Cinema, Anime,’ Japanese Pop Culture Conference, Université de Montréal, March 26-28, 1999.
‘Regimes of Seeing and the Problem of Gender in Reading Heian Emaki,’ Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Boston, March 11-14, 1999.
1998
‘Tracing the Flight of the Soul: The Hermeneutics of Orality and the Early Man’yôshû,’ Japanese Hermeneutics: Current Debates on Aesthetics and Interpretation, UCLA, 13-15 December 1998.
‘Silent Pictures, Primitive Spectators, and Tanizaki’s China,’ Empire of Readers: Book, Image, and Mass Subjectivity in Modern Japan; A Symposium in Honor of Maeda Ai, Cornell University, 6-8 November 1998.
‘The Feminine Hand: The Duplicity of Gender in Heian Texts,’ Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Washington D.C., March 24-29, 1998.
‘Cognitive Science and Corporeal Transformation in Buddhist Ritual,’ Department of Biology Seminar Series, State University of California, San Bernadino, February 27, 1998.
‘Between Area Studies and Cultural Studies: Resituating Difference,’ Endings and Transformation: Cultural Studies and the Millenium, Trent University, August 15-18.
1997
‘Ideography and Cinematography in Tanizaki and Eisenstein,’ Visuality in Modern Japanese Culture, University of Kansas, April 24-6, 1997.
1996
‘Diagram, Sensation, Inscription,’ Deleuze: A Symposium, The University of Western Australia, December 5-7, 1996.
‘Shingon Mudrâ and Imperial Writing,’ Ritual and Community Life in Asia, Université de Montréal, October 18-19, 1996.
‘Lines, Centers, Boundaries,’ Affects and Autonomies 2, McGill University, May 24 27, 1996.
‘Internationalism and Japan Studies,’ opening address for the ‘Internationalism and Asian Studies Workshop,’ Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Honolulu, April 11-14, 1996.
‘Unstating the Classical Moment: The Logic of Forms and Forces in Heian Japan,’ The Classical Moment: A Workshop Conference, March 9-10, 1996, Cornell University.
1995
‘Seeing, Speaking, and Writing with Characters in the Wakanrôeishû,’ The History of East Asian Writing, Seminar Series, Columbia University, October 18, 1995.
‘Becoming Bodied,’ Affects and Autonomies, McGill University, April 14-15, 1995.
Discussant, ‘Romancing Japan: Love and Romance in Post-1945 Japanese Popular Culture,’ Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, DC, April 6-9, 1995.
‘Kûkai and the Unrepresentable of Shingon Buddhist 'Enlightenment',’ Symposium: The Unrepresentable, Trent University, February 3-5, 1995.
1994
‘Sexuality and Transgression in the Modern Japanese Novel,’ International Congress: Foucault and Literature, Victoria College, Toronto, October 12-15, 1994.
‘Dexterity and Visibility in Heian Japan,’ Center for East Asian Studies Seminar Series, University of Chicago, May 13, 1994.
‘The Blade of the Glyph: Mori Ogai and the Restoration of Natural History through Chinese Characters.’ Meiji Studies Conference, Edwin O. Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University, May 6-8, 1994.
‘Can Writing Go On Without a Mind?’ The Problems of Image/Text and Orality/Literacy, Cornell University, April 16, 1994.
1993
‘’Tracing the Flight of the Soul: Vision and the Production of an Imperial Poetic Code in Heian Japan.’ New England AAS Conference, October 30-31, 1993.
