Invited Lectures, Conference Papers, Talks
2002
‘The Geopolitical Unconscious of Pure Film: Film Literature and Images of the Globe in Interwar Japan,” Pennsylvania State University, November 25, 2002.
‘Ideography and Cinematography: Orientalism and Cinematic Experience,’ Asian Literature Seminar, Pennsylvania State University, November 24, 2002.
‘Tanizaki Jun’ichirô on Cinema and Oriental Aesthetics,’ Einaudi Lecture Series, Cornell University, November 14, 2002.
‘The Literature of Cinematic Experience and Historical Consciousness in Interwar Japan,’ Historical Consciousness, Historiography and Modern Japanese Values, Banff, Oct 30-Nov 3, 2002.
‘Evolutionary Computation: Between Natural and Technical Individuals,’ The Society for Science and Literature, Pasedna, October 10-13, 2002.
‘The Geopolitical Unconscious of Pure Film and Tanizaki,’ Wu Foundation Lectures, Yale University, March 28, 2002.
‘Cinema as Geopolitical Experience in Interwar Japan,’ University of Toronto, January 10, 2002.
2001
‘Haptic Space, and the Ethics of Proximity,’ The Society for Science and Literature Annual Conference, Buffalo, October 11-14, 2001.
‘Heian Calligraphy and the Imagination of Community,’ Reischauer Institute, Harvard University, April 13, 2001.
‘Tanizaki and the Loss of Empire,’ Association for Asian Studies Annual Meeting, Chicago, March 22-25, 2001.
‘The Horror Artist: Affect and the Shock of the New in Edogawa Rampo,’ Organization for Asian Research Annual Meeting, Chicago, March 22, 2001.
‘Empire and the Biopolitics of Translation,’ The Subjective Technology of Translation: Asia, Biopolitics, Globalization, Université de Montréal, Jan 17-19, 2001.
