| DATE: | Friday-Sunday, October 31-November 2, 2003 |
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| PLACE: | Faculty Club, Zellerbach Hall, PFA Theater |
| SPONSOR: | Institute of East Asian Studies |
Friday, October 31, 2003
Berkeley Faculty Club, Heyns Room and Seaborg Room
Friday-Saturday, October 31-November 1, 2003
Zellerbach Hall
Saturday-Sunday, November 1-2, 2003
Pacific Film Archive Theater
Friday, October 31, 2003
9:30 am - 10:50 am
Heyns Room, Berkeley Faculty Club
East Asia provides a unique archaeological and historical record of how social complexity and state formation developed in ways whose legacies are still with us to this day. Panelists will discuss the interaction between different regions from prehistoric hunter-gatherers to the elites of Han China. The presentations will draw on the extensive slide collections of UC Berkeley archaeologists and historians.
Panelists include:
11:00 am - 12:20 am
Heyns Room, Berkeley Faculty Club
This panel explores the impact of colonialism on different cities throughout the East Asian region. The presentations highlight different patterns of colonization and the effect these have had on various aspects of political, economic and cultural life in each city.
Panelists include:
12:30 - 2:20 pm
Seaborg Room, Berkeley Faculty Club (invited guests only)
Heyns Room, Berkeley Faculty Club (brown bag lunch)
This luncheon panel will focus on security threats in Northeast Asia, particularly those on the Korean peninsula, as well as efforts to resolve them. The speakers will highlight issues that are key to understanding the dynamics on the Korean peninsula as well as the foreign policy concerns of China, Russia, the United States and Japan. A dialogue among the participants, as well as a question and answer session involving the audience will follow these short presentations.
Participants include:
Chaired by:
2:30 pm - 3:50 pm
Heyns Room, Berkeley Faculty Club
The panelists will assess the recent performance of financial markets in East Asia, highlighting their role both in facilitating national economic recovery and transnational investment, and in fostering competition between different cities as hubs for financial sector activity.
Panelists include:
4:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Heyns Room, Berkeley Faculty Club
Tod Williams Billie Tsien Architects, New York.
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm
Reception
Seaborg Room, Berkeley Faculty Club
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Presented in cooperation with Cal Performances
Seaborg Room, Berkeley Faculty Club
Presented by Cal Performances
The innovative modern dance work of Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan comes to Berkeley with artistic director Lin Hwai-min's Moon Water, a poetic expression of Taoist philosophy based on the art of Tai Chi, set to movements from Bachs cello concertos.
Cloud Gate Dance Theatre of Taiwan is considered a national treasure in its native country and has thrilled audiences worldwide. The troupe's rich repertoire has its roots in Asian myths, folklore, and aesthetics, but it brings to these age-old beliefs and stories a contemporary perspective.
Friday, October 31, 2003
8:00 pm
Moon Water
Pre-performance Talk by Cloud Gate Dance Theatre Artistic Director Lin Hwai-Min (7:00 pm - 7:30 pm)
Zellerbach Hall
Saturday, November 1, 2003
8:00 pm
Moon Water
Pre-performance Talk by Cloud Gate Dance Theatre Artistic Director Lin Hwai-Min (7:00 pm - 7:30 pm)
Zellerbach Hall
Saturday-Sunday, November 1-2, 2003
This weekend of special film screenings celebrates the role of anime in the cultural exchange between Japan and the U.S. Focusing on two key studios, Studio Ghibli and Tezuka Productions, this showcase features the Bay Area premiere of Studio Ghibli's latest film, The Cat Returns with producer Nozomu Takahashi in person. Two films by the founders of Studio Ghibli will be shown in English-subtitled 35mm prints: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind and Only Yesterday, as well as rare screenings of two films based on manga by Osamu Tezuka, a major figure in the history of graphic novels and animation, perhaps best known as the creator of the beloved Astro Boy. Space Firebird (Phoenix) 2772 and Black Jack were inspired by two of Tezuka's most popular serials.
Sponsors: Consulate General of Japan, San Francisco; the Japan Society of Northern California, The Pacific Film Archive and the Institute of East Asian Studies, UC Berkeley.
This program is part of the 150th Anniversary of U.S. - Japan Relations commemorative project, with additional funding from The Japan Foundation Los Angeles Office.
All films will be screened at the Pacific Film Archive Theater (PFA), 2575 Bancroft Way (between College and Telegraph) in Berkeley. For information call 510.642.1412 or visit http://www.bampfa.berkeley.edu
Saturday, November 1, 2003
4:00 pm
Space Firebird 2772 / Hi no tori-2772, a.k.a. Phoenix 2772
Suguru (Taku) Sugiyama (1980). Based on the manga by Osamu Tezuka.
A major link between 1970s European feature-length animation and contemporary Japanese anime, Space Firebird 2772 conjures up cliffhanging moments, fascist threats, natural disasters, and space battles, lending the hero's struggles the epic feel of a classic myth, albeit one framed by a strange, robo-sexual love story between boy pilot and robot girl.
7:00 pm
Only Yesterday / Omoide poroporo
Isao Takahata (1991). Based on the manga by Hotaru Okamoto.
Studio Ghibli producer Nozomu Takahashi in person.
Only Yesterday is perhaps Takahata's best and purest work, and certainly one of the greatest anime films of the last four decades, daring to use Studio Ghiblis jewel-like color and superb command of technique not in the service of depicting fantasy, science fiction, or even war, but to show the infinite value of an ordinary life lived in ordinary times.
9:45 pm
Black Jack
Osamu Dezaki, Fumihiro Yashihara (1996). Based on a story by Osamu Tezuka.
Black Jack takes place in a future in which humanity is fixated on genetic engineering and body-enhancing super-drugs. The mysterious Black Jack lives above the law as a "medical pirate"; the world's finest surgeon, he saves the dying but asks top dollar for his troubles. Written in the 1970s, Black Jack was then famous for its graphic portrayal of medical science and its realistic depictions of the human body (in all its extremes); now, like all great science fiction, it is fascinating for predicting certain elements of "the future" that have almost come to pass.
Sunday, November 2, 2003
3:30 pm
The Cat Returns / Neko no ongaeshi
Hiroyuki Morita (2002). Northern California Premiere!
Studio Ghibli producer Nozomu Takahashi in person.
Followed by panel discussion.
We are pleased to present the much-anticipated new film from Studio Ghibli in an exclusive Northern California screening. Filled with medieval cat-town squares, castle cat-swordfights, and romantic court cat-waltzes, The Cat Returns is pure magic, using its fantastical Errol Flynn-like tale and watercolor-style impressionist animation to illuminate childrens desires to findand bethemselves.
Producer Nozomu Takahashi will join Mark Andrews, Head of Story at Pixar and cultural critic Kaori Shoji in a panel discussion moderated by Professor Russell Merritt. The panel will provide insiders' views of creation and marketing, and consider cross-cultural influences and differences in U.S. and Japanese reception.
7:00 pm
Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind / Kaze no tani no Nausicaä
Hayao Miyazaki (1984). Based on his manga.
A thousand years after genetically engineered weapons have burned civilization to the ground, Nausicaä's eponymous princess -- a girl both soldier and scientist -- seeks to reconcile the last remnants of her still-warring species with the monstrous biological order overtaking Earth. Based on an early draft of Hayao Miyazaki's thousand-page manga Nausicaä, this award winning anime is a stirring, sweeping epic of war and adventure, and one of the best science-fiction films made anywhere during the 1980s.
