February 2017

Saturday, February  25, 2017 / 2:00 PM Pollock Theater This event is free but space is limited; please reserve a ticket here. In a special Cinephile Saturday program, the Pollock Theater is proud to present Seven Samurai on 35mm film.  Kurosawa's masterpiece tells the story of a...

Saturday, February 25, 2017 / 9:30 AM Social Sciences and Media Studies Building 2F, Conference Room 2135 A striking aspect of contemporary Japanese culture is the pervasive nature of discussions and representations of “spirits” (tama or tamashii), generally rooted in vaguely articulated discourses on “animism” (animizumu) that...