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February 19, 2005
A description of and details of the application procedure for the International Policy Studies Forum ~ Japan in East Asia: Ambassadorial Lectures has been posted.

February 5, 2005
Academic year 2005 course descriptions have been posted; the domains page has been updated.

December 23, 2004
The Culture, Meaning and Film, Discovering Others II, Critical Cultural Theory II, and Academic Presentations I course pages have been updated.

The site will not be updated again until mid-January. Best holiday wishes to all.

December 15, 2004
The graduate Orientalism course page and the page of photographs from the Korakeun lectures have been updated.

December 13, 2004
The evaluation is up for the December 10 presentation in Academic Presentations I.

December 11, 2004
Discovering Others II, Critical Cultural Theory II, and Culture, Meaning and Film course pages have been updated.

December 8, 2004
The qualitative part of the password-protected evaluation is up for the December 3 presentation in Academic Presentations I. The Discovering Others II and graduate Orientalism course pages have been updated.

December 7, 2004
The quantitative part of the password-protected evaluation is up for the December 3 presentation in Academic Presentations I. The qualitative part will follow tomorrow.

December 6, 2004
The Orientalism course page has been updated.

December 5, 2004
A page of photographs from the Korakuen lectures has been added to the site.

November 29, 2004
The password-protected evaluation is up for the November 26 presentation in Academic Presentations I. Culture, Meaning and Film, Discovering Others II, and Critical Cultural Theory II course pages have been updated.

November 24, 2004
The password-protected evaluation is up for the November 19 presentation in Academic Presentations I.

November 20, 2004
Culture, Meaning and Film, Discovering Others II, and Critical Cultural Theory II course pages have been updated.

November 18, 2004
The full password-protected evaluation for the second presentation in Academic Presentations I has been posted.

November 17, 2004
The Orientalism course page has been updated. The quantitative part of the password-protected evaluation for the second presentation in Academic Presentations I has been posted. The qualitative part will follow tomorrow.

November 14, 2004
Orientalism, PS Forum, Culture, Meaning and Film, Discovering Others II, Critical Cultural Theory II, and Cultural Studies Open Seminar course pages have been updated. The Academic Presentations I update will follow tomorrow.

November 8, 2004
Academic Presentations I, Discovering Others II, Critical Cultural Theory II, and Cultural Studies Open Seminar course pages have been updated. A password-protected evaluation of the first Academic Presentation I presentation has been posted. For details about how to access it please consult the course page.

November 1, 2004
Culture, Meaning, and Film, Discovering Others II, and Critical Cultural Theory II course pages have been updated.

October 26, 2004
Culture, Meaning, and Film, Academic Presentations I, Discovering Others II, Critical Cultural Theory II, and Cultural Studies Open Seminar course pages have been updated.

October 20, 2004
The Orientalism and PS Forum course pages have been updated. Further information has been added to the PS Forum and CS Open Seminar speakers page.

October 19, 2004
Pages are up for Ingmar Bergman’s The Magic Flute, CMF screening Thursday November 4, 6:15 ~ 8:30, and Jean Cocteau’s Beauty and the Beast, screening Thursday November 18, 6:15 ~ 8:00.

October 18, 2004
The Cultural Studies Open Seminar course page has been updated.

October 16, 2004
Culture, Meaning, and Film, Academic Presentations I, Discovering Others II, and Critical Cultural Theory II course pages have been updated. Further information has been added to the PS Forum and CS Open Seminar speakers page.

October 13, 2004
The Orientalism and PS Forum course pages have been updated.

October 12, 2004
Further information has been added to the PS Forum and CS Open Seminar speakers page, including announcement of lectures by Tin Tin Htun on November 20 and Anne Waldman on December 4.

October 9, 2004
The CS Open Seminar, Academic Presentations I, CMF, Discovering Others II, and Critical Cultural Theory II course pages have been updated.

October 8, 2004
Further information has been added to the PS Forum and CS Open Seminar speakers page, including announcement of a November 27 lecture by Sujaya Dhanvantari.

October 7, 2004
The PS Forum course page has been updated.

October 6, 2004
Further information has been added to the PS Forum and CS Open Seminar speakers page.

October 5, 2004
A page is up for Monsoon Wedding, CMF screening October 21.

October 3, 2004
Archive: Frank Polite, The Japanese Consulate (1979)

October 2, 2004
Culture, Meaning, and Film, Academic Presentations I, Discovering Others II, and Critical Cultural Theory II course pages have been updated.

A page is up for Cinema Paradiso, CMF screening October 7.

September 29, 2004
Academic Presentations I, Culture, Meaning, and Film, Orientalism, and Policy Studies Forum course pages have been updated.

September 22, 2004
Five speakers have been announced for the Policy Studies Forum: Cultural Interaction in East Asia. Course pages for the Forum and the Orientalism seminar have been updated.

Invited Lecturers provides details of (some of) the distinguished speakers who will address the Policy Studies Forum and the Cultural Studies Open Seminar.

September 21, 2004
Course descriptions are up for the autumn seminars Discovering Others II and Critical Cultural Theory II; some invited speakers have been announced for the graduate Cultural Studies seminar.

September 12, 2004
Notes for Invited Lecturers and Discussants for the Policy Studies Forum / Cultural Interaction in East Asia and the Cultural Studies Open Seminar, Chuo University Graduate School of Policy Studies, autumn term 2004.

Full schedules for the Forum and the Seminar, including guest speakers and dates, will follow soon.

August 2, 2004
Presentation evaluations for the graduate Methods of Academic Presentation seminar have been posted.

July 5, 2004
Brief updates to the Culture, Meaning, and Film and graduate Methods of Academic Presentation course pages. Page up for Being There, the last of the CMF screenings of the term.

June 12, 2004
The Discovering Others and Critical Cultural Theory course pages have been updated.

June 11, 2004
The Culture, Meaning, and Film and Academic Presentations I course pages have been updated.

June 8, 2004
The graduate Methods of Academic Presentation course page has been updated.

June 6, 2004
The graduate Cultural Studies course page has been updated.

June 4, 2004
The Methods of Academic Presentation, Culture, Meaning, and Film, Academic Presentations I, Discovering Others, and Critical Cultural Theory course pages have been updated.

May 30, 2004
The Methods of Academic Presentation, Culture, Meaning, and Film, Academic Presentations I, Discovering Others, Critical Cultural Theory, and Cultural Studies course pages have been updated.

May 23, 2004
Discovering Others, Critical Cultural Theory, and Cultural Studies course pages have been updated.

Pages have been added for the third and fourth screenings of Culture, Meaning, and Film: Michael Powell’s Peeping Tom (June 3) and Elia Suleiman’s Divine Intervention (June 17).

May 21, 2004
Academic Presentations I and Culture, Meaning, and Film course pages have been updated.

May 18, 2004
The Methods of Academic Presentation course page has been updated.

May 16, 2004
The Cultural Studies course page has been updated.

May 15, 2004
Methods of Academic Presentation, Academic Presentations I, Culture, Meaning, and Film, Discovering Others, and Critical Cultural Theory course pages have been updated.

May 8, 2004
The Culture, Meaning, and Film, Discovering Others, and Critical Cultural Theory course pages have been updated; a page has been added for the second screening of Culture, Meaning, and Film: Werner Herzog’s Aguirre, the Wrath of God.

Marginalia: Abu Ghraib and the Geneva Conventions.

May 7, 2004
The Academic Presentations I course page has been updated.

Update to marginalia: State IQs, misinformation, and G. W. Bush.

May 4 and 5, 2004
Updates to marginalia: US diplomats criticize the Bush administration Middle-East policy, in a story slow to be picked up by CNN; links to UN resolutions concerning the Israeli-Arab conflict.

May 3, 2004
Marginalia is back, in Movable Type. Not perfect, but back.

April 27, 2004
The course page for the graduate Methods of Academic Presentation seminar has been updated.

April 25, 2004
Course pages for Discovering Others, Critical Cultural Theory, Culture, Meaning, and Film, and Cultural Studies have been updated.

Notes and links about the first film under discussion in the Culture, Meaning, and Film seminar, Federico Fellini’s Amarcord (1973), have been posted here.

April 24, 2004
The course page for Academic Presentations I has been updated.

April 19, 2004
Some Google searches related to themargins.net have been noted.

April 18, 2004
Updated course descriptions have been posted for Discovering Others I (kiso enshû I), Critical Cultural Theory I (kiso enshû III), and Cultural Studies / Case Studies (jirei kenkyû II), and new course pages have been posted for Academic Presentations I, Discovering Others I, Critical Cultural Theory I, Culture, Meaning, and Film (jirei kenkyû I), and the graduate seminars in Cultural Studies and Methods of Academic Presentation.

April 15, 2004
Questions for discussion on Clifford Geertz’s “Thick Description: Toward an Interpretive Theory of Culture,” the first reading for the Culture, Meaning, and Film seminar, have been posted in the Worksheets area.

April 11, 2004
The domains page has been updated to reflect visitors to the site through March 30, 2004, and a map of country domains from which the site has been visited has been added: