{"id":1979,"date":"2014-07-07T09:02:01","date_gmt":"2014-07-07T14:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/?p=1979"},"modified":"2014-07-07T09:34:35","modified_gmt":"2014-07-07T14:34:35","slug":"watch-and-listen-to-yours-truly","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/?p=1979","title":{"rendered":"Watch and Listen to Yours Truly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s become common these days for universities to videotape public lectures and make them available online. A few talks I&#8217;ve given in recent years are available for your viewing pleasure, should you be so inclined.<\/p>\n<p>Last October at the University of Chicago&#8217;s Humanities Day, I spoke about the curious life and career of Kasai &#8220;George&#8221; Jiuji, UChicago Class of 1913, and how his example might help us rethink the meaning of the Cold War and Japan&#8217;s role in it:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Wpre-HQsc5w\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>A few months before that, I gave a talk at Boston University on &#8220;Misora Hibari and the Popular Music of Cold War Japan: Mimesis, Alterity, Cosmopolitanism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/64681732\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/64681732\">Michael Bourdaghs, April 11 2013<\/a> from <a href=\"http:\/\/vimeo.com\/bucsa\">BU Center for the Study of Asia<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, a 2013 talk at Penn State on Natsume Soseki and &#8220;Theorizing Literature from Japan, 1907&#8221; is available online.<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"420\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"allowScriptAccess\" value=\"sameDomain\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/cnet.pegcentral.com\/flash\/media_player_798b.swf?server=beta2-rtmp.pegcentral.com&#038;account=cnet&#038;videoFilename=CompLit_9-16-13_Japan.mp4&#038;startState=pause\" width=\"420\" height=\"315\" allowscriptaccess=\"sameDomain\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><\/embed><\/object><\/p>\n<p>Another 2011 talk I gave on &#8220;Psychology and Natsume Soseki&#8217;s <em>Mon<\/em> (The Gate)&#8221; at the University of Michigan is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.umich.edu\/~iinet\/media4\/cjs\/10-11\/bourdaghs_20110414\/\">here<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>If you prefer listening to watching me, a 2012 segment on Japanese popular music that I did for the public radio program &#8220;To the Best of Our Knowledge&#8221; is archived <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ttbook.org\/book\/j-pop-music-east-and-west\">here<\/a>. And if you want to hear what I sounded like as a callow lad of 19, you can hear <a href=\"http:\/\/replacementslivearchive.blogspot.com\/2013\/10\/january-30-1981-zoogies-minneapolis-mn.html\">the recently unearthed recording of a January 1981 interview<\/a> with The Replacements (probably the band&#8217;s first-ever radio interview), back when I was a deejay for WMCN, Macalester College&#8217;s radio station. <\/p>\n<p>On the whole, though, the printed word remains my medium of choice.<\/p>\n<div class='shareinpost'><ul class=\"socialwrap row\"><li class=\"iconOnly\"><a  rel='nofollow'  target='_blank'  title='Bookmark this post : Watch and Listen to Yours Truly on Delicious'  href='http:\/\/delicious.com\/post?url=https%3A%2F%2Fbourdaghs.com%2Fblog%2F%3Fp%3D1979&amp;title=Watch+and+Listen+to+Yours+Truly'  ><img  src='https:\/\/bourdaghs.com\/blog\/wp-content\/plugins\/share-and-follow\/images\/blank.gif'  height='32' width='32'  class='image-32' alt='delicious'  style='background: 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