A Lecture by Professor Keller Kimbrough

Wondrous Brutal Fictions:

Theater and Publishing in Seventeenth Century Japan

Monday, February 13, 5:00 p.m.

Graham Hall, Brown Fine Arts Center, Smith College

A Professor of Japanese at the University of Colorado, Boulder, Keller Kimbrough will present a lecture on staged and published renditions of the sekkyoo and ko-jooruri puppet plays Sanshoo Dayuu and others, as well as the history of the early-to-mid seventeenth-century puppet theater. Sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Literatures, the Endowed Lecture Fund Committee and the Smith College Museum of Art. This event is open to the public.

 

The Hope for Japan Campaign at Smith College

Thank you very much for raising the funds for the Hope for Japan campaign. The campaign raised $1436.85 as of June 1, 2011. $436.85 was donated to the Japanese Red Cross through the consulate-general of Japan in Boston and $1000 to the following NGOs: The Tokyo Volunteer Network for Disaster Relief, JEN, Japan NPO Center, working on the affected area through Japan Society New York. Thank you for your time, energy, and enthusiasm. Atsuko Takahashi