今般モナシュ大学日本研究センターより歴史セミナーのご案内です。4月29日（金）昼12時から1時まで、クレイトン校舎のメンジースビルにて開催されます（一般参加可能）。詳細は以下（英語）をご覧ください。
The Beatles at the Budōkan
Carolyn Stevens, Monash University
The Beatles were the first non-Japanese to perform at the Budōkan in 1966. Though their concerts drew protest from right wing activists and other conservatives, in hindsight the tour was considered a success by both the group’s management and the Japanese promoters. Looking back at the event, this presentation gathers together news media from 1965 to 1966, as well as other kinds of remembrances in both Japanese and English, to contextualise the protests and success of the Beatles’ Tokyo concerts in international postwar history. I argue that the ‘Beatles in Japan’ legacy – remembered as a path breaking pop culture event – not only marks the transformation of the Budōkan from a martial arts arena to an iconic pop cultural site, but also demonstrates a new positioning of post war Japan in the wider international cultural landscape. The event illustrates the ambivalent nature of the re-constructive period as one that is remembered by both the Japanese and the British as progressive and orderly, as well as difficult and turbulent.
Carolyn Stevens is Professor of Japanese Studies and the Director of the Japanese Studies Centre at Monash. Carolyn holds degrees in socio-cultural anthropology from Harvard and Columbia Universities. She teaches and conducts research on a variety of topics concerning contemporary Japanese society, including popular culture and consumption, and social problems in Japan.
Friday 29 April, 12-1pm
Faculty Seminar Room, Room E561
Menzies Building, 20 Chancellors Walk, Clayton
All welcome
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Japanese Studies Centre
Faculty of Arts
Building 54, Clayton Campus,
Monash University, Victoria 3800, Australia
Tel : +61 3 9905 2260
Fax : +61 3 9905 3874
Website: www.arts.monash.edu.au/jsc/