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        Sonja Moreno <[log in to unmask]>

4:06 PM

If any PSYARTers are going to be near Gainesville on Dec. 9, do join us!

>
>                  MIND THE GAP
>
>
>Dear Colleague:
>
>
>   You are cordially invited to attend the next meeting of GAP(Group for
>the Application of Psychology), which will take place THURSDAY, DECEMBER 9,
>5:30-9 PM, in REITZ UNION 400. Professor Scott Nygren (UF, English) will
>discuss his paper, "ABANDONED ON THE JAPANESE ALPS: ALLEGORIES OF CULTURAL
>DISLOCATION IN IMAMURA'S BALLAD OF NARAYAMA." The talk should interest
>scholars of film, Asian studies, or literature and psychology.
>
>   This paper addresess cultural dislocation through the repeating figure of
>abandoned parents in some recent Japanese films, with emphasis on Imamura's
>"Ballad of Narayama." "Ballad of Narayama" is a remake of a 1950's film, an
>account of an imaginary ancient Japanese community that ritually abandoned
>its elderly to freeze to death on a mountaintop.  In the earlier context of
>eugenics and militarist insistence on the Confucian respect for ancestors,
>this story
>shocked by its violation of social norms.  In its recent remake, however,
>parents have come to fictionally represent the obsolete values of the
>generation raised before the end of World War II.
>
>   Parallel narrative elements appear in other recent Japanese films, making
>the abandonment of parents a central figure. The paper attempts to work
>through the psychoanalytic and social implications of this figure as a
>means to address current issues in a transnational, multicultural, and
>postcolonial context.
>
>    There will be a free screening of the movie THURSDAY, DECEMBER 2, in
>TUR 2319.
>
>   GAP is an interdisciplinary group which meets once a month during the
>academic year, usually on a Thursday evening, for drinks, dinner, and
>after-dinner discussion of a precirculated paper on a topic relating
>psychology to the arts.  Our members are from departments including
>English, History, Romance Languages, Art, Linguistics, Psychology, and
>Psychiatry.  GAP is open to all UF faculty and their guests, to mental
>health clinicians, and to graduate students who have been invited by an
>instructor.
>
>   We mail you the paper upon receipt of your check.  We encourage you to
>bring a guest--a colleague, graduate student, friend or spouse--to the
>meeting.  We promise drinks, dinner, and lively discussion.
>
>   GAP meetings next semester:
>
>    January 27:  Professor Jerome Winer (Psychiatry, U. of Illinois) on
>    "Panic Disorder in Literature and Film"
>
>    February 24: Professor David Chalmers (UF, Emeritus History) on "White
>                              Supremacists"
>
>    March 23:  Professor Kathy Agar (Nebraska), on the poems of Thomas
>     Hardy
>
>    April 20:  Professor Peter Rudnytsky (UF, English) on "_Hamlet_ and
>                 the Tragedy of the Replacement Child"
>
>    If you would like to attend the DECEMBER 9 GAP meeting,please send a
>check for $19 ($10 for graduate students) made out to GAP.  Send the check
>to IPSA, English Department, 4370 TUR so that we receive it by DECEMBER 6.
>And you are welcome to the screening of the Japanese film THURSDAY,
>DECEMBER 2, in TUR 2319.
>
>    If you have any questions, please contact our secretary, Sonja Moreno,
>at 392-7332.  We look forward to seeing you there!
>
>                          Cordially yours,
>                          Andrew Gordon
>                          Director, IPSA
>
>

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Sonja Moreno
Program Assistant
Department of English
University of Florida
Gainesville, FL  32611
(352) 392-7332
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