Lecture
Empire of Subcultures: Is Japan Important for Reconsidering Postmodernism - lecture/workshop by Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
- Professor Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto
- Date
- Friday 8 May 2026
- Time
- Address
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P.J. Veth
Nonnensteeg 1-3
2311 VJ Leiden - Room
- 1.01
In this lecture/workshop, Professor Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto (Wasada University, Tokyo) will discuss the status of cultural and critical theory in Japan, both inside and outside the university. Focusing on Japan’s fascination with subcultures, he will discuss how theoretical debates in Japan invites us to reopen the debates on postmodernism in more global terms.
Lecture/Workshop by Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto - Empire of Subcultures: Is Japan Important for Reconsidering Postmodernism
In this lecture/workshop Professor Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto (Wasada University, Tokyo) will discuss the status of cultural and critical theory in Japan, both inside and outside the university. Focusing on Japan’s fascination with subcultures, he will discuss how theoretical debates in Japan invites us to reopen the debates on postmodernism in more global terms.
Mitsuhiro Yoshimoto is Professor in the Graduate School of International Culture and Communication Studies at Waseda University in Tokyo. He has published widely on Japanese Cinema (Kurosawa: Film Studies and Japanese Cinema (Duke University Press, 2000) and (in Japanese) Empire and the End of Cinema (2007) and Spectacle of Conspiracy (2017)) and on Japanese Popular Culture (Planetary Atmosphere and Urban Society after Fukushima (edited, Palgrave, 2017) and Television, Japan and Globalization (University of Michigan Press, 2010). One of his key interests lies in comparing the different forms that film theory and cultural theory have taken in Japan and the west.
Contact
This one-day event can be taken for 1 or 2 ects. For more information contact Dr. Yasco Horsman.