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SHOTS FIRED: A Gun Violence Prevention Anthology

We are back! We're proud to be publishing SHOTS FIRED, a comics anthology to help stop gun violence in the United States. The Kickstarter to bring this book to print just launched, with proceeds from the book sales going to the Community Justice Reform Coalition and the Coalition to Stop Gun Violence. We're excited to announce that campaign includes a Kickstarter Exclusive Limited Edition Hardcover that won't be available after the campaign, so make sure to order one today before they're gone!

Help bring about change, and order a book on Kickstarter now!

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‪THANK YOU! With your help, we’re going to make some amazing comics to help CJRC & CSGV in their work to #EndGunViolence in the US. ‬

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Radio CJRC.

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Center for Japanese Religions and Culture Events

Welcome Back! Check out our FALL 2013 Events Schedule!! http://dornsife.usc.edu/cf/cjrc/event.cfm

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CJRC Event: Forests, Waters, and Cities: Approaches to the Environment in Japan and Global Contexts [Saturday, March 9]

Saturday March 9, 2013 CJRC Hybrid Japan Innovation Lab Forests, Waters, and Cities: Approaches to the Environment in Japan and Global Contexts An interdisciplinary symposium on the humanities and the environment in Japan and global contexts Location: East Asian Seminar Room (110C), Doheny Memorial Library, USC Time: 10:00 AM to 5:00 PM Please RSVP by email to [email protected]

Description: As climate change, resource depletion, and the environment have moved from the margins to the forefront of our concerns in the twenty-first century, those of us engaged in the traditional humanities are increasingly compelled to rethink how we approach our various specializations and disciplines. Japan and China, the main focus of the symposium, present their own unique challenges. Often associated in the popular mind with ideas of living in harmony with nature, Japan and China also include some of the most engineered environments in the world. The symposium brings together scholars from across the humanities, including history, religion, and literature, in order to rethink established or traditional concepts and hopefully stimulate new approaches to talking about the environment in Japan, China, and their global contexts. 

PANEL ONE (10:00am)

Writing the Borneo Rainforest: Eco-poetic Sinophone Modernism Brian Bernards, USC Taking a Lot of Shit: The Political Economy of Nightsoil in 20th Century Beijing Joshua Goldstein, USC Japan's post-3.11 Grassroots Sustainability Movement: Ecovillages and Transition Towns W. Puck Brecher, Washington State University-Pullman Discussant: Anne McKnight, UCLA PANEL TWO (1:00pm) The Emergence of the Environmental Humanities Ursula Heise, UCLA Karma, Mount Sumeru, Atoms, and Plants: 'Nature' in Buddhist Doctrine and its Environmental Implications Fabio Rambelli, UC-Santa Barbara Discussant: Haruo Shirane, Columbia University PANEL THREE (3:00pm) A New Satoyama Discourse: Reinvented Cultural Interactions with Forests and Mountains in Japan Masami Yuki, Kanazawa University The Power of Place: Religion, Science, and the Environment in the Thought and Activism of Minakata Kumagusu (1867-1941) Clinton Godart, USC Weedy Places: Some Thoughts on the Imagination of Forests and Gardens in Japanese Literature David Bialock, USC  Co-Sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and the USC East Asian Studies Center

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Nikkatsu at 100: A Centennial of Japanese Cinema [Oct 26-28 @ USC]

Friday - Sunday October 26-28, 2012 NIKKATSU AT 100 A Centennial of Japanese Cinema

Eileen Norris Cinema Theatre/Frank Sinatra Hall University of Southern California Free Admission. RSVP Required. RSVP online at cinema.usc.edu/nikkatsu

About Nikkatsu at 100: A Centennial of Japanese Cinema

On September 10, 2012, Japan’s Nikkatsu Film Studio celebrated its 100th anniversary. One of Japan’s oldest and most acclaimed film studios, the Nikkatsu libraries contain approximately 3,300 film titles, including some of the most important Japanese films from the silent era to the classical period, from the postwar era to the new wave, and up to the present renaissance of Japanese cinema and Nikkatsu Studios. Nikkatsu’s films include period pieces and samurai films, melodramas and youth films, gangster films and “pink” movies, horror films and contemporary blockbusters, with major critical and box offices successes in each of those areas.

This three-day event draws from Nikkatsu’s library to celebrate 100 years of Japanese cinema and the centennial of Nikkatsu’s founding. Nikkatsu’s collaboration allows the screening of rare 35mm film prints from Nikkatsu’s archive, including many films recognized as masterpieces of world cinema. Throughout the festival, we will showcase a selection of films from across the Nikkatsu catalogue, with some commentary and post-screening discussion offered by film experts and persons involved in the film’s production, as well as roundtable conversations including directors, film scholars, and film critics on Nikkatsu’s enduring legacy in Japan and its historical place in the film world. For complete festival schedule and RSVP, go to: http://cinema.usc.edu/nikkatsu Presented by USC Visions and Voices: The Arts and Humanities Initiative. Organized by the USC School of Cinematic Arts and Nikkatsu Corporation, in cooperation with the Japan Foundation Los Angeles, the Consulate-General of Japan in Los Angeles, Japan Film Society, the Cinefamily, the USC Center for Japanese Religions and Culture and the USC East Asian Studies Center.