Co-creating Cultures for the Future Week
Inherit & develop historical culture
Japan Association for the 2025 World Exposition
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2025.05.05[Mon]
10:00 ～ 12:00
(Venue Open 09:30)
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- Theme Weeks Studio
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The programme, together with the General Sponsors, explores: 'How to inherit arts, culture, and language, and connect them with public opinion, innovation, science and technology, and economic public policy to preserve them for the future'
Cast
Moderator
Robert Campbell
University Professor, Waseda University
Robert Campbell is a scholar of Japanese literature, Professor Emeritus at the University of Tokyo and former Director-General of the National Institute of Japanese Literature (NIJL).
Born in New York City, he studied in the Departments of Economics and Oriental Languages, University of California, Berkeley (B.A. 1981), and in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Graduate School of Fine Arts, Harvard University (M.A. 1984; Ph.D. 1992).
In addition to writing, editing and contributing to numerous volumes on Japanese literature, art and drama, Robert is active in the Japanese media as television host, news commentator, newspaper columnist, book reviewer and radio personality.
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Ostap Slyvynsky
PEN Ukraine
Ostap Slyvynsky is a Ukrainian poet, translator, essayist, and scholar. He authored five books of poetry: Sacrifice of Big Fish (1998), The Midday Line (2004), Ball in Darkness (2008), Adam (2012), The Winter King (2018), as well as The Dictionary of War (2023), a documentary book based on a testimony of participants and witnesses of the Russian aggression against Ukraine. His books have been published in the USA (The Winter King, Lost Horse Press 2023), Germany, Poland, Czech Republic, Bulgaria, Slovakia, and Macedonia. He is also known for translating the works by Derek Walcott, William Carlos Williams, Charles Simic, Czesław Miłosz, Olga Tokarczuk, Georgi Gospodinov, and many others. Ostap Slyvynsky is Associate Professor at the Department of Philology, Ukrainian Catholic University (Lviv). In 2007, he earned a PhD degree in Humanities (with thesis on the silence in contemporary Bulgarian prose). The main areas of his research interests are intercultural communication, the comparative history of Slavic literatures of Central and Eastern Europe, and translation studies. He published numerous papers on comparative literature and intercultural communication. Since 2021, he is part of the international research team working on anticipation of catastrophe in Eastern European literatures before 1939. He was the editor of the bilingual Ukrainian-Bulgarian anthology Ukrainian Poetic Avant-Garde (2018), the anthology of contemporary essays The Ark Named Titanic. 20 essays about humanity of AD 2020 (2020) and the anthology of modern Ukrainian poetry Among Sirens. New poems of war (2023).Ostap Slyvynsky initiated and/or participated in several human rights actions and campaigns in Ukraine, including public actions in support of Oleg Sentsov (2018–2019) and Solidarity Words, a campaign in support of Crimean Tatar journalists illegally imprisoned in the occupied Crimea and Russian Federation (since 2021).Since 2015, he collaborated with fellow artists and writers on several performances and media projects: Preparation (2015), The Winter King (2018), Windows Opened (2021), Return Is (Im)possible (2023).Ostap Slyvynsky was the first program director of the International Literary Festival in Lviv in 2006–2007. In 2016–2018, he organized the public discussion platform Stories of Otherness (the series of public interviews with writers, intellectualists and civic activists who suffered from different kinds of social exclusion). Since 2021, he organizes PEN Ukraine’s festival Propysy (The Writings) aimed at novice authors. He was elected the Vice President of PEN Ukraine in 2022.
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Co-creating Cultures for the Future Week
Inherit & develop historical culture
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2025.05.05[Mon]
10:00～12:00
(Venue Open 09:30)
- Theme Weeks Studio
- * Programme times and content are subject to change. Any changes will be announced on this website and via the ticket booking system.
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