“From Loss to Discovery to Loss: Modalities of Writing Postwar Catastrophe and the Poetics and Politics of Family Stories,” Tsukuba University, Japan, December 18, 2024.
“Blur/Haze/Emergence: Japanese Women Photographers of the 1960s-1970s,” in a panel on Camouflage in the Arts, College Arts Association, New York, February 12, 2025.,
“Feeling, Gender, Infrastructure,” Donald Keene Center Lecture Series, book talk on Feeling Media, Columbia University, February 2025.
Yale Whitney Humanities Center Working Group talk, spring 2025.
Selected Past Events
“Disjunct Collectivities,” Center for Japanese Studies, University of California, Berkeley, December 6, 2024.
“Women Photographers of the 1960s-70s,” Belmont Village, Berkeley CA, June 2024.
“Disjunct Collectivities,” Phillis Lyons Lecture in Japanese Studies, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL May 10, 2024.
“Feeling, Gender, Infrastructure,” book workshop on Feeling Media, Yanai Initiative for Globalizing Japanese Humanities, with Prof. Seiji Lippit, UCLA, February 9, 2024.
“Phantoms and Afterlives of Imperial Infrastructures across Japan, Taiwan, and the Transpacific Archipelagos,” panel respondent, AAS 2024 in Seattle, March 15, 2024.
“Disjunct Collectivity: Women Photographers of the 1960s-70s” in the panel “Exhibiting Collectivity: New Sites and Practices,” with Justin Jesty, Ayelet Zohar, Nakajima Izumi, and John Treat, AAS 2024, Seattle, March 16, 2024.
Berkeley Book Chat on Feeling Media with Mario Telò, Townsend Center for the Humanities, Berkeley CA, January 31, 2024.
“Lightning Lecture” at the book launch of Critical Memory Studies: New Approaches (Bloomsbury, 2023) which contains an excerpt from Finding Zbaraż, with Brett Ashley Kaplan, James Young, Marianne Hirsch, Leo Spitzer, and other contributors.
Disability Rights Film Festival, Mount Tamalpais College inside San Quentin State Prison, Dialogue and Screening of Taare Zameen Par (India) with Dean Nandita Dinesh, December 17, 2023; Dialogue and Screening of On the Outs and Friendly Signs, on navigating disabilities within the prison system, December 19, 2023.
「情動とメディア」(Affect and Media), Tsukuba University, Japan, December 14, 2023.
「現代日本美術」の死後の生ーフィーリング、ジェンダー、
“Terayama and the Feel of Media,” with Steve Ridgely, Jonathan Abel, Hanajiri Ryūichi (Risshō), Horie Hidefumi (Shizuoka), Kuji Kimiyo (Aomori), Kosugi Makiko, Yamagata Kenjirō (Terayama Shūji Archive) and others, University of Wisconsin-Madison, November 3-4, 2023.
“Embodiment, Postmemory, Archive,”reading from Finding Zbaraż: A Memoir in MLA Just in Time Panel 2023 All the Memory Work That Isn’t Done with Brett Ashley Kaplan (UIUC), Ethan Madarieta (Syracuse), Lilya Kaganovsky (UIUC), Debarati Sanyal (UCB), January 5, 2023.
“Realism and Media: Reconsidering Japanese Women Photographers,” [links to recording] Sydney Asian Art Series, Power Institute, University of Sydney, as part of the “Troubling Images” series: November 10, 2022.
from Tokyoites, 1978-1983 by Takanashi Yutaka
April 15, 2020 lectures at University of Pennsylvania lunchtime colloquium, watch: here
“The Limits, Edges, and Futures of Kinema/Media” in the panel on “Media+” at Kinema Club XIX, University of Michigan, November 2, 2019
“The Poetics of Butoh,” in the panel “Oscillating Time: Environment and Temporality in Sankai Juku’s Butoh” at the Center for Arts and Religion, Berkeley CA, October 12, 2019.
“On Feeling Media: Infrastructure, Potentiality, and the Afterlife of Art in Japan,” invited lecture and workshop with material from introduction, chapters 4+6, Ishibashi Summer Fellowship Program, Sainsbury Institute for Japanese Studies, University of East Anglia, Norwich, England, July 30, 2019.
Panel discussion of edited volume Beyond Imperial Aesthetics,with Naoki Sakai (Cornell University), Inoue Mayumo (Hitotsubashi University) and Steve Choe (UCSF), UC Berkeley Center for Japanese Studies, March 19, 2019.
March 6-7, 2019 Lecture and exhibition tour, bilingual Spanish, “The Gaze of Things: Japanese Photography in the Context of Provoke,” Bombas Gens Centre d’Art, Valencia, Spain
• Lecture: “Concept and Practice: Provoke Era Photography” March 7, 2019
• Tour: “Flesh, Skin, Gender, Expression: A Tour of ‘The Gaze of Things‘” March 6, 2019
“Less is More: From Comprehensiveness to Comprehension,” Teaching Dialogue, Center for Teaching and Learning, UC Berkeley, October 2018.
Radio:
KPFA, Frame to Frame, November 28, 2018, [listen here] On Ogawa Shinsuke’s Battle Front for the Liberation of Japan–Summer in Sanrizuka
France Culture, La Fabrique de l’Histoire with Emmanuel Laurentin and Anaïs Kien, “Contester au Japon dans les années 1960, arts et politique,” February 26, 2018. [listen online in French].
Courses (UC Berkeley):
• Spring 2022: Film 172, Feminist Directions: Agnès Varda and Chantal Akerman
• Spring 2022: Comp Lit 190: Senior Seminar: Reading Virginia Woolf
• Fall 2021: Film 135, Experimental and Alternative Media Arts, in conjunction with Pacific Film Archive series “Alternative Visions“
• Spring 2020: Film 240, Japanese Film and Media
• Spring 2020, Spring 2023, Fall 2024: Comp Lit 100D, Media and Realism
• Fall 2019, Fall 2020, Fall 2021: Comp Lit 200: Comparative Literature and Critical Theory
•Fall 2019, Film 151/Japan 188, Auteurs of Anime
• Spring 2019, Comp. Lit 240/Film 240, Inheriting Cultural Disaster
• Spring 2019, Freshman seminar, Literature, Film, and Cultural Disaster
Miryam Sas Additional Events
- “Plastic Dialectics: Community and Collectivity in Japanese Contemporary Art — Miryam Sas at Digital Aesthetics Workshop” Stanford University, December 4, 2018
- “Mouvante comme le sable : la scène artistique japonaise des années 1960 à nos jours,” Institut national des langues et civilizations orientales (INALCO), February 2, 2018
- “Moves Like Sand: Collective Practices and Site-Specific Critique in Japanese Contemporary Art 1960s to the Present,” presentation with artist Kawakubo Yoi, University of Cambridge, February 9. 2018.
- “The Afterlives of Art in Japan: Gender, Affect, Photography,” Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford, February 8, 2018.
- “Feeling the City: Contemporary Art and the Making of Critical Media Space,” Japan Research Center, School of Oriental and Asian Studies (SOAS), University of London, December 6, 2017.
- Collaboration and Community-Building in Contemporary Art, Conference at the University of Copenhagen, November 25, 2017.
Others:
- Author Sayed Kashua, at UC Berkeley, reading from new work, week of February 22, 2017. (Read what happened, on my blog)
- Filmmaker Sergei Lotznitza, showing the film Austerlitz (Germany, 2016), February 23, 2017, and a retrospective of his work, Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, week of February 22-24, 2017. Master class hosted by Miryam.
Still from the film Austerlitz (Germany, 2016)
More about my latest project: Finding Zbaraz