Ann Sherif, Director of the East Asian Studies Program and Professor of Japanese Language and Literature at Oberlin College, will give a talk entitled
Why Censor Lady Chatterley?: Sex and Democracy in Japan after 1945.
- WHEN: Friday, October 16, 2009
12:00-1:30pm - WHERE: 2103 Taliaferro Hall
University of Maryland, College Park
This event is open to the public and co-sponsored by the East Asia & Gordon W. Prange Collections, the Nathan and Jeanette Miller Center for Historical Studies and the Center for East Asian Studies (CEAS) in celebration of the 40th anniversary of the founding of CEAS (formerly the Committee on East Asian Studies), and the Department of Women’s Studies.
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Report of the Prange Collection Fukuoka symposium on August 6, 2007, is now available for donation.
The symposium was entitled "被占領下の国語教育と文学" and the report contains:
- 基調講演 占領軍による図書没収の周辺:石田忠彦
- 報告 プランゲ文庫の資料整理と研究用ツールの現状:坂口英子・野田朱実
- 研究発表 1 敗戦と「敗戦期文学」:横手一彦
- 研究発表 2 『ビルマの竪琴』について—プランゲ文庫所蔵検閲初出誌を素材と して:松本常彦
- 研究発表 3 プランゲ文庫資料から見える戦後初期国語教育—国語教科書・副読本の実態とその特色:吉田裕久
- 質疑応答
The booklet is 72 pages and the language is Japanese.
If you are interested in obtaining a copy, please send an e-mail to
prangebunko@umd.edu with your name, institution, and address.
DVD introducing the Prange Collection (9.41 minutes; both English and Japanese; produced in 2008) is also available for gift on request.

Prange Collection exhibit entitled,
Voices of the Vanquished:
Censored Print Publications from Postwar Japan, 1945-1949. is on display through December 2009 at the Maryland Room Gallery, Hornbake Library, University of Maryland.
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Gallery Hours
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