International Symposium on Cross-Cultural Understanding through Cinematic Mass Media(仮)

Date: the 20th afternoon, October, 2000.
Venue: the International Convention Hall of the Japan
Foundation, Minato-Ku, Tokyo.

PANELISTS:

• Todd Holden, Ph.D.(Associate Prof. Faculty of Language and Culture, Tohoku University)
• K.Hariharan (film-director, visiting professor of Pennsylvania University)
• Vincent B. Wilson, Ph.D.(director of Kalari Folk-cultural Centre, Nagercoil)
• G.Venkateswaran (producer/distributor/exhibitor, Chairman and Managing Director of GV Films Ltd., former president of South Indian Film Chamber of Commerce)

COMMENTATOR:

• Takashi Wakui, Ph.D.(Associate Prof. Faculty of Language and Culture, Nagoya University)
• Mazsakazu Tanaka, Ph.D.(Associate Prof. Kyoto University)
• Kenji Ishizaka (Film-coordinator, Asia Centre, the Japan Foundation)

CHAIR:

• Cyril Veliath, SJ., Ph.D. (Professor, Faculty of Foreign Studies, Sophia University, director of the Institute of Asian Cultures)
• Hiroshi Yamashita, Ph.D.(Associate Prof., Faculty of Language and Culture, Tohoku University)

Two films will be shown by video at the beginning and at the interval of the Symposium. The films are under selection.