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2026.03.23
【イベント】CPASセミナー「Cultural Exchange, Fair and Foul: How Blackface and Baseball Crossed the Pacific」（開催日：2026/5/18）
| 対象者 | 社会人・一般・在学生・留学生・教職員・大学生 |
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2026/5/18（月）13:00 ～ 16:00 |
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対面：駒場Iキャンパス 18号館コラボレーションルーム1 オンライン：Zoomミーティング |
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定員 |
50名 |
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参加費 |
無料 |
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申込方法 |
対面：事前申し込み不要。直接会場へお越しください。 オンライン：要事前申込み |
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主催等 |
主催：東京大学アメリカ太平洋地域研究センター（CPAS） |
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お問合せ先 |
東京大学アメリカ太平洋地域研究センター |
CPASセミナー
Cultural Exchange, Fair and Foul: How Blackface and Baseball Crossed the Pacific
アメリカ太平洋地域研究センター（CPAS）では、2026年5月18日（月）に講演者としてDavid M. Henkin、Rhae Lynn Barnes両氏をお招きし、CPASセミナー「Cultural Exchange, Fair and Foul: How Blackface and Baseball Crossed the Pacific」を開催いたします。
本セミナーはハイブリッド方式で開催いたします。皆様のご参加をお待ちしております。
CPAS Seminar, Globalizing American Studies Center for Pacific and American Studies, University of Tokyo
"Cultural Exchange, Fair and Foul: How Blackface and Baseball Crossed the Pacific" A Joint Book Talk with David M. Henkin and Rhae Lynn Barnes
Speakers: David M. Henkin (UC Berkeley) and Rhae Lynn Barnes (Princeton University) Moderator: Ai Hisano 久野愛 (University of Tokyo)
Two new historical works challenge us to look beyond the surface of two very different iconic U.S. cultural products-- professional baseball and blackface minstrelsy--to reveal a complicated relationship between Japanese and American popular culture. Join David M. Henkin, author of Out of the Ballpark: How to Think About Baseball, and Rhae Lynn Barnes, author of Darkology: Blackface and the American Way of Entertainment, for a provocative discussion.
Both authors examine how their subjects disseminated globally, emphasizing a profound trans-Pacific history. Baseball, introduced to Japan not long after Commodore Perry's arrival, grew quickly as a spectators sport played by amateurs and became an important civilizing instrument in Japanese imperial expansion, particularly in Korea and Taiwan. At the same time, Japan's embrace of Stephen Foster's blackface music became so foundational that his melodies were incorporated into the national songbooks (shōka) and then exported throughout the Japanese empire. These cultural traditions were then exploited by the US government, with minstrelsy acting as a symbol of the Americanization of Japanese-descended U.S. citizens in World War II concentration camps. Both separately, and in conversation, the two authors offer a powerful exploration of cultural history, racial politics, the role of the U.S. federal government, and the enduring and complicated legacy of American popular entertainment across the Pacific.
関連URL
東京大学 アメリカ太平洋地域研究センター：http://www.cpas.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/indexjpn.html
