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Subject: H-ASIA: David G. Goodman: In Memorium - November 12, 2011
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> David G. Goodman: In Memorium - November 12, 2011
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> Ed. note This post, notifying of a streaming of the memorial for
> Professor David G. Goodman includes a link to an obituary note. To
> faciliate access to this, I have pasted in below the obituary
> note : http://www.ijpan.illinois.edu> FFC
>
> Please join the University of Illinois community as we pay homage to
> the life and accomplishments of renowned scholar David G. Goodman
> through reflections and musical performances by colleagues and friends
> across the globe.
>
> This event is free, open to the public, and will be broadcast here
> live on November 12. We do request that those interested in viewing
> this event online e-mail us at ijpanproject@illinois.edu. Please
> include "Goodman Memorial" in the subject line and your name and
> contact information in the body. Thank you.
>
> IJPAN and "David G. Goodman In Memoriam" are funded by the Japan
> Foundation's Center for Global Partnership (www.cgp.org).
>
>
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> On the Passing of David G. Goodman
>
> David G. Goodman, our good friend and colleague and a leader in the
> field of Japanese theatre and cultural criticism, died on Monday, July
> 25, 2011, in Urbana, Illinois. Professor Goodman was born and raised
> in Racine, Wisconsin, going on to receive a B.A. from Yale University
> (cum laude, 1969) and an M.A. and Ph.D. (1982) from Cornell
> University. He leaves behind his wife Kazuko, his daughter Yael, and
> his son Kai. He was 65 years of age.
>
> David Goodman was a pioneering scholar in the study of modern Japanese
> theatre, especially of avant-garde theater in post-war Japan, and
> lived in Japan for more than ten years (1960s-70s). David was a
> towering figure in his field, not only translating major works of
> modern Japanese literature, drama, and poetry and authoring several
> scholarly monographs in English, but also writing multiple original
> works in Japanese. His first book was a translation of plays about
> experiences of the atomic bombs in Japan, After Apocalypse: Four
> Japanese Plays of Hiroshima and Nagasaki (1986), which was followed
> soon after by Japanese Drama and Culture in the 1960s: The Return of
> the Gods (1988), in which he explored a series of avant-garde plays to
> outline the re-appropriation of traditional cultural symbols in
> Japanese theatre. The latter work has had a lasting contribution on
> our understanding of the recovery of tradition and ongoing
> explorations of possibilities for renewal in performance modes and
> other dynamic aspects of Japanese culture today. In all, David
> Goodman published seven books in English.
>
> Anyone who knew Professor Goodman understood that he had an extremely
> vibrant mind and attempted, in both his research and the classroom, to
> bridge between the theatre, audience, and the larger population, on
> the one hand, and to bring multiple cultures into mutual conversation
> on the other. Thus he not only wrote seminal cultural critiques such
> as Jews in the Japanese Mind: The History and Uses of a Cultural
> Stereotype (1995, 2000), but also taught courses in which he and his
> students examined the inter-cultural relationship between Japanese,
> Jewish, and American culture. Indeed, his colleagues recognized that
> David Goodman was a master pedagogue, and graduate students and
> undergraduates regularly spoke of their remarkable impressions of his
> courses. David also established, together with his brother, the Rita
> & Arnold Goodman Fellowship for Improvement of Women's Lives & Gender
> Equality in the Developing World, which has annually helped graduate
> students at the University of Illinois studying issues related to
> women, gender, and development.
>
> His four major books written in Japanese flowed out of his great
> fascination with theses developing cultures. These included works
> such as including Israel: Voices and Faces (1979) and Hashiru
> (Running, 1989. Among many honors, he received the Translation Center
> Award (from Columbia University), for his Long, Long Autumn Nights:
> Selected Poems of Oguma Hideo, 1901-1940. He has also received NEH
> and Fulbright research grants. He is known to the Japanese public,
> being listed in the two major Japanese dictionaries of prominent
> public figures (Asahi jinbutsu jiten, Gendai jinbutsu jiten). At the
> time of his death, David was also working on a book entitled
> Death-Defying Acts: Essays Toward a History of Modern Japanese Drama.
>
> David's broad vision led him recently to establish IJPAN (the Illinois
> Japan Performing Arts Network), which brings together leading
> technologies and the Japanese arts to provide for live-streaming
> performances. He received a major grant from the Japan Foundation's
> Center for Global Partnership for this project, which has just
> completed its first year. David had great success bringing together
> audiences in Japan, NY (Japan Society), and the University of Illinois
> (in both classrooms and the Krannert Center for the Performing Arts),
> to watch and interact with actors and playwrights in genres ranging
> from the noh theatre to contemporary Japanese drama. His energy and
> creativity will be sorely missed by all of us in his Department (EALC)
> and in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of
> Illinois, as well as all of those blessed by his knowledge, friendship
> and scholarly collaboration.
>
> David's legacy in his field and at the University of Illinois will
> live on, and those who knew him personally will always feel the impact
> of his friendship and intellect. David Goodman was a gentleman. All
> of us who knew him will recall his warmth, sense of humor, breadth of
> knowledge, intensity when he felt strongly about something, and his
> wise counsel
>
> ----------------------------------------------------------------
> From: Asian Educational Media Service <aems@illinois.edu>
>
> David G. Goodman: In Memorium
>
> We hope you will join us for the next Illinois Japan Performing Arts
> Network (IJPAN) event, "David G. Goodman: In Memorium." This
> commemoration of the life and work of our colleague, friend, and
> mentor will be held at 7:00 PM (Central Standard Time) on November 12,
> 2011 in Knight Auditorium of Spurlock Museum (600 S. Gregory, Urbana,
> IL).
>
> As one of many of Professor Goodman's contributions to re-thinking our
> engagement with the arts and Japan, IJPAN stands as a lasting tribute
> to his vision of bridging physical and cultural distances to create
> new spaces for experimentation in the arts. In that spirit, the event
> will bring together speakers and performers from the US and Japan both
> at Knight Auditorium and in cyberspace, via the IJPAN website.
>
> The evening will feature reflections by some of Professor Goodman's
> close friends and colleagues, including Nancy Abelmann and Brian
> Ruppert from EALC; Michael Shapiro (Professor Emeritus, English); and
> Len Heumann (Professor Emeritus, Urban and Regional Planning and
> Psychology). Sidney Mintz (Research Professor, Anthropology; Johns
> Hopkins University) will offer some thoughts on David's work in a
> pre-recorded video clip, and we will also share video recordings by
> Tsuno Kaitarō, as well as piano performances by Takahashi Yuji,
> both David's long-time friends and collaborators from Japan.
> Additional musical performances featuring local string players
> Benjamin Hayek, Maureen Murchie, Sun-Young Shin, and Lydia Tang will
> be interspersed with the spoken remembrances.
>
> For further information, please contact Elizabeth Oyler, Director, IJPAN
> (eaoyler@illinois.edu). To view the live stream of the event via the web,
> please follow instructions at the IJPAN website:
> http://www.ijpan.illinois.edu/
>
> Please join the University of Illinois community as we pay homage to
> the life and accomplishments of renowned scholar David G. Goodman
> through reflections and musical performances by colleagues and friends
> across the globe.
>
> This event is free, open to the public, and will be broadcast here
> live on November 12. We do request that those interested in viewing
> this event online e-mail us at ijpanproject@illinois.edu. Please
> include "Goodman Memorial" in the subject line and your name and
> contact information in the body. Thank you.
>
> IJPAN and "David G. Goodman In Memoriam" are funded by the Japan
> Foundation's Center for Global Partnership (www.cgp.org).
>
>
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