On June 25, The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam proudly presents an online lecture on “Drive My Car: Japanese Personality in Global Time” by Doctor Nguyen Nam, from Fulbright University Vietnam. This lecture is a part of the mini lecture series “Close-up Japan”.

The victory of “Drive My Car” by a Japanese film director, Ryūsuke Hamaguchi in the 94^th  Academy Awards for Best International Feature Film(2021) triumphs Japanese personality with both its national characteristics and universal humanity in our global time. The intertextuality of the film serves as the base for characters in the film to expose their “Japaneseness” through their emotional restraints, but from those restraints emerge the complexity and richness of an inner world. Global interaction is shown through the fact that the borderline between arts and life are blurred, allowing people who are actors and actresses in life and on stage communicate with one another in multilingual circumstances.

Dr. Nguyen Nam will analyze the intertextual nature and multi-dimensional connection of the film to help us understand more about the inner world of the characters appearing on the film and Japanese personality in the global time.

The lecture will be held online, so you can easily participate from wherever you are. We hope you are interested and please register by using the form below.

■ Event Information

Date: 25 June 2022 (Saturday) 09:00 – 11:00

Language: Vietnamese (no interpretation)

Admission free, pre-register from here: https://bit.ly/closeupjapan9

* Zoom link will be provided after registration.

■ Lecturer Profile

Nguyễn Nam is a founding faculty member of the Fulbright University Vietnam, now the Director of Fulbright’s Vietnam Studies Center.

He has conducted his research in East Asian countries, such as Japan (as a Visiting Fellow of the Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, 2016-2017; as a research fellow of the Japan Foundation’s Asia Center, June to August 2018; and as a visiting scholar of the International Center for Japanese Studies Nichibunken, February to August 2020), and Taiwan (as a Visiting Fellow/Scholar of Taiwan Center for Chinese Studies, 1999 and 2011).

During the summer of 2013, as visiting professor he taught in the Department of Languages and Cultures of Southeast Asia, Asian African Institute, Hamburg University.  He has also served as a lecturer for the Overseas Study Program of Loyola University Chicago in Ho Chi Minh City from 2012 to 2018.  His research interests focus on comparative intellectual history/literature (dealing mainly with East Asian countries, including Vietnam), cultural studies, translation studies, and adaptation studies. He is also an associate of the Harvard-Yenching Institute.

For inquiries on the lecture, please contact at:

Ms. Ha (Ext. 136) Email: hattv@jpf.org.vn / Ms. Sugisaki (Ext. 160) Email: ai_sugisaki@jpf.org.vn

The Japan Foundation Center for Cultural Exchange in Vietnam

27 Quang Trung, Hoan Kiem, Hanoi, Vietnam       TEL 024-3944-7419    www.jpf.org.vn

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