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PAPERS READ, PUBLICATIONS
2007. Language and Reality (Kamakura, YMCA)
2004. Histoires de famille, paper on Ozu Yasujiro read at the Association des Amitiés Franco-Japonaises de Yokohama. in French
2002. Miroirs Français, publisher: Surugadai Shuppansha. College textbook for French Studies: Presentation of ten films by ten filmmakers of the French New Wave. (in French and Japanese)
1997-1999. Japan Correspondent of Film Journal International (New York).
December 1996. “Cinema in Civilization Studies”, delivered at the Journée Pédagogique of Dokkyo University. Published in the proceedings of the meeting. (in French)
June 1996. “Pédagogie et langage à l’étude du cinéma”, paper read at the 1995 AJPF meeting (Association Japonaise des Professeurs de Français). L’enseignement du français au Japon, Vol. 25, pp.36-39. Tokyo. (in French)
October 1995. “Travels in Japanese Aesthetics”, paper read at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the Philosophical Society for the Study of Sport (at the 2nd Tsukuba International Workshop on Sport Education). Published in the proceedings of the meeting. (in English)
1995. “Theory and Practice in Pedagogy”, SFC-Journal of Language and Communication, vol. 4, pp.113-119. Fujisawa, Japan. (in English)
1995. “Didactique des premiers automatismes linguistiques”, paper read at the 1994 AJPF meeting. L’enseignement du français au Japon, Vol. 23, pp.51-61. Tokyo. (in French)
November 1993. “Politique linguistique européenne”, France-Amérique, New York. (in French)
March 1985. “Vers le blanc infini: graffitis à New York”, Générique, Paris, France. (in French)
December 1984. “Faulkner et ‘The de Gaulle Story’”, Générique, Paris, France. (in French)
1981. “S/how”, in Switch, Vol. 2, New York. (in English)
FILM/VIDEO WORKS
1993. CONVERSATION WITH ANDRÉ MARTINET, 57 min., video.
1992. THE FAREWELL CLASS OF MIKLOS JANCSÒ AT HARVARD UNIVERSITY, 80 min., video. Film students discuss the year they spent with Hungarian Filmmaker Miklos Jancsò.
1989-1992. Video archiving of lectures and seminars (with Y. Bonnefoy, R. Motherwell, A. Robbe-Grillet, P. Sollers, etc.) at The French House of Columbia University in New York.
1991. A conversation with Dr. Alexander Lowen, presented at The Convention of the American Association of Psychiatry in Los Angeles.
1990-91. Case presentations at the Family Therapy Clinic in New York by Dr. Salvador Minuchin (Harvard Medical School).
1988. CALEB GATTEGNO AND THE SILENT WAY, 90 min., video.
1988. HELLISH HALF-LIGHT, 32 min., video. This was the first video production of Samuel Beckett’s “Play”.
1986. WHITENESS WITNESSED, 30 min., video. The video documents Henry Schoebel’s painting of the Brooklyn Bridge.
1983. THE LAWS OF THE LAND, 20 min., film/video. Baseball landscapes. Selected at the Festival of Cinéma Différent in Hyères, France.
AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS
1996. Fellowship with THE CANON FOUNDATION (Leiden, Holland) towards a research on Japanese language and society; I spent a year with a class of first-graders in a Japanese public elementary school observing how writing and reading are taught and learned. Summary (in English)
1992. THE DÉLÉGATION GÉNÉRALE À LA LANGUE FRANÇAISE (France). Grant towards the production of a video with linguist André Martinet.
1991-92. BOURSE LAVOISIER.
Research on vocal production in foreign language pedagogy. The research was hosted by the French House of Columbia University in New York City.
Summary in French and English