Aoyagi, Oration on Idology, Sophia University
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H-Japan LECTURE: Aoyagi, Oration on Idology, Sophia University Discussion published by Janet Goodwin on Thursday, June 5, 2014 Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents Hiroshi Aoyagi on "An Oration on Idology" Location: Japan Lecture Date: 2014-06-13 (in 8 days) Date Submitted: 2014-05-28 Announcement ID: 214070 Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2014 An Oration on Idology Hiroshi Aoyagi June 13, 2014 17:00-18:30 Room 10-301, 3F, Building 10, Yotsuya Campus, Sophia University In this talk, Aoyagi will provide an overview of “idology” (偶像学), which he initially developed as an ethnographic means to better comprehend the sociocultural mechanism of popular idolatry in contemporary Japan involving young, media-promoted personalities. Rather than directing the attention of audience to any particular aspect of pop idolatry or idol-pop (アイドルPOP), Aoyagi wishes to lay out an analytical foundation –on the basis of which he and his audience can together generate discussions on some points of socio-scientific interest. Motives and methods of idology will be demonstrated alongside the discipline’s epistemic goal to include popular cultural phenomena as a legitimate subject of investigation in symbolic anthropology. Hiroshi Aoyagi is a cultural anthropologist with ethnographic foci on Japanese- and relevant Asian popular cultures and mass societies. He currently holds a professor position in the School of Asia 21 of Kokushikan University in Tokyo, Japan. Aoyagi pioneered in the empirical study of Japanese pop idols, which he calls “idology,” and published Islands of Eight Million Smiles: Idol Performance and Symbolic Production in Contemporary Japan from Harvard Asia Center (2005). Lecture in English / No prior registration necessary Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture: 7-1 Kioicho, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo 102-8554 +81-(0)3-3238-4082 (Tel +81-(0)3-3238-4081 (Fax) Email: [email protected] Visit the website at http://icc.fla.sophia.ac.jp/ Citation: Janet Goodwin. LECTURE: Aoyagi, Oration on Idology, Sophia University. H-Japan. 06-05-2014. https://networks.h-net.org/node/20904/discussions/29179/lecture-aoyagi-oration-idology-sophia-university Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 United States License. 1.