• Type: Seminar Series

Friday 20 October 2023

• 17:00 - The Buddhist Body of the King: Ritual practices of consecration in medieval Japan
  Prof. Lucia Dolce (SOAS)

Friday 27 October 2023

• 17:00 - The universal language of the body
  Tarinainanika Theatre Company (Tarinainanika Theatre Company)

Friday 3 November 2023

• 17:00 - Japan’s “three national security documents” and fundamental reinforcement of defence capabilities: reinforcing a radical military trajectory
  Prof. Christopher W. Hughes (University of Warwick)

Friday 10 November 2023

• 17:00 - The Compass Rose meets the Rising Sun: a new era of NATO-Japan Relations
  Dr Wrenn Lindgren (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs)

Wednesday 15 November 2023

• 17:00 - The return of geopolitics in East Asia: Japan’s responses to regional uncertainty
  Mr Koichiro Matsumoto (Director of Research at the Japan Institute of International Affairs)

Friday 17 November 2023

• 17:00 - From ‘closedness’ to ‘closeness’: how changing community values sustains a traditional craft industry
  Dr Shilla Lee (Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies)

Friday 24 November 2023

• 17:00 - Kabuki music and compositions
  Denjiro Tanaka VII and associates (Denjiro Tanaka VII and associates)

Friday 1 December 2023

• 17:00 - Geoeconomic implications of the Japan-EU Relations – trade, digitalization and sustainability
  Prof. Patrik Ström (Stockholm School of Economics)

Thursday 18 January 2024

• 14:00 - Criminal Crossroads: Underworld Dynamics in Contemporary Japan
  Dr Martina Baradel (University of Oxford)

Thursday 25 January 2024

• 14:00 - Sensory Perception: Cultural Exchange, Development and Understanding
  Miss Nicole Watson (Director of Surface Area Dance Company)

Thursday 1 February 2024

• 14:00 - Affect, Emotion and Sensibility in Modern Japanese Literature
  Professor Reiko Abe Auestad (University of Oslo)

Thursday 8 February 2024

• 14:00 - Memories of Cinema-Going in Postwar Japan: An Ethno-History
  Professor Jennifer Coates (University of Sheffield)

Thursday 15 February 2024

• 14:00 - Language as a Technology for Shaping Professional Identity: Translating ‘A Manual of the Steam Engine’ in Mid-Nineteenth Century Japan
  Dr Ruselle Meade (Cardiff University)

Thursday 22 February 2024

• 14:00 - Eleven Winters of Discontent: The Siberian Internment and the Making of a New Japan
  Professor Sherzod Muminov (University of East Anglia)

Thursday 29 February 2024

• 12:00 - This Monk Wears Heels – Buddhism and Sexuality
  Ven. Kodo Nishimura (Artist, Buddhist Monk, and LGBTQ+ Activist)

Thursday 7 March 2024

• 17:00 - A Preview Test Screening of a New Documentary Film - The Squid and the Pine by John Williams
  John Williams (Director)

Friday 8 March 2024

• 13:30 - Japan Politics Colloquium
  TBA

Monday 11 March 2024

• 09:00 - The Free and Open Indo-Pacific: Japan's Strategic Vision Goes Global
  TBA

Friday 26 April 2024

• 17:00 - A Conversation with Author Sayaka Murata – Living, Writing and Transformation
  Sayaka Murata

Friday 3 May 2024

• 17:00 - New Life From the Ruins of Japanese Death Rites
  Dr Hannah Gould (University of Melbourne)

Friday 10 May 2024

• 17:00 - Making of the “Feebleminded”: Gender and Family for the Medical Discourse Around Eugenic Sterilization in 1950s Japan
  Dr Aya Homei (University of Manchester)

Friday 17 May 2024

• 17:00 - Great Power Politics and Japan’s Immigration Dilemma
  Dr Anand Rao (SUNY Geneseo)

Wednesday 22 May 2024

• 17:00 - Valedictory Lecture – A ‘Class’-Less Society Japan? How is Inequality Interpreted Without the Concept of Class?
  Professor Takehiko Kariya (University of Oxford)

Friday 24 May 2024

• 17:00 - Book Launch – Reopening the Opening of Japan: Transnational Approaches to Modern Japan and the Wider World
  Professor Sho Konishi (University of Oxford), Dr Lewis Bremner (University of Cambridge), Dr Chinami Oka (University of Oxford), Dr Mateja Kovacic (Hong Kong Baptist University), Joel Littler (University of Oxford), Dr Manimporok (Brown University)

Friday 11 October 2024

• 17:30 - A Conversation with Asako Yuzuki
  Asako Yuzuki