CJS Noon Lecture Series | Working on a High Energy Experiment in Japan
Myron Campbell, Professor of Physics, University of Michigan
During the last twelve years I have been working on a High Energy Experiment (HEP) in Tokai, Japan. In this lecture I will summarize the...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Is Japanese Trade Policy Finally Proactive? Japan’s Multilateral Leadership in TPP
Keisuke Iida, Professor in the Graduate Schools for Law and Politics, University of Tokyo
Since the 1980s, Japan’s foreign policy, including its trade policy, has been known to be “reactive.” Subsequent studies have modified...
Mari Katayama: My Body as Material
Penny Stamps Speaker Series
Japanese artist Mari Katayama features her own body in a provocative series of works combining photography, sculpture, and textiles. Born...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Reeking of Mud: Japanese Counter-Culture in the 1960s and '70s
Ian Buruma, Paul W. Williams Professor of Human Rights, Democracy and Journalism, Bard College, NY
The 1960s and '70s were a time of rebellion and counterculture in Japan, as was true in the US. I will highlight some of the...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | The Prime Minister and Public Opinion in Japan
Yukio Maeda Professor, Inter-faculty Initiative in Information Studies / Institute of Social Science, University of Tokyo
Approval ratings in public opinion polls are the most important power resource for prime ministers in contemporary Japanese politics....
International Institute FLAS Info Session
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships provide tuition and stipend to students studying designated foreign languages in...
International Institute FLAS Info Session
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships provide tuition and stipend to students studying designated foreign languages in...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Put to the Test: HIV/AIDS, Japan and Sexual Citizenship
John Whittier Treat, Emeritus Professor, Department of East Asia Languages and Literatures, Yale University
Beginning with the recounting of his personal experience of undergoing an involuntary HIV test in Japan in 2016, Treat explores recent work...
International Institute FLAS Info Session
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships provide tuition and stipend to students studying designated foreign languages in...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | History of Furigana
Professor Shinji Konno, Professor of Japanese Language and Literature, Seisen University,Tokyo.
Furigana has its origins in Chinese documents and started to be used in Japan around the 10th century. Furigana was used to indicate the...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Help (Not) Wanted: Immigration Politics in Japan
Michael Strausz, Associate Professor of Political Science and Director of Asian Studies, Texas Christian University
Why has Japan’s immigration policy remained so restrictive, especially in light of economic, demographic, and international political...
International Institute FLAS Info Session
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships provide tuition and stipend to students studying designated foreign languages in...
International Institute FLAS Info Session
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships provide tuition and stipend to students studying designated foreign languages in...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | On Listening: Murakami Haruki and the Prejudices of Global Literature
Michael Emmerich, Professor of Japanese Literature, UCLA
Murakami Haruki is exceptional in many ways, among them the extent of the popularity his works have achieved in translations around the...
International Institute FLAS Info Session
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CJS Noon Lecture Series | Futurity and the Transhuman in Millennial Japan: The Case of Picturebooks
Heather Blair, Religious Studies, Indiana University Bloomington
This talk looks to an unexpected avant-garde—picturebooks—for visions of possibility in millennial Japan. In particular it explores how...
International Institute FLAS Info Session
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2019 World History and Literature Initiative: Empire, Decolonization & Independence in Global History & Literature
The World History and Literature Initiative (WHaLI) is a unique collaboration between area studies centers in the International Institute...
2019 World History and Literature Initiative: Empire, Decolonization & Independence in Global History & Literature
The World History and Literature Initiative (WHaLI) is a unique collaboration between area studies centers in the International Institute...
International Institute FLAS Info Session
Foreign Language and Area Studies (FLAS) Fellowships provide tuition and stipend to students studying designated foreign languages in...
2019 World History and Literature Initiative: Empire, Decolonization & Independence in Global History & Literature
The World History and Literature Initiative (WHaLI) is a unique collaboration between area studies centers in the International Institute...
