II Event. Fulbright 2021-2022 Kick Off: Brown Bag Info Session
Heather Johnson, International Institute Fulbright Program Advisor
Join us for the first Fulbright Info Session in 2020! Come learn about the largest international exchange program for U.S. citizens,...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Unwritten Stories: Medieval Maritime Trade of the Seto Inland Sea
Michelle Damian, Assistant Professor of History, Monmouth College, IL (USA)
The Seto Inland Sea region was the center for much of Japan’s late medieval (14th – 16th c) period’s commercial activity, yet few...
CJS Art of the Camera Film Series | An Autumn Afternoon (Sanma no aji)
1962. 113 minutes. Drama. NR. Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.
The last film by Yasujiro Ozu was also his final masterpiece, a gently heartbreaking story about a man’s dignified resignation to life’s...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | The Tea Bowl as a Microcosm of Modern Japanese Ceramics
Meghen Jones, Assistant Professor of Art History and Director of Global Studies, Alfred University, NY
Over the last hundred years, the idiom of the tea bowl (chawan) has become increasingly significant for makers, collectors, historians, and...
CJS Art of the Camera Film Series | Harakiri
1962. 133 minutes. Drama/Action. NR. Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.
Following the collapse of his clan, an unemployed samurai (Tatsuya Nakadai) arrives at the manor of Lord Iyi, begging to be allowed to...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | A History of the Benshi
Ichiro Kataoka
The silent film benshi has attracted attention for being a unique aspect of Japanese film culture. With the release of Suo Masayuki’s new...
CJS Art of the Camera Film Series | The Downfall of Osen (Orizuru Osen)
1935. Drama/Silent. 90 min. NR. Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.
This silent film will be accompanied by a live benshi narration!...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Reading Medieval Ruins: A Material History of Urban Life in 16th-Century Japan
Morgan Pitelka, Professor of History and Asian Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill
The city of Ichijôdani served as the capital of Echizen Province for approximately one century during Japan’s late medieval period. It...
CJS Art of the Camera Film Series | Tokyo Drifter (Tōkyō nagaremono)
1966. 82 minutes. Drama/Thriller. NR. Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.
In this jazzy gangster film, reformed killer Tetsu’s attempt to go straight is thwarted when his former cohorts call him back to Tokyo to...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Rebirth, Recognition, Destiny, and the Theatrical in Hamamatsu Chūnagon Monogatari
Terry Kawashima, Professor and Chair, Department of Asian Studies, University of Massachusetts, Boston
The paradigm of reincarnation that is central to Hamamatsu chūnagon monogatari, a mid-11th century Japanese prose narrative, is...
CJS Art of the Camera Film Series | Lady Snowblood (Shurayukihime)
1973. 97 minutes. Drama/Mystery. NR. Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.
Gory revenge is raised to the level of visual poetry in Toshiya Fujita’s stunning Lady Snowblood. A major inspiration for Quentin...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Transition to a Modern Regime and Change in Plant Lifecycles: A Natural Experiment from Meiji Japan (with Tomohiro Machikita)
Tetsuji Okazaki, Professor of Economics, University of Tokyo
This paper examines how political, social, and economic regime changes affect the lifecycles of manufacturing plants exploiting Japan’s...
CJS Art of the Camera Film Series | Tampopo
1985. 114 minutes. Comedy/Western. NR. Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.
The tale of an eccentric band of culinary ronin who guide the widow of a noodle-shop owner on her quest for the perfect recipe, this...
CJS Art of the Camera Film Series | Nobody Knows (Dare mo Shiranai)
2004. 141 minutes. Drama. NR. Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.
Inspired by a real-life incident of child abandonment, this piercing family drama is a testament to the everyday resilience of four young...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Queer Writing x Asia: Japanese, Taiwanese, and Asian American Literary Worlds
Grace Ting, Assistant Professor, Gender Studies Programmes, University of Hong Kong
My paper begins by reflecting upon work by Li Kotomi (1989-), a Taiwanese author writing in Japanese about love between women and...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | How Pork-Barrel Politics Holds Japan's Governing Coalition Together
Amy Catalinac, Assistant Professor of Politics, New York University
For seventeen of the past twenty years, Japan's Liberal Democratic Party (LDP) has governed in coalition with a smaller party, the...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | What Motivates Skilled Workers to Emigrate from Japan?
Yusaku Horiuchi, Professor of Government and the Mitsui Professor of Japanese Studies,Dartmouth College
Although the Japanese government has been promoting the acceptance of highly skilled foreign workers, the lack of skilled labor force in...
CJS Art of the Camera Film Series | To the Ends of the Earth (Tabi no Owari Sekai no Hajimari)
2019. 120 minutes. Drama. NR. Presented in Japanese with English subtitles.
Yoko (Atsuko Maeda in her third collaboration with director Kiyoshi Kurosawa) is a cautious, introverted, and determined to host of a...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Japan’s Political Stability in Turbulent Times
Sherry L. Martin, Acting Asia Division Chief , U.S. Department of State’s Office of Opinion Research
Japan is one of Asia’s oldest democracies and one of the world’s most stable, but how deeply rooted its democratic institutions and...
International Institute Graduation Ceremony and Reception
Graduation ceremony for undergraduate and graduate students affiliated with the African Studies Center; Center for European Studies; Center...
