Event Types
Location
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Brazil and 'Modern Japanese Literature'
Edward Mack, Associate Professor of Japanese Literature, University of Washington
It is not well known that Brazil is home to the largest number of persons of Japanese descent outside of Japan itself, with a population...
II Career Event: Thinking about Think Tanks? International Policy and Research Opportunities
Liz Malinkin, U-M
Liz Malinkin discusses nearly 10 years working for the Woodrow Wilson Center in Washington, D.C...
CJS Thursday Lecture | Dynasties and Democracy in Japan
Daniel M. Smith, Associate Professor, Department of Government, Harvard University
Political dynasties exist in nearly all democracies, but have been conspicuously prevalent in Japan, where over a third of all legislators...
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Celebration of Life
Tomoko Konno, Ceramicist
Life has served as the center of leading Japanese ceramic artist Tomoko Konno's creative mind. She enjoys giving her ceramics new life by...
II Career Event. Career Conversation with Kunizo Oka
Kunizo Oka, Director , Business Center, Continental Automotive Japan
Kunizo Oka is the head of the business center at Continental Automotive Corporation in Japan. He received his BA in sociology from Waseda...
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Ainu Indigenous Modernity in Settler Japan
ann-elise lewallen, Associate Professor, East Asian Languages and Cultures, UC-Santa Barbara
In Japan today, Indigenous Ainu women stitch together ancestral memory and global Indigenous activism to challenge bitter legacies of...
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Impending Cultural Collapse? - Current Transformations in Japan’s Traditional Art Markets
Paul Allan Berry, Professor, Kansai Gaidai University, Japan
This talk addresses the origins of the remarkable weakening of today’s art markets and collecting practices in Japan. The financial...
CJS Thursday Lecture Series | Eating Contests in Early Modern Japanese Entertainment Media
Eric C. Rath, 2017-2018 CJS Toyota Visiting Professor; Professor, History Department, University of Kansas
Early modern Japan witnessed the rise of food as a subject of entertainment media as exemplified by numerous literary and visual depictions...
