CJS Noon Lecture Series | Cheerful Disguise of Japanese Militarism: Geisha's Performances in the 1930’s
Mariko Okada, Associate Professor, Faculty of Humanities, J.F. Oberlin University, Tokyo, Japan
Part of the Toyota Visiting Professor 30th Anniversary Special Lecture Series....
CJS Thursday Noon Lecture Series | After Thirty Years
Motohiro Kondo, Former Editor in Chief, Chuo Koron
Part of the Toyota Visiting Professor 30th Anniversary Special Lecture Series...
CJS Thursday Noon Lecture Series | Social and Political Lives of Japanese Cherry Blossoms
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney, William F. Vilas Research Professor, Department of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, Madison
Part of the Toyota Visiting Professor 30th Anniversary Special Lecture Series....
CJS Thursday Noon Lecture Series | Tradition and Innovation in English-language Noh, "Blue Moon Over Memphis"
Mariko Anno, Associate Professor, Tokyo Institute of Technology, Ethnomusicology
Part of the Toyota Visiting Professor 30th Anniversary Special Lecture Series...
CJS Special Event | Blue Moon Over Memphis
Theatre Nohgaku
Part of the Toyota Visiting Professor 30th Anniversary Special Lecture Series...
CJS Thursday Noon Lecture Series | Angry Spirits and Urban Soundscapes in Ancient Japan
Michael Como, Toshu Fukami Associate Professor of Shinto Studies, Columbia University
From the late seventh to the late eighth centuries, Japanese rulers built no fewer than six capitals, with the largest housing as many as...
CJS Noon Lecture Series | Jesus Loves Japan: Pentecostal Christianity among Nikkei “Return Migrants” from Brazil
Suma Ikeuchi, Assistant Professor, Department of Liberal Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC)
Today, there are roughly 186,000 Brazilian nationals living in Japan, the majority of whom are of Japanese descent. While they benefit from...
CJS Thursday Noon Lecture Series | Promiscuous Reading: Reading and Writing Poetry Across Languages
Jeffrey Angles, Professor of Japanese Literature and Translation, Department of World Languages and Literatures, Western Michigan University
In The Happy Life, Charles W. Eliot wrote, “Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest...
CJS Thursday Noon Lecture Series | From the Fastest Woman in the World to the First Woman on the Board
Keiko Ihara, Race car driver, Independent Director of Nissan Motor Corporation, Associate Professor of Keio University Graduate School Media Design
I talk about a car racing challenge in the world highest series Le Mans 24-Hour Race and World Endurance Championship,technology development...
CJS Thursday Noon Lecture Series | Modern Temple Art as “Public” Art
Yasuko Tsuchikane, Adjunct Assistant Professor, Cooper Union, New York and Waseda University, Tokyo
Historical Buddhist temples in twentieth and twenty-first century Japan, while often discussed in their association with traditions, can be...
CJS Special Event | How to Enjoy Kyogen Workshop
Ippei Shigeyama, Kyogen Actor
Join the Center for Japanese Studies at the Keene Theater (East Quadrangle) for a special experiential workshop with...
CJS Thursday Noon Lecture Series | Stigma and the Moral Economy of Tokyo's Sex Industry
Gabriele Koch, Assistant Professor, Division of Social Sciences, Yale-NUS College, Singapore
Contemporary Japan is home to one of the world’s largest and most diversified markets for heteronormative sex. This talk asks how adult...
De-Centering the Global Middle Ages
Keynote: Valerie Hanson, Yale University
This symposium will contribute to the burgeoning body of scholarship on the meaning of the “medieval” and “Middle Ages” in...
De-Centering the Global Middle Ages
Keynote: Valerie Hanson, Yale University
This symposium will contribute to the burgeoning body of scholarship on the meaning of the “medieval” and “Middle Ages” in...
