Happening @ Michigan

Engaging Images: Art History and Anthropology in Conversation

A symposium in honor of Jennifer Robertson and Celeste Brusati....

CJS Noon Lecture Series | Religion and Politics in Japan: Mapping a Shifting Terrain

Levi McLaughlin, 2019-2020 Toyota Visiting Professor, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan and North Carolina State University

In Japan today, a wide range of religious actors are now shaping educational curricula, social policies, and defense postures promoted by...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | Hired to be Overheard: Resonances of Chindon-ya in Contemporary Japan

Marié Abe, Associate Professor of Music, Department of Musicology and Ethnomusicology, Boston University

Chindon-ya, dating back to the 1840s, are ostentatiously costumed street musicians who publicize a business by parading through neighborhood...

CJS Noon Lecture Series | China-Japan-US Trilateral Relationship on East Asia Order: History and Prospects

Ryo Sahashi, Associate Professor of International Relations, Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia, University of Tokyo

The trilateral relationship among China, Japan and the United States has generally been stable, and it explained the regional order in East...

CJS Noon Lecture | Japan’s Indo-Pacific Strategy in the US-China Rivalry

Yuichi Hosoya, Professor of International Politics, Keio University, Tokyo

This lecture is cosponsored by the Consulate-General of Japan in Detroit ....

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 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 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 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 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...