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DTSTAMP:20260811T160439
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260917T120000
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SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CJS Noon Lecture Series | Gathering Fading Voices: Endangered Dialect Research in Japan Today
DESCRIPTION:Please note: This lecture will be held in person in East Hall 4448 and virtually on Zoom. If you are attending in person\, we recommend entering East Hall using the Church Street entrance and taking the elevator to the 4th floor. If you would like to attend via Zoom\, registration is required. Once you've registered\, joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at: https://myumi.ch/VDMnJ.\n\nMany of Japan's regional dialects are now critically endangered\, as intergenerational transmission breaks down in aging and depopulating communities. This lecture surveys the current state of endangered dialects in Japan and introduces a range of efforts to document and pass them on to future generations. In particular\, it focuses on Professor Taniguchi’s fieldwork in Ikawa\, a remote mountain community in northern Shizuoka Prefecture\, and presents the various revitalization activities she has carried out in collaboration with local residents.\n\nJoy Taniguchi (Ph.D.\, The University of Tokyo) is a professor in the faculty of informatics at Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology and a collaborating researcher on a joint project at the National Institute for Japanese Language and Linguistics (NINJAL). A sociolinguist\, she leads efforts to document\, preserve\, and revitalize the endangered dialect of Ikawa\, a mountain community in northern Shizuoka Prefecture. She also conducts large-scale surveys of language variation and change across Shizuoka.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
UID:149996-21907794@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149996
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Languages,Language,Japanese Studies,japan,center for japanese studies,Asian Languages And Cultures
LOCATION:East Hall - Room 4448
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DTSTAMP:20260811T160541
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20260924T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20260924T133000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CJS Noon Lecture Series | Rivers and the Politics of Temporality in Ainu Mosir
DESCRIPTION:Please note: This lecture will be held in person in East Hall 4448 and virtually on Zoom. If you are attending in person\, we recommend entering East Hall using the Church Street entrance and taking the elevator to the 4th floor. If you would like to attend via Zoom\, registration is required. Once you've registered\, joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at: https://myumi.ch/kVx6z.\n\nBased on fourteen months of ethnographic fieldwork in Ainu Mosir (Hokkaido\, Japan)\, this talk considers the crucial role that rivers play in Indigenous Ainu articulations of sovereignty and futurity. As an important medium through which kin-based\, territorial\, and cosmological rights and responsibilities continue to be expressed\, rivers connect ancestral Ainu lifeways with visions of an Indigenous future. In their struggles for Indigenous rights today\, Ainu activists continue to focus on rivers as the central locus of Ainu sovereignty and the origin from which Ainu cultural and territorial rights emerge\, envisioning and enacting futures of flourishing and abundance that are rooted in ancestral relationships to their native lands and waters and the more-than-human beings who inhabit them. In so doing\, they insist upon a future for the Ainu as an Indigenous people\, challenging Japan’s ongoing settler-colonial structure of Ainu dispossession and elimination.\n\nDr. Michael J. Ioannides is a teaching postdoctoral fellow at the University of Michigan Center for Japanese Studies. He received his Ph.D. in cultural anthropology from the University of California Santa Barbara\, in June 2026\, with an interdisciplinary emphasis on environment and society. His research focuses on Ainu environmental and Indigenous rights activism in rural Hokkaido\, Japan. Aside from his research\, he is a contributor to the website AinuToday (https://ainutoday.com/)\, as well as a saxophonist and independent music producer who regularly collaborates with Ainu artists.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
UID:149998-21907795@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149998
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Ecology,center for japanese studies,Asian Languages And Cultures,Environment,japan,Japanese Studies
LOCATION:East Hall - Room 4448
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DTSTAMP:20260807T132100
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261001T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261001T133000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CJS Noon Lecture Series | Living Ainu Art: Community\, Nature\, and Intergenerational Knowledge through Song and Dance
DESCRIPTION:Please note: This lecture will be held in person in room 1010\, Weiser Hall\, and virtually on Zoom. If you would like to attend via Zoom\, registration is required. Once you've registered\, joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at: https://myumi.ch/pg7N9.\n\nThis lecture-performance introduces Ainu culture through the living traditions of art\, song\, and dance. Participants will learn how Ainu art-making is rooted in community\, intergenerational knowledge\, and relationships with the natural world\, offering a perspective that differs from conventional notions of individual artistic practice. The session concludes with an interactive performance\, inviting the audience to experience Ainu culture through shared movement\, music\, and dialogue.\n\nKanako Uzawa is an Ainu multidisciplinary artist\, scholar\, and curator whose work bridges artistic practice\, academic research\, and community engagement. Originally from Japan and based in Norway\, she holds a Ph.D. in community planning and cultural understanding from UiT – The Arctic University of Norway\, where her research explored urban Indigenous identity and contemporary Ainu perspectives. Uzawa works across contemporary dance\, film\, animation\, installation\, and socially engaged art\, and her work has been exhibited and performed internationally. She is currently an invited faculty member at Hokkaido University\, an affiliated researcher at the University of Oslo\, and a guest curator at the University of Michigan Museum of Art and the Józef Piłsudski Museum. Across her research\, exhibitions\, performances\, and collaborations\, Uzawa works to create spaces where Indigenous knowledge\, contemporary art\, and lived experience meet\, fostering dialogue across cultures and generations.\n\nPhoto credit: Susan Dine\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
UID:149999-21907796@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/149999
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:arts,Asian Languages And Cultures,center for japanese studies,japan,Japanese Studies,Music,Performance
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 10th Floor
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DTSTAMP:20260811T160656
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261015T133000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CJS Noon Lecture Series | A History of Unowned Dance: Bodies in Transmission
DESCRIPTION:Please note: This lecture will be held in person in East Hall 4448. We recommend entering East Hall using the Church Street entrance and taking the elevator to the 4th floor. This event is in-person only and will not be livestreamed or recorded.\n\nThis lecture examines how dance is transformed through embodied transmission rather than preserved as a fixed tradition. Drawing on more than three decades of artistic practice between New York and Japan\, Yasuko Yokoshi reflects on how choreography\, Nihon Buyo\, and Noh have continually reshaped her body and artistic practice. Through performance examples and the ongoing dojojiproject\, the lecture considers transformation not as the opposite of the archive\, but as the very condition through which dance survives.\n\nYasuko Yokoshi is a choreographer and dancer whose work explores embodied transmission\, dance lineage\, and the unstable nature of dance as a living archive. Based in New York from 1996 to 2015\, she received two New York Dance and Performance “Bessie” Awards (2003\, 2006)\, a Guggenheim Fellowship\, a NYFA Artist Fellowship\, support from Creative Capital\, and a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award. Her works have been presented internationally\, often engaging the space between contemporary dance and Japanese traditional performing arts.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
UID:150001-21907799@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150001
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:arts,Asian Languages And Cultures,center for japanese studies,Dance,japan,Japanese Studies,Performance
LOCATION:East Hall - Room 4448
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DTSTAMP:20260227T094340
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261031T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261031T170000
SUMMARY:Conference / Symposium:The 31st Central Association of Teachers of Japanese Conference (CATJ 31)
DESCRIPTION:We are pleased to announce the 31st Central Association of Teachers of Japanese Conference (CATJ) to be hosted jointly by the University of Michigan and Oakland University on Oct. 31\, 2026. The conference will be held at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor\, MI. \n\nThe conference theme is “Reimagining Japanese Language Education: Challenges\, Opportunities\, and Transformations\,” seeking to provide opportunities to learn and discuss a rich array of topics\, including pedagogical challenges\, broader curricular challenges\, the survival of individual programs\, and program advocacy.\n\nWe welcome all current and future Japanese language professionals from the Midwest region and beyond across the US and Canada\, as well as various institutions\, including K-16 schools. \n\nDr. Suwako Watanabe\, the department chair and Professor of Japanese at Portland State University and a Board member of the American Council on the Teaching of Foreign Languages (ACTFL)\, will be a plenary speaker.   \n\nFor further information or inquiries\, please contact event organizers Akiko Imamura\, Ph.D. (University of Michigan)\, at aimamura@umich.edu\, and Akiko Kashiwagi-Wood\, Ph.D. (Oakland University)\, at kashiwag@oakland.edu
UID:145929-21898108@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/145929
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Asian Languages And Cultures,Japanese Studies,japan,Education,Culture,conference,center for japanese studies,Ann Arbor,Language
LOCATION:Michigan League - Vandenburg
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DTSTAMP:20260807T152312
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261105T133000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CJS Noon Lecture Series | Nourishing Life: Cultures of Food and Health in Early Modern Japan
DESCRIPTION:Please note: This lecture will be held in person in room 1010\, Weiser Hall\, and virtually on Zoom.  If you would like to attend via Zoom\, registration is required. Once you've registered\, joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at: https://myumi.ch/ykpz2\n\nCan food determine your fate? Could indulging in delicacies bring calamity to your community? This talk reevaluates the history of Japanese food culture by examining how ideas of healthy eating became both a popular phenomenon and a matter of grave concern among trained medical experts and amateur culinary enthusiasts alike. It explores why ordinary people ate what they did\, how these ideas on proper eating came to be\, and what social\, economic\, and moral concerns propelled their rise. Guidance on dietetics conveyed priorities about how well-nourished bodies were meant to act in the world\, whether as agricultural workers\, samurai bureaucrats\, or merchant consumers. Failure to keep a proper diet carried life-or-death consequences\, according to these guides\, that could bring not just disease to oneself but financial and moral ruin to one’s household\, domain\, or even society at large. This study of historical nourishment modes in Japan thus reveals an early modern dietetic revolution in the making\, which disrupted older forms of expertise and provided a venue to critique official policies on eating and living right before the introduction of modern scientific nutrition.\n\nJoshua Schlachet is a historian of Japan\, specializing in the cultural history of nourishment in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. His new book\, *Nourishing Life: Cultures of Food and Health in Early Modern Japan* (University of Hawaiʻi Press\, 2026)\, examines how the emergence of a dietary common knowledge expanded concepts of a well-nourished body to encompass economic productivity\, status hierarchy\, and moral cultivation. Schlachet is co-editor of *Interdisciplinary Edo: Towards an Integrated Approach to Early Modern Japan* (Routledge\, 2024)\, a collected volume of innovative humanistic research on society and culture in the Tokugawa era. He received his Ph.D. in East Asian languages and cultures from Columbia University in 2018 and is a proud graduate of the University of Michigan's Center for Japanese Studies.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
UID:150002-21907801@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150002
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:center for japanese studies,Japanese Studies,japan,History,Food,Asian Languages And Cultures,Asia
LOCATION:Weiser Hall - 10th Floor
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DTSTAMP:20260811T160816
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20261112T133000
SUMMARY:Lecture / Discussion:CJS Noon Lecture Series | When Self-Empowerment Goes South (or East\, More Precisely): Gender\, Neoliberalism\, and Romance Fraud in Japan
DESCRIPTION:Please note: This lecture will be held in person in East Hall 4448 and virtually on Zoom. If you are attending in person\, we recommend entering East Hall using the Church Street entrance and taking the elevator to the 4th floor. The webinar is free and open to the public\, but registration is required. Once you've registered\, joining information will be sent to your email. Register for the Zoom webinar at: https://myumi.ch/rwr6E.\n\nBuilding on scholarship on changing gender and intimacy norms under neoliberalism in Japan\, this lecture explores how these transformations are reflected in the realm of romance fraud. Drawing on two contrasting sets of empirical material—interviews with romance fraud victims and publications and interviews with followers and supporters of the fraudster ‘Ririchan the Grantee Gal’—the lecture argues that these seemingly disparate groups are connected by a common underlying dynamic: women's struggle for autonomy and/or recognition within a gendered social hierarchy. It examines how aspirations for self-empowerment and liberation\, often intensified by neoliberal ideals of personal responsibility and self-realization\, can paradoxically lead individuals towards both victimization and offending.\n\nDr. Yutaka Yoshida is a lecturer in criminology at Cardiff University. His research explores romance fraud victimization\, digital vigilantism\, and far-right movements in Japan\, with a particular interest in narratives\, identity\, and technology-mediated social harms. His current work examines how romance fraud victims make sense of their experiences and reconstruct their lives in the aftermath of victimization\, drawing on psychosocial approaches.\n\nIf there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you\, please contact us. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.
UID:150003-21907802@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/150003
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Asian Languages And Cultures,center for japanese studies,Gender,gender studies,japan,Japanese Studies
LOCATION:East Hall - Room 4448
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