Past Events
Rethinking Anti-Japanese Racism in Los Angeles: From Past to Present
May 2, 2013
12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
A lecture by Dr Lon Kurashige (USC) focusing on anti-Japanese racism in early twentieth century Los Angeles.
May 2, 2013
12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
A lecture by Dr Lon Kurashige (USC) focusing on anti-Japanese racism in early twentieth century Los Angeles.
The Buddha in Everyone's Heart: Seeking the World of the Lotus Sutra
April 26, 2013
2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Please join us to hear this young religious leader and author share her personal study of Buddhism and witness of liberation from suffering through following the teachings of the Lotus Sutra.
April 26, 2013
2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
Please join us to hear this young religious leader and author share her personal study of Buddhism and witness of liberation from suffering through following the teachings of the Lotus Sutra.
Korea's Jodoshinshu: Lay Monk Villages in Colonial Korea (1910-1945)
April 25, 2013
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
A lecture by Dr Hwansoo Kim (Duke University) focusing on Korea’s Jōdōshinshū: Lay Monk Villages in Colonial Korea (1910-1945).
April 25, 2013
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
A lecture by Dr Hwansoo Kim (Duke University) focusing on Korea’s Jōdōshinshū: Lay Monk Villages in Colonial Korea (1910-1945).
Opening Reception for the Visible and Invisible: A Hapa Japanese American History Exhibit
April 6, 2013
7:30 PM to 9:00 PM
April 6, 2013
7:30 PM to 9:00 PM
Hapa Japan Literary Panel
April 4, 2013
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
A literary panel featuring distinguished mixed-roots Japanese authors.
April 4, 2013
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
A literary panel featuring distinguished mixed-roots Japanese authors.
Hapa Japan Comedy Night
April 4, 2013
8:00 PM to 9:30 PM
An evening comedy performance featuring mixed-race comedians: DAN NAINAN, ANNA SUZUKI, SAMANTHA CHANSE, and KT TATARA.
April 4, 2013
8:00 PM to 9:30 PM
An evening comedy performance featuring mixed-race comedians: DAN NAINAN, ANNA SUZUKI, SAMANTHA CHANSE, and KT TATARA.
Hapa Japan Book Fair
April 4, 2013
2:00 PM to 5:30 PM
A book fair featuring the Asian American Literary Review, Kaya Press, Loving Day, Mixed Marrow, Multiracial Americans of Southern California, and various Hapa Japanese authors.
April 4, 2013
2:00 PM to 5:30 PM
A book fair featuring the Asian American Literary Review, Kaya Press, Loving Day, Mixed Marrow, Multiracial Americans of Southern California, and various Hapa Japanese authors.
Hapa Japan Film Screenings: A Double Feature
April 3, 2013
7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
An evening film screenings event featuring Found in Translation (2005) and The Power of Two (2011)
April 3, 2013
7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
An evening film screenings event featuring Found in Translation (2005) and The Power of Two (2011)
Mixing It Up: [Identity and Music] Innovation
April 2, 2013
7:30 PM to 9:30 PM
An evening concert event featuring mixed-race artists KINA GRANNIS, JUSTIN NOZUKA, and GOW.
Presented by USC Visions and Voices: The Arts and Humanities Initiative
April 2, 2013
7:30 PM to 9:30 PM
An evening concert event featuring mixed-race artists KINA GRANNIS, JUSTIN NOZUKA, and GOW.
Presented by USC Visions and Voices: The Arts and Humanities Initiative
Rituals for Safe Pregnancy and Birth in Pre-modern Japan
March 26, 2013
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
A lecture by Dr Anna Andreeva (University of Heidelberg) focusing on a series of ritual prescriptions for women regarding menstruation, infertility, conception, pregnancy, easy or complicated birth and safe child rearing that circulated widely in pre-modern Japan.
March 26, 2013
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
A lecture by Dr Anna Andreeva (University of Heidelberg) focusing on a series of ritual prescriptions for women regarding menstruation, infertility, conception, pregnancy, easy or complicated birth and safe child rearing that circulated widely in pre-modern Japan.
Forests, Waters, and Cities: Approaches to the Environment in Japan and Global Contexts
March 9, 2013
10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
An interdisciplinary symposium on the humanities and the environment in Japan and global contexts.
March 9, 2013
10:00 AM to 5:00 PM
An interdisciplinary symposium on the humanities and the environment in Japan and global contexts.
Japan and the Culture of the Four Seasons: Nature, Literature and the Arts
March 8, 2013
2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
A keynote address by Haruo Shirane (Columbia University).
March 8, 2013
2:00 PM to 4:00 PM
A keynote address by Haruo Shirane (Columbia University).
Food Risks and Post-Minamata Literary Tradition in Japan
March 7, 2013
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
A lecture by Professor Masami Yuki of Kanazawa University. In analyzing Ishimure Michiko's seminal work "Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow: Our Minamata Disease" as the primary focus, this talk will discuss how one's language, value, and the food he/she chooses to eat are inextricably interwoven.
March 7, 2013
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
A lecture by Professor Masami Yuki of Kanazawa University. In analyzing Ishimure Michiko's seminal work "Paradise in the Sea of Sorrow: Our Minamata Disease" as the primary focus, this talk will discuss how one's language, value, and the food he/she chooses to eat are inextricably interwoven.
Shin Buddhist Studies: Japan and the US
February 22, 2013
10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
The 4th Annual Ryukoku International Symposium on Shin Buddhism and Japanese Culture hosted by the USC Center for Japanese Religions and Culture.
**Please Note: Some presentations will be made only in Japanese.
February 22, 2013
10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
The 4th Annual Ryukoku International Symposium on Shin Buddhism and Japanese Culture hosted by the USC Center for Japanese Religions and Culture.
**Please Note: Some presentations will be made only in Japanese.
An Evening with Virgil Westdale: Farmboy, Pilot, Inventor, and WWII Soldier of the 442nd Regimental Combat Team
February 12, 2013
4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
Virgil Westdale, Japanese-American WWII veteran and recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal in 2011 for his service in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, shares his exceptional life story.
February 12, 2013
4:30 PM to 6:00 PM
Virgil Westdale, Japanese-American WWII veteran and recipient of the Congressional Gold Medal in 2011 for his service in the 442nd Regimental Combat Team, shares his exceptional life story.
Seminar: The Transpacific Shift in Mixed-Race Studies
February 8, 2013
10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Conference Convenors: Duncan Williams, Brian C. Bernards, and Velina Hasu Houston, USC
February 8, 2013
10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Conference Convenors: Duncan Williams, Brian C. Bernards, and Velina Hasu Houston, USC
Naked Island: Benicio Del Toro Presents the Work of Legendary Japanese Filmmaker Kaneto Shindo
January 26, 2013
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Join us in a unique opportunity to celebrate legendary Japanese filmmaker Kaneto Shindo with a rare 35mm screening of Naked Island, followed by a Q&A with Benicio Del Toro and Jiro Shindo, the director’s son.
January 26, 2013
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Join us in a unique opportunity to celebrate legendary Japanese filmmaker Kaneto Shindo with a rare 35mm screening of Naked Island, followed by a Q&A with Benicio Del Toro and Jiro Shindo, the director’s son.
The Evolution of Mixed-Race Historiography and Theory
January 18, 2013
2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
How has the study of mixed race been historicized and theorized in Western academia? Has our understanding of mixed race changed in the 21st century, or is our public discourse still bound by past ideology, experience, and debate? Does theorizing mixed race bind or liberate us from the ideological pitfalls of racialist thinking?
January 18, 2013
2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
How has the study of mixed race been historicized and theorized in Western academia? Has our understanding of mixed race changed in the 21st century, or is our public discourse still bound by past ideology, experience, and debate? Does theorizing mixed race bind or liberate us from the ideological pitfalls of racialist thinking?
New Approaches to the Study of Japanese American Buddhism
December 8, 2012
10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Three scholars of Japanese American Buddhism take on established narratives of Buddhism in the West, Japanese American religiosity, and the significance of Japanese American Buddhism to American life.
December 8, 2012
10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Three scholars of Japanese American Buddhism take on established narratives of Buddhism in the West, Japanese American religiosity, and the significance of Japanese American Buddhism to American life.
Japanese Buddhist Nuns and Performance: Tradition, Change, and Salvation
November 30, 2012
2:00 PM to 6:00 PM
November 30, 2012
2:00 PM to 6:00 PM
This one-day workshop will use two case studies to consider some of the hermeneutical strategies employed by Buddhist nuns in teaching and ritual.
Buddhist Futures: Conceptions of Modernity and Temporality in Modern Japanese Buddhism
November 9, 2012
9:15 AM to 4:45 PM
This international conference will investigate how Japanese Buddhists since the Meiji period have responded and contributed to conceptions of progress and time in modernity.
November 9, 2012
9:15 AM to 4:45 PM
This international conference will investigate how Japanese Buddhists since the Meiji period have responded and contributed to conceptions of progress and time in modernity.
Nikkatsu at 100
October 26, 2012 to October 26, 2012
This three-day event will draw from Nikkatsu’s library to celebrate 100 years of Japanese cinema, and will include screenings and discussions with filmmakers, scholars and critics on Nikkatsu’s enduring legacy in Japan and its historical place in the film world.
October 26, 2012 to October 26, 2012
This three-day event will draw from Nikkatsu’s library to celebrate 100 years of Japanese cinema, and will include screenings and discussions with filmmakers, scholars and critics on Nikkatsu’s enduring legacy in Japan and its historical place in the film world.
Recovery from the Great East Japan Earthquake - Building Smart Communities
October 15, 2012
12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
Lecture by Tohoku University professor Kazuyuki Tohji on how Tohoku University, in partnership with University of Tokyo researchers, has developed a vision for an energy management system which integrates both energy and transportation/communication infrastructures to improve energy security in the event of disasters.
October 15, 2012
12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
Lecture by Tohoku University professor Kazuyuki Tohji on how Tohoku University, in partnership with University of Tokyo researchers, has developed a vision for an energy management system which integrates both energy and transportation/communication infrastructures to improve energy security in the event of disasters.
Japanese Tea Ceremony with Gary Snyder
September 25, 2012
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
A Japanese Tea Ceremony and coversation about Buddhism with Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, Gary Snyder.
September 25, 2012
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
A Japanese Tea Ceremony and coversation about Buddhism with Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, Gary Snyder.
Poetry Workshop with Gary Snyder
September 25, 2012
12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
A poetry workshop with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Gary Snyder.
September 25, 2012
12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
A poetry workshop with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Gary Snyder.
Gary Snyder: A Conversation on Transpacific Buddhism, Ecology, and Poetry
September 24, 2012
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
An evening poetry reading and conversation with Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, Gary Snyder.
September 24, 2012
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
An evening poetry reading and conversation with Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, Gary Snyder.
Medicine Master Buddha: The Iconic Worship of Yakushi in Heian Japan
September 14, 2012
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
A book talk by Professor Yui Suzuki of the University of Maryland on her monograph, Medicine Master Buddha: The Iconic Worship of Yakushi in Heian Japan (Leiden: Brill, 2012).
September 14, 2012
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
A book talk by Professor Yui Suzuki of the University of Maryland on her monograph, Medicine Master Buddha: The Iconic Worship of Yakushi in Heian Japan (Leiden: Brill, 2012).
Mixed-Race Japanese Marriages: Views on International Marriages from a Historical Perspective
September 10, 2012
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
A lecture by Professor Itsuko Kamoto of the Kyoto Women's University on intermarriage between Japanese and non-Japanese, or kokusai kekkon. **Talk will be in JAPANESE only**
September 10, 2012
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
A lecture by Professor Itsuko Kamoto of the Kyoto Women's University on intermarriage between Japanese and non-Japanese, or kokusai kekkon. **Talk will be in JAPANESE only**
Reassessing the Shôen System: Society and Economy in Medieval Japan
June 4, 2012 to June 4, 2012
10:00 AM to 6:00 PM
June 4, 2012 to June 4, 2012
10:00 AM to 6:00 PM