Visitors Series and Seminars
The Project for Premodern Japan Studies sponsors several research groups, symposia, and a Visitor Scholar Series throughout the year. These activities bring together scholars from USC and regional institutions, as well as individuals from the Los Angeles metropolitan area. The scholars invited by the Visitor Series, many from Japan, typically spend three or more days on campus and interact with faculty and students in a variety of settings. The Series has benefited from co-sponsorships with many programs and departments at USC.
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Spring 2013
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February 21, 2013
Prof. Thomas Conlan, Bowdoin College
Seminar
Ritual Mimesis and Performative Sovereignty in Fourteenth-Century Japan
3:00 - 6:00 PM, Doheny East Asian Library Room 110C
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Fall 2012
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November 29 - December 1, 2012
4th Annual Meeting of the Meiji University-USC Exchange
International Symposium
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Summer 2012
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August 3 and August 10, 2012
Prof. Tomoyasu Kato (Meiji University)
Two Lectures
Approaches to Heian Historical Sources and Research and Courtier Journals and Heian Aristocratic Society
3:30 - 5:00 PM, Doheny East Asia Library Seminar Room
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July 20, 2012
Prof. Hideo Yamaguchi (Historiographical Institute, University of Tokyo)
Lecture
On the Run in the Nara Period: How Did the World Look to an Escaped Corvée Worker?
Doheny East Asia Seminar Room
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June 4-6, 2012
Reassessing Shoen: Society and Economy in Medieval Japan
International Symposium
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Spring 2012
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March 1-2, 2012
Prof. Jordan Sands, Georgetown University
Lecture and workshop
March 1: In What Ways was Tokyo an Imperial City?
3:00-5:00 PM in SOS 250
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March 2: Workshop: Material and Visual Culture of Tokyo as Imperial City
2:30-4:30 PM in SOS 250
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January 24-25, 2012
3rd Annual Meeting of the Meiji University-USC Exchange
International Symposium
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Fall 2011
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September 23, 2011
Project for Premodern Japan Studies Meeting
Nadia Kanagawa and Dan Sherer, University of Southern California
Nadia Kanagawa and Dan Sherer presented material from their summer research.
2:00-4:00 PM in DML 307 -
August 29, 2011
Project for Premodern Japan Studies Meeting
Sachiko Kawai and Prof. Lori Meeks, University of Southern California
Presented their papers from and discussed impressions of the 2011 conference "Loveable Losers: The Taira in Action and Memory" in Banff, Alberta Canada.
5:00-7:00 PM in Doheny East Asian Library Seminar Room -
Spring 2011
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May 16-17, 2011
Prof. Toshiko Takahashi, Historiographical Institute, University of Tokyo
Two Lectures
May 16: Current Debates and Issues at Tara no shō
1:00-4:00 PM in Doheny East Asia Library Seminar Room
May 17: Deep-Reading Shōen Artifacts: Clues from Land Registers
1:00-4:00 PM in Doheny East Asia Library Seminar Room
Flyer
CV of Prof. Toshiko Takahashi
Pictures from Niimi no shō (.pptx file) -
April 20, 2011
Prof. Luke Roberts, UC Santa Barbara
Lecture
Politics of the Living Dead: Lords and Inheritance in Tokugawa Japan
4:00-6:00 PM in SOS 250 -
Fall 2010
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December 8-10, 2010
2nd Annual Meeting of the Meiji University-USC Exchange
International Symposium
Abstracts
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Spring 2010
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January 15, 2010
Prof. Ken'ichi Sasaki, Meiji University
Lecture
Excavations at Yukinoyama Keyhole-Tomb: Approaches to Early State Formation in Fourth Century Japan
2:00-4:00 PM in Doheny Library, East Asian Seminar Room -
Fall 2009
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December 8, 2009
Prof. Atsushi Makino, Meiji University
Lecture in conjunction with meeting of the Meiji University-USC exchange
Toward a New Understanding of the Tale of Heike--Buddhism and Buddhist Preaching
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December 8, 2009
Maori Takahashi, Meiji University
Lecture in conjunction with meeting of the Meiji University-USC exchange
Rule by the Retired Monarch in the Tale of Genji--Fact and Fiction
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December 7, 2009
Prof. Ken'ichi Sasaki, Meiji University
Lecture in conjunction with meeting of the Meiji University-USC exchange
Political Structures of the Early Kofun Period--Archeological Perspectives from the Keyhold Tombs, ca. 250-400 C.E.
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December 7, 2009
Prof. Katsunori Takase, Meiji University
Lecture in conjunction with meeting of the Meiji University-USC exchange
Prehistoric and Protohistoric Plant Use in the Japanese Archipelago
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November 23, 2009
Obe Estate Research Group
Michelle Damian, Sachiko Kawai, Dan Sherer
Presentations on research on documents concerning the estate -
October 26, 2009
Prof. Mark Lewis, Stanford University
Workshop funded jointly with the Department of History and the East Asian Studies Center.
Early Chinese History Workshop
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October 14, 2009
Prof. Morgan Pitelka, Occidental College
Lecture
History and Material Culture: The Long Sixteenth Century
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Spring 2009
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April 27, 2009
Dr. Nobuko Toyosawa, USC History Department
Workshop for graduate students on planning and writing dissertations.
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April 22, 2009
Ōbe Estate Research Group
Sachiko Kawai, University of Southern California
Sachiko Kawai presented her research on the kumon dispute in 1322, and her translation of Ono shishi #330
5:00-8:00 PM in Doheny Library East Asian Library Seminar Room -
April 9, 2009
Prof. Christina Laffin, University of British Columbia
Lecture
What's Nunhood Got to Do with It? Power, Patronage, Poetry and the Case of the Nun Abutsu, ?-1236
5:00-6:30 in SOS 250 -
April 1, 2009
Prof. Nancy Steinhardt, University of Pennsylvania
Thematic lecture on the intesection of history, archaeology, and art history
Yuan Dynasty Tombs and their Inscriptions
4:00-6:00 PM in SOS 250 -
Fall 2008
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December 13, 2008
Age of the Country at War: The Long Sixteenth Century
Workshop
Organized by Prof. Morgan Pitelka, Occidental College
9:00 AM-1:00 PM -
December 4, 2008
Prof. Ken'ichi Sasaki, Archaeology, Meiji University, Tokyo
Lecture
Elite Burial Mounds of Protohistoric Japan
12:30-1:15 PM in Doheny East Asian Library Seminar Room -
December 3, 2008
Prof. Takehiko Yoshimura, Dean of the Graduate School, Meiji University, Tokyo
Lecture
Lyrics on Wood: Wooden Documents for Early Japanese Poetry (in Japanese)
5:00-7:00 PM in Doheny East Asian Library Seminar Room -
November 15, 2008
Prof. Hong Xu, Institute of Archaeology, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
Workshop co-sponsored by Interdisciplinary Archaeology Major and the Department of Art History -
November 5, 2008
Ōbe no shō Research Group
Yoshiko Kainuma
The Jodoji Amida Triad and its Raigo Form
5:00-7:00 PM in Doheny East Asian Library Seminar Room -
October 4-5, 2008
Ōbe no shō Research Group
Visit to Ōbe no shō
Ono City, Hyōgo Prefecture, Japan -
Spring 2008
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April 29, 2008
Prof. Morgan Pitelka, Occidental College
Lecture
Tokugawa Ieyasu as Warlord, Shogun, Deity: Thoughts on Biography, Material Culture, and Japan's Long Sixteenth Century
4:30-6:00 PM in SOS 250
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April 16, 2008
Chūyūki Reading Group
5:00-8:00 PM in 109C, East Asia Library -
March 31, 2008
Chūyūki Reading Group
Prof. Sanae Yoshida, University of Tokyo
Lecture and workshop
The Birth of Toba Tennō
3:00-6:00 PM in the Doheny East Asia Library Seminar Room -
Fall 2007
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November 2, 2007
Ōbe no shō Research Group
1:00-3:00 PM in SOS 250 -
October 19, 2007
Dr. Gina Barns, SOAS/U Durham
History and Archaeology Initiative
Lecture co-sponsored by PPJS
Powerful Women in Protohistorical Japan, Text and Artifact
10:00 AM-12:00 PM in SOS 250 -
October 12, 2007
Dr. Gina Barnes, SOAS/U Durham
History and Archaeology Initiative
Lecture
Territoriality and Ideology in Japanese State Formation
10:00 AM-12:00 PM in SOS 250 -
September 13, 2007
Dressing Japanese History: Sociohistory, Gender and Japanese Clothing, from Premodern to Present
An international symposium
9:30 AM-5:30 PM in SOS 250 -
Spring 2007
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May 4, 2007
Ōbe no shō Research Group
Dr. Janet Goodwin
Reading Chōgen's Directive
3:00-5:00 PM in the Stoops East Asia Library Seminar Room -
April 27, 2007
Chūyūki Reading Group
2:30-4:30 PM in the Stoops East Asia Library Seminar Room -
March 26, 2007
Prof. Samuel Yamashita, Pomona College
Lecture
Licking Salt for the Nation: Food and Diet in Wartime Japan
5:15-7:00 PM in the Stoops East Asia Library Seminar Room -
March 19, 2007
Prof. Sanae Yoshida, Historiographical Institute, University of Tokyo
Lecture
Insights into Government by Retired Tennō from the Chūyūki
5:00-7:00 PM in the Stoops East Asia Library Seminar Room -
March 2, 2007
Ōbe no shō Research Group
A Report on Our First Visit to Ōbe no shō
3:00-5:00 PM in the Stoops East Asia Library Seminar Room -
February 2, 2007
Dr. Yuko Okubo, East Asian Library, UC Berkeley
Lecture and demonstration
The Japan Historical Texts Initiative: How to Use JHTI for Your Research
3:00-5:00 PM -
Fall 2006
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November 3, 2006
Kambun Reading Group
David Eason, UCLA
Women and Violence in the Warring States Era: The Social and Legal Meanings of Megataki-uchi
3:00-5:00 PM in the Stoops East Asia Library Seminar Room -
October 5, 2006
Prof. Herman Ooms, UCLA
Lecture
Daoism in Ancient Japan: Still-born or Aborted?
7:00 PM in the Stoops East Asia Library Seminar Room -
September 29, 2006
Kambun Reading Group
Dr. Janet Goodwin
Documents from Ōbe no shō
3:00-5:00 PM in WPH 400 -
Summer 2006
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July 21, 2006
Prof. Eiichi Ishigami, Historiographical Institute, University of Tokyo
Special Lecture in conjunction with the 2006 Heian Kambun Workshop
The Shōsōin and Its Documents in the Eighth Century
2:30 PM in the Stoops East Asia Library Seminar Room -
Spring 2006
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April 20, 2006
Prof. Suzanne Gay, Asian Studies and History, Oberlin College
Lecture
Comerce in Medieval Japan: The Case of the Oil Merchants of Iwashimizu Shrine
7:00-9:00 PM in the Stoops East Asian Library -
February 16, 2006
Prof. Lori Meeks, School of Religion, USC
Lecture
Days of Song and Prayer: Reconstruction Everyday Life in the Medieval Nunnery Hokkeji
7:00-9:00 PM in the Stoops East Asian Library -
Fall 2005
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October 24-25, 2005
Transnational Urban History: the Local-Global Nexus
An International Symposium hosted by the USC Los Angeles-Osaka Comparative Urban Studies Project
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Summer 2005
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July 29, 2005
Prof. Endo Motoo, Historiographical Institute, University of Tokyo
Lecture in conjunction with the 2005 Kambun Workshop
Medieval Monastic Society and Royal-vow Temples
3:00-5:00 PM in the Stoops East Asian Library -
Spring 2005
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April 12, 2005
Prof. Gina Barnes, University of Durham
Lecture
State Formation in Japan: Perspectives from Historical Archaeology
7:00-9:00 PM in the Stoops East Asian Library -
March 7, 2005
Dr. Jason Webb, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of History, USC
Lecture
Politics of Paradise: The Realm of the Immortals in Man'yoshu and Kaifuso Poetry
4:00-6:00 PM in SOS 250 -
March 3, 2005
Dr. Aileen Gatten, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan
Lecture
Toto, We're Not in Kyoto Anymore
7:00-9:00 PM in the Stoops East Asian Library -
Fall 2004
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November 11, 2004
Prof. Charlotte von Verschuer, Ecole Pratique des Hautes Etudes, University of Paris
Lecture
Questioning Rice in Heian Culture
6:00-8:00 PM in the Stoops East Asian Library -
October 19, 2004
Dr. Sayoko Sakakibara, Postdoctoral Fellow, Historiographical Institute, University of Tokyo
Lecture
A Buddhist Chameleon, Prince Shotoku: An Adaptive Image
2:00-5:00 PM in WPH 204 -
October 12, 2004
Dr. Mark Byington, Postdoctoral Fellow, Korean Institue, Harvard University
Lecture
The Archaeological Rediscovery of Puyo
4:00-6:00 PM in the Stoops East Asian Library -
September 23-24, 2004
Prof. Haruko Komoda and Mr. Thomas Ranjo
Lecture and performance
The Japanese Biwa
6:45-8:00 PM (September 23) and 3:00-5:00 PM (September 24) in the Stoops East Asian Library -
Summer 2004
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July 30, 2004
Prof. Tomoyasu Kato, Historiographical Institute, University of Tokyo
Lecture in conjunction with the 2004 Kambun Workshop
Mokkan and Regional Society in Heian times
2:30-4:00 PM in the Stoops East Asian Library -
July 23, 2004
Prof. Tomoyasu Kato, Historiographical Institute, University of Tokyo
Lecture in conjunction with the 2004 Kambun Workshop
Heian Regional Society: Provincial Governors and Other Elites
2:30-4:00 PM in the Stoops East Asian Library -
July 16, 2004
Prof. Tomoyasu Kato, Historiographical Institute, University of Tokyo
Lecture in conjunction with the 2004 Kambun Workshop
Heian Regional Society and the Ocho kokka
2:30-4:00 PM in the Stoops East Asian Library -
Spring 2004
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March 9, 2004
Dr. Haruko Wakabayashi, Historiographical Institue, University of Tokyo
Lecture and demonstration
Tokyo University's Historiographical Institute Goes Online
3:30-5:00 PM in THH 121 -
March 8, 2004
Prof. Royall Tyler, Australia National University
Lecture
Reflections of the Erotic in the Tale of Genji
4:00-6:00 PM in the Stoops East Asian Library -
January 28, 2004
Prof. Sanae Yoshida, Historiographical Institute, University of Tokyo
Lecture
Courtiers Writing: The Journals of Tadahira and Munetada as Sources
4:00-6:00 PM in SOS 250 -
Fall 2003
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November 10, 2003
Dr. Thomas Nelson, Oxford University
Lecture
At the Crossroads: Historical Visions of Early Ryukyu
4:00-6:00 PM in Leavey Library Auditorium -
October 20, 2003
Mr. Jason Webb, Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow, History Department, USC
Lecture
Politics and Poetry in Early Heian
4:00-6:00 PM in the Doheny Library Intellectual Commons Room -
October 6, 2003
Prof. Seiji Nemoto, Tsukuba University
Lecture
Nara Buddhism, the Bright and the Dark
8:00-10:00 PM in SOS B40 -
September 20, 2003
Prof. Akira Yamanaka, Mie University
Lecture
Excavating Heian-kyo: An Archaeologists's Report
8:00-10:00 PM in SOS B40