January 14, 2016
4:15 PM to 5:45 PM
In parts of Tokugawa Japan, every other pregnancy ended in an abortion or infanticide. Why did contraception not take their place before the twentieth century? Fabian Drixler (Yale University) explores this unusual contraceptive practice in Tokugawa Japan. RSVP Tokugawa Japan…
January 15, 2016
12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Anne Blankenship (North Dakota State University) explores the lived religious experience of Nikkei Christian pastors struggling to build sustainable lives behind the barbed wire of America’s wartime incarceration camps. View Flyer “Faith, Solidarity & Compromises: Chri…
January 28, 2016
4:15 PM to 5:45 PM
New Orleans was a major hub for trade and investment for Japan in the early 20th Century era. By 1960, Japan became the city’s largest international trading partner. Greg Robinson (Université du Québec à Montréal) discusses the paradoxical status ethnic Japanese enj…
February 23, 2016
4:15 PM to 5:45 PM
Keisuke Kitano (Ritsumeikan University) will present a theorization of visual image practices in Japan with reference to the concept of animated background. Kitano’s talk consists mainly of three-part argumentations. Firstly it will be conducted to examine some visu…
February 27, 2016
12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Author Christine Piper will discuss her award-winning novel, After Darkness. Half-Japanese Australian author Christine Piper will discuss her award-winning novel, After Darkness, and its themes of identity, otherness and the immigrant experience. Set during World War 2, After Darkn…
March 12, 2016
10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Leading scholars of Japanese American studies will explore how texts, faith, identities, and communities are transplanted, translated, and transformed in a Japanese America positioned beyond national boundaries. Co-sponsored by the USC East Asian Studies Center and the Japanese American National …
March 24, 2016
6:00 PM to 8:00 PM
How did the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011 impact place making and social design processes in Japan? Professor Christian Dimmer of the University of Tokyo and Professor Vinayak Bharne of USC Dornsife’s Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture come together in conv…
March 26, 2016
12:00 PM to 5:00 PM
At this conference, some of the leading scholars and practitioners of translation in the field of Buddhist studies will give presentations about the challenges of translating Asian Buddhist canonical and non-canonical texts into Western languages. Participants will share the latest from a …
April 29, 2016
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
The film Zen and Bones is a kaleidoscopic portrait of an unconventional 93-year-old Japanese-American Zen monk, his dramatic history and turbulent family life. Fiction and animation adds to create a motley concoction of fascinating true stories. The film screening will be followed by a panel di…
April 30, 2016
9:00 AM to 5:30 PM
This symposium will explore questions related to canon inheritance, canon formation, and canon disintegration. It is a sequel to the Loose Canons event held at the University of Southern California in April 2015. We will continue the conversation, investigating the following questions…
