September 10, 2012
5:00 PM to 6:00 PM
CJRC Hapa Japan Project 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** The Japanese government was less concerned about race than nationality when Decree 103,…
September 14, 2012
5:00 PM to 6:30 PM
CJRC Lecture Series 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). The book explores the primacy of icons in disseminating the devotional cu…
September 24, 2012
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
CJRC Hybrid Japan Innovation Lab An evening poetry reading and conversation with Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, Gary Snyder. Gary Snyder is a Pulitzer Prize–winning poet with a radical vision that integrates Zen Buddhism, American Indian practices and ecological thinki…
12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
CJRC Hybrid Japan Innovation Lab A poetry workshop with Pulitzer Prize-winning poet, Gary Snyder. Gary Snyder is a Pulitzer Prize–winning poet with a radical vision that integrates Zen Buddhism, American Indian practices and ecological thinking. He began his career in the 1950s as a…
September 25, 2012
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
CJRC Hybrid Japan Innovation Lab A Japanese Tea Ceremony and coversation about Buddhism with Pulitzer Prize–winning poet, Gary Snyder. Gary Snyder is a Pulitzer Prize–winning poet with a radical vision that integrates Zen Buddhism, American Indian practices and ecological thin…
October 15, 2012
12:30 PM to 2:00 PM
CJRC Hybrid Japan Innovation Lab 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 infrastructure…
November 9, 2012
9:15 AM to 4:45 PM
CJRC Religion, Modernity, and Science in Japan Project This international conference will investigate how Japanese Buddhists since the Meiji period have responded and contributed to conceptions of progress and time in modernity. The modernization of Japan in the late Nineteenth and T…
November 30, 2012
2:00 PM to 6:00 PM
CJRC Gender and Ideology in Japanese Religions Life Project This one-day workshop will use two case studies to consider some of the hermeneutical strategies employed by Buddhist nuns in teaching and ritual. How have Japanese women interpreted and transmitted the teachings of Buddhism…
December 8, 2012
10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
CJRC Japanese American Religion and Society Project 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. This workshop requires registration and t…
