October 3, 2019
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Join us as we hear from Fredrick Cloyd, author of the book Dream of the Water Children. Born to an African American father and Japanese mother, Frederick D. Kakinami Cloyd, the narrator of Dream of the Water Children, finds himself not only to be a marginalized person by virtue of his heri…
3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
Join us for a screening of an internationally award-winning short film, Tamara Ruppart’s Path of Dreams, inspired by a legend associated with ninth-century Japanese poetess, Ono no Komachi, the only female poet among Japan’s Rokkasen, the Six Poetic Geniuses of the early H…
October 11, 2019
1:00 PM to 4:00 PM
The “comfort women” issue is perhaps Japan’s most contentious present-day diplomatic quandary. Inside Japan, the issue is dividing the country across clear ideological lines. Supporters and detractors of “comfort women” are caught in a relentless battle over empirical e…
October 22, 2019
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
A talk by Matthew Fraleigh (Brandeis University). During the tumultuous mid-nineteenth century, as Japan faced foreign incursions and domestic upheaval, politically-minded youths took action, challenging the authorities, decrying government policies, and occasionally launching violent atta…
November 22, 2019
12:30 PM to 2:30 PM
A talk by Prof. Jason Protass (Brown University). Buddhism flowed between the Chinese continent and Japan – by Japanese pilgrims, Chinese émigré monks, merchants, texts and other objects. This is often described as a transmission from China to Japan. However, from diarie…
