September 24, 2023 to September 24, 2023
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With the theme of Memory & Monument-Making: Repairing our Racial Karma, the focus of the conference is on the makers of monuments and how they conceive of memory, especially when memorializing difficult historical events. Moving beyond the wartime Japanese American incarceration, the conference …
October 26, 2023
12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
In medieval Japan, the number of female monastics increased as the Zen schools actively included women in their proselytization efforts. Mugai Nyodai (1223-1298) is known as a representative example of a female Zen priest from this period. I will address her life and ministry and will also discuss w…
October 27, 2023
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Abstract How might we make sense of the origins of the fossil fuel turn, and how might our understanding of this past inform our present, as we confront the ongoing crisis of climate change? In this talk, Victor Seow will draw upon his recently published Carbon Technocracy: Energy Regimes in…
November 3, 2023 to November 3, 2023
4:00 PM to
Karen Hill Anton brings the wisdom of experience to her writing, connecting perspectives on native Japanese culture with U.S. culture. A resident of Japan for nearly 50 years Ms. Anton’s unique views offer a fascinating transnational understanding of two inextricably linked cultures….
November 13, 2023 to November 13, 2023
2:00 PM to
Bill Einreinhofer is an Emmy Award-winning documentary producer/director and emeritus chair of the New York Film Academy’s Broadcast Journalism department. For more than 30 years, he has been making films and stories in and about China, including China: Frame by Frame, Unsettled H…
