January 24, 2015
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
The many visible connections between Asia and the Americas that have been forged by colonial empires, railroads and telegraph poles, airplanes and the Internet co-exist alongside a number of invisible connections perceived as existing in the spiritual realm. This conference examines ways in which ma…
January 29, 2015
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Join the poet, scholar, writer, and critic Keijiro Suga for a talk, poetry reading, and discussion rooted in the earthquake and nuclear disaster that rocked Japan on March 11, 2011. Professor Suga will address the catastrophe that has come to be known as “Fukushima” from various angles and…
February 12, 2015
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Dr. Ellis Tinios will explore ukiyo-e artists’ constructions of “the way of love” and their approach to representing the human body in the printed erotica of the Edo period (1603-1868). Ukiyo-e artists imbued their erotic works with humor and joy, visually affirming the…
February 14, 2015
9:00 AM to 4:00 PM
Center for Japanese Religions and Cultures SUMMARY Early modern Japanese woodblock-printed illustrated books represent a remarkable achievement in terms of their high production values, diversity of subject matter and aesthetic standards. Leading artists created designs exclusively for reprodu…
10:00 AM to 4:00 PM
This day-long conference features distinguished speakers from around the world working on the historical dimensions of multiethnic Japan. Spanning from discussions of continental Asian migration to the Japanese archipelago during the classical period, through the early encounters with the Portuguese…
February 27, 2015
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
What We Can Learn About Tokugawa Households From Their Lists of Possessions SUMMARY Amy Stanley, Associate Professor at Northwestern University will present a talk on her latest project, which explores the social and economic value of clothing in Edo-Japan. DESCRIPTION Ab…
February 28, 2015
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
SUMMARY One of Japan’s leading experts on migration within East Asia during the classical (kodai) period, Professor Fumio Tanaka (Kanto Gakuin University), provides an overview of the interregional movement of peoples and their integration into the Japanese archipelago. His lecture will …
March 23, 2015
9:00 AM to 5:15 PM
SUMMARY The symposium is designed to bridge the international and language divide between scholarship on migration and race in the US and in Japan. The focus is on new, cutting-edge research on Japanese migration and assimilation dilemmas. Co-sponsored by Kyoto University Grant-in-Aid for S…
March 31, 2015
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
SUMMARY Professor Akemi Banse of the University of Tokyo Historiographical Institute discusses the changing roles and lifestyles of royal daughters from the sixth to fourteenth centuries. While historians agree that the primary function of tennō’s son was to succeed to the throne, the roles o…
April 9, 2015
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Once a Jôdo Nun, Now a Jesuit Catechist SUMMARY Haruko Nawata Ward, Associate Professor of Church History at Columbia Theological Seminary and author of Women Religious Leaders in Japan’s Christian Century, 1549-1650, will share her research on the fascinating figure N…
April 12, 2015
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
SUMMARY The USC Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture, in conjunction with Playwright’s Arena and True Heart Films, presents a staged reading of Like the Flow of River written by Velina Hasu Houston. Flyer DESCRIPTION The play, which includes the mu…
April 25, 2015
9:00 AM to 5:45 PM
SUMMARY This symposium seeks to investigate questions related to canon inheritance, canon formation, and canon disintegration: how do habits of quotation and other episodes of appropriation suggest evaluative judgments about “sources”? How have these practices affected literary composit…
