January 20, 2017
3:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Professor Fabio Rambelli (University of California, Santa Barbara) examines medieval Japanese Buddhist theories on the ontology of scriptures. One of the subjects of scholastic debates in medieval Japan concerns the ontology of Buddhist scriptures, with exegetes suggesting various levels and…
February 3, 2017
3:00 PM to 4:30 PM
Many celebrated Japanese Buddhist thinkers contributed to the production of imperialist “wartime doctrinal studies” during the 1930s and 1940s. Jeff Schroeder (University of Oregon) will examine the reasons for this with reference to political pressures, institutional dynamics, and …
February 13, 2017
9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
This conference will bring together twenty-five scholars from Canada, the US, China, Korea, Taiwan, Japan and Vietnam in order to engage in an interdisciplinary and comparative study of Buddhist statecraft, which will include historians, anthropologists, textual scholars, and art historians. Through…
February 26, 2017 to February 26, 2017
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Welcome to the third Hapa Japan Festival! The Hapa Japan Festival celebrates mixed-race and mixed roots Japanese people and culture. Come join us at the Japanese American National Museum and the USC campus for film screenings documenting the story of mixed race Japanese people, rich conversations…
March 27, 2017
2:30 PM to 4:00 PM
Previous studies of memorials and commemoration in postwar Japan have discussed government involvement in Yasukuni Jinja and other Shinto rituals and memorials. However, other religious elements dedicated to war victims fulfill this same purpose while skillfully navigating the constit…
March 31, 2017
3:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Six playwrights re-visit the world’s first modern novel – The Tale of Genji written by Lady Murasaki in the 11th Century – and interpret it through the lens of today. What happens when contemporary playwrights take the world’s first modern novel – The Tale of Ge…
April 7, 2017
9:30 AM to 4:00 PM
Co-Sponsored by the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures and the USC Libraries. PLEASE NOTE THAT REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED TO ATTEND THIS EVENT. IF YOU ARE INTERESTED IN ATTENDING THIS EVENT, PLEASE EMAIL CJRC@DORNSIFE.USC.EDU EXPRESSING YOUR INTEREST IN THE EVENT. Books preser…
April 13, 2017
4:00 PM to 6:00 PM
The Project for Premodern Japan Studies and the Center for Japanese Religion and Culture at USC are pleased to announce that Prof. Motoo Endô, of the University of Tokyo’s Historiographical Institute, will present a lecture entitled, “Ôi Estate and Ôbe Estate, Comparati…
April 14, 2017
2:00 PM to 5:00 PM
The Project for Premodern Japan Studies and the Center for Japanese Religion and Culture at USC are pleased to announce that Prof. Motoo Endô, of the University of Tokyo’s Historiographical Institute, will present a lecture entitled, “Ôi Estate and Ôbe Estate, Comparati…
April 21, 2017
3:00 PM to 5:30 PM
One day in 2013, the photographer and filmmaker Masaaki Miyazawa stumbled upon the Shikinen Sengu, a Shinto ceremony practiced once every 20 years, at Ise Shrine in Mie Prefecture. For the past 1,300 years, a shrine pavilion is rebuilt for the purposes of renewing the shrine structure and transmitti…
