January 18, 2023
12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
Can we access the religious lives of impoverished individuals in the premodern world? This talk proposes that we can. I will introduce evidence from a previously untranslated manuscript to show how preachers actively promoted doctrines aimed to appeal to poor provincial villagers in ninth-…
January 25, 2023
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
January 27, 2023
4:00 PM to 5:30 PM
Although few could define it, “civilian morale” emerged as one of the 20th century’s deadliest discourses. In its name, millions of civilians were bombed and starved, as warring nations sought to “break the morale” of the enemy’s civil population in Europe and East As…
February 11, 2023
2:00 PM to 3:30 PM
Presented in partnership with theJapanese American National Museum. During World War II, the west coast Japanese Americans lacked the power to overcome politics and prejudice to forestall their imprisonment by the US government. Although their voices were not heard in 1942 when they were or…
February 15, 2023
12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
Sushi’s appearance in US grocery stores, usually coated in sauces and fried toppings, demonstrates how the once simple dish evolves as it globalizes. But sushi was a much different recipe 1,200 years ago when it was first mentioned in Japanese records. The likely derivation of &ldquo…
February 19, 2023 to February 19, 2023
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The Sutra and Bible exhibit is co-curated by Duncan Ryuken Williams and Emily Anderson and is sponsored by the Japanese American National Museum and the USC Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture, with support from the National Parks Services Japanese American Confinement Sit…
March 8, 2023
11:00 AM to 12:00 PM
We are excited and grateful to be in community with Dr Keith Howard, Emeritus Professor of Music and Leverhulme Fellow from SOAS, University of London, as the first voice of the Voices in East Asian Studies and Music project led by Christopher Hepburn, a Postdoctoral Scholar and Teaching Fellow. …
March 29, 2023
12:00 PM to 1:30 PM
In this lecture, Marran offers an analysis of island chains in the work of famed author of industrial pollution, Ishimure Michiko, beginning with the question of how best to address specific island-sea cosmologies in relation to the broader archipelago of “Japan.” Showing synchronicities…
April 27, 2023 to April 27, 2023
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Encountering Alice in Japan is a two-day conference on Japanese adaptations of and interactions with the world of Alice in Wonderland. Please visit https://EncounteringAlice.eventbrite.com for the most up-to-date information. Flyer …
April 28, 2023
3:00 PM to 5:00 PM
When the U.S. government declared that all Japanese Americans living on the West Coast would be forcibly removed and sent to incarceration camps, they gave the Japanese American community a seemingly impossible choice: if Japanese Americans could leave the western states immediately o…
