{"id":1583,"date":"2024-01-18T13:04:34","date_gmt":"2024-01-18T21:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/?page_id=1583"},"modified":"2024-01-18T13:04:36","modified_gmt":"2024-01-18T21:04:36","slug":"spring-2016-events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/spring-2016-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring 2016 Events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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\n A Puzzle in the History of Japanese Contraception<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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January 14, 2016<\/b>
\n4:15 PM to 5:45 PM<\/p>\n

In parts of Tokugawa Japan, every other pregnancy ended in an abortion or infanticide. Why did contraception not take their place before the twentieth century? Fabian Drixler (Yale University) explores this unusual contraceptive practice in Tokugawa Japan.\u00a0\u00a0 RSVP\u00a0 Tokugawa Japan…<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Faith, Solidarity and Compromises: Christian Life in the WWII Japanese American Incarceration Camps<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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January 15, 2016<\/b>
\n12:00 PM to 2:00 PM<\/p>\n

Anne Blankenship (North Dakota State University) explores the lived religious experience of Nikkei Christian pastors struggling to build sustainable lives behind the barbed wire of America’s wartime incarceration camps.\u00a0 View\u00a0Flyer \u201cFaith, Solidarity & Compromises: Chri…<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n History of Transnational Connections Between Japan and Louisiana<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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January 28, 2016<\/b>
\n4:15 PM to 5:45 PM<\/p>\n

New Orleans was a major hub for trade and investment for Japan in the early 20th Century era. By 1960, Japan became the city\u2019s largest international trading partner. Greg Robinson (Universit\u00e9 du Qu\u00e9bec \u00e0 Montr\u00e9al) discusses the paradoxical status ethnic Japanese enj…<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n The Engine of Animated Background<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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February 23, 2016<\/b>
\n4:15 PM to 5:45 PM<\/p>\n

Keisuke Kitano (Ritsumeikan University)\u00a0will present a theorization of visual image practices in Japan with reference to the concept of animated background.\u00a0Kitano’s\u00a0talk\u00a0consists\u00a0mainly of three-part argumentations.\u00a0Firstly it will be conducted to examine some visu…<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Book Talk – “After Darkness” By Christine Piper<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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February 27, 2016<\/b>
\n12:00 PM to 2:00 PM<\/p>\n

Author Christine Piper will discuss her award-winning novel,\u00a0After Darkness. Half-Japanese Australian author Christine Piper will discuss her award-winning novel,\u00a0After Darkness, and its themes of identity, otherness and the immigrant experience. Set during World War 2,\u00a0After Darkn…<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Japanese American Studies: New Perspectives on Religion, History and Society<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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March 12, 2016<\/b>
\n10:00 AM to 4:00 PM<\/p>\n

Leading scholars of Japanese American studies will explore how texts, faith, identities, and communities are transplanted, translated, and transformed in a Japanese America positioned beyond national boundaries. Co-sponsored by the USC East Asian Studies Center and the Japanese American National …<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Beyond 3.11: Place Making and Social Design in Post-Disaster, Post-Growth Japan<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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March 24, 2016<\/b>
\n6:00 PM to 8:00 PM<\/p>\n

How did the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11, 2011 impact place making and social design processes in Japan?\u00a0Professor Christian Dimmer of the University of Tokyo and Professor Vinayak Bharne of USC Dornsife’s Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture come together in conv…<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Translating Buddhist Texts: Reflections on Theory and Method<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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March 26, 2016<\/b>
\n12:00 PM to 5:00 PM<\/p>\n

At this conference, some of the leading scholars and practitioners of translation in the field of Buddhist studies will give presentations about the challenges of translating Asian Buddhist canonical and non-canonical texts\u00a0into Western languages.\u00a0Participants will share the latest from a …<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n “Zen and Bones” \u2013 A Film Screening and Discussion with Director Nakamura and Others<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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April 29, 2016<\/b>
\n7:00 PM to 9:00 PM<\/p>\n

The film Zen and Bones is\u00a0a kaleidoscopic portrait of an unconventional 93-year-old Japanese-American Zen monk, his dramatic history and turbulent family life. Fiction and animation adds to create a motley concoction of fascinating true stories. The film screening will be followed by a panel di…<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Loose Canons II: Value and Valuation in Japanese Engagements with Chinese Writing<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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April 30, 2016<\/b>
\n9:00 AM to 5:30 PM<\/p>\n

This symposium will explore questions related\u00a0to canon inheritance, canon formation, and canon disintegration. It\u00a0is a sequel to the Loose Canons event held at the University of Southern California\u00a0in April 2015. We will continue the conversation, investigating the following questions…<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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