{"id":1637,"date":"2024-01-19T09:37:07","date_gmt":"2024-01-19T17:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/?page_id=1637"},"modified":"2024-01-19T09:39:44","modified_gmt":"2024-01-19T17:39:44","slug":"spring-2018-events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/spring-2018-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring 2018 Events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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\n Masaya Chiba – Asignifying Rupture and Radical Finitude <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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January 16, 2018<\/b>
\n4:00 PM to 5:30 PM<\/p>\n

In this talk, first, I will explain my interpretation of the French philosopher Gilles Deleuze\u2019s work that I presented in my book, Don\u2019t Move Too Much: Gilles Deleuze and the Philosophy of Becoming (2012, in Japanese). Second, I clarify my recent project which explores the philosophy of …<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Book Launch – “Dilemmas of a Trading Nation” by Mireya Sol\u00eds<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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January 17, 2018 to January 17, 2018<\/b>
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Together with the Graduate Student Association of Political Science and International Relations,\u00a0we are proud to feature\u00a0author Mireya Sol\u00eds and her new book,\u00a0Dilemmas of a Trading Nation: Japan and the United States in the Evolving Asia-Pacific Order. Japan and the United S…<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Akiko Walley – Out of Sight, Out of Mind: Pacification, Offering, and Burial in Early Japanese Buddhism<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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January 25, 2018<\/b>
\n5:00 PM to 6:30 PM<\/p>\n

In 1907, three sets of eighth-century objects were discovered from underneath the bronze pedestal of the seated Vairocana Buddha in the Great Buddha Hall, T\u014ddaiji, Nara prefecture. The objects were initially identified as examples of \u201cplatform pacifying objects\u201d (chindangu), but their ac…<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n J. Keith Vincent – AIDS and Queer Theory in 1990s Japan<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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February 1, 2018<\/b>
\n5:00 PM to 7:00 PM<\/p>\n

If Queer Theory now \u201chas a history,\u201d as many have begun to argue in recent years, that history is not limited to the US context. It was also big in 1990s Japan, when key works by Eve Sedgwick, Judith Butler, Leo Bersani, Gayle Rubin, David Halperin, and others were translated into Japane…<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Political Economy of Asia’s Monetary and Financial Landscape<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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March 9, 2018 to March 9, 2018<\/b>
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The main objective of this one-day workshop is to discuss fundamental dynamics and new developments of monetary and financial relations between Japan and East Asia ranging from RMB internationalization, emergency funding mechanism, and Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB).\u00a0 Thematically,…<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Kat McDowell\u2019s album TEN release party w\/ special guests<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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March 24, 2018<\/b>
\n7:00 PM to 9:30 PM<\/p>\n

Kat McDowell will be releasing her album\u00a0TEN\u00a0with a special performance,\u00a0featuring\u00a0some of her amazing musician friends, at Hotel Caf\u00e9\u00a0on\u00a0Saturday,\u00a0March 24th! Born in Tokyo and raised in New Zealand, Kat McDowell makes music with an Ocean Pop\u00a0sound …<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Morgan Pitelka – The Material Culture of Religious Practice in Late Medieval Castle Towns<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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March 30, 2018<\/b>
\n4:15 PM to 5:45 PM<\/p>\n

After the Onin War (1467-1477) ravaged the capital city of Kyoto and destabilized the Ashikaga Shogunate, provincial cities became increasingly significant as centers of trade and artisanal production. Archaeological evidence from castle towns such as Azuchi, Bungo Funai, and Ichij\u014ddani illuminate a…<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Film Screening of “Journey with the Gods: The Rebuilding of Ise Jingu Shrine” and Q\/A with Actress Kirin Kiki <\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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April 14, 2018<\/b>
\n7:00 PM to 9:00 PM<\/p>\n

Veteran actress Kirin Kiki, who won the Best Actress Award at the 30th Nantes Festival of the Three Continents for Still Walking,\u00a0embarks on her first pilgrimage to the Ise Grand Shrine, during\u00a0the ceremonial rebuilding of the shrine that happens once every twenty years. The screening of&n…<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Barak Kushner – History as a Weapon in Postwar East Asia: War Crimes, Trials and the Elusive Search for Justice<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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April 16, 2018<\/b>
\n4:00 PM to 5:30 PM<\/p>\n

What is justice and what is reconciliation? Reconciliation, like justice, never exists in a vacuum and rarely exists as a goal on its own; it is inherently linked to other political, economic, or social values. In the immediate post-war, countries involved with war crimes trials debated the question…<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Japanese American WWII Incarceration: Two Documentaries with Film Director Janice Tanaka<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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April 23, 2018<\/b>
\n2:00 PM to 4:00 PM<\/p>\n

Film screening and Q&A with Film Director Janice Tanaka.\u00a0 JANICE TANAKA brings thirty years of filmmaking experience in the Asian American community as a producer, director, TV executive and tenured professor. Tanaka both graduated from and taught at USC\u2019s prestigious School of C…<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Hapa Expressions from “The Heart of Those Machines,” A Play<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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April 27, 2018<\/b>
\n3:00 PM to 5:00 PM<\/p>\n

Presently approximately one out of every thirty children born in Japan has one parent who is not Japanese. Mixed race Japanese individuals are fast becoming a part of the Japanese mainstream and one of the fastest growing ethnic groups in the United States. What is mixed race Japanese identity, from…<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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