{"id":1679,"date":"2024-01-23T08:54:56","date_gmt":"2024-01-23T16:54:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/?page_id=1679"},"modified":"2024-01-23T08:54:57","modified_gmt":"2024-01-23T16:54:57","slug":"spring-2019-events","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/dornsife.usc.edu\/cjrc\/spring-2019-events\/","title":{"rendered":"Spring 2019 Events"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n \n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
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\n Text Analysis for Asia and Beyond<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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January 12, 2019<\/b>
\n8:00 AM to 1:30 PM<\/p>\n

Text analysis is increasingly used by scholars of international relations as a useful tool to study business strategies, political rhetoric\u00a0and\u00a0diplomatic interactions. However, most of the existing methods are focused on English texts. This conference will help close the gap in the method…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Book Talk “John Okada: The Life & Rediscovered Work of the Author of ‘No-No Boy'”<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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February 1, 2019<\/b>
\n12:00 PM to 2:00 PM<\/p>\n

Join us as we hear from Frank Abe and Greg Robinson, co-editors of the book John Okada: The Life & Rediscovered Work of the Author of No-No Boy.\u00a0\u00a0No-No Boy,\u00a0 John Okada\u2019s only published novel, centers on a Japanese American who refuses to fight for the country that incarcera…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Gender and the Japanese Bunjin (Literati): Haikai Poet Tagami Kikusha (1753-1826)<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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February 14, 2019<\/b>
\n12:00 PM to 2:00 PM<\/p>\n

In contemporary Japan, membership in haiku groups is overwhelmingly female. However, in the early part of the Edo period (1603-1868), only 2-5% of poets writing haikai (the premodern name for haiku) were women. One of the most prominent of these early female haikai poets was Tagami Kikusha, whose li…<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n “Chigo no s\u014dshi”: A Homoerotic Handscroll of Five Buddhist Acolytes from 14th-Century Japan<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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February 21, 2019<\/b>
\n4:15 PM to 6:00 PM<\/p>\n

Daigoji nanshoku-e\u00a0[Daigoji\u2019s Illustrations of male-male love], more commonly known as\u00a0Chigo no s\u014dshi\u00a0[A booklet of acolytes] (ca. 1321) is a collection of five stories characterized by caustic humor and sexually explicit images of\u00a0chigo\u2019s (adolescent boy acolytes) in…<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n AMERICAN SUTRA- Book Talk by Duncan Williams in Conversation with Varun Soni<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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February 26, 2019<\/b>
\n6:00 PM to 8:00 PM<\/p>\n

FLYER\u00a0|\u00a0RSVP Duncan Williams\u00a0will speak about his new book American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom During the Second World War\u00a0(Harvard University Press, Feb. 2019) on the Japanese American Buddhist experience in the WWII\u00a0incarceration camps. He will explore question…<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n AMERICAN SUTRA – Book Talk by Duncan Williams in Conversation with Varun Soni<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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February 26, 2019<\/b>
\n6:00 PM to 8:15 PM<\/p>\n

FLYER |\u00a0RSVP Duncan Williams\u00a0will speak about his new book American Sutra: A Story of Faith and Freedom During the Second World War (Harvard University Press, Feb. 2019) on the Japanese American Buddhist experience in the WWII\u00a0incarceration camps. He will explore questions of faith…<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Japanese Female Immigration in the U.S. and U.K.: “Kensington,” a Play by Velina Hasu Houston<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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March 1, 2019<\/b>
\n3:00 PM to 6:00 PM<\/p>\n

How does one build a life for oneself in a country that you weren\u2019t born in and didn\u2019t grow up in? Such is the challenge for an immigrant, challenges that bring a lot to bear upon family relations. Japanese women emigrate to many places, two destinations being the United States and the U…<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Workshop on Shingon Buddhism<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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March 17, 2019<\/b>
\n10:00 AM to 4:00 PM<\/p>\n

Tours to the 88-temple Shikoku pilgrimage and the sacred mountain of Koyasan (Mt. Koya) in Wakayama have received international attention as Japan\u2019s in-bound tourism to those two sites has increased year on year in the lead up to the 2020 Olympics. Yet, the Buddhist monk behind the existence o…<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Viewing and Reading Japanese Medieval Documents, Scrolls, and Books with Prof. Susumu Uejima, Kyoto University<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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April 12, 2019<\/b>
\n10:00 AM to 3:30 PM<\/p>\n

In this workshop, Prof. Uejima will offer a broad introduction to the classification, handling, and reading of medieval Japanese works, from documents to scrolls and books. Participants will learn about the production, categorization, handling, and uses of such materials. In addition to providing a …<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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\n Early Modern Japanese Studies Workshop#1: Early Modern Cities<\/a>\n <\/h3>\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n \n
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April 27, 2019 to April 27, 2019<\/b>
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The inaugural meeting of the Early Modern Japanese Studies Workshop will bring together specialists from disciplines as diverse as literary studies, theater studies, history, and religious studies whose work deals with early modern Japan.\u00a0This year\u2019s theme is early modern cities. How were…<\/p>\n\n\n\n<\/div>\n \n <\/div>\n\n\n \n \n \n

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