Name: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies

Events this person is hosting:

Friday 10 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

Reopening Graves to Find Civilization: Osteology and Cultural Enlightenment in Meiji Japan -- Keynote Speech for the Reopening 'the Opening of Japan' Conference
Date: 10 May 2019, 17:30 - 18:30 (Friday, 2nd week, Trinity 2019)
Speaker : Professor James E. Ketelaar (University of Chicago)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre
Organisers: Lewis Bremner (Oxford), Maro Dotulong (Oxford)
Host: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies

Saturday 11 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

Reopening 'The Great Gate of Kiev' in Akira Kurosawa's No Regrets for Our Youth (Waga seishun ni kuinashi, 1946)
Date: 11 May 2019, 17:00 - 17:30 (Saturday, 2nd week, Trinity 2019)
Speaker : Olga Solovieva (University of Chicago)
Venue: St Antony's College, 62 Woodstock Road OX2 6JF
Venue Details: Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre
Organisers: TBA
Host: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies

Friday 27 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Matsuo Bashô 松尾芭蕉 and the Poetics of Fûkyô 風狂
Date: 27 November 2020, 12:00 - 13:00 (Friday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2020)
Speaker : Professor Peipei Qiu (Vassar College)
Venue Details: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_aWAL2e23T5-Dxc9cNGSlVA
Organisers: Dr Giulio Pugliese (University of Oxford), Professor Hugh Whittaker (University of Oxford), Dr Natalia Doan (University of Oxford)
Host: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies

Friday 4 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Family-Run Universities in Japan
Date: 4 December 2020, 12:00 - 13:00 (Friday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2020)
Speaker s: Dr Jeremy Breaden (Monash University), Professor Roger Goodman (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Zoom
Organisers: Dr Giulio Pugliese (University of Oxford), Professor Hugh Whittaker (University of Oxford), Dr Natalia Doan (University of Oxford)
Host: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies

Friday 29 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

The Antebellum African American Press and Solidarity with Japan
Date: 29 October 2021, 15:15 - 15:40 (Friday, 3rd week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker : Dr Natalia Doan (University of Oxford)
Organisers: Dr Natalia Doan (University of Oxford), Professor Sho Konishi (University of Oxford - History/OSGA)
Host: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies

Cold Japan: Grime Cyborgs in Black London
Date: 29 October 2021, 18:35 - 19:05 (Friday, 3rd week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker : Warren A. Stanislaus (University of Oxford)
Organisers: Dr Natalia Doan (University of Oxford), Professor Sho Konishi (University of Oxford - History/OSGA)
Host: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies

Afro-Asia as Neoliberal Intimacy: Black-Japanese Mixed-Race Experiences in Contemporary Japan
Date: 29 October 2021, 19:05 - 20:05 (Friday, 3rd week, Michaelmas 2021)
Speaker : Professor Marvin D. Sterling (Indiana University, Bloomington)
Organisers: Dr Natalia Doan (University of Oxford), Professor Sho Konishi (University of Oxford - History/OSGA)
Host: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies

Events this person is organising:

Thursday 2 February 2023 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

A Defeated Samurai of Japan’s Civil War and the Transnational Re-imagination of Civilisation in the Late Nineteenth-Century United States
Date: 2 February 2023, 14:00 - 15:30 (Thursday, 3rd week, Hilary 2023)
Speaker : Dr Chinami Oka (Tanaka Junior Research Fellow in Japanese Studies, Pembroke College, Oxford)
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 16 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

Meaningful, but lacking in depth? Critical attitudes to Sinitic material in the Poetry Contest in Six Hundred Rounds
Status: This talk is in preparation - details may change
Status: This talk has been cancelled
Date: 16 February 2023, 14:00 - 15:30 (Thursday, 5th week, Hilary 2023)
Speaker : Dr Thomas McAuley (University of Sheffield)
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Friday 17 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

Reforming Capitalism, Going Digital and Going Green: Does Japan Hold Answers?
Date: 17 February 2023, 9:00 - 17:00 (Friday, 5th week, Hilary 2023)
Speaker
Venue: Saïd Business School, Park End Street OX1 1HP
Venue Details: Nelson Mandela Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 23 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

Going Logo: What to Expect of Japan's G7 Presidency
Date: 23 February 2023, 14:00 - 15:30 (Thursday, 6th week, Hilary 2023)
Speaker : Professor Hugo Dobson (University of Sheffield)
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 2 March 2023 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

Beyond "trans-border": Translation and Difference in Contemporary Japanese Literature.
Date: 2 March 2023, 14:00 - 15:30 (Thursday, 7th week, Hilary 2023)
Speaker : Dr Vicky Young (Kawashima Associate Professor in Modern Japanese Literature and Culture, University of Cambridge)
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 9 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

Commoning the City: The Townscape Councils of Kyoto
Date: 9 March 2023, 14:00 - 15:30 (Thursday, 8th week, Hilary 2023)
Speaker : Professor Christoph Brumann (Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany)
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Friday 10 March 2023 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

Missing Bodies, Missing Voices: Ordinary Lives and the Reframing of ‘Postwar Japan’
Date: 10 March 2023, 10:00 - 17:00 (Friday, 8th week, Hilary 2023)
Speaker
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Friday 13 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

Japan’s threat perception during the cold war: any lessons for today?
Date: 13 October 2023, 17:00 - 18:30 (Friday, 1st week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Eitan Oren (King's College, London)
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Friday 20 October 2023 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

The Buddhist Body of the King: Ritual practices of consecration in medieval Japan
Date: 20 October 2023, 17:00 - 18:30 (Friday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Prof. Lucia Dolce (SOAS)
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Friday 27 October 2023 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

The universal language of the body
Date: 27 October 2023, 17:00 - 18:30 (Friday, 3rd week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Tarinainanika Theatre Company (Tarinainanika Theatre Company)
Venue Details: Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Friday 3 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Japan’s “three national security documents” and fundamental reinforcement of defence capabilities: reinforcing a radical military trajectory
Date: 3 November 2023, 17:00 - 18:30 (Friday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Prof. Christopher W. Hughes (University of Warwick)
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Friday 10 November 2023 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

The Compass Rose meets the Rising Sun: a new era of NATO-Japan Relations
Date: 10 November 2023, 17:00 - 18:30 (Friday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Dr Wrenn Lindgren (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs)
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 15 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

The return of geopolitics in East Asia: Japan’s responses to regional uncertainty
Date: 15 November 2023, 17:00 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Mr Koichiro Matsumoto (Director of Research at the Japan Institute of International Affairs)
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony’s College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Friday 17 November 2023 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

From ‘closedness’ to ‘closeness’: how changing community values sustains a traditional craft industry
Date: 17 November 2023, 17:00 - 18:30 (Friday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Dr Shilla Lee (Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies)
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Friday 24 November 2023 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Kabuki music and compositions
Date: 24 November 2023, 17:00 - 18:30 (Friday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Denjiro Tanaka VII and associates (Denjiro Tanaka VII and associates)
Venue Details: Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Friday 1 December 2023 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Geoeconomic implications of the Japan-EU Relations – trade, digitalization and sustainability
Date: 1 December 2023, 17:00 - 18:30 (Friday, 8th week, Michaelmas 2023)
Speaker : Prof. Patrik Ström (Stockholm School of Economics)
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 18 January 2024 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

Criminal Crossroads: Underworld Dynamics in Contemporary Japan
Date: 18 January 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Thursday, 1st week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Dr Martina Baradel (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 25 January 2024 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

Sensory Perception: Cultural Exchange, Development and Understanding
Date: 25 January 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Thursday, 2nd week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Miss Nicole Watson (Director of Surface Area Dance Company)
Venue Details: Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 1 February 2024 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

Affect, Emotion and Sensibility in Modern Japanese Literature
Date: 1 February 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Thursday, 3rd week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Professor Reiko Abe Auestad (University of Oslo)
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 8 February 2024 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

Memories of Cinema-Going in Postwar Japan: An Ethno-History
Date: 8 February 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Thursday, 4th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Professor Jennifer Coates (University of Sheffield)
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 15 February 2024 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

Language as a Technology for Shaping Professional Identity: Translating ‘A Manual of the Steam Engine’ in Mid-Nineteenth Century Japan
Date: 15 February 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Thursday, 5th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Dr Ruselle Meade (Cardiff University)
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 22 February 2024 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

Eleven Winters of Discontent: The Siberian Internment and the Making of a New Japan
Date: 22 February 2024, 14:00 - 15:30 (Thursday, 6th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Professor Sherzod Muminov (University of East Anglia)
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 29 February 2024 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

This Monk Wears Heels – Buddhism and Sexuality
Date: 29 February 2024, 12:00 - 13:30 (Thursday, 7th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : Ven. Kodo Nishimura (Artist, Buddhist Monk, and LGBTQ+ Activist)
Venue Details: Hybrid and in the Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Thursday 7 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

A Preview Test Screening of a New Documentary Film - The Squid and the Pine by John Williams
Date: 7 March 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Thursday, 8th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker : John Williams (Director)
Venue Details: Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Friday 8 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

Japan Politics Colloquium
Date: 8 March 2024, 13:30 - 18:30 (Friday, 8th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
Venue Details: Syndicate Room, Old Main Building, St Antony’s College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Monday 11 March 2024 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

The Free and Open Indo-Pacific: Japan's Strategic Vision Goes Global
Date: 11 March 2024, 9:00 - 18:00 (Monday, 9th week, Hilary 2024)
Speaker
Venue Details: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Friday 26 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

A Conversation with Author Sayaka Murata – Living, Writing and Transformation
Date: 26 April 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Friday, 1st week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Sayaka Murata
Venue Details: Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre
Organisers: The Queen's College Translation Exchange (The Queen's College), Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Friday 3 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

New Life From the Ruins of Japanese Death Rites
Date: 3 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Friday, 2nd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Hannah Gould (University of Melbourne)
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Friday 10 May 2024 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

Making of the “Feebleminded”: Gender and Family for the Medical Discourse Around Eugenic Sterilization in 1950s Japan
Date: 10 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Friday, 3rd week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Aya Homei (University of Manchester)
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Friday 17 May 2024 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

Great Power Politics and Japan’s Immigration Dilemma
Date: 17 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Friday, 4th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Dr Anand Rao (SUNY Geneseo)
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Wednesday 22 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

Valedictory Lecture – A ‘Class’-Less Society Japan? How is Inequality Interpreted Without the Concept of Class?
Date: 22 May 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Wednesday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker : Professor Takehiko Kariya (University of Oxford)
Venue Details: Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Friday 24 May 2024 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

Book Launch – Reopening the Opening of Japan: Transnational Approaches to Modern Japan and the Wider World
Date: 24 May 2024, 17:00 - 19:00 (Friday, 5th week, Trinity 2024)
Speaker s: Professor Sho Konishi (University of Oxford), Dr Lewis Bremner (University of Cambridge), Dr Chinami Oka (University of Oxford), Dr Mateja Kovacic (Hong Kong Baptist University), Joel Littler (University of Oxford), Dr Manimporok (Brown University)
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Friday 11 October 2024 (0th Week, Michaelmas Term)

A Conversation with Asako Yuzuki
Date: 11 October 2024, 17:30 - 19:00 (Friday, 0th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Asako Yuzuki
Venue Details: Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre
Organisers: The Queen's College Translation Exchange (The Queen's College), Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Friday 18 October 2024 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

I Am a Living Object: Decolonizing Museum Spaces with Indigenous Narratives
Date: 18 October 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Friday, 1st week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Kanako Uzawa
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Friday 25 October 2024 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Beneath Modernism: The Transformation of Popular Culture from Edo to Modern Japan
Date: 25 October 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Friday, 2nd week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Ryoko Matsuba (University of East Anglia)
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Friday 1 November 2024 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

Tanaka Denjiro VII - A Kabuki Music Perfomance
Date: 1 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Friday, 3rd week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Tanaka Denjiro
Venue Details: Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Friday 8 November 2024 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Ryūtei Saryū – Rakugo Performer
Date: 8 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Friday, 4th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Ryūtei Saryū
Venue Details: Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Tuesday 12 November 2024 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

CANCELLED - Princess Akiko of Mikasa – A Tale of the Royal and Imperial Costumes: The Trajectory of UK-Japan Relations - CANCELLED
Date: 12 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Tuesday, 5th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Princess Akiko of Mikasa
Venue Details: Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Friday 22 November 2024 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

What Remains Invisible Still: Fukushima by Tsuchida Hiromi (2018) as the Formation of a Metaphor
Date: 22 November 2024, 17:00 - 18:30 (Friday, 6th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker : Dr Maki Fukuoka (University of Leeds)
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA

Friday 29 November 2024 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

Joint Workshop with the Department of Sociology: Dispute Resolution: Exploring Criminal, Informal, and Alternative Perspectives
Date: 29 November 2024, 13:30 - 18:30 (Friday, 7th week, Michaelmas 2024)
Speaker
Venue Details: Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St Antony's College
Organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
Hosts: TBA