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

• 15:00 - Black Transnationalism and Japan Conference
  Professor Sho Konishi (University of Oxford - History/OSGA), Dr Natalia Doan (University of Oxford), Professor Yuichiro Onishi (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), Dr Sonia Gomez (Santa Clara University), Dr Lewis Bremner (University of Oxford), Dr. Will Bridges (University of Rochester), Professor Marvin D. Sterling (Indiana University, Bloomington), Warren A. Stanislaus (University of Oxford), Dr Mateja Kovacic (Hong Kong Baptist University)
• 15:15 - The Antebellum African American Press and Solidarity with Japan
  Dr Natalia Doan (University of Oxford)
  Black Transnationalism and Japan Conference

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

• 12:00 - Family-Run Universities in Japan
  Dr Jeremy Breaden (Monash University), Professor Roger Goodman (University of Oxford)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 22 October 2021 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Red/White/Yellow: Considering the Racial Situation in Japan from the Perspective of Marriage Discrimination Experienced by Ainu Women
  TBA
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

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

• 15:00 - Black Transnationalism and Japan Conference
  Professor Sho Konishi (University of Oxford - History/OSGA), Dr Natalia Doan (University of Oxford), Professor Yuichiro Onishi (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities), Dr Sonia Gomez (Santa Clara University), Dr Lewis Bremner (University of Oxford), Dr. Will Bridges (University of Rochester), Professor Marvin D. Sterling (Indiana University, Bloomington), Warren A. Stanislaus (University of Oxford), Dr Mateja Kovacic (Hong Kong Baptist University)
• 15:15 - The Antebellum African American Press and Solidarity with Japan
  Dr Natalia Doan (University of Oxford)
  Black Transnationalism and Japan Conference
• 15:40 - What "Japan's Black Studies" Teaches Us about Race and Solidarity
  Professor Yuichiro Onishi (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
  Black Transnationalism and Japan Conference
• 16:20 - Intimacy as Methodology: Black and Japanese Relations in Postwar America
  Dr Sonia Gomez (Santa Clara University)
  Black Transnationalism and Japan Conference
• 18:05 - Epistemology of the Violets: Heuristics toward a Sensorium of Afro-Japanese Co-creativity
  Dr. Will Bridges (University of Rochester)
  Black Transnationalism and Japan Conference
• 18:35 - Cold Japan: Grime Cyborgs in Black London
  Warren A. Stanislaus (University of Oxford)
  Black Transnationalism and Japan Conference
• 19:05 - Afro-Asia as Neoliberal Intimacy: Black-Japanese Mixed-Race Experiences in Contemporary Japan
  Professor Marvin D. Sterling (Indiana University, Bloomington)
  Black Transnationalism and Japan Conference

Friday 28 April 2023 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - “Are We Allowed to Find Beauty in the Face of Death and Destruction: Ishiuchi Miyako’s Hiroshima and Postwar Japan”
  Professor Yoshikuni Igarashi (Vanderbilt University and Visiting Research Scholar at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken))
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 5 May 2023 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 16:00 - Democratizing Luxury: Name Brands, Advertising, and Consumption in Modern Japan
  Professor Annika A. Culver (Florida State University)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 12 May 2023 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - How do Japanese public high schools respond to immigrant students? Challenges of diversity and educational equity in Tokyo
  Professor Misako Nukaga (University of Tokyo), Professor Fumiko Takahashi (University of Tokyo), Professor Tomoko Tokunaga (University of Tsukuba)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 19 May 2023 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 12:00 - 日本語の役割語における性差の表現 Expressing Gender Differences in Japanese Role Language
  Professor Satoshi Kinsui (Director of the Osaka Study Center, The Open University of Japan)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies