Please join us for an Association for Asian Studies NEAC distinguished lecture by Professor Jennifer Robertson, professor emerita, University of Michigan Kokoro (心) is widely and innovatively used in everyday parlance and figures in many Japanese idioms. Kokoro connotes intellectual,… Read More
Please join us for a talk by Dr. Linda Galvane of University of Michigan for a talk here on campus! Talk title: Readers, Writers, and Wipers of Modern Japan: Toilet Paper as Complex Literary Material This talk examines toilet paper… Read More
We are thrilled to welcome Amy Stanley of Northwestern University for a talk on her Pulitzer Prize nominated book. Her talk will be titled “Stranger in the Shogun’s City: From the Archive to the Page” Friday, September 24, 1 pm… Read More
The Critical East Asian Humanities Reading Group C21 Collaboratory and the Japanese Program are proud to host the spring 2020 meeting of the Midwest Japan Seminar. The Midwest Japan Seminar returns to Milwaukee for the first time in decades. This… Read More
Come join us for a truly memorable and enlightening talk by Sharon Domier from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Learn more about the history of Japanese toilets and their appearance throughout the literary and visual history tradition of Japan! Free… Read More
Join us for a talk by Brigid E. Vance, Assistant Professor in the History Department at Lawrence University. In this talk, Professor Vance asks what happens to dreams after they are dreamed? How was such knowledge about dreams disseminated in… Read More
We are thrilled to welcome Nakamura Gankyo, kabuki actor of the most prestigious kabuki family in Japan, to perform a selection of kabuki dances from Musume Dojoji and Echigo Jishi. Nakamura-san will demonstrate how different interpretations of a dance play… Read More
The Japanese Program and the Asian Studies Certificate is pleased to welcome Luciana Sanga of Stanford University for her talk on the materiality of “ren’ai shosetsu” (love novel). Free and open to the public. Talk abstract: How does the material… Read More
Come enjoy an entertaining and educational concert with shamisen virtuoso Sato Michiyoshi on his second US tour! Sato is an award-winning performer of Tsugaru-jamisen, a dynamic style of music played on a three-stringed Japanese banjo called a shamisen. Sato’s performance… Read More
Please join us for a talk by Tara Rodman of Northwestern University. Time and date: Feb 22 @ 3:30PM Location: Greene Hall 148 Abstract: In 1916, the modern dancer Itō Michio (伊藤道郎) collaborated with W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound on… Read More