Events
Postwar Japan and Film Theory: Haniya Yutaka’s Ontological Writings on Cinema – Lecture by Assistant Professor Naoki Yamamoto (UCSB)
Translation and the Politics of Japanese Modernist Poetry: Conversation and Readings with Sawako Nakayasu
Conversation and Readings by Rosanna Warren & Hiromi Ito
The Humanities in the 21st Century: Classical Studies in and for the World
The Meiji at 150 Podcast with Dr. Tristan Grunow
A Lecture by Professor Paul Anderer (Columbia University) – “Mapping a Life in Japanese Literary and Cultural Studies”
Sinitic Literature in Heian Japan: Universal Standards Versus Local Practices
2019 UCLA-Waseda International Symposium: The Woman in the Story: Female Protagonists in Japanese Narratives
The Art of the Benshi – Screening Benshi Event and Academic Symposium co-organized with UCLA under Yanai Initiative Project
Report on the International Symposium “What is the Crisis in the Humanities?”
The International Symposium: Perspectives on Japanese history and literature from ancient historical records
Tragedy and Performance in the Time of Shakespeare
Noh in English? Global Japanese Studies Co-organize performance and workshops at UCLA
Book Launch Event for the Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories-Dialouge between Jay Rubin and Motoyuki Shibata
Lecture by poet Arthur Binard on rethinking the Japanese language
“The Phantasmal Sophisticate: Mediation and Distinction in 18th-Century Edo” Lecture by Thomas Gaubatz (Assistant Professor at Northwestern University)
Prof. Haruo Shirane from Columbia University Open Classroom @ Waseda -August 02 Thursday-
[Lecture] “Colonizing Language: Cultural Production And Language Politics In Modern Japan and Korea” – Christina Yi (July 13)
Symposium: Rediscovering Prewar Japanese Film Theory
“Reading Translations as Japanese Literature” :The dialogue event between Motoyuki Shibata & Michael Emmerich