General

“Critical Approaches to “Japanese-Language” Literature: On the Writings of Kim Sŏkpŏm” by Dr. Christina Yi 

“Toward a Gameic World: New Rules of Engagement from Japanese Video Games” by Dr. Ben Whaley

“Between Languages, Dissonant Beauty” Jeffrey Angles

“Confusion over Cathay: Attitudes to Sinitic Material in Medieval Japanese Poetry and Poetic Criticism from the Poetry Contest in Six Hundred Rounds” by Dr. Thomas McAuley

For Japanese Learners – ICC Japanese Chat Club (June 2023) ◆Deadline: 5/31, 9am

Special Language Lunch: Korean (5/17) ◆Deadline 5/15, 9am 

May Exclusives! ICC Language Lunches: Spanish, Vietnamese, Japanese, Chinese, English ◆First come, first served 

Teach young people about the world!　ICC Outreach Program @ Waseda University Junior High School (6/8 & 6/22) ◆Deadline: 5/15, 9am

WIAS Seminar Series “Humanities in the Anthropocene” Vol. 10
Open Lecture – “Japan, Mountains, and Culture: Rethinking Environmental Humanities” (May 23)

Open Talk “Abe Kōbō and Manchuria: Between Fiction and History” (5/27)

edX新規講座『Uncovering the Voices of Japanese Literature』が2023年5月23日より配信開始！/ New edX course “Uncovering the Voices of Japanese Literature” will start from May 23 2023!

Event Report: ”SECOND INTERNATIONAL WORKSHOP: How to Globalize Premodern East Asian Studies? The Present and Future of the Translation of Classical Literatures”

Event Report: Sketching the Future Landscape of East Asian Humanities in Comparative and Global Context: A Platform & Community Building Workshop

Event Report: International Workshop “Buddhist Faith and Japan-China Cultural Exchange in the Song Dynasty Era”

Event Report: International Symposium “Cultural History of the Ruins in Ancient and Medieval Japan”

Event Report: Special Lecture ”Seeking the Origin of Japanese Mokkan – Hieroglossia in Ancient Korean Mokkan” by Professor Sungsi Lee

Event Report: WIAS Seminar Series “Humanities in the Anthropocene” Vol. 9 Open Lecture – “Environmental Aesthetics: History, Theory, Politics”

“Sinitic Poetry Journals in Postwar Japan: Exploring Gayū” by Dr. Matthew Fraleigh

Event report: “A Japanese Children’s Classic from Italy: Translating Edmondo de Amicis’ Cuore in Prewar Japan” by Dr. Melek Ortabasi

Event Report “Sinitic Poetry Journals in Postwar Japan: Exploring Gayū” by Dr. Matthew Fraleigh