Japan Research Centre
The events draw a varied audience with an interest in the region.
All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise stated.
Admission is on a first-come, first-served basis.
For further information contact the Centres and Programmes Office.
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2012
January
11/01/12
- The scope of the Edo-period publishing trade: a glance through shojaku mokuroku (booksellers’ catalogues)
Laura Moretti (Newcaslte University)
18/01/12
- Hokusai’s landscapes and the myth of “innocent eye”
Ewa Machotka (Leiden University)
25/01/12
- Kyogen in Translation: Page to Stage to Page
Jonah Salz
February
01/02/12
08/02/12
- Inquiring the growth and decline of the very poor in Japan
David-Antoine Malinas
16/02/12
- Making a Difference – Representing/Constructing the Other in Asian/African Media, Cinema and Languages
Please refer to the programme
The aim of the conference is to bring together scholars from across the world to discuss the representations of 'Otherness' in Asian and African media cultures. We shall explore how Otherness is constructed when the ‘Other’ cannot be considered as totally 'alien', but when familiarity might also be of vital importance.
22/02/12
- Guns in Japan, 1543-1786: Myths, Secret Traditions, and the Royal Hunt
Anne Walthall (Professor of History, University of California, Irvine)
29/02/12
March
02/03/12
- Approaching Art and Design from Asia: Young Researchers’ Workshop - New Work on Japan
The list of speakers are confirmed in the programme
This two-day event will explore new work in Asian art and design and discuss its implications for the practice of art and design history.
03/03/12
- Approaching Art and Design from Asia: Questions of Method, Between Art and Design
The list of speakers are confirmed in the programme
This two-day event will explore new work in Asian art and design and discuss its implications for the practice of art and design history.
07/03/12
- The anecdotal mode of discourse in classical Japan
Professor Ivo Smits (Leiden University)
14/03/12
21/03/12
- Takahashi Takako's 'To the Far Reaches of the Heavens' and the Question of War Responsibility
Dr Linda Flores (Oxford University)
April
20/04/12
- Fukushima Colours- Voices of recovery after the catastrophe in Japan
Elin Lindqvist (Freelance Journalist)
It will take years for the full extent of the nuclear crisis’ impact on Japan to become clear. Yet, already now, a year after the tsunami, it is possible to see some of the consequences that March 11th has had on people’s mind-sets, Japanese agriculture, the fishing industry, family ties, and research about renewable energy sources.
May
02/05/12
- A Single history of Christianity in East Asia: China-Japan interaction of the past and East Asian Christianities today
Dr Kiri Paramore (Leiden University)
September
12/09/12
- The Poetics of Dream in Medieval Japan
Professor Saeko Kimura
17/09/12
- SOAS Translation Workshop in Japanese Studies 2012
The participants are listed below
October
02/10/12
- Ukiyo-e master in Europe
Mr Asaka (Ukiyo-e master)
03/10/12
- Anthropology turning History? Some advantages and surprises of long-term fieldwork in Japan
Joy Hendry (Professor Emerita, Oxford Brookes University, senior member, St. Antony's College, Oxford)
10/10/12
17/10/12
- After Tsushima: The Japanese navy and Britain, 1905-14
Professor Ian Nish (Professorial Research Associate, JRC, SOAS)
24/10/12
- Noh 101 to 100 Noh: Tsukioka Kôgyo's Noh Print Series
Katherine Saltzman-li (University of California)
31/10/12
- The quest for happiness: women and magazine advertising in post-war Japan
Olga Khomenko (Research Associate, JRC, SOAS)
November
11/11/12
- Tsunami, 611 days later
Mr Yoshihiro Murai (Governor of Miyagi)
14/11/12
- Found in Translation: Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Hermann Muthesius and Japan
Neil Jackson (Professorial Research Associate, SOAS)
21/11/12
- Art Sections of Japanese Department Stores and New Middle Class’s Art Consumption for Distinction
Younjung Oh (Robert & Lisa Sainsbury Fellow, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures)
28/11/12
- Hokusai Manga: The Principles of Compilation
Evgeny Steiner (SOAS Professorial Research Associate)
December
05/12/12
- On the Road: Japanese Porcelain goes West
John Carswell (Professorial Research Associate, SOAS)
12/12/12
- Crisis and change in the system of innovation: the Japanese pharmaceutical industry since the 1990s
Maki Umemura (Cardiff University)
