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.
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2013
January
09/01/13
- Growing Up in a World at War: Personal Documents by Children and Adolescents in Wartime Japan
Aaron Moore (University of Manchester)
16/01/13
- The Department Store, the Mannequin Girl, and the Politics of the Gaze in 1930s Japan
Irena Hayter (University of Leeds)
23/01/13
- A Forgotten Buddhist Astronomy: History of "Bonreki" Movement in 19th Century Japan
Professor Masahiko Okada (Tenri University)
30/01/13
- Japanese Literature after March 11th : first approaches
Anne Bayard-Sakai
February
06/02/13
- Cross-dressing as Lady Murasaki: Tokugawa vernacular translations of classical Japanese texts
Rebekah Clements (University of Cambridge)
20/02/13
- Unfitting Parts: the Moral, Political, and Informal Economies of Japanese Organ Transplants
Alessia Costa (2012-13 Tsuda Bursary Recipient)
27/02/13
- Morito Tatsuo’s “Bunka Kokka-ron”: The State, the Citizen, and Democratic Culture in Early Postwar Japan
Peter Siegenthaler (Robert & Lisa Sainsbury Fellow, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures)
March
06/03/13
- 'Creating a 'Usable Past' - Japanese Television Drama and the Memory of the Second World War
Griseldis Kirsch (SOAS)
13/03/13
- Prewar revolutionary culture and the Fukushima Catastrophe
Norma Field (University of Chicago, Robert S. Ingersoll Distinguished Service Professor Emerita)
20/03/13
July
October
02/10/13
- TBC
Sharalyn Orbaugh
