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Japan Research Centre

JRC Seminar Programme

The seminars are free and open to the public unless otherwise stated.

Admission is on a first-come, first-served basis.

Please note that we do not distribute seminar notes.

For further information contact the Centres and Programmes Office.

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Forthcoming Events

Cross-dressing as Lady Murasaki: Tokugawa vernacular translations of classical Japanese texts

Rebekah Clements (University of Cambridge)

6 February 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Unfitting Parts: the Moral, Political, and Informal Economies of Japanese Organ Transplants

Alessia Costa (2012-13 Tsuda Bursary Recipient)

20 February 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

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)

27 February 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

'Creating a 'Usable Past' - Japanese Television Drama and the Memory of the Second World War

Griseldis Kirsch (SOAS)

6 March 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM

Japanese newspapers in a changing media environment

Marc Loehr

20 March 2013, Russell Square: College Buildings, G50, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM