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2019
October
16/10/19
- Slavery and Consent in Meiji Japan
Dr Bill Mihalopoulos (School of Languages and Global Studies, UCLAN)
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The talk investigates one of the rare moments when fundamental concepts that define the modern - property in person and contractual consent - are made and modelled in front of our eyes in Meiji Japan.
23/10/19
- Oppenheimer: a modern Noh play (2015) about karma, suffering and liberation
Prof Allan Marett FAHA (University of Sydney)
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Allan Marett’s modern Noh play Oppenheimer (2015), presents a Buddhist perspective on the role of Robert Oppenheimer in the creation of the bombs that destroyed the cities or Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
30/10/19
- Japanese Mermaids in Darwin’s West
Dr Mateja Kovacic (Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford)
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Japanese fabricated mermaids, scientific modernity and the making of Darwin’s West.
November
13/11/19
- “Marriage? I’m too busy for that…”: Japan's Volleyball Women of 1968 and Overcoming Gender Norms
PD Dr Christian Tagsold (Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf, Germany)
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A year before the upcoming Tokyo Olympics, Christian Tagsold analyzes, how the Japanese volleyball women of the 1968 Olympic team struggled with gender norms and social expectations of marriage.
20/11/19
- Waste knot: Materials, waste and productivity in postwar Japan
Dr Sarah Teasley (Royal College of Art)
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What materials can tell us about industrial and social change in postwar Japan.
27/11/19
- Kumo (work in progress): sci-fi, folklore and disaster in future Japan
Kirsten Irving (Editor at Sidekick Books) and Renee O'Drobinak (Co-founder at Ladies of the Press)
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Post-apocalyptic poet and artist discuss their WIP poetry/illustration sci-fi collaboration, Kumo.
27/11/19
- Overcome by the Present: The Tyranny of the Immediate in the Literature of Takahashi Gen’ichirō
Dr Filippo Cervelli (SOAS)
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This talk argues that immediacy and the longing to forge new communal ties are a fundamental theme in the literature by postmodern writer Takahashi Gen’ichirō, especially in light of recurring critical debates theorising the “end of literature” in the contemporary age.
December
04/12/19
- Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan
Assoc. Prof. Justin Jesty (University of Washington)
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Justin Jesty presents the talk "Art and Engagement in Early Postwar Japan" based on his recent book by the same title.