JRC Seminar Programme
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Forthcoming Events
Dr Chris Perkins (University of Edinburgh)
This paper explores the writings of Japanese university students imprisoned in 1969 after the battle for Tokyo University.
23 January 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMStill Thinking from the Yamanote: space, place and mobility in Tokyo
Dr Jamie Coates and Dr Mark Pendleton (University of Sheffield)
How do people live in the world's largest metropolis? This talk explores this question through Tokyo's iconic loop line, the Yamanote.
30 January 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMLoss, Profit and Opportunity: Local Economic Responses to the Great Kantō Earthquake of 1923
Prof Janet Hunter (LSE)
The economics of a disaster: Japan in 1923.
6 February 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMJapan's Long Stagnation, Deflation, and Abenomics - Mechanisms and Lessons
Prof Kenji Aramaki (Tokyo Woman's Christian University & University of Tokyo)
Launch of Kenji Aramaki's new book on Japan's Long Stagnation, Deflation, and Abenomics - Mechanisms and Lessons.
27 February 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMJapan's Imperial Underworlds: Intimate Encounters at the Borders of Empire
Prof David Ambaras (North Carolina State University)
In this lecture, David Ambaras reveals how the movement of migrants, smugglers, pirates, and trafficked people between China and Japan -- and their sensationalization in the popular press -- created surprising cross-currents in the politics of Sino-Japanese relations during the years of Japanese imperial expansion.
6 March 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PMProf Stephen Dodd (SOAS)
Mishima Popular Literature as a powerful critique of post-war Japanese culture.
20 March 2019, Russell Square: College Buildings, Khalili Lecture Theatre, 5:00 PM - 7:00 PM