Friday 10 May 2019

• 11:00 - Keynote Speech -- Reopening the 'Opening of Japan' Conference
  Professor Sho Konishi (University of Oxford - History/OSGA)
  CONFERENCE: 'Reopening the "Opening of Japan"' - 150th Anniversary of the Meiji Restoration
• 11:15 - The Art of Reopening the ‘Opening of Japan’
  Professor Christopher Bush (Northwestern University), Dr Maki Fukuoka (University of Leeds), Professor Toshio Watanabe (The University of the Arts London)
  CONFERENCE: 'Reopening the "Opening of Japan"' - 150th Anniversary of the Meiji Restoration
• 14:00 - Of Satire and Romance: Questioning Narratives of Civilisation and Enlightenment
  Natalia Doan (University of Oxford), Warren Stanislaus (University of Oxford)
  CONFERENCE: 'Reopening the "Opening of Japan"' - 150th Anniversary of the Meiji Restoration
• 15:15 - Humanistic Naturalism and the Garden of One Light: The Competing Modernities of Kunikida Doppo and Nishida Tenkō
  Dr Ariel Acosta (Waseda University), Yu Sakai (University of Oxford)
  CONFERENCE: 'Reopening the "Opening of Japan"' - 150th Anniversary of the Meiji Restoration
• 16:15 - Transnational Political Culture: Literature and Graffiti Across the Tokugawa and Meiji Periods
  Professor Richard John Lynn (University of Toronto), Dr Kiri Paramore (Leiden University)
  CONFERENCE: 'Reopening the "Opening of Japan"' - 150th Anniversary of the Meiji Restoration
• 17:30 - Reopening Graves to Find Civilization: Osteology and Cultural Enlightenment in Meiji Japan -- Keynote Speech for the Reopening 'the Opening of Japan' Conference
  Professor James E. Ketelaar (University of Chicago)
  CONFERENCE: 'Reopening the "Opening of Japan"' - 150th Anniversary of the Meiji Restoration

Saturday 11 May 2019

• 09:30 - New Directions in the Study of Religion in the ‘Opening of Japan‘
  Dr Esra Almas - Assistant Professor in Translation Studies (Şehir University), Nile Green - Professor & Ibn Khaldun Endowed Chair in World History (UCLA), Chinami Oka (University of Oxford)
  CONFERENCE: 'Reopening the "Opening of Japan"' - 150th Anniversary of the Meiji Restoration
• 11:00 - Russian and British encounters with Japanese justice and resulting transnational intellectual discourses on Meiji Japan
  Dr Robert Fletcher (University of Warwick), Dr Pia Jolliffe (Research and Teaching Associate, Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies)
  CONFERENCE: 'Reopening the "Opening of Japan"' - 150th Anniversary of the Meiji Restoration
• 13:15 - Mermaids, Magic Lanterns, and the Standard Diving Dress: Transnational Histories of Nature and Technology in Historical Non-Places
  Lewis Bremner (Oxford), Maro Dotulong (Oxford), Dr Mateja Kovacic (University of Oxford)
  CONFERENCE: 'Reopening the "Opening of Japan"' - 150th Anniversary of the Meiji Restoration
• 14:45 - Copyright Law and Border Control: Transnational Histories of Translators, Publishers, Passports, and Marine Animal Hunters
  Maj Hartmann (KU Leuven), Takahiro Yamamoto (University of Heidelberg)
  CONFERENCE: 'Reopening the "Opening of Japan"' - 150th Anniversary of the Meiji Restoration
• 16:00 - Queer Progress and ‘Anti-Social’ Love: A Gendered ‘Opening of Japan’
  Eiko Honda (University of Oxford), Dr Aiko Tanaka (Kyoto University)
  CONFERENCE: 'Reopening the "Opening of Japan"' - 150th Anniversary of the Meiji Restoration
• 17:00 - Reopening 'The Great Gate of Kiev' in Akira Kurosawa's No Regrets for Our Youth (Waga seishun ni kuinashi, 1946)
  Olga Solovieva (University of Chicago)
  CONFERENCE: 'Reopening the "Opening of Japan"' - 150th Anniversary of the Meiji Restoration

Friday 4 December 2020

• 12:00 - Family-Run Universities in Japan
  Dr Jeremy Breaden (Monash University), Professor Roger Goodman (University of Oxford)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 22 October 2021

• 12:00 - Red/White/Yellow: Considering the Racial Situation in Japan from the Perspective of Marriage Discrimination Experienced by Ainu Women
  TBA
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 29 October 2021

• 15:15 - The Antebellum African American Press and Solidarity with Japan
  Dr Natalia Doan (University of Oxford)
  Black Transnationalism and Japan Conference
• 15:40 - What "Japan's Black Studies" Teaches Us about Race and Solidarity
  Professor Yuichiro Onishi (University of Minnesota, Twin Cities)
  Black Transnationalism and Japan Conference
• 16:20 - Intimacy as Methodology: Black and Japanese Relations in Postwar America
  Dr Sonia Gomez (Santa Clara University)
  Black Transnationalism and Japan Conference
• 18:05 - Epistemology of the Violets: Heuristics toward a Sensorium of Afro-Japanese Co-creativity
  Dr. Will Bridges (University of Rochester)
  Black Transnationalism and Japan Conference
• 18:35 - Cold Japan: Grime Cyborgs in Black London
  Warren A. Stanislaus (University of Oxford)
  Black Transnationalism and Japan Conference
• 19:05 - Afro-Asia as Neoliberal Intimacy: Black-Japanese Mixed-Race Experiences in Contemporary Japan
  Professor Marvin D. Sterling (Indiana University, Bloomington)
  Black Transnationalism and Japan Conference

Thursday 2 February 2023

• 14:00 - A Defeated Samurai of Japan’s Civil War and the Transnational Re-imagination of Civilisation in the Late Nineteenth-Century United States
  Dr Chinami Oka (Tanaka Junior Research Fellow in Japanese Studies, Pembroke College, Oxford)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Thursday 9 February 2023

• 14:00 - Ivan Svit and Ukrainian - Japanese collaboration in Manchuria,1922-1945
  Dr Olga Khomenko (CARA/British Academy Fellow, Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies)

Thursday 16 February 2023

• 14:00 - Meaningful, but lacking in depth? Critical attitudes to Sinitic material in the Poetry Contest in Six Hundred Rounds
  Status: This talk has been cancelled
  Dr Thomas McAuley (University of Sheffield)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 17 February 2023

• 09:00 - Reforming Capitalism, Going Digital and Going Green: Does Japan Hold Answers?
  TBA
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Thursday 23 February 2023

• 14:00 - Going Logo: What to Expect of Japan's G7 Presidency
  Professor Hugo Dobson (University of Sheffield)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Thursday 2 March 2023

• 14:00 - Beyond "trans-border": Translation and Difference in Contemporary Japanese Literature.
  Dr Vicky Young (Kawashima Associate Professor in Modern Japanese Literature and Culture, University of Cambridge)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Thursday 9 March 2023

• 14:00 - Commoning the City: The Townscape Councils of Kyoto
  Professor Christoph Brumann (Max Planck Institute of Social Anthropology, Halle, Germany)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 10 March 2023

• 10:00 - Missing Bodies, Missing Voices: Ordinary Lives and the Reframing of ‘Postwar Japan’
  TBA
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 28 April 2023

• 12:00 - “Are We Allowed to Find Beauty in the Face of Death and Destruction: Ishiuchi Miyako’s Hiroshima and Postwar Japan”
  Professor Yoshikuni Igarashi (Vanderbilt University and Visiting Research Scholar at the International Research Center for Japanese Studies (Nichibunken))
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 5 May 2023

• 16:00 - Democratizing Luxury: Name Brands, Advertising, and Consumption in Modern Japan
  Professor Annika A. Culver (Florida State University)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 12 May 2023

• 12:00 - How do Japanese public high schools respond to immigrant students? Challenges of diversity and educational equity in Tokyo
  Professor Misako Nukaga (University of Tokyo), Professor Fumiko Takahashi (University of Tokyo), Professor Tomoko Tokunaga (University of Tsukuba)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 19 May 2023

• 12:00 - 日本語の役割語における性差の表現 Expressing Gender Differences in Japanese Role Language
  Professor Satoshi Kinsui (Director of the Osaka Study Center, The Open University of Japan)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 13 October 2023

• 17:00 - Japan’s threat perception during the cold war: any lessons for today?
  Eitan Oren (King's College, London)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 20 October 2023

• 17:00 - The Buddhist Body of the King: Ritual practices of consecration in medieval Japan
  Prof. Lucia Dolce (SOAS)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 27 October 2023

• 17:00 - The universal language of the body
  Tarinainanika Theatre Company (Tarinainanika Theatre Company)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 3 November 2023

• 17:00 - Japan’s “three national security documents” and fundamental reinforcement of defence capabilities: reinforcing a radical military trajectory
  Prof. Christopher W. Hughes (University of Warwick)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 10 November 2023

• 17:00 - The Compass Rose meets the Rising Sun: a new era of NATO-Japan Relations
  Dr Wrenn Lindgren (Norwegian Institute of International Affairs)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Wednesday 15 November 2023

• 17:00 - The return of geopolitics in East Asia: Japan’s responses to regional uncertainty
  Mr Koichiro Matsumoto (Director of Research at the Japan Institute of International Affairs)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 17 November 2023

• 17:00 - From ‘closedness’ to ‘closeness’: how changing community values sustains a traditional craft industry
  Dr Shilla Lee (Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 24 November 2023

• 17:00 - Kabuki music and compositions
  Denjiro Tanaka VII and associates (Denjiro Tanaka VII and associates)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 1 December 2023

• 17:00 - Geoeconomic implications of the Japan-EU Relations – trade, digitalization and sustainability
  Prof. Patrik Ström (Stockholm School of Economics)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Thursday 18 January 2024

• 14:00 - Criminal Crossroads: Underworld Dynamics in Contemporary Japan
  Dr Martina Baradel (University of Oxford)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Thursday 25 January 2024

• 14:00 - Sensory Perception: Cultural Exchange, Development and Understanding
  Miss Nicole Watson (Director of Surface Area Dance Company)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Thursday 1 February 2024

• 14:00 - Affect, Emotion and Sensibility in Modern Japanese Literature
  Professor Reiko Abe Auestad (University of Oslo)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Thursday 8 February 2024

• 14:00 - Memories of Cinema-Going in Postwar Japan: An Ethno-History
  Professor Jennifer Coates (University of Sheffield)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Thursday 15 February 2024

• 14:00 - Language as a Technology for Shaping Professional Identity: Translating ‘A Manual of the Steam Engine’ in Mid-Nineteenth Century Japan
  Dr Ruselle Meade (Cardiff University)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Thursday 22 February 2024

• 14:00 - Eleven Winters of Discontent: The Siberian Internment and the Making of a New Japan
  Professor Sherzod Muminov (University of East Anglia)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Thursday 29 February 2024

• 12:00 - This Monk Wears Heels – Buddhism and Sexuality
  Ven. Kodo Nishimura (Artist, Buddhist Monk, and LGBTQ+ Activist)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Thursday 7 March 2024

• 17:00 - A Preview Test Screening of a New Documentary Film - The Squid and the Pine by John Williams
  John Williams (Director)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 3 May 2024

• 17:00 - New Life From the Ruins of Japanese Death Rites
  Dr Hannah Gould (University of Melbourne)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 10 May 2024

• 17:00 - Making of the “Feebleminded”: Gender and Family for the Medical Discourse Around Eugenic Sterilization in 1950s Japan
  Dr Aya Homei (University of Manchester)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 17 May 2024

• 17:00 - Great Power Politics and Japan’s Immigration Dilemma
  Dr Anand Rao (SUNY Geneseo)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Wednesday 22 May 2024

• 17:00 - Valedictory Lecture – A ‘Class’-Less Society Japan? How is Inequality Interpreted Without the Concept of Class?
  Professor Takehiko Kariya (University of Oxford)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 24 May 2024

• 17:00 - Book Launch – Reopening the Opening of Japan: Transnational Approaches to Modern Japan and the Wider World
  Professor Sho Konishi (University of Oxford), Dr Lewis Bremner (University of Cambridge), Dr Chinami Oka (University of Oxford), Dr Mateja Kovacic (Hong Kong Baptist University), Joel Littler (University of Oxford), Dr Manimporok (Brown University)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 18 October 2024

• 17:00 - I Am a Living Object: Decolonizing Museum Spaces with Indigenous Narratives
  Dr Kanako Uzawa
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 25 October 2024

• 17:00 - Beneath Modernism: The Transformation of Popular Culture from Edo to Modern Japan
  Dr Ryoko Matsuba (University of East Anglia)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 1 November 2024

• 17:00 - Tanaka Denjiro VII - A Kabuki Music Perfomance
  Tanaka Denjiro
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 8 November 2024

• 17:00 - Ryūtei Saryū – Rakugo Performer
  Ryūtei Saryū
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Tuesday 12 November 2024

• 17:00 - CANCELLED - Princess Akiko of Mikasa – A Tale of the Royal and Imperial Costumes: The Trajectory of UK-Japan Relations - CANCELLED
  Princess Akiko of Mikasa
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 22 November 2024

• 17:00 - What Remains Invisible Still: Fukushima by Tsuchida Hiromi (2018) as the Formation of a Metaphor
  Dr Maki Fukuoka (University of Leeds)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 29 November 2024

• 13:00 - Joint Workshop with the Department of Sociology: Dispute Resolution: Exploring Criminal, Informal, and Alternative Perspectives
  Various Speakers
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 24 January 2025

• 17:00 - Religion at the margins: Fear and belonging in minority religious communities in Japan
  Professor Erica Baffelli (University of Manchester)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 31 January 2025

• 17:00 - Meritocracy’s Children: Coming of Age and Senses of Injustice in Seoul and Tokyo
  Dr Yuki Asahina (University of Manchester)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 7 February 2025

• 17:00 - Balancing Commerce and Diplomacy: Japan's Strategy for Economic Security
  Professor Christina Davis (Harvard University)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Tuesday 11 February 2025

• 17:00 - Navigating Narratives: Tsurayuki's Tosa Diary as History and Fiction
  Professor Gustav Heldt (University of Virginia), Professor Sho Konishi (University of Oxford - History/OSGA), Dr Pan Tomé Valencia (University of Oxford - AMES)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 14 February 2025

• 17:00 - Searching for Zan: A More-Than-Human Ethnography of Extinction, Militarism, and Protest in Okinawa
  Dr Marius Palz (Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 21 February 2025

• 17:00 - Mori Nao Divorces Her Samurai Husband and His Family Puts Him in a Cage
  Professor Luke Roberts (UC Santa Barbara)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 28 February 2025

• 08:30 - Symposium: Healthcare delivery in crisis? The Potential for Mutual Learning between Japan and the UK
  Various Speakers
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 7 March 2025

• 17:00 - Startup Capitalism: New Approaches to Innovation Strategies in East Asia
  Dr Robyn Klingler-Vidra (Associate Dean (Global Engagement) and Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship and Sustainability at King's Business School)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 14 March 2025

• 17:00 - Japan's Free and Open Indo-Pacific: From Vision to Reality
  Dr Eva Pejsova (Vrije Universiteit Brussel)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies