Friday 10 May 2019 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 27 November 2020 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 12:00 - Matsuo Bashô 松尾芭蕉 and the Poetics of Fûkyô 風狂
  Professor Peipei Qiu (Vassar College)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 4 December 2020 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 29 October 2021 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 15:15 - The Antebellum African American Press and Solidarity with Japan
  Dr Natalia Doan (University of Oxford)
  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 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 16 February 2023 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Thursday 23 February 2023 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

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

Friday 13 October 2023 (1st Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Michaelmas Term)

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

Friday 3 November 2023 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 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 (1st Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (2nd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (6th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (7th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 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 8 March 2024 (8th Week, Hilary Term)

• 13:30 - Japan Politics Colloquium
  TBA
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Monday 11 March 2024 (9th Week, Hilary Term)

• 09:00 - The Free and Open Indo-Pacific: Japan's Strategic Vision Goes Global
  TBA
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 26 April 2024 (1st Week, Trinity Term)

• 17:00 - A Conversation with Author Sayaka Murata – Living, Writing and Transformation
  Sayaka Murata
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 3 May 2024 (2nd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (3rd Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (4th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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 (5th Week, Trinity Term)

• 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