Friday 10 May 2019

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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

• 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 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 8 March 2024

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

Monday 11 March 2024

• 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

• 17:00 - A Conversation with Author Sayaka Murata – Living, Writing and Transformation
  Sayaka Murata
  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 11 October 2024

• 17:30 - A Conversation with Asako Yuzuki
  Asako Yuzuki
  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