Professor Kristi Govella - Oxford Talks

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Professor Kristi Govella

University of Oxford

https://www.osga.ox.ac.uk/people/professor-kristi-govella

Events this person is hosting:

Thursday 16 October 2025

17:00 - Scandals, Secrets and News: How Manuscripts Reshape Our Knowledge of Edo Culture
Professor Peter Kornicki (University of Cambridge)
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 17 October 2025

17:00 - Translated Scholarship and Japanese Universities: How Have Translations of Western Scholarship into Japanese Affected and Biased Japanese Academia?
Professor Takehiko Kariya (University of Oxford)
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Thursday 23 October 2025

17:00 - Regional Financial Arrangements in East Asia
Dr Yoichi Nemoto (Hitotsubashi University)
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Thursday 30 October 2025

17:00 - Culture Must Be Defended: Japanese Conservatism and International Relations
Dr Karin Narita (University of Sheffield)
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Thursday 6 November 2025

17:00 - Set My Heart Bonfire? (Dis)embodiment in Japanese Fiction and Literary Translation
Helen O’Horan
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Thursday 13 November 2025

17:00 - Words That Move: Emotions in Abe Shinzō’s Foreign Policy Rhetoric
Professor Raymond Yamamoto (Aarhus University)
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Thursday 20 November 2025

17:00 - Surnames, Same Sex Marriage, and the Interesting Evolution of Constitutional Litigation in Japan
Professor Colin P.A. Jones (Doshisha Law School)
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Thursday 27 November 2025

17:00 - How Firms, Bureaucrats, and Ministries Benefit from the Revolving Door: Evidence from Japan
Professor Trevor Incerti (University of Amsterdam)
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Thursday 4 December 2025

17:00 - Dead Letters: Reuse, Recycling, and Emotions in Japanese Buddhist Manuscripts
Dr Halle O’Neal (University of Edinburgh)
Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies