Friday 3 November 2017 (4th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 14:00 - Beyond the Gender Gap in Contemporary Japan
  Various Speakers
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 10 November 2017 (5th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Japan and the Great Divergence
  Dr Penny Francks (University of Leeds)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 17 November 2017 (6th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - The “Salaryman” Samurai: Japan’s Medieval Warrior and the “Birth” of the Early Modern World
  Those travelling from outside Oxford are advised to check on the Institutes website in case there has been a cancellation or change of venue: www.nissan.ox.ac.uk/events
  Jeff Kurashige (Keio University and Cambridge University)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 24 November 2017 (7th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Akira Kurosawa’s Reception of Tolstoy in the film Ikiru (To Live, 1952) in the Context of Postwar Japan
  Those travelling from outside Oxford are advised to check on the Institutes website in case there has been a cancellation or change of venue: www.nissan.ox.ac.uk/events
  Olga Solovieva (University of Chicago)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Tuesday 28 November 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - "Japan and Brexit"
  Those travelling from outside Oxford are advised to check on the Institutes website in case there has been a cancellation or change of venue: www.nissan.ox.ac.uk/events
  Various Speakers
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies

Friday 1 December 2017 (8th Week, Michaelmas Term)

• 17:00 - Mishima Yukio and Takahashi Kazumi: Commitment and Literature in 1960s Japan
  Those travelling from outside Oxford are advised to check on the Institutes website in case there has been a cancellation or change of venue: www.nissan.ox.ac.uk/events
  Dr Thomas Garcin (Pembroke College)
  Nissan Institute Seminar in Japanese Studies