• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organiser: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies
• Timing: Fridays at 5.00 pm
• Web Address: https://www.nissan.ox.ac.uk
• Organising department: Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies

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)

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)

Friday 17 February 2023

• 09:00 - Reforming Capitalism, Going Digital and Going Green: Does Japan Hold Answers?
  TBA

Thursday 23 February 2023

• 14:00 - Going Logo: What to Expect of Japan's G7 Presidency
  Professor Hugo Dobson (University of Sheffield)

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)

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)

Friday 10 March 2023

• 10:00 - Missing Bodies, Missing Voices: Ordinary Lives and the Reframing of ‘Postwar Japan’
  TBA

Friday 13 October 2023

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

Friday 18 October 2024

• 17:00 - I Am a Living Object: Decolonizing Museum Spaces with Indigenous Narratives
  Dr Kanako Uzawa

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)

Friday 1 November 2024

• 17:00 - Tanaka Denjiro VII - A Kabuki Music Perfomance
  Tanaka Denjiro

Friday 8 November 2024

• 17:00 - Ryūtei Saryū – Rakugo Performer
  Ryūtei Saryū

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

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)

Friday 29 November 2024

• 13:00 - Joint Workshop with the Department of Sociology: Dispute Resolution: Exploring Criminal, Informal, and Alternative Perspectives
  Various Speakers

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)

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)

Friday 7 February 2025

• 17:00 - Balancing Commerce and Diplomacy: Japan's Strategy for Economic Security
  Professor Christina Davis (Harvard University)

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)

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)

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)

Friday 28 February 2025

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

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)

Friday 14 March 2025

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

Tuesday 29 April 2025

• 17:00 - Violence and the Politics of Form in Early Modern Japanese Fiction
  Professor David C. Atherton (Harvard University), Jennifer Guest (University of Oxford), Professor Sho Konishi (University of Oxford - History/OSGA)

Friday 2 May 2025

• 17:00 - Bringing Dark Heritage to Light: Monuments to Wartime Foreign Laborers in Japan
  Professor Andrew Gordon (Harvard University)

Friday 9 May 2025

• 09:30 - Conference: Re-assembling Manchukuo from below: Invisible Minorities, Politics, and Imagination
  Various Speakers
• 10:30 - Conference: Re-assembling Manchukuo from below: Invisible Minorities, Politics, and Imagination
  Various Speakers

Thursday 15 May 2025

• 10:00 - Tanaka Symposium in Japanese Studies 2025: Tohoku and Transnational Solidarities
  Various Speakers

Friday 16 May 2025

• 17:15 - OSGA 20th Anniversary Weekend: Introduction and Reflections on 20 years of SIAS/OSGA
  The Hon. Kevin Rudd (former Prime Minister of Australia), Prof Roger Goodman (Social Sciences Division, University of Oxford), Professor Paul Chaisty (University of Oxford)

Saturday 17 May 2025

• 09:30 - OSGA 20th Anniversary Weekend: ‘Social and Economic Challenges and Opportunities’ Roundtable
  Jonathan Lusthaus (University of Oxford), Professor Rachel Murphy (University of Oxford), Janaki Srinivasan (University of Oxford), Professor Hugh Whittaker (University of Oxford), Dr Gregory Thaler (University of Oxford)

Thursday 22 May 2025

• 17:00 - TANGO IN JAPAN: Cosmopolitanism Beyond the West
  Dr Yuiko Asaba (SOAS)

Friday 23 May 2025

• 17:00 - Decolonial and Indigenous Military Geographies of Okinawa and Beyond
  Dr Hidefumi Nishiyama (University of Oulu)

Tuesday 3 June 2025

• 17:00 - Anorexia nervosa in Japan today: different from 19th century England and 18th century Kyoto?
  Professor Aya Nishizono-Maher (Meiji Gakuin University)