• 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)