Events archive

Nissan Seminar

Warriors of the Buddha: Religion and Violence in Premodern Japan

Professor Mikael Adolphson, University of Cambridge
2 December 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
Nissan Seminar

Bringing Back Yoshikono: Songs of 7-7-7-5 in a WWII-Era Osaka Rakugo Magazine

Dr Matthew Shores, University of Cambridge
25 November 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
Maple trees at Mama, Tekona Shrine and linked bridge, from the series One hundred famous views of Edo, 1857
Nissan Seminar

Landscape, Cityscape: Hiroshige woodblock prints at the Ashmolean Museum

Dr Clare Pollard and Ms Mitsuko Ito, The Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford
18 November 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
Please note this is a change of speaker than previously advertised. Dr Clare Pollard and Ms Mitsuko Ito, The Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford Landscape, Cityscape: Hiroshige woodblock prints at... Read more
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Abenomics: Has it worked? Will it fail?

Professor Sébastien Lechevalier, Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (EHESS), Paris
11 November 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
Nissan Seminar

Open Door or Sphere of Influence?: Japanese-French Negotiations over Fujian in 1906-7

Dr Seung-young Kim, University of Sheffield
4 November 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
Nissan Seminar

Uniquely Japanese? Data science approaches to bilingualism and computer-mediated communication

Dr Scott Hale, Senior Data Scientist, Oxford Internet Institute and Faculty Fellow, Turing Institute
28 October 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
Nissan Seminar

Prisons and Forced Labour on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido

Dr Pia Jolliffe, University of Oxford
21 October 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
Prisons and Forced Labour on Japan's northern island of Hokkaido
Nissan Seminar

Revisiting Kurosawa’s women; what a transcultural approach reveals

Dr Dolores Martinez, SOAS
14 October 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford,
Revisiting Kurosawa’s women; what a transcultural approach reveals
Nissan Seminar

Tracing Empire: Japanese Imperial cinema and its legacy

Dr Kate E Taylor-Jones, Senior Lecturer in East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield
20 May 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
Tracing Empire: Japanese Imperial cinema and its legacy
Nissan Seminar

The Normality of Abnormality: Understanding Strategy and Military Identity in Post-war Japan

Dr Alessio Patalano, Senior Lecturer in War Studies, King's College London
13 May 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
The ‘Normality’ of ‘Abnormality’: Understanding Strategy and Military Identity in Post-war Japan
Nissan Seminar

The Role of Mapping in the Emergence of Japan as a Sea Power in the Late-nineteenth-century

Dr Radu Leca, Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow at the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures
6 May 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
The Role of Mapping in the Emergence of Japan as a Sea Power in the Late-nineteenth-century Abstract: The development of maritime mapping in nineteenth-century Japan is indebted both to the legacy of... Read more
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Decentring the Urban: Reclaiming Rural Space for Modern Living in Colonial Korea and After

Professor Albert Park, Claremont McKenna College
28 April 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Dahrendorf Room, Founders’ Building, St. Antony’s College, Oxford
Decentring the Urban: Reclaiming Rural Space for Modern Living in Colonial Korea and After Abstract What place does the rural have under modernity? How have those in the rural negotiated social... Read more
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Re-examining Japan in Global Context

18 March 2016 - 2:00pm to 6:45pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
This workshop is held in conjuction with the Suntory Foundation of Japan. Purpose of the Forum The challenges that Japan faced during the so-called two lost decades were not unique; Japan was merely... Read more
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Slow Cities?: The Revitalisation of Shrinking Communities in Japan

Professor Gert-Jan Hospers, Radboud University, University of Twente, Mr Pier Giorgio Oliveti, General Secretariat, Cittaslow International, Ms Heuishilja Chang, PhD student, University of Oxford, Professor Hirokazu Sakuno, Shimane University, Dr Peter Matanle, University of Sheffield, Dr Taro Hirai, Hirosaki University
10 March 2016 - 9:30am to 4:45pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
Cittaslow (Slow City) is a rural development movement of small towns started in Italy in 1999. The movement aims to improve their quality of life and sustainability by emphasizing the individual... Read more