Events archive
Nissan Seminar
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
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
Nissan Seminar
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
Nissan Seminar
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
Irena Powell
9 November 2016 - 12:30pm to 2:00pm
Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s College
A seminar to consider and celebrate the publication of ‘The Daughter who sold her Mother” a memoir of family and survival in the Holocaust by Irena Powell. There will be an introductory presentation... Read more
Nissan Seminar
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Nissan Seminar
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
Nissan Seminar
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
Nissan Seminar
Professor Amy Borovoy, Princeton University
11 March 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
The Syndicate Room, The Old Main Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
Ruth Benedict’s Cultural Relativism: Imagining Democracy in Japan During World War II Please note that this seminar takes place on Friday 11th March 2016 at 5.00 p.m. in the Syndicate Room, The Old... Read more