Events archive
1 November 2013 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College
Sir David Warren, Chairman, The Japan Society Britain and Japan; reflections on the bilateral relationship From its start in the 1980s the institute has organised a series of Nissan Seminars in... Read more
25 October 2013 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College
Mr Keishi Mitsui, Curator, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography Conserving Photographs after Japan’s Tsunami: The Example of the RD3 Project The seminar coincides with the Pitt Rivers Museum’s... Read more
25 October 2013 - 10:00am to 11:00am
Nissan Institute Seminar Room
Special Seminar by Professor Naoki Wakabayashi, Faculty of Economics, Kyoto University Revival of the Japanese Film Industry through Media Mix Promotion Alliances: The Power of Film Production... Read more
18 October 2013 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College
Dr Alex Jacoby, Oxford Brookes University Modern Miracles: Koreeda’s Kiseki, trainspotting in Kyushu and the 21st-century Japanese family From its start in the 1980s the institute has organised a... Read more
Nissan Seminar
Professor Sheldon Garon, Nissan Professor of History and East Asian Studies, Department of History, Princeton University
17 October 2013 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Pavilion Room, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College
Transnational History and Japan A podcast of this talk can be found on our podcast site .
17 May 2013 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College
Dr Irena Hayter, Lecturer in Japanese Studies, University of Leeds The Department Store, the Mannequin Girl, and the Politics of the Gaze in Interwar Japan From its start in the 1980s the institute... Read more
3 May 2013 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College
Tomoko Kitagawa, Visiting Scholar, Needham Research Institute (Former College Fellow/Lecturer, Harvard University) From 1585 to 1615: Revisiting the Historical Narratives of Japan’s Unification Era
26 April 2013 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College
Professor Paul Newman, BP Professor of Information Engineering, University of Oxford Robotics for Self Driving (Nissan) cars From its start in the 1980s the institute has organised a series of Nissan... Read more
14 March 2013 - 2:00pm to 15 March 2013 - 6:30pm
Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre
Aims This conference aims to engage scholars and public figures working on ‘Japan’ as a field of study in a reflexive discussion on the state and future of Japanese Studies, specifically to... Read more
7 March 2013 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Dahrendorf Room, Founders’ Building, St. Antony’s College, Oxford
Ito Peng, University of Toronto All in the Family? Migrants, Nationhood, and Care Regimes in Asia and North America From its start in the 1980s the institute has organised a series of Nissan Seminars... Read more
28 February 2013 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Dahrendorf Room, Founders’ Building, St. Antony’s College, Oxford
Adam Komisarof, Reitaku University The Role of Aligning Acculturation Strategies in Addressing Japan’s Labor Shortage From its start in the 1980s the institute has organised a series of Nissan... Read more
21 February 2013 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Dahrendorf Room, Founders’ Building, St. Antony’s College, Oxford
Susan Long, John Carroll University Revisiting Siblings and Grandchildren: The Meaning of Japanese Family Relationships in the Old Age Society From its start in the 1980s the institute has organised... Read more
Philip Grover, Acting Head of Photograph and Manuscript Collections, Pitt Rivers Museum
14 February 2013 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Dahrendorf Room, Founders’ Building, St. Antony’s College, Oxford
Samurai Abroad: Photographs of the Takenouchi Mission to Europe (1862)
7 February 2013 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Dahrendorf Room, Founders’ Building, St. Antony’s College, Oxford
Masahiro Kotosaka, Said Business School The Institutional Context for Rapidly Internationalizing Japanese Firms: Constraint to resource, bilateral to multilateral From its start in the 1980s the... Read more
31 January 2013 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Dahrendorf Room, Founders’ Building, St. Antony’s College, Oxford
Katrina Moore, University of New South Wales The Pedagogical Power of Noh: An Ethnographer's Journey From its start in the 1980s the institute has organised a series of Nissan Seminars in Japanese... Read more