Events archive
Nissan Seminar
Prof. Dr. Axel Klein, Institute of East Asian Studies, Universität of Duisburg-Essen
7 March 2014 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Dahrendorf Room, Founders’ Building, St. Antony’s College, Oxford
The political arena of low fertility - comparing Japan and Germany
Nissan Seminar
Professor Leonard Schoppa, Department of Politics, University of Virginia
28 February 2014 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Dahrendorf Room, Founders’ Building, St. Antony’s College, Oxford
Declining Fertility Rates in Japan and other Low Fertility Nations: Can We Diagnose and Cure this "Disease"?
Nissan Seminar
Professor Kazuo Yamaguchi, The University of Chicago
21 February 2014 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Dahrendorf Room, Founders’ Building, St. Antony’s College, Oxford
A Comparison of the Determinants of Low Marital Fertility between Japan and Korea
Nissan Seminar
Dr Ekaterina Hertog, Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford
14 February 2014 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Dahrendorf Room, Founders’ Building, St. Antony’s College, Oxford
Little paid and Overworked: Marriage prospects of low income Japanese men
Nissan Seminar
Professor Masaaki Hirano, Waseda University Business School (WBS)
13 February 2014 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre
The return on IT spending for Japanese firms: empirical evidence This extra seminar will take place on Thursday, 13th February at 5.00 p.m. in the Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre.
Nissan Seminar
Professor Mary Brinton, Reischauer Institute Professor of Sociology, Harvard University
7 February 2014 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Dahrendorf Room, Founders’ Building, St. Antony’s College, Oxford
DUE TO BAD WEATHER IN THE UNITED STATES THIS TALK HAS BEEN CANCELLED. Productive Motherhood: Women’s Labor and Japan’s Lowest-Low Fertility
Nissan Seminar
Dr Miho Iwasawa, National Institute of Population and Social Security Research, Tokyo
31 January 2014 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Dahrendorf Room, Founders’ Building, St. Antony’s College, Oxford
What types of marriage have declined since the 1970s in Japan? Projected Composition Ratios of First Marriage using Multiple Decrement Life Tables
Nissan Seminar
Professor Francesco Billari, Nuffield College, University of Oxford
24 January 2014 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Dahrendorf Room, Founders’ Building, St. Antony’s College, Oxford
Population reproduction: a new fertility regime (with remarks on the role of migration)
6 December 2013 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College
Dr Bill Marotti, UCLA Timely and Untimely Politics: Art and Protest in 1960s Japan From its start in the 1980s the institute has organised a series of Nissan Seminars in Japanese Studies. In the... Read more
29 November 2013 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Dahrendorf Room, Founders’ Building, St. Antony’s College, Oxford
Dr Fabian Drixler, Yale University A Demographic Revolution in Japan Please note that this seminar has been moved to the Dahrendorf Room, Founders' Building, St. Antony's College. From its start in... Read more
28 November 2013 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre
Professor Susan Napier, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts, USA The Last Utopian: Hayao Miyazaki and the Uses of Enchantment This seminar will be held in the Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre at... Read more
22 November 2013 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College
Mr Ryu Kojima, Kyushu University Cultural Diversity and the Law: From the Perspective of Cultural Policy From its start in the 1980s the institute has organised a series of Nissan Seminars in... Read more
21 November 2013 - 2:30pm to 6:30pm
Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre
Noh Workshop Presented by Prof Yamanaka Reiko of the Hōsei University Noh Theatre Research Institute. A historical, practical and comparative view of noh theatre, including a lecture by Professor... Read more
15 November 2013 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College
Dr David Ambaras, North Carolina State University Runaway woman, pirate queen: life on the margins of the Japanese empire From its start in the 1980s the institute has organised a series of Nissan... Read more
8 November 2013 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College
Professor Massimo Raveri, Università Ca' Foscari, Venezia The search for the “true” body: sacred simulacra of power and the process of modernity in Japan From its start in the 1980s the institute has... Read more