Events archive
Nissan Seminar
18 May 2018 - 9:00am to 6:00pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
This one-day conference features three co-authors of the book manuscript Compressed Development (nearing completion, to be published by Oxford University Press), as well as a diverse set of... Read more
Nissan Seminar
Lucy Crehan, Education Researcher and Author
11 May 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
Lucy Crehan is a qualified teacher, an education explorer, an author, and an international education consultant. She taught science and psychology at a secondary school in London before becoming... Read more
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Dr Rin Ushiyama, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, Department of Sociology, Research Fellow, University of Cambridge
4 May 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
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Professor Glenda S. Roberts, Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies, Waseda University
27 April 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
Abstract: Facebook’s Sheryl Sandberg’s 2013 book Lean In attracted attention in Japan, where Sandberg’s advice for business women to ‘lean in’ and assert themselves in order to climb the ranks of... Read more
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Professor Adam Komisarof, Faculty of Letters, Keio University
8 March 2018 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
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Eric C. Rath, Toyota Visiting Professor, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan and Professor of the History Department, University of Kansas
1 March 2018 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
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Dr Alexander Vovin, Directeur d'études, linguistique historique du Japon et de l'Asie du Nord-Est, EHESS-Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales
22 February 2018 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
This weeks seminar has been cancelled due to illness.
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Ms Sumiko Ito, President of Arcadia Capital, Inc., USA and Board Member of FUTI (Friends of UTokyo, Inc.)
15 February 2018 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
Ms Sumiko Ito, President of Arcadia Capital, Inc., USA and Director and Treasurer of FUTI (Friends of UTokyo, Inc.) Title to be confirmed
Nissan Seminar
9 February 2018 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre
Making Films in Japan – Writer, Director and Producer John Williams will talk about his experiences making three award-winning Japanese-language feature films, Firefly Dreams ( Ichiban Utsukushii... Read more
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Professor Miryam Sas, University of California, Berkeley and Visiting Researcher, Centre d'Études et de Recherches Comparatistes
8 February 2018 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
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Dr Saeko Kimura
1 February 2018 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
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Dr Junko Yamashita, University of Bristol
25 January 2018 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
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Dr Thomas Garcin, Tanaka Junior Research Fellow in Japanese Studies, Pembroke College
1 December 2017 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
Nissan Seminar
28 November 2017 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre
His Excellency Koji Tsuruoka, Japanese Ambassador to the UK will give a talk entitled Japan and Brexit. Discussant: Sir Ivan Rogers, formerly Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the... Read more
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Olga Solovieva, Assistant Professor, Depart. of Comparative Literature, University of Chicago
24 November 2017 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford