Events archive

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
Nissan Seminar
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
Nissan Seminar
Jason Danely, Senior Lecturer in Anthropology of Japan at Oxford Brookes University
3 March 2016 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
Dr Inge Daniels is unable to give her seminar as previously advertised for this week so she will be replaced by Jason Danely, S enior Lecturer in Anthropology of Japan at Oxford Brookes University.... Read more
Nissan Seminar
Professor Masaaki Hirano, Waseda University Business School (WBS)
25 February 2016 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
Can IT augment organisational capabilities? – Evidence from Japanese data
Nissan Seminar
Dr Junko Yamashita, University of Bristol
18 February 2016 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
The Double Responsibility of Care: Balancing childcare, elderly care and work
Nissan Seminar
Dr Arjan Keizer, Manchester Business School
11 February 2016 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford,
Redefining the community firm? The unionization of part-time workers in the retail industry
Nissan Seminar
Professor Adam Komisarof, Reitaku University and Professor Zhu Hua, Birkbeck College, University of London
5 February 2016 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
The Syndicate Room, The Old Main Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
Crossing Boundaries: Breaking the Rice Paper Ceiling in Japan and Constructing Liminality among Transnational, Transcultural Academics Please note that this seminar takes place on Friday 5th February... Read more
Nissan Seminar
Professor Jun Saito, Keio University
4 February 2016 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
Abenomics: Past, Present, and Future
Nissan Seminar
Dr Aya Homei, University of Manchester
28 January 2016 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
A History of the IUD in Japan: Birth control policy and Cold War diplomacy
Nissan Seminar
Professor Emiko Ochiai, Kyoto University
21 January 2016 - 2:00pm to 3:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford
Stumbling Blocks in the 1980s Japan: Japan's Lost Decades in a Global Comparison of Different Paths toward a Long-life Society
Nissan Seminar
Philip Grover, Assistant Curator, Photograph and Manuscript Collections Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford
4 December 2015 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College
Meiji-Era Photographs in the Pitt Rivers Museum: An Overview of the Collections

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