Events archive
Nissan Seminar
Professor Andrew Porwancher, University of Oklahoma and Alastair Horne Fellow, St. Antony’s College
16 May 2014 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College
A Journey into Fairyland: An American Professor in Meiji Japan
Nissan Seminar
Dr Kazuo Inamori
9 May 2014 - 5:00pm to 6:15pm
Sheldonian Theatre, Broad Street, Oxford
In 2010 legendary business leader Dr Kazuo Inamori took on the monumental task of turning around Japan Airlines, Japan’s national carrier which had just gone bankrupt. Within three years the airline... Read more
Nissan Seminar
Professor Tong Lam, University of Toronto
7 May 2014 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Dahrendorf Room, Founders’ Building, St. Antony’s College, Oxford
Ruinscape and Slumscape: Picturing History and Violence in Global East Asia Please note the change in date and venue for this lecture to Wednesday 7th May in the Dahrendorf Room . It was originially... Read more
Nissan Seminar
Professor James Raymo, University of Wisconsin-Madison
28 April 2014 - 5:00pm to 6:30pm
Pavilion Room, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College
Economic Uncertainty and Fertility: Insights from Japan’s Long Recession Joint seminar with the Department of Sociology, University of Oxford
Nissan Seminar
Mary Brinton, Reischauer Institute and Professor of Sociology, Harvard University and Professor Ralph Lützeler, Department for Japanese and Korean Studies, Institute for Oriental and Asian Studies, Universität of Bonn
14 March 2014 - 4:00pm to 6:30pm
Dahrendorf Room, Founders’ Building, St. Antony’s College, Oxford
At 4.00 p.m. Professor Mary Brinton will present her paper Productive Motherhood: Women’s Labor and Japan’s Lowest-Low Fertility followed by Professor Ralph Lützeler who will give his paper on The... Read more
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)
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 .