Events archive
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
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