CJS Events

Center for Japanese Studies Spring 2019 Events

June 1, 2019
Tessa Machida

Dynasties and Democracy in Japan
February 1, 2019
Colloquium
Speaker:
Daniel M. Smith, Associate Professor, Harvard University

Political dynasties exist in all democracies, but have been conspicuously prevalent in Japan, where over a third of legislators and two-thirds of cabinet ministers come from families with a history in parliament. In his new book, Dynasties and Democracy: The Inherited Incumbency Advantage in Japan, Daniel M. Smith introduces a comparative theory to explain the persistence of dynastic politics in...

Center for Japanese Studies Spring 2015 Events

June 1, 2015
Tessa Machida

From Landscape Theory to Media Theory: Metamorphosis of Cinema and Revolutionary Theory in the Early 70s Japan
Colloquium
Speaker: Go Hirasawa, Meiji Gakuin University/NYU
Date: February 9, 2015 | 4:00 p.m.
Location: 180 Doe Library

Masao Matsuda (critic), Masao Adachi (director) and Takuma Nakahira (photographer) proposed "landscape theory" (Fûkeiron) as film/image and revolutionary theory during the end of 1960s and early...

Center for Japanese Studies Fall 2013 Events

December 1, 2013
Tessa Machida

Why do Marxian Social Sciences Survive in Japan?
Conference/Symposium
Speakers:
• Hiroshi Onishi, Keio University
• Kazuyasu Miyata, Hokkaido University of Education
• Akio Kamitani, Visiting Scholar of CJS, Sapporo Gakuin University
Moderator: Andrew Barshay, UC Berkeley
Date: September 4, 2013 | 4:30 p.m.
Location: Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)
Sponsor: Center for Japanese Studies

More than 20 years have passed since the collapse of Eastern European socialist systems. It was...

Center for Japanese Studies Spring 2013 Events

June 1, 2013
Tessa Machida

What is Otaku?: The Changing Meanings of Otaku in Japan
Colloquium
Speaker: Taishin Ikeda, Visiting Scholar, Center for Japanese Studies; Associate Professor, Konan Women's University
Date: February 1, 2013 | 4:00–6:00 p.m.
Location: IEAS Conference Room — 2223 Fulton, 6th Floor
Sponsor: Center for Japanese Studies

Now, the term, otaku, is widely known all over the world, but the meanings the term indicates aren't entirely clear....

Center for Japanese Studies Spring 2012 Events

June 1, 2012
Tessa Machida

Of Power and Profit: American Seamen in Asian Waters
Photography Exhibit
Dates: October 5, 2011 – January 25, 2012, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Location: Institute of East Asian Studies (2223 Fulton, 6th Floor)
Sponsors: Institute of East Asian Studies, IEAS Publications, Center for Korean Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Center for Chinese Studies

"Of Power and Profit: American Seamen in Asian Waters" is an exhibit of prints made from photographs by a nineteenth century American naval officer, Asa Mattice. In...

Center for Japanese Studies Spring 2010 Events

June 1, 2010
Tessa Machida

Colloquia in the Musicologies
Ian Condry
January 21, 2010
Center for Japanese Studies, Department of Music

"New Directions in Japanese Hip-Hop: Rethinking the Cultural Politics of Popular Music in the 21st Century"
Ian Condry, Associate Professor of Japanese Cultural Studies at Massachusetts Institute of Technology; author of Hip-Hop Japan: Rap and the Paths of Cultural Globalization

Recent Changes in Politics: A Yomiuri Special Lecture
Taro Kono, Director-General of the International Bureau,...

Center for Japanese Studies Fall 2007 Events

December 1, 2007
Tessa Machida

Policeman
Sharon Hayashi, Assistant Professor, Cinema and Media Studies, York University, Toronto
September 16, 2007
Center for Japanese Studies, Pacific Film Archive

Tomu Uchida: Japanese Genre Master
Pacific Film Archive Film Series
September 8-29, 2007

This series of the films of Japanese genre master Tomu Uchida, offers a rare chance to see the work of a director barely known in the West. Born in 1898, Uchida joined a theater troupe in his youth, perfecting a sense of stagecraft and theatrical...

Center for Japanese Studies Fall 2005 Events

December 1, 2005
Tessa Machida

Evaluating the Japanese Election
T.J. Pempel, Political Science, UC Berkeley
Steve Vogel, Political Science, UC Berkeley
Ethan Scheiner, Political Science, UC Davis
Robert Madsen, MIT Center for International Studies
Rob Weiner, Cornell University
September 16, 2005
Center for Japanese Studies

Japan's Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi won an overwhelming victory in Lower House elections September 11. His party and its coalition ally will have a key two-thirds majority in the new parliament. This forum will provide...

Center for Japanese Studies Spring 2005 Events

June 1, 2005
Tessa Machida

A Stitch in Time: The Sewing Machine and the Modern Transformation of Japan
Andrew Gordon, History, Harvard University
Thursday, January 20, 2005
Center for Japanese Studies

Study of the sewing machine offers insight into the emergence of the consumer as a central figure in society, economy and culture. The larger project explores themes of gender, class, nation and empire. It studies the sewing machine from perspectives of maker and user, as well as the negotiations between the two including the birth of the salesman, home...

Center for Japanese Studies Fall 2003 Events

December 1, 2003
Tessa Machida

Where the Girls Are: Establishing Japanese Girlhood and Identity in Women's Magazines
Kazue Sakamoto, Associate Professor, Sociology, Ochanomizu University
August 28, 2003
Center for Japanese Studies

The Japanese Constitution in the 21st Century
Taro Nakayama, Chairman, Research Commission on the Constitution, House of Representatives, Japan
September 2, 2003
Center for Japanese Studies

Dr. Taro Nakayama, the head of a blue-ribbon commission on constitutional reform and a former foreign...