CJS Recorded Event

Language, Indigenous Knowledge and Cultural Landscapes of the Ainu

Agroecology, Sustainable Food Production and Satoyama

Doctrinally True but Historically Untrue?: Deconstructing Mahāyāna in 18th and 19th Century Japan

February 23, 2022

February 23, 2022 | 4-4:30 p.m. | Online - Zoom WebinarBlum talk

Speaker: Mark Blum, Professor, UC Berkeley

Moderator: Marta Sanvido, Shinjo Ito Postdoctoral Fellow in...

Uptown and Downtown in Early Modern Japanese Urban Literature: The Making of a Three-Volume Anthology

February 18, 2022

February 18, 2022 | 5 p.m. | Online - Zoom WebinarSumie

Speaker: Sumie Jones, Professor Emerita, Indiana University, Bloomington

Discussant: Michael Emmerich, Professor, UCLA

A Kamigata Anthology: Literature from Japan’s Metropolitan Centers, 1600-1750
An Edo Anthology...

Investigating the U.S. Military Crimes in Japan

January 26, 2022

January 26 | 4 p.m. | Online - Zoom Webinar Oya Event Picture

Speaker: Hanayo Oya, Journalist/Documentary Filmmaker

Hanayo Oya, a journalist and former visiting scholar at CJS, will discuss her latest investigative story on the issue of crimes perpetrated by U.S. military personnel against local people in...

Residential Living in Human Perspective: Case study of the living space in Southern California in the 1920s through a comparison with that in Japan

October 28, 2021

October 28, 2021 | 5-5:30 p.m. | Online - Zoom Webinar Rika Niikura Talk Image

Speaker: Rika Niikura, Visiting Student Researcher, UC Berkeley

Discussant: ...

The Audibility of Strangers: Music and Disparate Japanese Communities in Prewar "White Australia"

September 14, 2021

September 7, 2021 | 5:30 - 6:30 p.m. | Online - Zoom WebinarAudibility of Strangers Event Photo

Speaker: Hugh de Ferranti, Professor, Institute for Liberal Arts, Tokyo Institute of Technology

Discussant:...

The Legacy of Ezra Vogel's Work: 60 Years after "Japan's New Middle Class"

November 9, 2021

November 9, 2021 | 5-7 p.m. | Online - Zoom Webinar Ezra Vogel

Speaker: Amy Borovoy, Professor, Princeton University

Discussants: Merry White, Professor, Boston University;...

Nepali Migration to Japan and Korea: Converging Ends, Diverging Paths, and Contrasting Effects

September 16, 2021

September 16 | 5-5:30 p.m. | Online - Zoom Webinar AOJS Yamanaka Pic

Speaker: Keiko Yamanaka, Continuing Lecturer, UC Berkeley

Sponsors: Center for Japanese Studies (CJS),...

Carved Alive: Buddhist Tree-icons (tachikibutsu) in Japan and "Eco Art History"

May 11, 2021

May 11, 2021 | 5-5:30 p.m. | Online - Zoom WebinarBuddhist Tree-icon

Speaker: Gregory Levine, Professor, Department of History of Art, UC Berkeley

This short talk introduces Buddhist icons carved into standing and usually living trees in Japan (tachikibutsu), a practice that appears to begin in the...