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A Colloquium with Christina Laffin, Univ. of British Columbia, on her new book, "Rewriting Medieval Japanese Women: Politics, Personality, and Literacy Production in the Life of Nun Abutsu"

Book talk with Christina Laffin is associate professor of Asian studies at the University of British Columbia and the Canada Research Chair in Premodern Japanese Literature and Culture.
Monday, April 08, 2013
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM

Rape, Incest, and Abortion in the High Plains of Heaven: The Misdeeds of Susanoo Reconsidered

Presented by Bernhard Scheid, research fellow at the Austrian Academy of Sciences, specializes on the history of Shinto. He has published widely on medieval and early modern Shinto, including: The Culture of Secrecy in Japanese Religion (2006, ed. with Mark Teeuwen), as well as on the history of Japanese studies.
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
4:00 PM - 7:00 PM

The Great Reversal: Defeated Japan as Ally and Liberated Korea as Enemy

By Mark E. Caprio, Rikkyo University
Wednesday, April 24, 2013
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM