Friday, October 7, 2016

FALL QUARTER

October 10, 2016 | 12:30 - 2:00 PM
New And Enduring Dual Structures Of Employment In Japan: The Rise Of Non-Regular Labor, 1980s-2010s
Professor Andrew Gordon, Harvard University
Royce 314

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October 21, 2016                                                                               
Carrots & Sticks: Reward And Punishment In Japan 
21st Annual Japan Studies Graduate Student Conference
UCLA Faculty Center

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October 24, 2016 | 12:30 - 2:00 PM
Iphigenia in the China Sea: The Politics of Sacrifice and Repetition in Modern Japan
Professor Chris Nelson, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Royce 314

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 November 8, 2016 | 7:30 - 9:30 PM
Blowing Meditation and the Sounds of Fall
Jan Popper Theater, 1200 Schoenberg Music Building

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November 9, 2016 | 7:00 PM
Film Screening: WONDERFUL WORLD END

UCLA Perloff Hall, Decafe, Room 130
Sponsored by Japan Foundation LA


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November 14, 2016 | 12:30 - 2:00 PM
Do Voters Prefer Gender Stereotypic Candidates? Evidence from a Conjoint Survey Experiment in Japan

Professor Yoshikuni Ono, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Royce 314

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November 18, 2016 | 5:00 PM
Kurosawa's Rashomon: A Vanished City, a Lost Brother, and the Voice Inside his Iconic Films

Professor Paul Anderer, University of Columbia
UCLA Faculty Center, Hacienda Room
Sponsored by the Yanai Initiative

December 2, 2016 | 7:00 PM
Timon Screech, "Magic and Power in Edo's City Planning”
Japan Foundation LA

 


 December 28, 2016 | 10:00 AM - 3:00 PM

Children's Oshogatsu Workshop
JACCC Workshop
Run by JACCC

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WINTER QUARTER

January 23, 2017 | 12:30 - 2:00 PM
Colloquium with Junko Yamazaki (UCLA Terasaki Center Postdoctoral Fellow)
Royce 314

 

 

February 2 - 3, 2017
Zadankai II: Nationality, Ethnicity, and Race in Postwar Literature, Historiography, and Media
Charles E. Young Research Library West Classroom (WEC)


February 9, 2017 | 3:00 - 5:00 PM
Colloquium with Takashi Fujitani (University of Toronto)
RSVP required

Royce 243

 


February 27, 2017 | 3:00 - 4:30 PM
Japan's Cultural Property And United States' Post-WWII Occupation Policies
Bunche 10383

 


SPRING QUARTER

April 3, 2017 | 12:30 - 2:00 PM
Colloquium with Maki Fukuoka (Leeds University)
Royce 314

 

 

April 17, 2017 | 12:30 - 2:00 PM
War and Narrative in Medieval Japan
Presentation by Vyjayanthi Selinger, Bowdoin College
Royce 306

 


April 24, 2017 | 12:30 - 2:00 PM
戒厳状態における言葉の姿について、あるいは歴史の自立 - 沖縄において植民地主義を考えるということ
Presentation by Ichiro Tomiyama, Doshisha University
TBD
 
Lecture will be in Japanese.

 

May 12 - 14, 2017
5th Annual Japanese Arts & Globalizations (JAG) UC Multi-campus Works in Progress Weekend
Lake Arrowhead

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May 18 - 20, 2017
25th Anniversary Event Series




June 2017
UCLA Japan Center Global Forum
Tokyo



June 10 -  11, 2017
4th Annual Trans Pacific Workshop
Charles E. Young Research Library