Wednesday, August 1, 2018

FALL QUARTER


 October 8, 2018 | 12:30 - 2:00 PM
Phantom Okinawa: Okamoto Taro And The Spectacle Of Action And Abjection
Professor Chris Nelson, University of North Carolina
Royce 314

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October 15, 2018 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM
Comparative Politics Workshop: Dynasties And Democracy
Professor Daniel Smith, Western University
Bunche 4357

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October 29, 2018 | 8:45 AM - 6:00 PM 
Bent Out Of Shape: Remolding Conceptions Of Materiality And The Body In Japan
23rd Annual Japan Studies Conference

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November 4, 2018 | 2:00 PM 
Shinsei Kai
Presented by the U.S. Kabuki Ken Kyu Kai

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November 5, 2018 | 12:30 - 2:00 PM
Image/Argument/Thing: Stock Characters In Japanese Picturebooks From The Postwar To The Present
Professor Heather Blair, Indiana University Bloomington
Charles E. Young Research Library Presentation Room

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November 26, 2018 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM
The Tragedy Before The Blood Commons: Tetsuro Araki, The Crisis In The Humanity, And Animated Education
Professor William Bridges, University of Rochester
Charles E. Young Research Library Presentation Room

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December 7, 2018 | 12:30 - 2:00 PM
Region As Method: Affective Media Geographies
Professor Thomas Lamarre, McGill University
Bunche 6275

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WINTER QUARTER

 

January 7, 2019 | 12:30 - 2:00 PM
Thinking Like A State: The Thought Crime Apparatus In Interwar Japan
Professor Max Ward, Middlebury College
Royce 314

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January 11, 2019 | 12:30 - 2:00 PM
Developing A Paper Empire: Late Meiji Magazines And Modern Japanese Mass Culture
Professor Nate Shockey, Bard College
Royce 314

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February 22, 2019 | 12:30 - 2:00 PM
Disaster, Human Sacrifice, And Ishimure Michiko's New Noh Okinomiya
Professor Christina Laffin, University of British Columbia
Royce 314

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February 22, 2019 | 7:00 - 9:30 PM
Once Adrift: UCLA NSU's 33rd Annual Cultural Night
UCLA Nikkei Student Union
Royce 314

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March 1 - 3, 2019 
Talking Silents: The Art of the Benshi
UCLA Film and Television Archive
and the Yanai Initiative
Billy Wilder Theater

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SPRING QUARTER

  

May 6, 2019 | 3:00 - 5:00 PM 
Uncanny Capital: Rethinking Automata in Early Modern Japan
Professor Ellen Schattschneider, Brandeis University
Haines 352

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May 10, 2019 | 12:30 - 5:00 PM 
2019 Global Japan Forum Aging Japan: Economy and Policy
Exploration Room, UCLA Luskin Conference Center

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May 20, 2019 | 12:30 - 2:00 PM 
The Western as Method: Questions of Indigeneity, Race and Violence in the American and Japanese Frontiers
Professor Takashi Fujitani, University of Toronto
Royce 314

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May 31, 2019 
Seventh Annual JAG Works-in-Progress Retreat
Lake Arrowhead

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May 31, 2019 | 4:00 - 5:30 PM
Co-Conjuring: Literature and Culture of Redress In The Nuclear Trans-Pacific
Bunche 6275

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June 7, 2019 | 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM
Sixth Annual UCLA Trans-Pacific Workshop - "ayausa"
Bunche 6275

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