Recent events funded by Japan endowments

Globalization, Demographic Change, and Institutional Reform: the case of Japanese agricultural cooperatives

(Lecture, Patricia MacLachlan, UT Austin and Kay Shimizu, U. Pittsburgh)

Japan, Ink: Global flows of “deviant” body modification

(Lecture, John Skultin, Chinese University of Hong Kong, November 28, 2016)

So Long Asleep: Waking the Ghosts of a War

(Screening of documentary and conversation with filmmaker David Plath, University of Illinois, December 7, 2016)

Aristotle meets Sei Shōnagon: figures of speech in Japanese advertising

(Lecture, Patricia Wetzel, Portland State University, January 20, 2017)

Natural and Unnatural Disasters:3/11, Asbestos, and the Unmaking of Japan’s Modern World

(Lecture, Brett Walker, Montana State University, April 3, 2017)

Legendary Women: Gioō and Hotoke in Japanese Culture

(Lecture and class visit, Roberta Strippoli, U. Binghamton, April 18, 2017)

Scales of History: Japan in 500 years of Global History

(Lecture, Shunya Yoshimi, University of Tokyo, October 27, 2017)

Seijin shiki

(Student-oriented cultural event, January 10, 2018)

Rebellious Youth and the Global 1960s: Politics, Punk Rock, and Propaganda in Cold War Japan

(Lecture, Christopher Gerties, SOAS University of London, February 22, 2018)

Comfort Women: the Legacy of Sexual Slavery in Asia

(Conference, October 19-20, 2018)

Somebody is Watching: Gods, Ritual, and Tourism on a Japanese Island

(Lecture, Michael Foster, UC Davis, November 5, 2018)

How to Read Kimono: Reconsidering The Makioka Sisters

(Lecture, Michiko Suzuki, UC Davis, November 6, 2018)

First annual Japanese Documentary Film Award to Kazuo Hara for Sennan Asbestos Disaster

(Award Ceremony and Screening of film, September 27, 2018)

Seijin shiki

(Student-oriented cultural event, January 10, 2018)

Jirokichi the Rat, Silent Asia on Screen

(Screening,with Kataoka Ichiro, Benshi, and Tom Roberts, pianist, February 26, 2019)

(Workshop, with Kataoka Ichiro and students, February 26, 2019)

East Asian Languages and Literatures Graduation

(Address to graduating class and workshop with students, April 27, 2019)

Celebrating the Relationship between Pittsburgh and Japan through Garden Design

(Lecture, Shunsaku Miyagi, University of Tokyo, September 9, 2019)

Animal Stories: Furukawa Hideo and the Narration of Disaster

(Lecture, Doug Slaymaker, University of Kentucky, November 14, 2019)

Gettysburg: an American Noh

(World premiere performance, Theatre Nohgaku, September 14, 2019; workshop with theatre department September 12; workshop with local high school, September 13)

The Past Isn’t Dead…

(Symposium to accompany Gettysburg: an American Noh, September 13-14, 2019)

Celebrating the Donation of a Koto to East Asian Languages and Literatures

(Performance and workshops for two classes by Ann Prescott, Five Colleges East Asia Center, March 4, 2020)

Finding a Balance between Diversity and Language Standards in a University-level Japanese Language Program

(Lecture, Shinsuke Tsuchiya, Brigham Young University, March 6, 2020)