Nissan Institute Seminar Series (Trinity Term 2016)

From its start in the 1980s the institute has organised a series of Nissan Seminars in Japanese Studies.  We invite scholars based in the UK to present their most recent research.  Members of the general public are welcome to attend.

Fridays 5.00pm in the Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford unless otherwise stated

 

Convenors: Professor Ian Neary

 

Thursday , 28th April

Professor Albert Park, Claremont McKenna College.
Decentring the Urban: Reclaiming Rural Space for Modern Living in Colonial Korea and After

This Seminar will be held in the Dahrendorf Room, Founders' Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford

Friday, 6th May
Dr Radu Leca, Robert and Lisa Sainsbury Fellow at the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures.

The Role of Mapping in the Emergence of Japan as a Sea Power in the Late-nineteenth-century

Friday, 13th May

Dr Alessio Patalano, Senior Lecturer in War Studies, King's College London.

The ‘Normality’ of ‘Abnormality’: Understanding Strategy and Military Identity in Post-war Japan

Friday, 20th May

Dr Kate E Taylor-Jones, Senior Lecturer in East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield.

Tracing Empire: Japanese Imperial cinema and its legacy

 

 

Those travelling from outside Oxford are advised to check on the Institutes website in case there has been a cancellation or change of venue http://www.nissan.ox.ac.uk/events