Event Category Archives: Featured Japanese

Webinar: Is Asian Studies For Me? Thursday June 18, 4 – 5pm PST

Date: Thursday, June 18th Time: 4:00pm – 5:00pm Location: Online via Collaborate Ultra Please note the event has now taken place – thank you to all who participated! You can watch the recording here:   Details: Planning to take Asian Studies courses? Interested in Asian Studies but not sure if you should major in it? […]

Career Insights: Uncovering Journalism in Asia

Thank you to everyone who attended! You can now access the full recording of this webinar on YouTube here. Date: Thursday, August 27 Time: 5:00pm – 6:00pm Location: Online via Zoom RSVP: Via the below form Details: A career in journalism is not for the faint-hearted…but then, it never has been! Amidst the COV-ID pandemic […]

MOA Visual + Material Culture Seminar Series: Utsukushiki Okori: Seeing Red in Ninagawa Mika’s Cinema of Extremes

Utsukushiki Okori: Seeing Red in Ninagawa Mika’s Cinema of Extremes Museum Of Anthropology (MOA) Visual + Material Culture Seminar Series – Fall 2020 With Speaker Professor Colleen Laird (Assistant Professor of Japanese Film and Popular Culture, Department of Asian Studies, UBC) One of Japan’s most celebrated commercial fashion photographers, Ninagawa Mika is an acclaimed “girly” […]

Confronting Racism in Japanese Language Education presented by Dr. Ryuko Kubota

Confronting Racism in Japanese Language Education 人種差別に立ち向かう日本語教育 Lecture in English and discussion with Dr. Ryuko Kubota (Department of Language and Literacy Education, Faculty of Education) Antiracism has recently become a prominent topic for discussion, offering critical reflections on language education. This talk will focus on Japanese language teaching and learning and explore the concept of […]

2020/21 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies: Nouvelle Japonisme: Le Samouraï (1967) and Jean-Pierre Melville’s Cinematic Japan

2020/21 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies With Guest Speaker Professor Daisuke Miyao (Professor and Hajime Mori Chair in Japanese Language and Literature at the University of California, San Diego) Nouvelle Japonisme: Le Samouraï (1967) and Jean-Pierre Melville’s Cinematic Japan Thank you to everyone who attended! The recording can be viewed on YouTube via this […]