Event Category Archives: Featured Japanese

Connecting Past, Present and Future: Ainu Documentary, Language and Culture

This multilingual event will invite a group of four speakers to share their experiences and activities of Ainu language and culture revitalization. The panel consists of Naomi MIZOGUCHI, Film Director of Ainu | ひと (2019) (“Ainu – Indigenous People of Japan”), who will talk about why and how she made this documentary, including her friendship […]

The Samurai & the Cross: “Temporal” or “Spiritual” Conquest in Early Modern Japan?

After Jesuit missionaries introduced Christianity to Japan in 1549, the Christian community grew rapidly, both among the samurai class and the common populace. By 1600 there were an estimated 450,000 converts amongst a total Japanese population of approximately twelve million. With the unification of Japan by Tokugawa Ieyasu, there was an increasing need on the […]

The Japan Lecture Series

The Japan Lecture Series invites established and emerging voices from all areas of Japan Studies to share their latest projects with our community. To promote accessibility, many of the lectures will take a hybrid format. Sessions will entail a forty-five-minute lecture followed by a thirty-minute question-and-answer period. Hosted by the Department of Asian Studies, University […]

The Japan Lecture Series

The Japan Lecture Series invites established and emerging voices from all areas of Japan Studies to share their latest projects with our community. To promote accessibility, many of the lectures will take a hybrid format. Sessions will entail a forty-five-minute lecture followed by a thirty-minute question-and-answer period. Hosted by the Department of Asian Studies, University […]

2024 Asian Studies Annual Careers Night

– Registration is now closed – The Department of Asian Studies is delighted to invite you to our annual Careers Night! Navigating life after graduation can be hard, so each year we bring in reputable guests and alumni with diverse experiences – at home and in Asia – to inform and inspire current students. This […]

Queer/Trans Cinema Studies – A Symposium

Organized by Haruki Sekiguchi (Asian Studies) and Ervin Malakaj (CENES), this symposium brings together scholars at UBC working in any area of queer/trans cinema studies. The event is open to the public and no prior registration is required. Join us on Saturday, March 30 from 12:00pm-5:30pm in Buchanan Tower room 997 for an afternoon of conversation […]

The Incense Ceremony in Traditional Japan

The event will feature a slide lecture on incense, Japanese incense ceremony, and beneficial effects of incense. The participants will also experience the fragrance of kyara which is the highest quality of agarwood and sandalwood as well as the original fermented neri-koh along with a demonstration of Japanese incense ceremony. This event is free and open to the public. […]

The Popularization of the Hundred Poets in Edo-Period Japan

JAPAN STUDIES LUNCHTIME SPEAKERS SERIES, 2024-2025 This talk, featuring Professor Joshua Mostow (University of British Columbia, Asian Studies), will explore how knowledge of the Hyakunin isshu (One Hundred Poets, One Poem Each) collection spread among the commoner class in Japan’s early modern Edo period (1603-1868), becoming the foundation of popular literary literacy through the booming […]