2015/16 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies: Five Long, Short Years: Our World, Our Fukushima

18 January 2016 5:00 pm

Venue: Auditorium, Asian Centre, 1871 West Mall, Vancouver
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2015/16 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies: Five Long, Short Years: Our World, Our Fukushima features guest speaker Professor Dr. Norma Field, Professor Emerita of Japanese Studies at the University of Chicago.

2016/17 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies: Postwar Tokyo: Capital of a Ruined Empire

17 November 2016 6:00 pm

Venue: Auditorium, Asian Centre, 1871 West Mall, Vancouver
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In this talk, Dr. Seiji M. Lippit discusses Postwar Tokyo. The capital of what had once been a massive overseas empire was reduced to ruins by the unrelenting Allied aerial bombardment and now faced occupation by a foreign military power for the first time in the nation’s history.

2017/18 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies: Stolen Secrets: Intercepting Dispatches Between Wartime Berlin and Japan

13 March 2018 6:00 pm

Venue: Auditorium, Asian Centre
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Britain was woefully equipped in terms of Japanese language expertise in December 1941, in spite of earlier efforts to alert the government to the need to start training people to speak and read Japanese.

2018/19 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies: The Social and Political Lives of Japanese Cherry Blossoms

22 November 2018 6:30 pm

Venue: Auditorium, Asian Centre
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Dr. Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney’s talk will present the many, often contradictory, meanings assigned to cherry blossoms – from life and love to death – while becoming a symbol of various social groups, and, ultimately, the Japanese as a whole.

2021/22 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies: Buddhism and Psychotherapy in Japan

08 March 2022

Venue: Online Event
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You are invited to the 2021/22 John Howes Lecture in Japanese Studies featuring Professor Clark Chilson on March 8 and 9, 2022.