Events

Information on relevant events will be added as it becomes available

Upcoming Events:

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Current Media:
New Books Network podcast for the Japanese Studies channel on Reflecting the Past. (Recorded March 3 with Jingyi Li.)


Past Events:

“Unmoored Selves: The Dissolution of Identity in Long Yingzong’s Wartime Prose Fiction.”
JAPAN–PREMODERN, MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY
(Bucharest University of Economic Studies. Bucharest, Sep. 1-3, 2023.)

“Literature of the Japanese Empire: Imagined Geographies and the Taiwanese ‘Subject-Son.’”
University of Wisconsin – Whitewater, April 13, 2023.

Reflecting the Past: Place, Language and Principle in Japan’s Medieval Mirror Genre.” (Book talk)
CEAS Humanities Colloquium, University of Pennsylvania.
(Remote, February 18, 2021, 4:30-6:30 PM ET.)

“Virtual Book Launch–Reflecting the Past
Centre for Japanese Research, The University of British Columbia.
(Remote, October 15, 2020, 9:00-10:15PM ET; 6:00-7:15PM PT; October 16, 2020, 10:00-11:15 Japan Time.)

“The One About the Flatulent Priest: Getting a Laugh in Medieval Japan”
2020 Association for Asian Studies Conference (AAS).
(Boston, MA. March 21, 2019, “Affect and Identities in East Asia” Panel. 11:15 AM-1:oo PM). Cancelled.

“Making Meaning: Reading China Onto The Tale of Genji in Medieval Japan”
(University of Hyogo 兵庫県立大学. July 9, 2019)

“Rule of (Cosmological) Law: the Rhetoric of Authority in Japan’s Medieval Mirrors
Kyoto Lectures Series. École Française d’Extrême-Orient/Italian School of East Asian Studies
(EFEO, Kyoto Center. April 18, 2019)

“Now Isn’t the End: A Medieval Experiment in Re-writing Mappō and Violence”
IMAP/IDOC 2018–19 Distinguished Lecture Series
(Kyushu University, Hakata. January 17, 2019)

“A-/Un-/Re-dressing the Third Princess: the Kakaishō, Yūsenkutsu and the Genji
2019 MLA CONVENTION
(Chicago, Jan. 3-Jan. 6, 2019)

“Wellspring and Warning: Essential Chinas in Medieval Japan”
CEAS COLLOQUIUM SERIES AT YALE UNIVERSITY
(New Haven, CT. February 12, 2018)

“The Past in Mirrors: Crafting Continuity in Transitional Times”
15th INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE OF THE EUROPEAN ASSOCIATION FOR JAPANESE STUDIES
(Lisbon. August 30-September 2, 2017)

“Tailoring the Continent: Chinas to Suit Medieval Needs”
JAPAN–PREMODERN, MODERN AND CONTEMPORARY
(“Dimitrie Cantemir” Christian University, Bucharest. September 1-3, 2016)

“Reflecting Authority: Mobilizing Traditions in Medieval Discourse on the Past”
ASIAN STUDIES CONFERENCE JAPAN
(ICU, Tokyo. July 2-3, 2016)

“The Cosmos or the Continent? Claims to Knowledge in Medieval Japan”
KYOTO ASIAN STUDIES GROUP MEETING
(Kyoto Consortium for Japanese Studies. June 13, 2016)

“Downward Spin on the ‘Rising Sun’: Processing the Past in the Wake of the Genpei War”
LOOSE CANONS II: VALUE AND VALUATION IN JAPANESE ENGAGEMENTS WITH CHINESE WRITING
(USC. April 29, 2016)

“Deviant by Design: the Power & Politics of Multilingual Writing in Medieval Japan
LANGUAGE, POWER ANDIDENTITY IN ASIA: CREATING AND CROSSING LANGUAGE BOUNDARIES
(IIAS, Leiden. March 14-16, 2016)

 

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