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8. Archived Events | 2008-15

Archived Events | 2008-15

News and Events
News
Events
1. Search Events
2. Noon Lecture Series
3. Winter 2025 Japanese Film Series
4. Ann Arbor Japan Week
5. Conferences and Symposia
6. Videos of Past Events
7. CJS 70 Conference Series
8. Archived Events | 2008-15

Select CJS events from 2008-15 are listed below. Please follow the links for details. Events from January 2016 to present can be found on our Search Events page.

Archived Events | 2008-15

CJS Noon Lecture Series | Japanese Twitterature after 3-11: Social Media Fictions and the Subtitle for the Real

CJS Noon Lecture Series | The Buddha's Shadow: The Hidden God of Medieval Japan

CJS Noon Lecture Series | Farmers in Flux: The Causes and Political-Economic Consequences of Japan’s Changing Agricultural Landscape

CJS Noon Lecture Series | The Performance Practice of Noh

CJS Noon Lecture Series | "Creating the Most Interesting Town in the World": Community Development in the Aftermath of the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami

II Current Event Lecture: The Japan-U.S. Alliance and the Sino-ROK "Entente": The Changing Security Environment of East Asia

CJS Noon Lecture Series | The Role of Language Education Vis-à-vis the Globalized New Era

CJS Noon Lecture Series | The Gods Make You Giggle: Finding Religion in Japanese Picture Books

CJS Noon Lecture Series | Drawing and Ceramic Design

CJS Film Series: Jellyfish Eyes

Studio Ghibli: <i>When Marnie was There</i> (Screening 10

Studio Ghibli: <i>When Marnie was There</i> (Screening 9)

Studio Ghibli: <i>When Marnie was There</i> (Screening 8)

Copy of Studio Ghibli: <i>When Marnie was There</i> (Screening 7)

Studio Ghibli: <i>When Marnie was There</i> (Screening 6)

Studio Ghibli: <i>When Marnie was There</i> (Screening 5)

Studio Ghibli: <i>When Marnie was There</i> (Screening 4)

Studio Ghibli: <i>When Marnie was There</i> (Screening 3)

Studio Ghibli: <i>When Marnie was There</i> (Screening 2)

Studio Ghibli: <i>When Marnie was There</i> (Screening 1)

CJS Special Event: 2015 FIFA Women's World Cup Semi-Final Japan (Nadeshiko Japan) vs. England Watch Party

Ann Arbor Japan Week: Kamishibai Storytelling at the Kerrytown Book Festival

Ann Arbor Japan Week: UMMA Japanese Art Storytime

Ann Arbor Japan Week: Animania Screening

Ann Arbor Japan Week: Calligraphy and Origami with the South East Michigan Japanese Language Meetup Group

Ann Arbor Japan Week: Japan-themed Board Games

Ann Arbor Japan Week: UMMA Family Japanese Art Studio (Second Session)

Ann Arbor Japan Week: UMMA Family Japanese Art Studio (First Session)

Ann Arbor Japan Week: Origami folding in the KidZone Tent at Ann Arbor Summer Festival

Ann Arbor Japan Week: Calligraphy and Origami with the South East Michigan Japanese Language Meetup Group

Ann Arbor Japan Week: Bonsai Collection Open Hours

Ann Arbor Japan Week: Japanese Conversation Table

Ann Arbor Japan Week: Godaiko Drummers Performance

Cinetopia: East Side Sushi

Cinetopia: Pale Moon (Kami no tsuki)

Ann Arbor Japan Week: Free Screening of Studio Ghibli's <i>When Marnie was There</i>

Ann Arbor Japan Week: Japanese "Forest Spirits" in the Gaffield Children's Garden

Cinetopia: Pale Moon (Kami no tsuki)

Cinetopia: The Snow White Murder Case

Cinetopia: East Side Sushi

Cinetopia: East Side Sushi

Cinetopia: The Snow White Murder Case

CJS Special Event: Media, Communications, and Japan’s 3/11 Triple Disaster

CJS Noon Lecture Series: Roots of Japanese Studies in the USA: Anthropology, War, and CJS at Michigan

CJS Noon Lecture Series: Will Japan Amend Its Constitution?

Digital Humanities and the Futures of Japanese Studies: A Symposium and Workshop

Digital Humanities and the Futures of Japanese Studies: A Symposium and Workshop

CJS Noon Lecture Series: The Role of Family Physicians After the March 11, 2011 Tsunami Disaster in Japan

Related Event: The Role of Family Physicians After the 2011 Tsunami in Japan

CJS Noon Lecture Series: Challenges for English->Japanese Machine Translation

CJS Noon Lecture Series: Visible Partner; Invisible Power: The Role of the Spouse in Japanese Electoral Politics

CJS Noon Lecture: Striking Many Chords: The CAGs of PhotoVoice in the Aftermath of 2011 Disasters in Japan

CJS Special Event: Saving 10,000

CJS Special Event: Saving 10,000

CJS Special Event: Saving 10,000

CJS Special Event: From Area Studies to the Global Workforce: Center for Japanese Studies Alumni Talk About their Careers in International Business

The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Screening Five)

The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Screening Four)

The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Screening Three)

The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Screening Two)

The Tale of the Princess Kaguya (Screening One)

CJS Film Series: The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness

CJS Film Series: The Wind Rises

CJS Noon Lecture Series: Hokusai's Manga and France's Descriptive Turn: Reading the Japanese Book in 1860s Paris

CJS Film Series: From Up On Poppy Hill

CJS Film Series: My Neighbor Totoro

CJS Film Series: Spirited Away

CJS Noon Lecture Series: Phantom Prospects: Exchanging Visions of Contemporary Landscape Representation in Japan and the West

CJS Film Series: Princess Mononoke

CJS Noon Lecture Series: The Paralympic Movement, Disability, and Sports in Postwar Japan

CJS Film Series: Porco Rosso

CJS Special Lecture: Six Decades of Japan Social Science

CJS Noon Lecture Series: Printing Salvation: Sacred Images and Kannon Sites in Japan

CJS Film Series: Grave of the Fireflies

CJS Special Event: Tea Ceremony Demonstration

CJS Special Lecture: Making Japanese Tea: Cultural Nationalism in Practice

CJS Noon Lecture Series: Characteristics of the Rebellious Youth in Japan

CJS Film Series: KiKi’s Delivery Service

CJS Film Series: Ponyo

CJS Noon Lecture Series: Infanticide and a Demographic Revolution in Tokugawa Japan

CJS Film Series: Castle in the Sky

CJS Film Series: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind

CJS Film Series: Howl's Moving Castle

CJS Noon Lecture Series: US-Japan Relations: An Enduring Partnership

CJS Noon Lecture Series: From Geisha to Activist: Sumiya Koume (1850-1920) and the Gender System in Modern Japan

CJS Noon Lecture Series: Southward Bound: Voyage Narratives of the Japanese Immigration to Brazil

CJS Special Event: Special Shomyo and Shirabyoshi Performance

CJS Noon Lecture Series: Ritual Song in Heian Japan: Shomyo and Shirabyoshi

CJS: Ritual Song in Heian Japan: Shomyo and Shirabyoshi

CJS Special Event: Japanese Consular Services at U-M

Conference: <i>Soseki's Diversity</i>

Conference: <i>Soseki's Diversity</i>

Conference: <i>Soseki's Diversity</i>

Cultures of Japanese Sake

CJS Noon Lecture Series: Single Mothers and Poverty in Japan: The Role of Living Arrangements

Workshop: The End of 'Cool' Japan?: Ethical, Legal, Political and Cultural Challenges for Japanese Popular Culture Teachers, Researchers and Students

CJS Noon Lecture Series: Thought Policing or Protection of Youth? Debates around Fictional Child Characters in Japanese Popular Culture

Driven by Sexual Desire: Rape and Criminal Investigation in Contemporary Japan

CJS Noon Lecture Series: The "Kirishitan" Japan and the World in Early-Modern Japanese Literature

Rethinking Warfare in an Age Said to be Defined by It: Izumi Japan in the Early 16th Century

CJS Noon Lecture Series: The Re-Branding of Himiko

International Law Workshop: The Law of Being Japanese

CJS Noon Lecture Series- Nikkei and the Construction of a Multicultural Brazil

CJS Noon Lecture Series: The Greatest Pirate in Japan

CJS Noon Lecture Series. "Antinuclear Protest Music in Post-3.11 Japan: Communication Methods in Cyberspace, Recordings, Festivals, and Demonstrations"

CJS Noon Lecture Series - Hands of a Goze (Blind Female Musician) -- The Tactile Culture of Visually Impaired People in Modern Japan

CJS Noon Lecture Series: Kyomai and Postwar Japan: Construction of Cultural Memory in Kyoto

CJS Film Series - The Magino Village Story: Sundail Carved with a Thousand Years of Notches

CJS Noon Lecture - America’s Role in Making Japan’s Economic Miracle: New Evidence for a Landmark Case

CJS Film Series - “Nippon”: Furuyashiki Village

Penny W. Stamps Speaker Series: Sputniko! Alternative Futures with Design

CJS Noon Lecture - The Painting of Sadness?: The Beginnings and Ends of Nihonga

One Hundred Views of Kesennuma: Paintings of Japan’s Altered Landscape

CJS Film Series - Dokkoi! Songs from the Bottom (Please note new location)

CJS Noon Lecture - Cogito Ergo Proxy: Radical Doubt in Japanese Anime

CJS Film Series - Sanrizuka—Heta Village

CJS Noon Lecture - EVENT CANCELLED The Phantom Hut: Landscape Appreciation and Hermetic Tendencies in Japan and the West

CJS Film Series - Sanrizuka—Peasants of the Second Fortress

CJS Noon Lecture - A Conversation with Ogawa Pro Member Toshio Iizuka

CJS Film Series - The Battle Front for the Liberation of Japan—Summer in Sanrizuka

CJS Noon Lecture - "Out Gays” or “Shameless Gays”? What Gets Lost, and What is Gained, when U.S. Queer Theory is Translated into Japanese?

CJS Film Series - Forest of Oppression—A Record of the Struggle at Takasaki City University of Economics

CJS Noon Lecture - Drying Earth: Current Global Water Issues & Provisions, and the Possibility of U.S.-Japan Cooperation in the Field of Global Water Issues

<i>Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions</i>, Curator's Talk by Professor Markus Nornes

CJS Film Series - Devotion: A Film About Ogawa Productions

CJS Noon Lecture - A Maidservant's Tale: Japanese History and the Early Modern World

Shun-kin: The Literature of Junichiro Tanizaki and an International Performing Arts Collaboration

Poetics of Identity: A Reading by Hiromi Ito and Mutsuo Takahashi

CJS Noon Lecture - Displaced Courtier Konoe Nobutada’s Large Size Kana Calligraphy

PhotoVoice Exhibit 2013

CJS Noon Lecture - Measuring Electoral Adaptation: Japanese Politics Since 1994

Watching a Geisha Dance: Choreography as Historical Source

CJS Noon Lecture - Gender-based Differences in Social Interactions and Their Effects on Subjective Well-being Among Older Japanese Adults

CJS Noon Lecture - Housewives and Salarymen in Postbubble Japan: Are We Facing a Changing Gender Contract?

CJS Noon Lecture - Two Moons Over Europe: Translating Haruki Murakami's 1Q84

Kataoka Ichiro's Sayonara Performance

CJS Noon Lecture - Scream from the Shadows: The Women's Liberation Movement in Japan

CJS Noon Lecture - Legal Representation of Japanese Companies Doing Business in the United States: The Importance of Cultural Understanding

CJS Noon Lecture - Law, Subjectivity, and Colonial Space: An Analysis of the Japanese Peace Preservation Law through the Colonial Question

Special Artist's Lecture - The Restoration of a Saung-Gauk: A Burmese Harp in Japanese Lacquer

CJS's 9th Annual Mochitsuki

Film Screening | SPIRITED AWAY

CJS Noon Lecture - Are We Watching the Same Game? How Covering Baseball in America and Japan Can Be So Different

CJS Noon Lecture - Dancing the Tradition and Conserving the Arts: Kyomai in Kyoto's Geisha Quarter

Film Screening | LEFT HANDED

"Story of Floating Weeds" ~ CJS Fall Films Series 2012

CJS Noon Lecture - Modern-Day Hermits: The Story of Hikikomori in Japan and Beyond

"Dragnet Girl" ~ CJS Fall Films Series 2012

CJS Noon Lecture - Depicting Ainu in Postwar Manga: Tezuka Osamu's Postcolonial Conundrum

"Tokyo Chorus" ~ CJS Fall Films Series 2012

Natural and Unnatural Disasters: Rethinking Japan in the Aftermath of March 11

CJS Noon Lecture - Natural and Unnatural Disasters: Rethinking Japan in the Aftermath of March 11

"A Straightforward Boy" shown with "The Kid" ~ CJS Fall Films Series 2012

CJS Noon Lecture - Making Useful Workers: The Self-Defense Forces in the Postwar Japanese Economy

"I Flunked, But..." ~ CJS Fall Film Series 2012

CJS Noon Lecture - The Five-Element Pagoda (gorinto) and Changing Concepts of the Dead in Medieval Japan: A Visual Exploration

"Lady and the Beard" ~ CJS Fall Film Series 2012

CJS Noon Lecture - Is Immigration Necessary for Japan? Workers, Growth, and the Philosophies of Immigration

"An Inn in Tokyo" ~ CJS Fall Film Series 2012

CJS Noon Lecture - Screen Ecology: Television and Animation

"Passing Fancy" ~ CJS Fall Film Series 2012

"The Concept of Persona in Bioethics and the Philosophy of Tetsuro WATSUJI"

CJS Noon Lecture - The Concept of Persona in Bioethics and the Philosophy of Tetsuro Watsuji

"I Was Born, But..." shown with "The Cook"~ CJS Fall Film Series 2012

CJS Noon Lecture - SAC Chair Markus Nornes & SAC Visiting Artist Ichiro Kataoka

CJS Noon Lecture - A Conversation with Benshi Kataoka Ichiro

Face the Music Radio Show - Talking About CJS's Silent Ozu Fall Film Series

Foundations & Evolutions - Grappling Arts of Japan (3-Day Seminar)

CJS Summer Film Series ~ Double Feature

CJS Summer Film Series ~ Double Feature ~ RED PEONY Films

CJS Summer Film Series ~ TOKIJIRO OF KUTSUKAKE - LONE YAKUZA

U-M Japanese Animation Film Society May 2012 Screening

CJS Noon Lecture ~ "The Fukushima Disaster: Law, Politics, and Compensation in Japan"

Adrian Favell (Sciences Po) - "Visions of Tokyo in Japenese Contemporary Art"

Special Lecture ~ "Visions of Tokyo in Japanese Contemporary Art"

CJS Noon Lecture ~ "Parody and Satire in Shunga: Takehara Shunchosai's 'Pillow Book for the Young' (1776)"

CJS Noon Lecture ~ "The History of Yesterday: Japan from the Lehman Shock to the Aftermath of March 11"

CJS Noon Lecture ~ "ANPO: Art X War in Havoc's Wake"

Film Screening ~ ANPO: Art X War

Korean Tea Bowls in the World of Japanese Wabicha in Premodern Times

Film Screening ~ "Fukushima: Memories of a Lost Landscape - Part 1"

Concert ~ Hanayui

CJS Noon Lecture ~ "Modern Cities and Filmmaking in Japan Around 1910: Differences between Tokyo and Kyoto"

Photo Exhibition: "PhotoVoice: 3/11 Disasters through Women's Lenses"

Special Lecture ~ "The Primacy of Corporeality in the Transmission of Japanese Traditional Music: Repetition and Indifference"

CJS Noon Lecture ~ "Golden Age to Nuclear Nightmare: The Past, Present, and Future of the Fukushima Disaster"

CJS Noon Lecture ~ "On the Creation of a National Collection of Japanese Ceramics in the 1870s: A.W. Franks, Ernest Satow, Ninagawa Noritane, and the British Museum"

CJS Noon Lecture ~ "Takagi Kenmyo and Buddhist Socialism: A Meiji Misfit and Martyr"

CJS Noon Lecture ~ "Journeys to the West: Buddhism and the Japanese World Map"

CJS Noon Lecture ~ "Picturing Hachiman: Using the Past to Serve the Present"

CJS Noon Lecture ~ "Japan-US Economic Relations"

CJS Noon Lecture ~ "PhotoVoice: Women's Experiences of the Great East Japan Earthquake"

CJS Noon Lecture ~ "Figurality and the Development of Modern Consciousness"

Monks, Monasteries, and Madness: The Relationship between Buddhist Monasteries and Mental Institutions in East Asia

CJS Fall Film Series ~ UNITED RED ARMY

CJS Noon Lecture ~ "In and Out of the Body: Corporeal Visions and Ecstatic Perception in Wartime Japanese Training"

CJS Fall Film Series ~ 13 ASSASSINS

CJS Noon Lecture ~ "From the Study to the Stage: Tokaido Yotsuya Kaidan, Performance and Text"

New Media/Social Change Symposium

CJS Fall Film Series ~ MEMORIES OF MATSUKO

CJS Noon Lecture ~ "Fukushima's Victories and Victims: The Fateful Alliance of Japanese Soccer and Nuclear Power"

CJS Fall Film Series ~ HOUSE

CJS Noon Lecture ~ "Time and Space in Japanese Music"

2011 History of Art Freer Symposium: Barbarians, Monsters, Hybrids and Mutants: Asian Inventions of Human "Others"

CJS Fall Film Series ~ RAN

"The Tale of the Heike Lecture / Recital"

CJS Noon Lecture ~ "Strategies of Camouflage: Suzuki Norio's Photographs of Onoda Hiroo (1974) and Tsukada Mamoru's 'Identical Twins' Series (2003)"

CJS Fall Film Series ~ MILLENNIUM ACTRESS

CJS Noon Lecture ~ "We Came to Deliver What You Have Forgotten: Studio Ghibli as Producer of Cultural Memory"

CJS Fall Film Series ~ DODES'KA-DEN

Conference ~ "The Early Modern 'Medieval': Reconstructing Japanese Pasts"

Mariko Mori ~ "Oneness" ~ Penny W. Stamps Speaker Series

CJS Noon Lecture ~ "The Future of Regional Liquidity Arrangement in East Asia: Lesson from the Global Financial Crisis"

CJS Fall Film Series ~ HOWL'S MOVING CASTLE

"Yasha" ~ CJS's Summer 2011 Film Series

"A Scene at the Sea" ~ CJS's Summer 2011 Film Series

"Fireworks" ~ CJS's Summer 2011 Film Series

"Kikujiro" ~ CJS's Summer 2011 Film Series

Rieko Kage: CJS Noon Lecture Series

Zainichi (Koreans in Japan),

'Kissing Is a Symbol of Democracy!' US Popular Culture and the Emergence of the 'New Couple' in Occupied Japan,