Noon Lecture Series

Sept 17 - Joy Taniguchi, Shizuoka Institute of Science and Technology

Gathering Fading Voices: Endangered Dialect Research in Japan Today

Sept 24 - Michael J. Ioannides, Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan

Rivers and the Politics of Temporality in Ainu Mosir

Oct 1 - Kanako Uzawa; Invited Faculty Member, Hokkaido University; Affiliated Researcher, Historical Museum of Oslo; Guest Curator, University of Michigan Museum of Art

Living Ainu Art: Community, Nature, and Intergenerational Knowledge through Song and Dance

Oct 15 - Yasuko Yokoshi, Choreographer, Dancer, Filmmaker

A History of Unowned Dance: Bodies in Transmission

Nov 5 - Joshua Schlachet, Associate Professor, University of Arizona

Nourishing Life: Cultures of Food and Health in Early Modern Japan

Nov 12 - Yutaka Yoshida, Lecturer in Social Sciences, Cardiff University

When Self-Empowerment Goes South (or East, More Precisely): Gender, Neoliberalism, and Romance Fraud in Japan