Noon Lecture Series

Sept 12 - Sabine Frühstück, University of California at Santa Barbara

Crafting Immortality: Emotional Capital and Randoseru Victory

Sept 19 - Anne Crescini, University of Kitakyushu

Japanese English: Weird English or Creative Japanese? How Understanding Language Can Change Your Perspective

Sept 26 - Emer O'Dwyer, Oberlin College

Democracy on Edge: Japan’s Atsumi Peninsula During the Allied Occupation

Oct 3 - Denise Saint Arnault, University of Michigan

Examining and Understanding Distress Experiences for Japanese Women: A Retrospective

Oct 10 - Masataka Okamoto, Fukuoka Prefectural University 

The Hidden Diversity of the Japanese People: Deconstructing Japan’s Nation-Building Process

Oct 24 - Maura Stephens-Chu, University of Michigan

Techno-Menses: Period Products and FemTech in Japan

Nov 7 - Kenji Ishizaka, University of Michigan

The Uniqueness of Japanese Documentary Films: Focusing on the Minamata Series

Nov 14 - Shimpei Cole Ota, National Museum of Ethnology; Graduate University for Advanced Studies; American Museum of Natural History

Tyrannical Tigers and Endangered Cats: Why Are the Korean Scholar-Bureaucrats Always So Important in Modern Japan?

Nov 21 - Kirsten Seuffert, University of Michigan

Other “Punks” in Late 1970s–1980s Cinema and Visual Culture in Japan: Gender, Documentary, Ephemerality

Dec 5 - Tara Rodman, University of California at Irvine

Fantasies of Ito Michio