Noon Lecture Series

Sept 18 - Christine R. Yano, University of Hawaii, Society for East Asian Anthropology

Jet-Age Nationhood: Pan American World Airways as Postwar Japan

Sept 25 - Anne Ishii, United States Artists, MASSIVE GOODS

THE SOUND OF MANGA: From Erotica to Sitcom in Gengoroh Tagame's Oeuvre

Oct 9 - Kirsten Cather, University of Texas at Austin

Scripting Suicide in Japan

Oct 16 - Thomas Monaghan, University of Michigan

Island Societies and Maritime Networks between Ryukyu and Japan: The Amami Islands, 1609-1878

Oct 30 - Matthew Fraleigh, University of Michigan, Brandeis University

Finding Refined Friends: The Magazine Gayū (1951–70) and Sinitic Poetry in Postwar Japan

Nov 6 - Miriam Kingsberg Kadia, University of Colorado Boulder

Japan's Mountain in Nepal: The First Ascent of Manaslu and Reconciliation with Postwar Asia

Nov 20 - Felicity Stone-Richards, University of Michigan

Acknowledgment and Moral Accountability within Japanese Activist Spaces

Dec 4 - Anne Allison, Duke University

Recrafting Closeness in Death: Relational Proxies for Future Japan/ese

Jan 16 - Marnie S. Anderson, Smith College

        In Close Association: Politics, Gender, and Reform in Meiji Japan, 1868-1900

Jan 23 - David Humphrey, Michigan State University

        Laughter’s Time, Media’s Time: Contemporary Comedy in Japan

Jan 30 - Sachiko Kita, University of Michigan

        Do Victims and Survivors Voices Reach Society? Changes to the Support System for Gender-based Violence in Japan

Feb 6 - Mariko Okada, University of Michigan; Oberlin University in Tokyo

        Dancing in Motion: Untangling the Framing of ‘Geisha’ in Early Cinematic Records

Feb 20 - Kenneth Mori McElwain, University of Tokyo; Columbia University

        What Do Japanese People Want From Their Constitution?

Feb 27 - Kazuhiro Soda, Peabody Award-winning Filmmaker

        Editing Observation: Filmmaker Soda Kazuhiro Demonstrates His Method

Mar 27 - Junko Kato, The University of Tokyo

        The Politics of Taxation and Redistributive Equality

April 3 - Maura Stephens-Chu, University of Michigan

        Techno-Menses: Period Products and FemTech in Japan

April 10 - Tomoyuki Sasaki, College of William & Mary

        Uneven Development and Rural Decline: The Other Side of Japan's Economic Miracle

April 17 - Julia Alekseyeva, University of Pennsylvania

        Matsumoto Toshio and the Antifascist Avant-Garde