Noon Lecture Series

Jan 22 - Saburo Horikawa, Hosei University

Why Place Matters: The “Publicness” of the Lost Landscape

Jan 29 - Hajime “Jimmy” Kishimori, Consul General of Japan in Detroit

Three Questions for Japan in Michigan: Where, Who, and What? An Analysis of Japan’s Presence and Contributions to Michigan by the New Consul General of Japan in Detroit

Feb 5 - Matthew Fraleigh, University of Michigan; Brandeis University

Distant Listening: Conceptions of Sound and Language in Japanese Sinitic Poetry

Feb 19 - Brad Hammond, University of Southern California

Remembering the University of Michigan’s Wartime Japanese American Workers

March 26 - Peter Shapinsky, University of Illinois, Springfield

Transgressive Navigation: Tanegashima, Kyoto, and the Wokou in Sixteenth-Century Maritime East Asia

April 2 - Natsu Oyobe, University of Michigan Museum of Art

James Marshall Plumer’s Collecting Journey in War-torn Japan: Mingei Pottery, Folk Deities, and Ainu Art

April 9 - John Kanbayashi, University of Pennsylvania

Powering Empire: Hydroelectricity and Highland Taiwan under Japanese Colonial Rule

April 16 - Sarah Frederick, Boston University

A Queer Girl in Modern Japan: Yoshiya Nobuko

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