Overcoming Online Challenges in Hosting Events and Planning Projects
Overcoming Online Challenges in Hosting Events and Planning Projects Date: Thursday, May 20, 2021 Time: 5-6:30 pm (Pacific Time) Panelists: Bianca Chui and Miaoling Xue Host and Moderator: Christina Laffin Registration: https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5Iqce2trD4uGNZHnekjN8oXlBVfixzqIBO- Description: This session features two approaches to project management and event hosting in online environments. The sudden transition to online teaching, learning, and […]
Virtual Book Launch – Dancing the Dharma
Virtual Book Launch – Dancing the Dharma: Religious and Political Allegory in Japanese Noh Theater Description The Centre for Japanese Research (CJR) at the University of British Columbia presents a series of online book launches to celebrate recent publications about premodern Japan. For our May event, author Susan Blakeley Klein will be discussing Dancing the […]
UBC at 2021 Association for Asian Studies Conference
Monday, March 22, 2021 10:00am – 11:30am EDT Jeffrey Kotyk: How did a Japanese Buddhist Monk Read Sanskrit: Jōnen’s Understanding of Sanskrit and Siddham 10:00am – 11:30am EDT Elijah Greenstein: Infrastructure at Sea: Shipping in the Japanese Empire 10:00am – 11:30am EDT Kelly McCormick: Writing the History of Japanese Photography: Challenges and Provocations 12:30pm – […]
Same-Sex Marriage: Comparison of Canada, US and Japan
March 19, 2021 – Same-Sex Marriage: Comparison of Canada, US and Japan Organized by The Centre for Asian Legal Studies, Allard School of Law Friday, March 19 3:30-5PM (Pacific Time) via Zoom Speaker: Takashi Shirouzu, Associate Professor of Law, Chiba University Law School Description: The legalization of same-sex marriages is no longer an issue in North America, but […]
The 10th Anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake: Online Curator Tour of A Future for Memory
Video of the pre-recorded tour: The 10th Anniversary of the Great East Japan Earthquake: Online Curator Tour of A Future for Memory Thursday, March 11, 2021: 7 – 8pm in Pacific Time (US and Canada) Friday, March 12, 2021: 12 –1:30pm in Japan Time Online, via Zoom. Free, registration required. Registration: https://ubc.zoom.us/meeting/register/u5YkfuCqqDMsGNC9FqT1bhoo-Q_LkJ2Al7mP To commemorate the […]
Ten Years after Fukushima: Commemoration and Lessons for the Future
Event recording is now available! – https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKF1Fi_i73U [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tKF1Fi_i73U[/youtube] Two-part online panel discussions on lessons (un)learned from the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in 2011. As we commemorate the 10th anniversary of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster in 2011, the University of Tokyo and UBC invite you to our two-part online panel discussions on […]
Virtual Book Launch – Pleasure in Profit
Virtual Book Launch – Pleasure in Profit: Popular Prose in Seventeenth-Century Japan Description The Centre for Japanese Research (CJR) at the University of British Columbia presents a series of online book launches to celebrate recent publications about premodern Japan. For our March event, author Laura Moretti will be discussing Pleasure in Profit: Popular Prose in […]
Japan and Asia in the pandemic era: RCEP
The Centre for Japanese Research will be co-sponsoring the online panel discussion, Japan and Asia in the Pandemic Era: RCEP with the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy (University of Toronto) and Asia Pacific Foundation of Canada. Description In November, 2020, 15 countries comprising all of ASEAN plus Japan, China, South […]
Epistemology of the Violets: Heuristics toward a Sensorium of Afro-Japanese Co-creativity
Due to unexpected last-minute technical difficulties, the talk is rescheduled for 4:00pm PT on Tuesday, April 20. We sincerely apologize again for the inconvenience caused and do hope that you will be able to join us next Tuesday. Speaker: Will Bridges (University of Rochester) Moderator: Christina Yi (UBC) Date: 4:00pm – 5:15pm PDT on April […]
Ainu, Okinawa and Indigeneity: Re-thinking Okinawan Indigeneity
Part of the Ainu, Okinawa and Indigeneity Series. Monday, March 29, 5-6pm Re-thinking Okinawan Indigeneity: Articulation and Activism Dr. Megumi Chibana, Kanagawa University [Available until April 30] Lecture recording (with English closed captions) Webinar format (audience not visible; questions welcome via Q&A). Description This lecture offers a new way of thinking about Indigeneity through the […]