Promoting Positive Attitudes for Linguistic and Cultural Diversity in Higher Education in Japan
CJR Lunchtime Lecture series Presenter: Dr. Yumi Sugihara Yoshida Date and Time: Tuesday, February 26, 12:30-1:30 Location: Asian Centre, room 604 Abstract: Japanese society is changing rapidly toward having more linguistic and cultural diversity since the Japanese government is strongly promoting a system where more international workers and students stay in Japan. In order to promote […]
A Family Maintaining Its Elevation: Household, Status, and Documentation in Early Modern Shugendō
Date: Tuesday, November 13, 2018 Time: 12:30-1:30 PM Venue: Asian Centre, Room 604 (1871 West Mall) By: Dr. Frank Clements Part of the CJR Lunchtime Lecture Series Abstract: Shugendō is a Japanese religious tradition centered around mountain asceticism that incorporates elements of esoteric Buddhism, Daoist immortality beliefs, and the worship of local deities. Its practitioners, called yamabushi or shugenja, […]
3,000 Leagues in Search of Cuore: Edmondo de Amicis Travels to Japan
Date: Tuesday, November 27, 2018 Time: 12:30-1:30 PM Venue: Asian Centre, Room 604 (1871 West Mall) By: Dr. Melek Ortabasi, Director, World Literature Program, Simon Fraser University Part of the CJR Lunchtime Lecture Series Abstract: Cuore (Heart, 1886), by popular travelogue author Edmondo de Amicis (1846-1908), was the first bestseller in its home country of Italy. Almost immediately recognized […]
[Apr/6] Brazil and Modern Japanese Literature
This talk will present a brief overview of this history, with a focus on its early decades (1908-1941), and then consider ways that this history prompts us to reconsider many of the tacit and explicit presumptions that underlie the field of modern Japanese literature.
[Mar/28] Owning the Ocean: Alaska Fishermen and the Japanese ‘Invasion’ of Bristol Bay, 1937-1938
This talk examines the ways Alaskans interacted with and understood the salmon, the physical environment of Bristol Bay, and the conceptual nature of ocean borders, and how those perspectives entered the political and diplomatic discourse on the eve of the Second World War.
[Mar/8] Colonizing Language: Cultural Production and Language Politics in Modern Japan and Korea
Date: Thursday, March 8, 2018 Time: 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm Venue: Room 604, Asian Centre, 1871 West Mall, Vancouver Please join us for the book launch of Colonizing Language by Dr. Christina Yi. In this monograph, Yi investigates how linguistic nationalism and national identity intersect in the formation of modern literary canons through an examination of […]
[Feb/27] Meiji at 150 Lecture Series “History and Hardship of the Japanese Immigrants to Canada”
Date: February 27, 2018 Time: 12:30 pm – 2:00 pm Venue: Room 120, C. K. Choi Building (1855 West Mall) Japanese immigration to Canada is officially recorded as beginning in 1877. The 65 years since then and the forced expulsion of anyone of Japanese ancestry from the westcoast of British Columbia in 1942 is a time of complexity. […]
[Feb/7] Wartime Japan” as a Divided, Ambivalent Entity: The Eurasian Experience
Date: February 7, 2018 Time: 12:30 – 1:30 PM Venue: Room 604, Asian Centre, 1871 West Mall By: Professor W. Puck Brecher Abstract: Historians have called wartime Japan a racist polity and the Asia-Pacific War a “race war” saturated by “race hate.” Narratives about racial hatred between Westerners and Japanese during the war tend to be predicated on the assumption […]
