Past Events

Japanese Engineers and the Post-Colonial, Cold War System of Development in South Korea Place: Room 1197, Buchanan Tower, 1873 East Mall By: Aaron Moore, Arizona State University Date: September 27th, 2016 Time: 4:30-6:00 pm   About the Event Until now, work on Japan’s colonial legacy of industrialization in Korea has focused on whether or not Japan laid the foundation to […]

How Digital Humanities Construct the Ideas of Historicity (A Case of Japanese History) Place: UBC Institute of Asian Research Room 351 (C.K. Choi Building 1855 West Mall) By: Dr. Tomoko L. Kitagawa (University of California, Berkeley) Dates: Wednesday, September 28th Time: 12:30-2:00pm About the Event In Virtual History (1998), Niall Ferguson and his collaborators presented “alternative histories” to […]

Place: Asian Centre 604 By: John Timothy Wixted Dates: Thursday, September 29 Time: 12:30-2:00pm About the Event Professor Wixted has written several articles on kanshi (Sino-Japanese poetry). His talk, “Sex and the Stereoscopic City in Kanshi: Mori Ōgai and Niigata,” will treat selections from two series that Mori Ōgai (1862-1922) wrote when on expedition in northern Japan as […]

Lunchtime Lecture Series: Assistant Professor Tristan Grunow (UBC) Place: Asian Centre 604 Date: Wednesday, October 5th, 2016 Time: 12:30-13:30pm Abstract: Ginza Bricktown (1872) is celebrated as an exemplar of Japanese efforts to rapidly modernize and Westernize following the Meiji Restoration of 1868.  By constructing a district of Western-style brick buildings and paved streets at the […]

A Chance to Live, Work and Learn in Japan Recruitment for the 2017 Japan Exchange and Teaching (JET) Programme is currently underway. Of the 43 participants sent from British Columbia, this past summer, 17 were former University of British Columbia students. We hope we will continue to receive many strong candidates from UBC for next […]

JSAC Excursion Information Place: Asian Centre Auditorium, 1871 West Mall Date: Saturday, October 15 Time: 3:30pm – 7:45pm Join us for an evening of free viewings of documentary film screenings, produced by two award-winning directors Linda Ohama and Hisako Matsui. The first film A New Moon Over Tohoku will be followed by a short discussion with Ms. […]

Sumidagawa – The Sumida River Place: I.K Barber Learning Centre, UBC Chilcotin Room – Room 256 Date: Monday October 17, 2016 Time: 7:00 to 8:30pm About Sumidagawa This dance play premiered in 1919. It was adapted from the noh of the same name and features Kiyomoto style music. The story focuses on a woman from Kyôto who is […]

Place: Asian Centre Room 604, 1871 West Mall By: Katsuhiko Imai (MA student in Department of Asian Studies) Date 1: October 25th | 7pm- 8:30pm Date 2: November 22nd | 7pm-9pm Abstract: This book club will be of special interest to Alumni who have studied Japanese at an advanced level (including reading literature in Japanese), we also welcome current […]

Panel Discussion followed with a Q & A session and a Luncheon Reception Place: Sage Bistro at UBC, 6331 Crescent Road By: Ambassador Ichiro Fujisaki, Ayano Maria Horiguchi, Kanako Katayama, Erina Kimizu, and Katsuya Yuzuki Date: Friday, October 28 Time: 11:00am – 12:30pm RSVP here. Abstract: Join us for a rare and exciting opportunity to engage with […]

CJR Lunchtime Lecture Series Place: Asian Centre 604 Date: Wednesday, November 2nd, 2016 Time: 12:30-13:30pm By: Atsumi Nakao (Ph.D. student, Asian Studies) Abstract: The research examines the young female specific subculture called Decora in Harajuku by applying critical ethnographic approach in order to retheorize the notion of resistance. Subcultures generated from the streets has been merged […]