Talks
The Betty Behrens Seminar on Classics of Historiography
Paul Seaward on "The History of the Rebellion" by Edward Hyde, Earl of Clarendon
East Asia Seminar Series, Lent Term 2017
Mon 23 January 2017 - Mon 27 February 2017
Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
In Lent Term 2017 the East Asia Seminar Series will welcome prominent scholars from around the world to speak on topics related to Japan, and in a wider context, East Asia. Seminars are held on Mondays at 5.00 p.m. in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Rooms 8 and 9; Sidgwick Avenue, Cambridge CB3 9DA
ALL ARE WELCOME!
Stay after for wine and mingling.
***Lent Term 2017 Programme***
Monday, 23rd January
‘Formats and Contents of Japanese Books: A Meaningful Interrelation’
Prof. Takahiro Sasaki, Keio University, Shidô bunkô
Japanese talk with translation
Monday, 30th January
‘Japan’s Grand Strategy in a Trumpian Age’
Prof. Richard Samuels, MIT
Monday, 6th February
‘Screenwriter: Director’s Wife or Film’s Author? Textuality, Space and Gender in Japanese Cinema’
Dr Lauri Kitsnik, Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures
Monday, 13th February
‘Slaves, Outcasts, and Torture: New Perspectives on Japanese Oral Performance and Media’
Prof. Haruo Shirane, Columbia University
Monday, 20th February
‘How Green Was My Night Soil: Thinking with Excrement about Nineteenth-Century Japan’
Prof. David Howell, Harvard University
Monday, 27th, February
‘Shake-up in the Japanese Underworld: The Yakuza on the Road to Extinction?’
Prof. Wolfgang Herbert, Tokushima University
For more information, email Matthew Shores at mws42@cam.ac.uk or call +44 (0)1223-335173.
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Cost: Free, by RSVP
Enquiries and booking
No need to book.
Free and open to the public. Come early for the best seats.
Enquiries: Dr Matthew Shores Website Email: mws42@cam.ac.uk Telephone: 01223-335173
Timing
All times
| Mon 23 January 2017 | 5:00PM - 6:30PM |
| Mon 30 January 2017 | 5:00PM - 6:30PM |
| Mon 6 February 2017 | 5:00PM - 6:30PM |
| Mon 13 February 2017 | 5:00PM - 6:30PM |
| Mon 20 February 2017 | 5:00PM - 6:30PM |
| Mon 27 February 2017 | 5:00PM - 6:30PM |