Featured Events

Wednesday, April 10 2024 4PM - 5PM

Robo-Buddhism: Kokoro, Technology, and Spirituality in Japan Today, distinguished lecture by Jennifer Robertson

Please join us for an Association for Asian Studies NEAC distinguished lecture by Professor Jennifer Robertson, professor emerita, University of Michigan Kokoro (心) is widely and innovatively used in everyday parlance and figures in many Japanese idioms. Kokoro connotes intellectual,...

Thursday, March 14 2024 7PM

Film Screening and Alumni Showcase!

Come join us for a screening of Song of a Dying Summer (逝く夏の歌), with subtitles by Japanese and Film Studies Programs alum Brandon Crisp! Nippon Connection says about the film: Natsu spends a last summer alongside his friends, Aki, Fuyu...

Wednesday, May 11 2022 2PM

Guest Lecture: Readers, Writers, and Wipers of Modern Japan: Toilet Paper as Complex Literary Material

Please join us for a talk by Dr. Linda Galvane of University of Michigan for a talk here on campus! Talk title: Readers, Writers, and Wipers of Modern Japan: Toilet Paper as Complex Literary Material This talk examines toilet paper...

Friday, September 24 2021 1PM

Special guest lecture: A Stranger in the Shogun’s City

We are thrilled to welcome Amy Stanley of Northwestern University for a talk on her Pulitzer Prize nominated book. Her talk will be titled "Stranger in the Shogun's City: From the Archive to the Page" Friday, September 24, 1 pm...

Saturday, April 4 2020

Midwest Japan Seminar at UWM!

The Critical East Asian Humanities Reading Group C21 Collaboratory and the Japanese Program are proud to host the spring 2020 meeting of the Midwest Japan Seminar. The Midwest Japan Seminar returns to Milwaukee for the first time in decades. This...

Monday, November 11 2019 3:30-4:45

Talking about Toilets and Japanese Culture

Come join us for a truly memorable and enlightening talk by Sharon Domier from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Learn more about the history of Japanese toilets and their appearance throughout the literary and visual history tradition of Japan! Free...

Monday, October 28 2019

An Evening of Kabuki

We are thrilled to welcome Nakamura Gankyo, kabuki actor of the most prestigious kabuki family in Japan, to perform a selection of kabuki dances from Musume Dojoji and Echigo Jishi. Nakamura-san will demonstrate how different interpretations of a dance play...

Friday, October 25 2019 12PM - 1PM

Divining the Past

Join us for a talk by Brigid E. Vance, Assistant Professor in the History Department at Lawrence University. In this talk, Professor Vance asks what happens to dreams after they are dreamed? How was such knowledge about dreams disseminated in...

Thursday, November 1 2018 12:30PM

“Material Form, Female Friendship, and the Making of a Love Novel”, talk by Luciana Sanga

The Japanese Program and the Asian Studies Certificate is pleased to welcome Luciana Sanga of Stanford University for her talk on the materiality of "ren'ai shosetsu" (love novel). Free and open to the public. Talk abstract: How does the material...

Thursday, March 15 2018 6:00PM-8:00PM

Japan Twang: An Evening of Tsugaru-jamisen with Sato Michiyoshi

Come enjoy an entertaining and educational concert with shamisen virtuoso Sato Michiyoshi on his second US tour! Sato is an award-winning performer of Tsugaru-jamisen, a dynamic style of music played on a three-stringed Japanese banjo called a shamisen. Sato's performance...