Featured Events

Friday, March 24 2017 - Friday, May 5 2017 6PM - 8PM

Evening in the Land of the Rising Sun: Planetarium Series and Spring Festival Celebration

Join us for our Friday night series at the Manfred Olson Planetarium. This special event, running each Friday evening for seven weeks, will include Japan-related food, drink, entertainment by Japanese majors at UWM, and cultural activities starting at 6PM. These...

Wednesday, February 22 2017 3:30PM-4:30PM

Guest Lecture: “Rewriting the Modernist Encounter: ‘At the Hawk’s Well’ and the Dance Poem Movement in Japan”

Please join us for a talk by Tara Rodman of Northwestern University. Time and date: Feb 22 @ 3:30PM Location: Greene Hall 148 Abstract: In 1916, the modern dancer Itō Michio (伊藤道郎) collaborated with W.B. Yeats and Ezra Pound on...

Wednesday, September 28 2016 12:30PM

Astrobreak at the Manfred Olson Planetarium

Join us for a Japanese edition of the Astrobreak at the Manfred Olson Planetarium on the UWM campus! We will look at the stars and talk about poetry and literature about the Tanabata story of two lovers separated by an...

Wednesday, March 9 2016 3:00 pm

Landscapes of the Unfamiliar: Tani Motokatsu and His Journey to Ezo in 1799

Tani Motokatsu was employed as a sketch artist along with some eight hundred fellow expeditioners on a shogunate-sponsored trip to Ezo (present day Hokkaido, Japan) in 1799.

Thursday, October 29 2015 4PM-6:30PM

Japan Foundation Support Boosts UWM’s Japanese Program

Join us for a special ceremony celebrating Japan studies at UWM and acknowledging the Consulate-General of Japan in Chicago and the Japan Foundation’s generous support of the Japanese Program at UWM. Event sponsored by: * Center for International Education *...