Friday, March 4 2022
5:00-7:00PM
Speech Contest 2022
Please join us for our annual Speech Contest on March 4 from 5:30 - 7:00PM.
Past Events
Monday, February 21 2022
6:30PM
Student Showcase: Tonde Saitama
Please join the Japanese Program for a screening of the wonderful film Tonde Saitama featuring subtitles by students in the UWM Japanese Program. This film features an A List cast headlined by Gackt and is based on the manga series...
Thursday, November 4 2021
6PM - 7PM
Interested in a Career in the Foreign Service?
This coming semester, the Japanese Culture Association here at UW Milwaukee is honored to have the opportunity to host a virtual career presentation by diplomats at the United States Consulate in Fukuoka, Japan! Our time with the Consulate will be...
Friday, October 22 2021
Halloween Film Screening
Join us in the Halloween spirit as we head to the Union Cinema for a double feature screening of Hausu and one TBD film! More info will be forthcoming as we get closer to the date. Free and open to...
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...
Wednesday, September 22 2021
Star Talk: Japanese Cosmology in the Classical Tradition
Join us for a talk and stargazing session at the Manfred Olson Planetarium! Free and open to the public
Thursday, September 9 2021
3PM - 3:50PM
Fall Semester Conversation Table
Welcome back to campus! The conversation table is back and in-person! Come join your classmates and friends for conversation and informative talks! Conversation table will meet on Thursdays from 3PM - 3:50PM in the Language Oasis (Room 187 on the...
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...
Friday, April 3 2020
12PM - 1PM
Guest Lecture “Gray Areas: Diluted ink, textual authority, and the early modern novel”
Join us for an Asian Studies Brown Bag talk by Kevin Mulholland, Visiting Assistant Professor, Japanese Program, Department of Foreign Languages and Literature. This presentation looks at a moment in Japanese literary history where transitions in narrative created several gray...
Friday, February 28 2020
5PM - 7:30PM
Japanese Speech Contest!
Come join us as students compete with recitations, speeches, and performances in the UWM Japanese Program’s annual Speech Contest!