16 September 2024
With the support of the Cambridge-DAAD Fund, Professor Barak Kushner (AMES Faculty) and Professor Kerstin von Lingen (University of Vienna) recently co-hosted a day-long workshop: Mapping the end of empire: coming to terms with the Pacific War - Shanghai as a hub of displacement and resettlement.
The full schedule of speakers and topics can be viewed below.
10 September 2024
Prof Laura Moretti has been invited to give a lecture at the University of Pennsylvania's Workshop
30 August 2024
The Fitzwilliam Museum is currently displaying a collection of ukiyo-e prints, providing an exciting opportunity to take a closer look at these rarely displayed works.
FAMES PhD student Helen Magowan undertook a 3-month internship at the Fitzwilliam museum at the beginning of the year, which has now materialised into the current display in the Shiba Gallery.
30 August 2024
Watch Dr John Nilsson-Wright's recent appearance on Arirang TV's 'Within the Frame' where he discussed Washington's nuclear strategic plan and the response from Pyongyang.
30 August 2024
Peter Han's article on ‘Why North Korea may find the South’s new vision for unification provocative’ is available to read in The Conversation, published on 21 August. The article has also been republished as a commentary by Singapore’s state-owned media CNA on 23 August.
30 July 2024
Interview of Dr Brigitte Steger with Manabi no Chizu on studying Japanese Studies (in Japanese) by onjin published
24 July 2024
Last Wednesday (17th July 2024) Professor James Montgomery was elected as a Fellow of the British Academy.
10 July 2024
The British and Irish Association for Jewish Studies has awarded their 2024 Book Prize to Aaron Hornkohl for his book, The Historical Depth of the Tiberian Reading Tradition of Biblical Hebrew
05 June 2024
Translation and the Borders of Contemporary Japanese Literature: Inciting Difference
28 May 2024
On 22 May 2024, Min Jin Lee, acclaimed author of the bestselling novel Pachinko, gave a talk as part of the Ra Jong-Yil Lecture Series at the University of Cambridge.
24 May 2024
The Workshop was organised by Richard Samuels and Karl Gustafsson.
15 May 2024
The Japanese Studies section celebrated 75 Years of Japanese Studies at Cambridge on Friday 10 May at an evening reception with alumni, students and supporters
10 May 2024
On 7 May 2024, the inaugural Cambridge Korean Studies Graduate Workshop took place at the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research.
06 May 2024
Professor Kushner delivered a lecture on 2 May summarizing his recent work: “When Justice Fails: Postwar East Asia and the struggles over memory and history”
03 May 2024
Dr Nilsson-Wright was part of a 30 minute discussion programme on Wednesday of this week with the Arirang English-language TV programme, “Within the Frame” discussing North Korea’s security challenges in East Asia, the Middle East and Europe.