Seminars in the East Asia Seminar Series for Lent 2022 will take online via Zoom*. Registration will be required to attend talks, to register click on the links below to the individual event pages. 
*Japanese Studies students and staff are invited to join in person in the FAMES Common Room
Unless otherwise stated talks this term will start at 17.30 UK time.
To receive updates on talks at the beginning of Michaelmas and Lent term please send a request to be added to our mailing list to:
eai-distribution-request@lists.cam.ac.uk
- Monday, 24 January, 2022 *** Please note this talk starts at 18.00 ***
Mission Impossible: Women, Resilience, and the Culture of Securitization in Post-3.11 Japan
Prof Mire Koikari
- Monday, 31 January, 2022
“The Columbus of Japan” and other myths in Japan’s “discovery” of Southeast Asia
Dr Birgit Tremml-Werner
- Monday, 7 February, 2022
Japanese Nativism and Its Colonial Legacy: Imagining Divine Origins of the Korean Writing System
Dr Nuri Kim
- Monday, 14 February, 2022
Avant-Garde Calligraphers in Postwar Japan and Their International Aspirations
Dr Eugenia Bogdanova-Kummer
- Monday, 21 February, 2022
To Touch a Headless Cat: The Rise of Haptic Creatures in Japanese Robot Culture
Dr Daniel White & Dr Katsuno Hirofumi
- Monday, 28 February, 2022
Converging Histories: Magic Lanterns, Kamishibai, and Shadow Play in Japan
Dr Tara McGowan
- Monday, 7 March, 2022
Eleven Winters of Discontent: The Siberian Internment and the Making of a New Japan
Dr Sherzod Muminov
- Monday, 14 March, 2022
Changing sexuality education in Japanese schools
Prof Beverley Yamamoto, Osaka University
The Japanese Studies Group gratefully acknowledges the financial support of the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation towards this seminar series.
For further information, contact:
Freddie Semple
Executive Assistant, Japanese Studies Group
Faculty of Asian & Middle Eastern Studies
E-mail: fs468@cam.ac.uk