Seminars in the East Asia Seminar Series for Lent 2023 will be once again open to the public to attend in person.
Unless otherwise stated talks this term will start at 17.00 UK time in Room 8/9 in the Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies. Please note this is the double room down the corridor off reception, where talks were held pre-2019.
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 23 January, 2023
How democratic is Japan? The Origins and workings of Japanese democracy
Prof Guibourg Delamotte
- Monday 30 January, 2023
Let the Commander Respond: The Paradox of Obedience in the Imperial Japanese Army, 1868 to 1945
Prof Danny Orbach
- Monday 06 February, 2023
Stories of the Periphery: Literature, Memory, and Politics in the Fiction of Ōe Kenzaburō and Abe Kazushige
Dr Filippo Cervelli
- Monday 13 February, 2023
Streams of Sounds: A Conversation on Contemporary Japanese Literature and Beyond
Polly Barton
- Monday 20 February, 2023
Rethinking the “Dual Dependence” of the Ryukyu Kingdom
Prof Takashi Okamoto
- Monday 27 February, 2023
“How grievous a spectacle this was”: Children, emotions and the memory of the Hidetsugu-incident (1595)
Dr Pia Jolliffe
- Monday 06 March, 2023
Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America’s Tea Cups
Prof Robert Hellyer
- Monday 13 March, 2023
The EU Migrant Generation in Asia - Middle-Class Aspirations in Asian Global Cities
Dr Helena Hof
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