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Leiden Lecture Series in Japanese Studies
Capitalizing on Leiden’s renown as the founding university of Japanese Studies in the world, the Leiden Lecture Series in Japanese Studies brings top global researchers to Leiden.
With support from the Ailion Foundation (IAAF), every year six eminent Japan specialists will come to Leiden for open lectures. Integrated into the normal classroom experience of Leiden undergraduates, they showcase Japanese Studies scholarship from around the world to the wider Leiden community.
Have a look at the previous lectures of the Leiden Lecture Series in Japanese Studies.
Programme
18
Nov
Lecture
Marketing Nostalgia: Packing and Unpacking the Everyday Lives of Children in Japan
Sabine Frühstück (UC Santa Barbara)
13
Nov
Lecture
The Myriad Avatars of Izumi Shikibu in Medieval Japan
Rajyashree Pandey (Goldsmiths, University of London)
17
Oct
Lecture
Performing identity and buying love: self-expression and iyashi in the dansō escorting business
Marta Fanasca (University of Bologna/Hosei University)
31
Oct
Lecture
Double Lecture on Ecocritical Perspectives in Japanese Art
16
Sep
Lecture
An Introduction to Digital Humanities: Methods, Tools, & Projects in Pre/Early Modern Japan Studies
Paula Curtis (University of California)
25
Apr
Lecture
Philosophy/Japan Studies: Befriending Things on a Field of Energies
Graham Parkes (University of Vienna)
20
Mar
Lecture
Visual Construction of the Dutch: From the Perspective of the “Tōjin”
Keiko Suzuki (Ritsumeikan University)
29
Feb
Lecture
Augmented Realities: Japanese Literati Painting, Circa 1700–1800
Frank Feltens (Smithsonian Institution)
20
Feb
Lecture
Lessons of Democracy: Mothers’ Education and Learning Activities in late-1950s Japan,
Aya Yamanashi (Keio University)
12
Dec
Lecture
Who Became a Politician: A Portrait of Modern Japan
Yuichiro Shimizu (Keio University)
10
Oct
Lecture
Memories of Cinema-Going in Postwar Japan: An Ethno-history
Jennifer Coates (University of Sheffield)
20
Sep
Lecture
Civil Society and International Students in Japan: Methodology and Fieldwork
Dr Polina Ivanova (Ritsumeikan University)
18
Sep
Lecture
Double Lecture: Illustrated Books and Manuscripts in Early Modern Japan
Peter Kornicki (University of Cambridge) and Alessandro Bianchi (Oxford Bodleian Libraries)
16
Mar
Lecture
Ingrained Habits: The “Kitchen Cars,” American Wheat Promotion, and the Transformation of Japanese Diet and Identity, 1956-1960
Nathan Hopson (University of Bergen)
13
Mar
Lecture
Queer Subjects in Modern Japanese Literature: A Reminiscence
Stephen Miller (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
23
Feb
Lecture
Can we overcome Orientalism with Multiculturalism? A Methodological Reflection on Asian and Comparative Philosophy
Jingjing Li
07
Dec
Lecture
Between Diversity and Decolonisation: Museums as Media, and the Representation of Ainu in Museums in Japan
Prof. Mariko Murata (Kansai University)
22
Sep
Lecture
Literature as Commons: Re-reading Natsume Sōseki's Kokoro
Michael Bourdaghs (University of Chicago)
26
Apr
Lecture
From “The Sea Bastards” to “Solidarity Beyond Ocean”: Japanese Dockworkers and the Politics of Scale in the Bandung Moment
David R. Ambaras (Department of History, North Carolina State University)
17
Mar
Lecture
Word as Image: Waka Inscription on the Folding Screen at the Turn of the 17th Century in Japan
Prof. Dr. Tomoko Sakomura (Swarthmore College)
16
Mar
Lecture
Birth of a Pelagic Empire: Japanese Whaling and Early Territorial Expansions in the Pacific
Prof Jakobina Arch (Whitman College)
