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The Japan Colloquium series continues to offer an array of free events for students, faculty, and the community at large.  Events are added periodically so check this site regularly. (For other UW Japan related lectures and events please visit the calendars at the East Asia Center, and Asian Languages and Literature.)

This Week

• Why Has Japan Only Had One Dynasty?
  Sat Nov 14, 2009

All Events

November 2009

Monday November 2, 2009
NOON - 1:15 PM
UW 317 Thomson Hall

Prof. Robert J. Pekkanen, Chair, Japan Studies Program, University of Washington

contact: japan@uw.edu

Prof. Robert Pekkanen is an Associate Professor at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. Harvard University awarded him a Ph.D. in political science in 2002. He has published articles on Japanese politics in journals such as The American Political Science Review, The British Journal of Political Science, and The Journal of Japanese Studies, among others. His recent book on Japan's civil society, Japan's Dual Civil Society: Members without Advocates (Stanford, 2006) won the Ohira Prize in 2008 and an award from the Japanese Nonprofit Research Association (JANPORA) in 2007. The Japan Times also featured it as one of the "Best Asia Books" of 2006. A Japanese translation appeared in 2008. He published two books in 2009, an edited volume from Routledge and a book in Japanese on Japan's neighborhood associations. Pekkanen's new book on the Liberal Democratic Party will appear from Cornell University Press in 2010. Pekkanen has interviewed over 50 members of the Japanese Diet. In 2009, he was on the campaign trail with several politicians. He himself has been interviewed by media including PBS's "The News Hour with Jim Lehrer," The Christian Science Monitor, Asahi Shimbun (Japan), USA Today, and radio programs in the US, China, Jamaica and Australia.

Saturday November 14, 2009
8:30 - 9:30 AM (Aikido class) 9:30 - 11:00 AM (Lecture)
Seattle Asian Art Museum

Speaker: David Spafford

Part of the "Saturday University: Asia in Focus" series, presented by the Seattle Art Museum, The Center for Asian Art and Ideas, and the East Asia Center and Japan Studies Program at University of Washington

For information, contact eacenter@uw.edu

As the inaugural lecture series from the Center for Asian Art and Ideas, "Saturday University: Asia in Focus" provides a firm foundation for understanding the rapid rise of India, China and Japan in today's world. This ten-week series of lectures by University of Washington professors provides an overview of each country's rich history, intriguing contemporary politics and society, and distinctive art and culture. Together we will explore an array of issues that confront these multifaceted Asian civilizations and affect out lives.

Admission for this event is $10 for SAM members, and $15 for non-members. Other presentations on India precede these lectures. Details on those presentations are at http://jsis.washington.edu/soasia/events.php

Saturday November 21, 2009
8:30 - 9:30 AM (Aikido class) 9:30 - 11:00 AM (Lecture)
Seattle Asian Art Museum

Speaker: Kenneth Pyle

Part of the "Saturday University: Asia in Focus" series, presented by the Seattle Art Museum, The Center for Asian Art and Ideas, and the East Asia Center and Japan Studies Program at University of Washington

For information, contact eacenter@uw.edu

As the inaugural lecture series from the Center for Asian Art and Ideas, "Saturday University: Asia in Focus" provides a firm foundation for understanding the rapid rise of India, China and Japan in today's world. This ten-week series of lectures by University of Washington professors provides an overview of each country's rich history, intriguing contemporary politics and society, and distinctive art and culture. Together we will explore an array of issues that confront these multifaceted Asian civilizations and affect out lives.

Admission for this event is $10 for SAM members, and $15 for non-members.  Other presentations on India precede these lectures.  Details on those presentations are
at http://jsis.washington.edu/soasia/events.php

December 2009

Saturday December 5, 2009
8:30 - 9:30 AM (Aikido class) 9:30 - 11:00 AM (Lecture)
Seattle Asian Art Museum

Speaker: Cynthea Bogel

Part of the "Saturday University: Asia in Focus" series, presented by the Seattle Art Museum, The Center for Asian Art and Ideas, and the East Asia Center and Japan Studies Program at University of Washington

For information, contact eacenter@uw.edu

As the inaugural lecture series from the Center for Asian Art and Ideas, "Saturday University: Asia in Focus" provides a firm foundation for understanding the rapid rise of India, China and Japan in today's world. This ten-week series of lectures by University of Washington professors provides an overview of each country's rich history, intriguing contemporary politics and society, and distinctive art and culture. Together we will explore an array of issues that confront these multifaceted Asian civilizations and affect out lives.

Admission for this event is $10 for SAM members, and $15 for non-members.  Other presentations on India precede these lectures.  Details on those presentations are at http://jsis.washington.edu/soasia/events.php

February 2010

Thursday February 4, 2010
7:00 PM
Kane Hall 210, UW Seattle campus

Professor Ted Mack will give a preshow introduction

Sponsored by the East Asia Center and East Asia Resource Center of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies, University of Washington

For information, please visit http://jsis.washington.edu/smak/.

Classic Japanese film co-written, edited and directed by the incomparable Akira Kurosawa and starring Toshio Mifune. (1954) 160 minutes. 16th century Japanese farmers face a band of roving thieves. Their solution is to hire samurai for protection. The farmers are poor and can only offer food and lodging but they soon recruit Kambei Shimada who determines that they will need a total of seven samurai to properly guard the village...

This screening is preceded by a brief introduction by Professor Ted Mack of the Department of Asian Languages and Literature.

Part of the SMAK 2010 International Film Series (See Movies at Kane) showing every Thursday night: January 14---March 18, 2010.

No tickets required / Free and open to the public

Please note that this event does not provide clock hours to teachers.

All showings at 7:00 p.m., Kane Hall, Room 210, University of Washington, Seattle.