Past Events

2019-2020 Academic Year

• "Teaching, Tech-ing, and Tying It All Together" with Valerie Conklin, May 20, 2020
• "Rigor, Grit, and Advocacy as a Japanese Language Teacher" with Jessica Lee, May 11, 2020
• Film Screening: "Blind Bombing, Filmed by a Bat" with Kota Takeuchi, April 28, 2020
• "Developing Yourself through Foreign Language Teaching in Japan" with Andrew Kim, Microsoft, April 20, 2020
• "The West, the East, and the Insular Middle: Pacific Integration During the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries" with Robert I. Hellyer, Wake Forest University, February 28, 2020
• "Who Was in Charge in Early Modern Japan?: Governance from the Ground Up" with David Howell, Harvard University, February 21, 2020
• "The Shosoin Treasury: Three Perspectives" with Yukio Lippit, Harvard University, February 7, 2020
• "The Scales of History: How Family History and Global History Work Together" with Shunya Yoshimi, University of Tokyo, January 23, 2020
• "Tokyo 2020+: Urban Identity in the Era of Globalization" with Shunya Yoshimi, University of Tokyo, January 22, 2020
• "Asia Films: Edo Avant Garde" with Director Linda Hoaglund, January 20, 2020
• "Performing Modernity: Sutematsu Oyama’s Voice, Figure, and Legacy as a Translation of Modern Japanese Female Identity" with Orna Shaughnessy, University of Denver, January 13, 2020
• "Mind the Gap: Japanese Women Directors and Commercial Cinema" with Colleen Laird, University of British Columbia, November 18, 2019
• "Teaching Old Dogs New Tricks: Kyokutei Bakin (1767–1848) and the Formation of Modern Japanese Literature" with Brian Dowdle, University of Montana, November 15, 2019
• "Where Written Language and Literature Meet: Thinking About the Role of Script in Japanese-language Literature" with Konno Shinji, Seisen University, and Christopher J. Lowy, University of Washington, November 12, 2019
• "What Is It Like to Study in Japan?", November 4, 2019
• JET Program Information Sessions, October 22–24, 2019
• "Cross-cultural and Cross-linguistic Perspectives on Narrative Discourse" with Masahiko Minami, San Francisco State University, October 21, 2019

2018-2019 Academic Year

• Film Screening: "Little Voices from Fukushima" with Director Hitomi Kamanaka, May 16, 2019
• "Japan’s Monarchy and the New Emperor in Historical Perspective", Griffith and Patricia Way Lecture with Ken Ruoff, Portland State University, May 13, 2019
• "What's Next with My Asian Language Degree?" with Andrew Kim, Microsoft Corporation, May 2, 2019
• "To Be an Educator of Japanese" with Mutsuko Endo Hudson, Michigan State University, April 17, 2019
• "Working for the JET program – Stories of UW JET Alumni", with Maggie Thorpe, Jessica Record, and Kiyomi Mozley, April 11, 2019
• "The Penguin Book of Japanese Short Stories" with Jay Rubin, Harvard University, February 25, 2019
• Panel Event: "Challenges and Possibilities in Creating Inclusive Societies in Japan and the U.S.", February 21, 2019
• "Faith and Fate in Meiji and Taishō Literature" with Massimiliano Tomasi, Western Washington University, February 15, 2019
• "The Place of Japanese Kanshi: Toponyms in Early Modern Sinitic Poetry" with Matthew Fraleigh, Brandeis University, February 7, 2019
• "Japanese Literary Studies in an Age of Rising Seas" with Christine Marran, University of Minnesota, February 4, 2019
• "Alegal: Biopolitics and the Unintelligibility of Okinawan Life" with Annamaria Shimabuku, New York University, January 22, 2019
• "Education and Individuality (kosei) in Meiji Japan: Promises and Problems" with Puck W. Brecher, Washington State University, January 17, 2019
• "Book Talk: Art and Engagement in Early Post-war Japan" with Justin Jesty, University of Washington, December 7, 2018
• "Kyogen Dance/Drama Workshop" with Julie Iezzi, University of Hawaii, November 30, 2018
• "The Meaning of Production and the Production of Meaning in Traditional Japanese Poetry, Printing and Painting" with Jack Stoneman, Brigham Young University, November 2, 2018
• "Study Abroad: What's it Really Like?", November 1, 2018
• "Who Knew? How Japanese Language Learners Negotiate the Challenges of Dialect in Small-Town Japan" with Jae Takeuchi, Clemson University, October 29, 2018
• "From Student to Teacher: Japanese Beyond the Classroom" with Kei Tsukamaki, Woodinville High School, October 24, 2018
• "The Rise and Fall of Modern Japanese Literature: What Happens Next" with John Whittier Treat, Yale University, October 19, 2018

2017-2018 Academic Year

• "What's Next with My Asian Language Degree?" with Andrew Kim, Microsoft Corporation, May 15, 2018
• "Phantom Japan: Okamoto Taro and the Anthropology of Sacrifice in Okinawa" with Chris Nelson, University of North Carolina, May 10, 2018
• “For the Good of the Family?: Adoption for Heirship from Tokugawa to Meiji” with Marcia Yonemoto, University of Colorado, May 3, 2018
• "Stepping Up (is hard to do?) Japan’s Contributions to the Liberal Democratic Order" Griffith and Patricia Way Lecture with Takako Hikotani, Columbia University, April 19, 2018
• "American Empire: A Global History" with Tony Hopkins, Cambridge University, April 16, 2018
• Career Talk with Sim Bouphathong, Mitsubishi Aircraft, March 7, 2018
• "The Linguistic Expression of Affect: A Neglected Domain of JFL Instruction" with Dina Yoshimi, University of Hawaii, March 1, 2018
• "Between Art and Architecture" with Yumi Kori, Osaka Institute of Technology, February 28, 2018
• Workshop: "What Is Good Writing in Japanese? Thinking Through Assessment Practices" with Mari Tanaka, Nagoya University, February 24, 2018
• "The Gold Standards of Japanese American Literature, 1896-1971" with Andrew Leong, Northwestern University, February 23, 2018
• "The Politics of History and the Transpacific Western: Clint Eastwood and Lee Sang-il" with Takashi Fujitani, University of Toronto, February 16, 2018
• Film Screening: "ANPO X War", with Linda Hoaglund, February 15, 2018
• "Staging Enslavement: Gestural Economies and the Question of Personhood in Medieval Japanese Performance" with Reginald Jackson, University of Michigan, February 2, 2018
• "Pirates, Violence, and Commerce" with Peter Shapinsky, University of Illinois Springfield, November 17, 2017

2016-2017 Academic Year

• Workshop: "Using Authentic Materials in Elementary Japanese" with Kayo Niimi, Washington State University, May 20, 2017
• "A Conversation with Filmmaker Hirokazu Kore-eda", May 18, 2017
• "Contrary Motion: The problem of Language in Early Japanese Film" with Kerim Yasar, The Ohio State University, May 10, 2017
• "Conceptualizing Premodernities: What, Why, Who, How?" with Wiebcke Denecke, Boston University, May 5, 2017
• "Nihon Buyo: Japanese Dance Brought to Life: An Evening with Fujima Rankoh and Fujima Toyoaki" with Fujima Rankoh and Mark Oshima, April 20, 2017
• "Preparing for a Career with an Asian Language Degree" with Andrew Kim, Microsoft Corporation, April 20, 2017
• "Post-Bubble Japan in a Long Historical View" Griffith and Patricia Way Lecture with Mark Metzler, University of Texas at Austin, April 3, 2017
• "Tendo Mokko: Wood Craft for the 21st Century" with Tomoya Kato, Tendo Mokko Corp., March 29, 2017
• "Japan-China Relations under the Abe Administration", Shina Watanabe, Sophia University in Tokyo, February 28, 2017
• "The Pedagogical Value of Hypertext and Hypermedia-based readings in the JFL Classroom" with Abigail McMeekin, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, February 22, 2017
• Workshop: "Flipped Classroom" with Yuko Prefume, Baylor University, February 4, 2017
• "Taking the Measure of Meiji Japan" with Seth Jacobowitz, Yale University, February 3, 2017
• "Japan Update: The Influence of Zen on Japanese Culture and Business" with Daiko Matsuyama, Temple University, January 23, 2017
• "Cognitive Linguistics, Sociocultural Theory and Language Learning" with Kyoko Masuda, Georgia Institute of Technology, November 18, 2016
• Film Screening "Okinawa: The Afterburn" with John Junkerman, November 16, 2016
• "Art, War, and Samurai Sociability" with Morgan Pitelka, University of North Carolina, November 14, 2016
• Rakugo: An Evening with Katsura Sunshine, November 1 & 2, 2016
• "Re-framing: Chanoyu and its Objects in Sixteenth-Century Japan" with Andrew Watsky, Princeton University, October 14, 2016