Past Events

2022-2023 Academic Year

• 4th Northwest Conference on Japanese Pedagogy, May 20-21, 2023
• 'Teaching English in Japan: An on the Ground Perspective' with Max Willis, May 17, 2023
• 'Feminist “Failed” Reproductive Futures in Japanese Speculative Fiction' with Kazue Harada, Miami University, Ohio, May 15, 2023
• Key Challenges to the Japanese Economy, May 4, 2023
• 'Teaching Japanese Language in High School', with Jayne Kolberg, Kelso High School, May 3, 2023
• 'Recent Developments in Japanese Security and Foreign Policy with a focus on Japan’s ODA Policy' with Shinichi Kitaoka, April 26, 2023
• Griffith and Patricia Way Lecture with Phillip Y. Lipscy: Stagnation or Renewal? Japan’s Energy and Climate Change Policy, April 12, 2023
• 'Johnny Depp Goes to Serbia: Temporality and Landscape in Films about Environmental Toxins' with Christine Marran, University of Minnesota, March 9, 2023
• 'Ainu' - Film Screening, February 27, 2023
• 'Mitigating Risks of Coastal Sailing: Adaptations to Oceanic Dangers in Early-Modern Japan' with Jakobina Arch, Whitman College, February 23, 2023
• Film Screening & Director Q&A: Miki Dezaki's "Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the 'Comfort Women' Issue", February 15, 2023
• 'Japan’s Prisoners of Conscience: Protest and Law During the Iraq War' with Lawrence Repeta, Professor Emeritus, Meiji University, February 3, 2023
• 'Japan in St. Louis: Exhibition and Architecture at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition' with Alice Y. Tseng, Boston University, February 1, 2023
• 'Manzanar, Diverted' - Film Screening and Discussion with Director, Ann Kaneko, January 27, 2023
• The Music of Solidarity in Manzanar, Diverted, January 26, 2023
• Book Talk: Imperial Gateway with Seiji Shirane, January 19, 2023
• 'Green with Milk and Sugar: When Japan Filled America’s Tea Cups' with Robert Hellyer, Wake Forest University, January 6, 2023
• Book Talk | Converging Empires: Citizens and Subjects in the North Pacific Borderlands, 1867–1945, January 5, 2023
• 'Implications of an Aging Ally, Japan: National Security & Demographic Change in the Indo-Pacific' with Andrew Oros, Washington College, November 9, 2022
• Hafu ハーフ - film screening, November 3, 2022
• 'The Life We Longed For: Danchi Housing and the Middle-Class Dream in Postwar Japan' with Laura Neitzel, October 27, 2022
• The History and Character of Premodern Japanese Books, October 26, 2022
• 'Help (Not) Wanted: Immigration Politics in Japan' with Michael Strausz, Texas Christian University, October 17, 2022
• Kamishibai - Japanese Paper Theater with Tacchan, October 5, 2022
• 'Why Attention to Religion is Vital to Understanding Politics in Japan' with Levi McLaughlin, NC State University, October 3, 2022

2021-2022 Academic Year

• Saturday University: Charles Lang Freer collection, June 11, 2022
• Navigating Digital Scholarship Tools (Open Scholarship Commons / TEAL Digital Scholarship for East Asian Studies), June 6, 2022
• Japanese Arts and Culture as Digital Objects: Access, Use, and Preservation | Yu Homma (TEAL Digital Scholarship for East Asian Studies), May 26, 2022
• Asian L&L Grad Student Book Sale, May 20, 2022
• Asian L&L Grad Student Book Sale, May 19, 2022
• Career Talk: 'Teaching English in Japan: An on the Ground Perspective' with Max Willis, May 18, 2022
• "Restoration/Revolution? The Question of Passive Revolution in Japan" with Harry Harootunian, University of Chicago - Emeritus, May 16, 2022
• Okinawa 'Reversion' 50 Years On, May 14, 2022
• Okinawa 'Reversion' 50 Years On, May 13, 2022
• UW JET Program Alumni Panel Discussion, May 12, 2022
• "Japanese Propaganda and the Power of Love: Mobilizing the Wartime Empire" with Professor Sharalyn Orbaugh (The University of British Columbia), Andrew L. Markus Memorial Lecture 2022, May 9, 2022
• 'Japan’s Geoeconomic Strategy in the Indo-Pacific' with Saori N. Katada, University of Southern California, May 6, 2022
• Career Talk: 'Teaching Japanese in High School: Is This the Career for You?' with Jayne Kolberg, May 4, 2022
• Citation management for East Asian languages: Zotero and Jurism (TEAL Digital Scholarship for East Asian Studies), April 29, 2022
• A Collaborative Session on Digital Resources and Paperless Workflows | Ted Mack (TEAL Digital Scholarship for East Asian Studies), April 26, 2022
• Career Talk: 'Developing Yourself Through Foreign Language Teaching' with Andrew Kim, April 25, 2022
• 'Line of Advantage: Japan’s Grand Strategy in the Era of Abe Shinzō' with Michael J. Green, Center for Strategic and International Studies, April 20, 2022
• "Peak Performance: Disaster, Olympics, Politics, and Bodily Acts" with Justine Wiesinger, April 18, 2022
• 'Transpacific Imperial Nationalisms: Mifune Toshirō’s Performativity of Race in Ánimas Trujano' with Andrea Mendoza, UC San Diego, April 11, 2022
• Cold War Democracy: The United States and Japan with Jennifer Miller, Dartmouth College, April 4, 2022
• "Artist as Storyteller" with Ken + Julia Yonetani, March 8, 2022
• 'Presence of Cherry blossoms in Haiku and Anime' with Makoto Aoki, Ehime University "桜が象徴するもの, 日本の俳句、和歌、アニメなどを通して考える" 青木亮人、愛媛大学准教授, March 3, 2022
• "Betting on the Farm: Institutional Change in Japanese Agriculture" with Kay Shimizu, University of Pittsburgh, February 18, 2022
• TEAL Digital Scholarship for East Asian Studies | Text Analysis and GIS Spatiotemporal Analysis of Religions in Contemporary Taiwan (Jihn-Fa Jan) | Tateuchi Research Methods Workshop Series, February 16, 2022
• "Yamanaka & Co.: Building Global Markets for Asian Art" with Yuriko Kuchiki, February 12, 2022
• TEAL Digital Scholarship for East Asian Studies | From Peking to Penang: Digital humanities explorations of modern Chinese lives (Chih-Ming Chen) | Tateuchi Research Methods Workshop Series, February 9, 2022
• Talk: Inequity at Boiling Point with New York Times International Climate Reporter Somini Sengupta, February 9, 2022
• MA in Japanese Film (Japan House LA), February 1, 2022
• Create the World's Fastest Book: Manifold Workshop, January 31, 2022
• Global and Regional Studies Zoom Info Session, January 19, 2022
• Calderwood Seminars in Public Writing, December 9, 2021
• Korean-Japanese relations and the role of the US, December 7, 2021
• Global and Regional Studies Zoom Info Session, December 1, 2021
• QUAL Lecture Series: Area Studies and Qualitative Methods with Cornelia Reiher & Nora Kottmann, December 1, 2021
• TEAL Digital Scholarship for East Asian Studies: Visualizing Networks Using Gephi, November 30, 2021
• TEAL Digital Scholarship for East Asian Studies Community Coffee Hour, November 23, 2021
• “From Student to Teacher: Japanese Beyond the Classroom” with Kei Tsukamaki, October 28, 2021
• MA in Contemporary Japanese Cuisine (Japan House LA), October 27, 2021
• TEAL Digital Scholarship for East Asian Studies Community Coffee Hour, October 26, 2021
• Foreign Affairs Graduate Program Online Recruitment Fair, October 20, 2021
• "Zen and Japanese Spiritual Practices" a panel discussion moderated by Prof. Paul Atkins, University of Washington, October 19, 2021
• The World of Noh Drama with Takeda Munenori (Online Only Event), October 13, 2021
• "Dismantling the Japanese Developmental Regime" with T.J. Pempel, University of California, Berkeley, October 4, 2021
• Dawg Daze: Become an international studies major online info session, September 27, 2021
• What is Noh? A lecture by Paul Atkins, September 22, 2021
• MA in Contemporary Japanese Architecture, July 29, 2021

2020-2021 Academic Year

• NAVIGATING GLOBAL CAREERS | Bridging the Gap: Foreign Language Acquisition in a Global Force | Darius Izad, Assistant Staff Judge Advocate, U.S. Air Force, June 1, 2021
• A Refugee Critique of Representations: On Criticality and Creativity, May 28, 2021
• NAVIGATING GLOBAL CAREERS | Working for U.S.-based Nonprofit Organizations and NGOs | Claire Yunker, Executive Director, PeaceTrees Vietnam, May 27, 2021
• "Demon Slayer" Series Open Discussion!, May 24, 2021
• Without Enhancements: Sexual Violence in the Everyday Lives of Asian American Women, May 21, 2021
• 'Women in the World of Murakami' with Gitte Marianne Hansen, Newcastle University, May 20, 2021
• 'Teaching English as a Second Language: Life on the Ground' a Career talk with Max Willis, May 19, 2021
• Learning from Remote Japanese Language Instruction: Building on the Past to Equip Ourselves for the Future. (遠隔授業の経験を今後の日本語教育にどう活かすべきか), May 15, 2021
• NAVIGATING GLOBAL CAREERS | Tips to Transition to a Career in Tech | Diana Pallais, Sr. Director and Principal, Microsoft, May 14, 2021
• Gendered Interactional Particles in Japanese: Corpus approach with Dr. Kyoko Masuda, Georgia Institute of Technology, May 10, 2021
• Public Spaces, Creative Action, Democratic Practices in East Asia Symposium Day 3, May 9, 2021
• Public Spaces, Creative Action, Democratic Practices in East Asia Symposium Day 2, May 8, 2021
• Public Spaces, Creative Action, Democratic Practices in East Asia Symposium - Day 1, May 7, 2021
• "Rigor, Grit, and Advocacy as a Japanese Language Teacher" with Jessica Lee, May 5, 2021
• TEAL Digital Scholarship for East Asian Studies: ATLAS.ti – Working with Geo Documents | Tateuchi Research Methods Workshop Series, May 4, 2021
• Professor Ted Mack gives a talk titled, "Japanese Literary Nationalism and Brazil, 1908-1941", April 29, 2021
• MA in Contemporary Art (Japan House LA), April 27, 2021
• NAVIGATING GLOBAL CAREERS | International Law Enforcement from the Field | Steve Lettic, Int'l Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (DOJ), April 26, 2021
• TEAL Digital Scholarship for East Asian Studies: Community Coffee Hour |Tateuchi Research Methods Workshop Series, April 26, 2021
• TEAL Japan Research Methods: Yomiuri Newspaper Database |Tateuchi Research Methods Workshop Series, April 19, 2021
• "Developing Yourself Through Foreign Language Teaching" with Andrew Kim, Microsoft, April 19, 2021
• International Studies Major Information Session (for prospective and admitted students), April 19, 2021
• NAVIGATING GLOBAL CAREERS | Careers in U.S. Foreign Policy | Carmela Conroy, U.S. Consul General (Retired), April 12, 2021
• TEAL Digital Scholarship for East Asian Studies: Engaging with Creative Geovisualization: Imagining Creativity in Mapping and GIS (Dr. Jin-Kyu Jung) | Tateuchi Research Methods Workshop Series, April 6, 2021
• Korea Studies M.A. students response to Ramseyer paper, April 1, 2021
• "3.11 - Ten Years On" Panel Discussion, March 10, 2021
• QUAL Speaker Series: Rosemary Foot | China’s UN Thinking and Behavior: The Attempt to Uncover the Decision-Making Inside Opaque Governments, March 10, 2021
• "Japanese Literature in an Age of Rising Seas" with Christine Marran, University of Minnesota, March 8, 2021
• Hyakunin isshu and the world of Japanese medieval poetry by Paul Atkins, March 3, 2021
• History of Japanese Origami Workshop with Guided Creation, March 3, 2021
• "The Rise of China and Japan's Response" with Narushige Michishita, GRIPS University, February 24, 2021
• TEAL Digital Scholarship for East Asian Studies: Community Coffee Hour |Tateuchi Research Methods Workshop Series, February 22, 2021
• TEAL Japan Research Methods: Newspaper Databases |Tateuchi Research Methods Workshop Series, February 16, 2021
• Leadership Transitions and the Future of U.S. - Japan Relations, February 10, 2021
• (Seattle Asian Art Museum) Virtual Saturday University: Fire and Renewal in Edo Period Japan, February 5, 2021
• FLAS Information Session: Q&A on the Application Process, January 28, 2021
• TEAL Digital Scholarship for East Asian Studies: Community Coffee Hour |Tateuchi Research Methods Workshop Series, January 25, 2021
• FLAS Information Session: Q&A on the Application Process, January 22, 2021
• Putting a lid on the Pandemic in Japan: Who Has the Tools?, January 19, 2021
• FLAS Information Session: Q&A on the Application Process, January 19, 2021
• Translation Studies Hub Colloquium: “Translating Poetry and Teaching Translation for Publication”, January 15, 2021
• FLAS Information Session: Q&A on the Application Process, January 13, 2021
• TEAL Digital Scholarship for East Asian Studies: The Deep Fake of Place: A Geospatial Analysis of Xenophilic Copycat Communities in China (Bo Zhao) | Tateuchi Research Methods Workshop Series, January 7, 2021
• FLAS Information Session: Q&A on the Application Process, January 5, 2021
• (UBC Event) Greening East Asia: The Rise of the Eco-developmental State, December 10, 2020
• Talk | The Button: The New Nuclear Arms Race and Presidential Power from Truman to Trump, December 8, 2020
• FLAS Information Session: Undergraduate Students, December 8, 2020
• FLAS Information Session: Graduate Students, December 3, 2020
• TEAL Digital Scholarship for East Asian Studies: Community Coffee Hour |Tateuchi Research Methods Workshop Series, November 23, 2020
• FLAS Information Session: First-time applicants, November 23, 2020
• FLAS Information Session, November 20, 2020
• FLAS Information Session: Center for Global Studies, November 18, 2020
• FLAS Information Session: East Asia Center, November 17, 2020
• INFO SESSION | Graduate programs at the UW's Jackson School of International Studies, November 13, 2020
• TALK | A Conversation on Global Engagement with Leela Fernandes and Akhtar Badshah, November 12, 2020
• Digital Scholarship for East Asian Studies: Text Encoding Initiative (TEI) (Tateuchi Research Methods Workshop Series), November 9, 2020
• INFO SESSION | Graduate programs at the UW's Jackson School of International Studies, November 5, 2020
• PANEL | Post-US Elections: A Global Perspective on US Democracy and Foreign Policy, November 5, 2020
• Digital Scholarship for East Asian Studies: Text Encoding Initiative (TEI), November 2, 2020
• Griffith and Patricia Way Lecture with Richard J. Samuels, October 28, 2020
• Digital Scholarship for East Asian Studies Community Coffee Hour, October 26, 2020
• China/Taiwan Research Workshop: Citation Software, October 21, 2020
• Town Hall Seattle and Washin Kai Present Rakugo by Katsura Sunshine, October 20, 2020
• Digital Scholarship in the Study of Historical Japanese Earthquakes (Tateuchi Research Methods Workshop Series: Digital Scholarship for East Asian Studies), October 8, 2020
• UW Libraries orientation for international studies graduate students, September 25, 2020
• Dawg Daze: Get to know the Jackson School! Online info session on our undergraduate programs, September 24, 2020

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
• "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