Renaissance and Socio-Political Rebirth in Postwar Japan Francesco Campagnola (Ghent University) Date: Tuesday, November 18 Time: 4 pm Location: Toy Lounge at UNC-Chapel Hill The lecture will explore how, in the aftermath of WWII, scholars from different backgrounds – in … Read more
The Duke Japanese Hall and Japanese Program will be hosting their second film screening this semester. The film will be Departures by director Yojiro Takita. Come and learn more about Japanese culture, funeral rites, and the importance of family and friendship in this Academy … Read more
The final speaker in the Duke Asian/Pacific Studies Institute (APSI) Fall 2014 Speaker Series is Patricia Maclachlan, Associate Professor of Government and Asian Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Date: Wed., November 12 Time: 4:30 pm Location: Perkins … Read more
Makoto Yokofujita Professor of Law The Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hiroshima University, Japan Date: Wednesday, November 12 Time: 12:30-1:30 pm Location: Global Education Center, Room 4003, UNC Chapel Hill Professor Yokofujita was born and raised in Hiroshima, Japan. He now teaches … Read more
Nov 6 at 7:30 pm and Nov 7 at 8:00 pm at UNC’s Memorial Hall The 20th century English composer Benjamin Britten wrote Curlew River after watching Juro Motomasa’s noh play Sumidagawa in Japan. Unmistakable in the music of Curlew River are the … Read more
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, North Carolina State University, Religious Studies Colloquium Series http://www.ncsu.edu/chass/philo/rel_activities.html The Invention of “Religion” in Japan Jason Ānanda Josephson Associate Professor of Religion, Williams College Thursday, October 16, 2014, 4:30 p.m. Riddick Hall, Room 321 … Read more
Department of Philosophy and Religious Studies, North Carolina State University, Religious Studies Colloquium Series http://www.ncsu.edu/chass/philo/rel_activities.html The Invention of “Religion” in Japan Jason Ānanda Josephson Associate Professor of Religion, Williams College Thursday, October 16, 2014, 4:30 p.m. Riddick Hall, Room 321 … Read more
Area of Study: Doctoral student in Japanese history and a Graduate Phillips Ambassador Prior degrees: I have a bachelor’s degree in comparative languages and literature from the University of Naples “L’Orientale” and a master’s degree in Asian studies from the … Read more
The Institute of Critical Theory hosts an international conference to consider the historical, political, and philosophical issues raised in Kojin Karatani’s The Structure of History (Duke University Press). Co-sponsored by the Office of the Provost, Duke Graduate School, Asian/Pacific Studies … Read more
Please join us for a reception to celebrate the publication of monographs by our Hwansoo Kim and Pamela Winfield during the past year. Hwansoo Kim, Assistant Professor of Religious Studies and Asian and Middle Eastern Studies at Duke, has published … Read more
