On this week in Tokyo! (13 - 19 March 2017)

It may be vacation time at most universities, but there are still plenty of humanities-related events on in Tokyo in March!

New art exhibitions this week include the treasures of the National History Museum in London (English link), on display at the Museum of Nature and Science in Ueno. The exhibition includes displays on the eighteenth- and nineteenth-century founders of the collection, including the famed collector Hans Sloane (above), and Richard Owen, the paleontologist who campaigned for the exhibits to be moved to their current site in South Kensington. Over 370 specimens will be on display in total, including the museum's "Archaeopteryx".

Also on this week: more lectures on Trump's America and the US election last year, traditional Jewish dance and music at Meiji Gakuin, an international symposium on the medieval money system, and more. See below for a complete list of lectures, drama, and exhibitions.

* = event partly in English, or translation provided
** = event in English

lectures

**15 March 2017 - "Polarization, Politics, and Religion in Trump's America", David Hempton (Dean, Harvard Divinity School), Temple University Japan ICAS, 7.30pm

18 Mar 2017 - Japan Comparative Literature Society (Tokyo Branch) seminar, Japan Women's University, 2pm (http://www.hikakutokyo.com/)

**18 Mar 2017 - "なぜアメリカで女性大統領は誕生しなかったのか？　ジェンダーと多様性から考える2016年大統領選挙" (Why was there no female president in America? Gender and diversity in the 2016 presidential election), Ochanomizu U IGS Symposium, March 18, 3:30pm
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18 Mar 2017 - "Traditional Jewish Music and Dance" (ユダヤの伝統音楽と舞踊), 2pm, http://www.meijigakuin.ac.jp/event/archive/…/2017-01-24.html
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18 Mar 2017 - Ballad Society of Japan 9th Annual Meeting, Tokyo Polytechnic University (Nakano Campus), 1pm (http://j-ballad.com/)

18 Mar 2017 - Farewell lecture by Professor Toshinao Nakamura - "私とフランス文学―あるいは言葉の力について" - Ochanomizu University, 14:30 (http://www.ocha.ac.jp/event/20170111.html)

18 March 2017 - Inside Out～世界を変える視点 - University of Tokyo UTCP, 1pm

**18 Mar 2017 - "The Medieval Monetary World: Money, Mint, and Moneyer" (provisional title), seminar at Rikkyo (9.30am) presentations by Dr. Adrian Popescu (The Fitzwilliam Museum), Dr. William Day (The Fitzwilliam Museum), Dr. Rory Naismith (King's College,University of London), and Professor Markus A.Denzel (University of Leipzig) (http://www.rikkyo.ac.jp/events/2017/03/18684/)

19 March 2017 - Saussure and Historical Linguistics symposium (ソシュールと歴史言語学), 研究社英語センター, 1pm

19 March 2017 - "State, Religion, and Authority in the Post-Mongol Persianate World and Beyond", 10:30am, IASA, UTokyo

19 March 2017 - "Economic Activities and Behaviours Based on Islam" forum, TUFS, 1pm

exhibitions and drama

until 26 March - "Matisse et Rouault" exhibition, Shiodome Museum (http://panasonic.co.jp/…/museum/exh…/17/170114/index_en.html)

until 26 March - "Murmur and Tumult. Masterpieces of Nabis from the Musee d’Orsay", Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum

from March 9th - "Tokyo Mosaic (2): The Face of New Japan", Intermediatheque

17-20 Mar 2017 - Performance of Dacia Maraini's "Mary Stewart" at the Bunkaza Theatre, Shin-moriya Building
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until 2 April 2017 - Special Exhibition on "Titian and the Renaissance in Venice", Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum (http://www.tobikan.jp/en/exhibition/h28_titian.html)

until 2 April - "Revisiting Siebold's Japan Museum", Nagasaki Museum of History and Culture

until 4 April 2017 - Food design exhibition: "Jikifu: A Japanese Aesthetics of Taste", Intermediatheque

17 Mar to 5 April 2017 - Treasures of the Waseda University Library exhibition

*until 9 April 2017 - Exhibit on "The Romanov Dynasty: Russia seen from Japan, Japan seen from Russia", Toyo Bunko (http://www.toyo-bunko.or.jp/museum/romanov.pdf)

until 9 April 2017 - "Edo and Beijing: Cities and Urban Life in the 18th Century", Edo-Tokyo Museum

until 16 April 2017 - "Parody and Intertextuality: Visual Culture in Japan around the 1970s", Tokyo Station Gallery

until 16 April 2017 - "This is Kyosai!" (これぞ暁斎), Bunkamura Museum of Art

until 28 April - "Tea utensils from the Tomioka Collection", Waseda University Aizu Museum (free)

until 5 June 2017 - Alfonso Mucha Exhibition (ミュシャ展), National Art Center, Tokyo

until 1 April 2017 - Performance of August Strindberg's Miss Julie / Dance of Death, Bunkamura Theatre Cocoon (http://www.bunkamura.co.jp/english/cocoon/20170310.html)

18 March - 5 April 2017 - Seize the Uncertain Day (ふたしかなその日), Tokyo University of the Arts University Museum

18 March to 11 June 2017 - Treasures of the Natural History Museum in London, National Museum of Nature and Science Ueno