January to March 2017
*7 Jan 2017 - Symposium on "Asia's Shakespeare", Waseda University (https://www.waseda.jp/rps/kenkyu/jpn/events/sym_161014.html)
7 Jan 2017 - Historical Studies of English Studies in Japan meeting (http://eigakushi.org/getsurei.html), Takushoku University
**9 Jan 2017 - "Power and Identity" conference, University of Tokyo Graduate Program on Global Society (https://sites.google.com/site/gspconference2017/home)
**10 Jan 2017 - "Divided Memories: Comparing History Textbooks", Dr Gary Mukai (Stanford U), UTokyo (Komaba), 17:00 (http://www.globalkomaba.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/event/20170110-00001001.html)
**10 Jan 2017 - James Keith Vincent (Boston University), lecture on "Shiki and Soseki: A Haiku Hauntology", TUFS Institute of Japan Studies (http://www.tufs.ac.jp/english/2016/12/tufs-17011001jsev.html)
**11 Jan 2017 - Talk by Professor Rana Mitter on "China's War with Japan", United Nations University, 6:30pm (http://unu.edu/events/upcoming)
**11 Jan 2017 - Professor Timothy Snyder (Yale University), lecture on "Bloodlands: Between Hitler and Stalin". 19:00, Tokyo University (http://www1.gsec.keio.ac.jp/text/freepage/index/92/)
**11 Jan 2017 - Chris Uhlenbeck, "The Art of Ukiyo-e and the Pleasures and Pitfalls of Collecting Them", International House of Japan, 7pm (https://www.i-house.or.jp/eng/programs/publicprogram20170111/)
**11-13 Jan 2017 - Harvard-UTokyo international conference: "Asian Cities: Hubs of Interaction, Tradition and Transformation", UTokyo Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia (http://utcp.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/events/2017/01/asian_cities_hubs_of_interacti/index_en.php)
**12 Jan 2017 - Professor Timothy Snyder (Yale University), lecture on "Black Earth: The Holocaust As History and Warning". 16:30, Keio University (http://www1.gsec.keio.ac.jp/text/freepage/index/92/)
**13 Jan 2017 - Professor Timothy Snyder (Yale University), lecture on "Brotherlands: The Origin of Nations". 15:00, University of the Sacred Heart (http://www1.gsec.keio.ac.jp/text/freepage/index/92/)
*13 Jan 2017 - Documentary screening, "The Road to Irish Independence", Waseda International Community Center, 6.15pm (https://www.waseda.jp/top/en-news/47659)
until 15 Jan 2017 - "Lucas Cranach the Elder: 500 Years of the Power of Temptation", exhibition at National Museum of Western Art (https://www.nmwa.go.jp/en/exhibitions/2016cranach.html)
*17 Jan 2017 - Symposium on "Gender, Religion, and Social Reform in the Meiji Period", Ochanomizu University, including keynote by Marnie S. Anderson (Smith College) (http://www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/20170117.pdf)
**17 Jan - Luke Gartlan, "A Career of Japan: Baron Raimund von Stillfried and Early Yokohama Photography", Hosei University, 4pm (http://hijas.hosei.ac.jp/Portals/0/2016/20170117.pdf)
**18 Jan 2017 - Luke Gartlan, "A Career of Japan: Baron Raimund von Stillfried and Early Yokohama Photography", Austrian Embassy Tokyo
**19 Jan 2017 - "The Insentient Companion: Some thoughts on dolls, robots, and significant otherness, sacred and profane", lecture by Fabio Gygi at Sophia Institute of Comparative Culture, 18:30 (http://icc.fla.sophia.ac.jp/html/events/2016-2017/170119_Gygi.pdf)
**19 Jan 2017 - "Waseda-Birmingham Research Partnership Symposium on Corpus Insights into Academic and Literary Discourse", Waseda, 15:10 (https://www.waseda.jp/fsci/news/2016/12/28/6034/)
**20 Jan 2017 - Seminar by 隠岐さや香（名古屋大学）Sayaka Oki (Nagoya)
'The Royal Academy of Science in Paris and the Taboo of ‘Economic Issues’ in the Late Eighteenth Century', Political History Tokyo Seminar (PoETS), Seminar Room 3, Level 2, Kojima Hall, Hongo Campus, University of Tokyo. (https://politicaleconomyseminar.wordpress.com/)
20 Jan 2017 - Film director Gianfranco Rosi (winner of Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival) discusses migrants and refugees at Rikkyo University. Includes screening of film "Fire at Sea". 18:30 (http://www.rikkyo.ac.jp/events/pic-event170120_001.pdf)
**20 Jan 2017 - Lecture by Guo Nanyan on "Foreign Languages in the formation of Shiga Naoya's Literature", International House of Japan, 6.30-8pm (https://www.i-house.or.jp/eng/programs/nichibunihj20170120/)
**20 Jan 2017 - John C. Maher, “Celtic Language Revitalization in Europe: the current situation of Manx, Cornish and Irish”, as part of "Metroethnicity" seminar at TUFS, 16:30 - 18:30 (http://www.tufs.ac.jp/event/general/post_873.html)
**20 Jan 2017 - Boris Groys lecture, "Is Power Immanent in Art?", UTokyo Komaba, 2pm (http://groysinjapan.tumblr.com)
20 - 21 Jan 2017, performance of "Romeo and Juliet", Waseda University (早稲田大学大隈記念講堂大講堂) (https://www.waseda.jp/rps/kenkyu/jpn/events/sym_161014.html)
21 Jan 2017 - Meiji Gakuin Chapel Concert Series (JS Bach Complete Organ Works, vol 6), 3pm (http://www.meijigakuin.jp/concert/)
21 Jan 2017 - 3pm - 4.30pm, Gakushuin University - Farewell lecture by Professor Heizo Nakajima.
21 Jan 2017 - "Changing Britain ～英国カルチャーとダイバーシティ" - lecture at the British Council, Kagurazaka (https://www.britishcouncil.jp/events/english-changing-britain)
**21 Jan 2017 - Boris Groys lecture, "Post-Museum?", National Museum of Modern Art, 2pm (http://groysinjapan.tumblr.com)
21 Jan 2017 - Japan Comparative Literature Society (Tokyo Branch) seminar, Nishogakusha University, 2pm (http://www.hikakutokyo.com/)
21 Jan 2017 - Rikkyo University presentation by Dr Yamato Saito (齋藤山人) on J.J. Rousseau and the Enlightenment concept of "mode" (啓蒙思想が論じる“モード”:ジャン=ジャック・ルソーと滑稽ridiculeの逆しま) (http://www.rikkyo.ac.jp/events/pic-event170121_001.pdf)
21 Jan 2017 - Yoshihiko Ikegami, "Japanese is the devil's language": An enquiry into the relation between cultural prejudice, linguistic relativism, and the evolution of language" (日本語は<悪魔の言語>という言説をめぐって ―文化的偏見、言語的相対論、言語の進化との関連での考察), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (http://www.tufs.ac.jp/english/2017/01/tufs-17012101jsev.html)
*21-22 Jan 2017 - Conference on "Shakespeare's Films - East and West" (シェイクスピアの映画─東洋と西洋) - includes plenary lecture by Professor Russell Jackson (Birmingham U) on "'Offence’s gilded hand': fighting corruption in three postwar Hamlet films" (https://www.waseda.jp/flas/hss/news/2016/12/21/2820/)
22 Jan 2017 - Hosei University, symposium on Medieval European Aesthetics, 1pm (西欧中世の美学 -文字とその外部) (http://www.hosei.ac.jp/documents/gakubu/bungaku/news/2016/20161219_1.pdf)
**23 Jan 2017 - Dr Anna Greenspan (NYU Shanghai), Digital Humanities talk on "Moveable Feasts: Street Food in the 21st Century", Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture (http://icc.fla.sophia.ac.jp/html/events/2016-2017/170123-24_Greenspan.pdf)
**23 Jan 2017 - "Describing Worlds: A Symposium on Geography and Writing", with lectures from Marcus A. Doel (Swansea), James Thurgill (UTokyo) and Richard Carter-White (UTokyo). UTokyo Komaba campus, 1.30, Building 18, 1st floor, Media Lab Room 2.
**23 Jan 2017 - "Big Data and Digital Humanities", symposium organized by the Center for Open Data in the Humanities. Presentations by Asanobu Kitamoto (CODH) and Melissa Cragin and Stephen Downie (U Illinois) (http://codh.rois.ac.jp/seminar/big-data-digital-humanities-20170123/).
**24 Jan 2017 - Dr Anna Greenspan (NYU Shanghai), Digital Humanities talk on "Deep Mapping Shanghai's Culinary Neighborhoods", Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture (http://icc.fla.sophia.ac.jp/html/events/2016-2017/170123-24_Greenspan.pdf)
26 Jan - "Rewriting History of Social Movement through Personal History:Formation of Postwar Okinawan Social Movement and Structural Changes of the Trans-Pacific Region" (個人史から描き直す社会運動史──戦後沖縄における社会運動の生成と環太平洋地域の構造的変動), Dr Kozue Uehara, UTokyo IASA (http://www.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng/news/news.php?id=20170119120049), 5pm
**27 Jan 2017 - Talk by Professor Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou, "The Arab Spring: Six Years On", United Nations University, 6:30pm (http://unu.edu/events/upcoming)
**27 Jan 2017 - Talk by Anna-Grethe Rischel (Denmark National Museum), "The historical significance of researching European paper with and without watermarks and its technological development", Toyo Bunko (https://sites.google.com/site/tbkenkyubulecture/koushukai)
27 Jan 2017 - Gramophone concert, "Jazz Summit - An American in Paris", Intermediatheque, 18:00 (http://www.intermediatheque.jp/en/schedule/view/id/IMT0123)
*27 Jan 2017 - "Safeguarding indigenous tradition in the modernization process", UTokyo IASA, 2.50pm (Japanese / English workshop) (http://www.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng/news/news.php?id=20170117040729)
**28 Jan 2017 - "Influences of Western Music as Affective Media on the Asia-Pacific Region" meeting, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, Seikei University, 2pm (http://khibino.net/projects/?p=81). Papers on “Western Musical Elements in Japanese Koto Music from the 19th to 21st Centuries: Sonic, Visual, and Behavioral Spheres in a Context of Cultural Change” (Henry Johnson, University of Otago), and "Black Intentions: Maki Ishii, Ryohei Hirose, Makoto Shinohara and the Japanese Avant-Garde’s Encounter with the Recorder" (Barnaby Ralph, Seikei University)
*28 Jan 2017 - "Landscape" symposium - Tokyo University of the Arts (http://ga.geidai.ac.jp/en/2017/01/06/symposium-%EF%BC%8B-exhibition-landscape/)
28 Jan 2017 - Tokyo American Literature Society (日本アメリカ文学会東京支部) meeting
30 Jan 2017 - Andreas Eckert (Humboldt University of Berlin), "The field of Global History in Germany – temporary fashion or lasting transformation of historiography?", UTokyo IASA, 5pm (http://www.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng/news/news.php?id=20170111165128)
30 Jan 2017 - "Grassroots Fascism: Then and Now", TUFS 12:40pm, symposium in Japanese / English. Panelists: Carol Gluck (Columbia), Christopher Gerteis (SOAS), Junji Ogushi (Shinshu), Fumiaki Taka (UTokyo), Iris Haukamp (SOAS)
**31 Jan 2017 - Jordan A.Y. Smith, "Translationscapes: On the Legibility of Transnational Ideologies in World Literary Systems", Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture, 18:30 (http://icc.fla.sophia.ac.jp/html/events/2016-2017/170131_Smith.pdf)
*31 Jan 2017 - Timon Screech, "The Journey to the East in Ise Monogatari: The Political Intentions of Edo Images" (伊勢物語『東下り』―江戸絵画におけるその政治的意匠), TUFS 2.20pm (http://www.tufs.ac.jp/event/general/8_8.html)
until 29 Jan 2017 - "Shakespeare Renaissance" - Waseda University, Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum Special Exhibition (https://www.waseda.jp/top/en-news/44805)
**1 Feb 2017 - "The Crisis of Democracy and Liberal Internationalism", G. John Ikenberry (Princeton), UTokyo Hongo, 10am.
**1 Feb 2017 - "Right history/wrong history? Ideological hierarchies in cinematic representations of the past in wartime Japan", Iris Haukamp (SOAS), TUFS, 4pm (http://www.tufs.ac.jp/english/2017/01/tufs-17020101jsev.html)
2 Feb 2017 - "境界の文学 ―旅の詩学" (Boundaries of Literature / Poetics of Travel) (山口裕之 / 松浦寿夫 / 和田忠彦). Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 17:30pm (http://www.tufs.ac.jp/event/general/2016_8.html)
**4 Feb 2017 - 18th GJS Lecture "One More Defense of History: Confronting the Phenomenon of Mutual Aversion in East Asia and the Discourse of the Empire", Professor Baik Yongseo (Yonsei U), UTokyo IASA, 1:30pm (http://www.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng/news/news.php…)
**4 Feb 2017 - "Deconstructing and Negotiating Centre and Periphery in European History International Workshop", TUFS 10am, http://www.tufs.ac.jp/english/2017/01/workshop-17020401.html
5 Feb 2017 - Arts Council Tokyo Traveling Research Laboratory - discussion of Ogasawara Islands, 2pm (https://www.artscouncil-tokyo.jp/en/events/17069/)
9 Feb 2017 - Roger Ames (Peking U) "Theorizing "Person" for Confucian Role Ethics : A Good Place to Start", UTokyo 2pm (http://utcp.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/events/2017/02/confucian_role_ethics_a_challe/)
10 Feb - "The Donkey Wars: Satire and Political Imagination in the Caucasus", Prof. Bruce Grant (NYU), 3pm (http://earlymodernstate.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2017/01/post-aa44.html)
11 Feb 2017 - "150th Birthday Commemoration Soseki/Shiki Symposium "Words, Things, the World", TUFS 13:30pm
**11 Feb 2017 - Lisette Vind Ebbesen (Director, the Art Museums of Skagen), lecture on "The Skagen Painters", National Museum of Western Art, 2pm (https://www.nmwa.go.jp/en/eve
10-12 Feb 2017 - Reading of Alex Buzo's play "Norm and Ahmed" at Sengawa Theatre (http://japan.embassy.gov.au/tkyo/events.html)
10 Feb - 26 Feb 2017 - Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2017, theme of "Multiple Future" (マルチプルな未来) (http://www.yebizo.com/)
until 14 Feb 2017 - "Romeo & Juliette", TBS Akasaka Act Theatre (http://romeo-juliette.com/)
13 Feb 2017 - Giovanna Miolli (U of Padova), "To Dress Up a Truism in High-flown Language": McDowell and the Identity Theory of Truth", UTokyo TFAP, 4pm (http://tf-ap.com/program/#124)
**13 Feb 2017 - Tomoya Kimura, "The process and factors for the domestic production of animation in Japan after World War II", University of Tokyo, 4pm (http://utcp.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/events/2017/02/related_event_the_process_and/index_en.php)
13 Feb 2017, Zhang Shiming (Renmin U of China), "Painting and Photography in Foreigners’ Construction of an Image of Qing Dynasty Law", UTokyo IASA (check time) (http://www.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng/news/news.php?id=20170202133727)
15 Feb 2017 - Rikkyo U. Symposium on "人文学の将来とは ― ＜ことば＞と＜ひと＞の原点へ ―" (The Future of Humanities - From the Starting Point of People and Words), 6.30pm (http://www.rikkyo.ac.jp/events/2017/02/18679/)
16 Feb 2017 - Noh production of Yeats's "At the Hawk's Well", Bunkamura Orchard Hall (https://www.artscouncil-tokyo.jp/en/events/12439/)
until 19 Feb 2017 - "Lascaux: The Cave Paintings of the Ice Age", National Museum of Nature and Science, Ueno (http://www.timeout.com/…/lascaux-the-cave-paintings-of-the-…)
9 Feb - 19 Feb 2017 - 海外戯曲リーディング - International Drama reading festival, Sengawa Theatre (http://www.sengawa-gekijo.jp/kaigaigikyoku/)
17 Feb - 19 Feb 2017 - "Yes This Night" (Canadian fringe theatre double bill with Haley McGee and 'Space Hippo' Shadow Puppetry - World Peace Theatre, Kawasaki (http://ytg.jp/en/shows-en/upcoming-shows-en/500-yes-this-night-a-midwinter-double-bill)
**17-19 Feb 2017 - International Symposium on "Medieval Papacy: Governance, Communication, Cultural Exchange", Rikkyo University (http://www.medievalstudies.jp/information/news20170104b/)
17-18 Feb 2017 - International Workshop on "State and Sharia in Pre-20th Century Middle East", TUFS (http://earlymodernstate.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2017/01/state-and-shari.html)
**17 Feb 2017 - International Workshop: "Imagining an Alternative 'Post-Secular' State: Historicizing and Comparing National Struggles over Re-secularization", TUFS, 10am
**18 Feb 2017 - Lectures by Professor George Hughes on "Reading Novels: Misunderstandings over an 'English Style'" and Professor Clair Hughes on "Novel Hats", U Tokyo Komaba, 1pm (http://iasil.jp/…/George-and-Clair-Hughes-Schedule_english_…)
**20 Feb 2017 - 8th Annual Liberlit Conference (exploring English literature in Japanese university education) (http://www.liberlit.com/new/)
** 20 Feb 2017 "Mismatches between Signed and Spoken Languages", Professor Asli Goksel, TUFS 3pm (http://www.tufs.ac.jp/event/general/asl_gksel.html)
**20 Feb 2017 - "Between Istanbul and Gujarat: Descriptions of Mecca in the Sixteenth-Century Indian Ocean", Guy Burak (NYU), Toyo Bunko 5pm (https://sites.google.com/s…/tbkenkyubulecture/tokubetu-danwa)
**21 Feb 2017, "Kanun and Taxation in the Ottoman Empire", Toyo Bunko symposium with presentations by Dr Keiko Iwamoto (JSPS) and Professor Linda Darling (Arizona), 4pm (https://sites.google.com/s…/tbkenkyubulecture/tokubetu-danwa)
**22 Feb 2017 - Lecture by Professor George Hughes at Gakushuin, 2:30pm, on "Imagining a Ghost: On Elizabeth Bowen and 'The Back Drawing-Room'" (http://iasil.jp/…/George-and-Clair-Hughes-Schedule_english_…)
**22 Feb 2017 - Roger T Ames (Beijing), "Confucian Role Ethics: A Challenge to the Ideology of Individualism", UTCP 3pm (http://utcp.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/…/confucian_role_e…/index_en.php)
**23 Feb 2017 - Seminar by Bradford Bow (Yonsei, South Korea), 'Lord Kames on the Political Economy of Enlightened Husbandry'. Respondent: Chikashi Sakashita (Tokyo Women's Christian University), Kojima Conference Room, Level 2, Kojima Hall, Hongo Campus, University of Tokyo. (https://politicaleconomyseminar.wordpress.com/)
**23 Feb 2017 - Lecture by Professor Clair Hughes at UTokyo (Hongo), on "Dressing for Success: Costume in the Nineteenth Century Novel", 5pm (http://iasil.jp/…/George-and-Clair-Hughes-Schedule_english_…)
**23 Feb 2017 - Kate Hodgkin, "Constructions of the self: memory, time and space in seventeenth-century English autobiography", Toyo University, 14:30 (http://www.toyo.ac.jp/site/ihs/314937.html)
24 Feb 2017 - "Nitobe Inazo and His Activities Seen from a Point of View of Public Diplomacy", Kazuma Ueshina (Waseda), Hosei University 18:30
24 Feb - Lecture by novelist Hiroyuki Itsuki at Gakushuin, "文学のチカラとは?" (The Power of Literature), 3pm (http://www.univ.gakushuin.ac.jp/…/3de235a1b8d1116ac63d467ec…)
**25 Feb 2017 - Kate Hodgkin, "Unofficial Histories: Raphael Samuel and the History Workshop movement", Toyo University, 13:30 (http://www.toyo.ac.jp/site/ihs/314937.html)
25 Feb 2017 - Farewell lectures of Professor Kubota and Professor Kawano, Otsuma Women's University English Department (http://www.otsuma.ac.jp/news/2016/20170208101452)
25 Feb 2017 - 冷戦文化としてのザ・ピーナッツ (The Peanuts as Cold War Culture) - Michael Bourdaghs (Chicago), Nihon University, 15:30
25 Feb 2017 - Cloud Cinema - Masanao Abe's Observation Films, 4pm, Intermediatheque
until 26 Feb 2017 - Exhibition on "Marie Antoinette, Queen at Versailles", Mori Arts Center Gallery Roppongi (http://www.ntv.co.jp/marie/outline/)
26 Feb 2017 - Sophia University symposium on Women and Original Sin in Biblical interpretation (教父の聖書解釈から考える原罪と女性), 13:20pm
**27 Feb 2017 - "New Perspectives on Modern Malay(sian) History", TUFS, 4pm
**27 Feb - 1 March - David Damrosch, series of lectures on "Japanese Literature in the World", University of Tokyo
**28 Feb - 28 May 2017 - Exhibition on "Théodore Chassériau : Parfum exotique", National Museum of Western Art (https://www.nmwa.go.jp/en/exhibitions/2017chasseriau.html)
*28 Feb 2017 - UTokyo English Poetry Society (英詩研究会) meeting, Hongo Campus, Department of English Dictionary Room (文学部3号館、英文辞書室(5F)) 13:30. Meeting includes talk in English by Professor George Hughes titled "Eloisa to Abelard" ー Alexander Pope" from 16:00.
**28 Feb 2017 - Kourken Michaelian (U Otago), "The Epistemology of Generative Memory", UTokyo TFAP (http://tf-ap.com/program/#124)
[cancelled] 2 Mar 2017 - Vincent Pomarède (Musée du Louvre), “Chassériau and Nature” (French lecture with Japanese translation), National Museum of Western Art (https://www.nmwa.go.jp/en/events/index.html)
**2 Mar 2017 - Bill Emmott, lecture on "Brexit, Trump and threats to the liberal international order: what Japan and the UK can do", Japan-British Society, 18:30 (4,000 yen for non-members)
**2 March 2017 - "Traveling Ethics Textbooks in East Asia", Professor Nam Nguyen (Vietnam National U), 33rd GJS Seminar, University of Tokyo IASA
until 3 Mar 2017 - Exhibition on Christian icons and prayer aids (キリスト教信仰のかたち―祈りの道具にみる多様性―), Kokugakuin University Museum (http://museum.kokugakuin.ac.jp/event/detail/2016_christ.html)
4 Mar 2017 - Workshop on the academic novel (大学という物語 ― Academic Novelを中心に), 3pm, Soundings English Literary Association (http://soundings.lekumo.biz/blog/)
4 Mar 2017 - British English vs American English Workshop (イギリス英語vs.アメリカ英語 ワークショップ), British Council, 18:30 (https://www.britishcouncil.jp/events/english-british-american-workshop2017)
until 5 Mar 2017 - "World Book Design" exhibition at the Printing Museum, Tokyo (http://www.printing-museum.org/exhibi…/…/161203/img/zoom.pdf)
**6 March 2017 - "Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine: Evolutionary Theory and Religion in Modern Japan", C. Clinton Godart (Hokkaido U), U Tokyo IASA, 4pm
**7 Mar 2017 - New Directions in Empirical Research of Humanity, Keio University (University of Vienna International Symposium), 1:30pm (http://www.tgu.keio.ac.jp/docs/keio-vienna_symp.pdf)
7 Mar 2017, workshop on "Diversity in Japanese Subculture", UTokyo UTCP, 6pm
**8 March 2017 - "Moments of Pleasure: Time, Ethics, and Desire in Contemporary Egypt", UTokyo IASA, 2pm
**8 Mar 2017 - Lecture by Itoh Keiko on "Japanese in Britain, 1863 - 2001: A Photographic Exhibition", International House of Japan, 7pm (https://www.i-house.or.jp/…/progra…/library_reading20170308/)
9 Mar 2017 - 《西洋中世学会版》リサーチ・ショーケース (Research Showcase in Medieval Studies, University of Tokyo (Hongo Campus) (http://www.medievalstudies.jp/general/aboutseminar201703/)
**9 Mar 2017 - "Persuader in Chief: Deconstructing Trumpaganda", Nancy Snow (Kyoto U of Foreign Studies), at Temple University Japan, Azabu Hall 1F, 7:30pm
10 March 2017 - International symposium, "Looking back on the Postwar Era from 2017", UTokyo Komaba campus, 1pm
11 Mar 2017 - Discussion on women's rights in Japan and USA (「女性の権利 アメリカと日本どう違う？～現在・過去・ 未来において～」), Knox English Network (event for school and college students)
until 11 March 2017 - "Wisdom and Works of Tibetan Pastoralists", TUFS (http://www.tufs.ac.jp/english/2017/02/ilcaa-2017feb-mar-event.html)
11 Mar 2017 - Waseda University symposium on protecting cultural assets ("文化財を守るために1"), 1pm (https://www.waseda.jp/flas/hss/news/2017/02/01/2931/)
11 Mar 2017 - Japan Association of English Romanticism (イギリス・ロマン派学会) spring meeting, Japan University, 4pm (https://sites.google.com/site/jaeromanticism/home/events#20170208)
11-12 Mar 2017 - Symposium on Natsume Soseki and Chinese kanbun poetry (漢文脈の漱石), Nishogakusha University
**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
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
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 (Univeristy of Leipzig) (http://www.rikkyo.ac.jp/events/2017/03/18684/)
3/19 - 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
*3/19 - "State, Religion, and Authority in the Post-Mongol Persianate World and Beyond", 10:30am, IASA, UTokyo
*3/19 - "Economic Activities and Behaviours Based on Islam" forum, TUFS, 1pm
3/20 - "Signature de la vie: arts et robotique", Franco-Japanese Forum, University of Tokyo, 2pm
3/20 - University of Tokyo English Society Annual Meeting (東大英文学会総会) - including farewell lecture by Professor Noriko Imanishi (今西典子先生). Flier for the event
3/20 - Symposium on the future of history teaching (歴史教育に関するシンポジウム9, Nihon University, 12.30pm (https://www.chs.nihon-u.ac.jp/information/20170320/)
3/21 - Half-day workshop "Japonya’da Sohbet-i Osmaniye-3" (on 17th - 19th century Ottoman Empire), Chiba University, 3.30pm (http://earlymodernstate.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2017/01/3-japonyada-soh.html)
**3/21 - Vivian Shaw, "Hate Speech and the Gendered Burden of Care: Anti-Discrimination Politics in Japan", Sophia U Institute of Comparative Culture, 6.30pm
3/21 - Japanese Learners' Debate, TUFS, 12:15pm
**3/21 - "The End of the Global Rule of Law?", conversation with Andrew Hurrell, Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford (United Nations University, 6.30pm)
*3/22 - "Dynamics in Middle Eastern Societies During the Mongol Period", symposium at UTokyo IASA, 13:30
**3/23-03/25 - History of Consumer Culture: Objects, Desire, Sociability conference, Gakushuin University, Tokyo (http://www-cc.gakushuin.ac.jp/~20070019/HCC2017cfp.html)
**3/24 - J. M. Coetzee’s The Schooldays of Jesus (2016), workshop with Professor David Attwell, Komaba Campus UTokyo, Building 18 1st Floor, 3pm.
3/24 - Film screening - "EXPRMNTL 1963 – Japanese Experimental Film in Blossom", 18:00, Intermediatheque
**3/25 - "The Comedy of Seriousness in J.M. Coetzee", lecture by Professor David Attwell, Komaba Campus UTokyo, Building 18 4th Floor, 1pm. Followed by a special panel on Coetzee and Zoe Wicomb.
**3/25 - "From Idols to Indie Bands- Explore the Japanese Music Scene with Music Writer Ian F. Martin", Kinokuniya Tokyo, 3pm
3/25 - Tokyo American Literature Society (日本アメリカ文学会東京支部) meeting, Keio University Mita Campus, 1pm
3/25 - Society of Elizabethan Theatre Studies 27th Research Meeting (第27回エリザベス朝研究会), Keio University, 1pm
3/25 - Japanese Association of Early Americanists 72nd Annual Meeting, Sophia University, 2pm
3/25 - Contested Concepts in Modern Japanese Philosophy, Toyo Bunko, 2pm (Japanese)
3/26 - Seminar on comparative study of etiquette history in East Asia (東アジアにおける比較儀礼史の研究), Ochanomizu University, 11am
until 3/20 - Performance of Dacia Maraini's "Mary Stewart" at the Bunkaza Theatre, Shin-moriya Building
until 3/26 - "Matisse et Rouault" exhibition, Shiodome Museum (http://panasonic.co.jp/…/museum/exh…/17/170114/index_en.html)
until 3/26 - "Murmur and Tumult. Masterpieces of Nabis from the Musee d’Orsay", Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum
**3/27 - Political Economy Tokyo Seminar lectures by Lawrence Klein (Cambridge), on "The Culture of Politeness in Eighteenth-Century Britain", and Maxine Berg (Warwick) on "Global Microhistory" (University of Tokyo, Kojima Hall, 2pm: https://politicaleconomyseminar.wordpress.com/)
**3/27 - Asiatic Society of Japan meeting - Peter O'Connor, “The Japan Times, the Nippon Times and the Cuckoo Press of Greater East Asia, 1940-1945”, Shibuya Kyoiku Gakuen, 6.30pm
3/27 - Takehiko Kariya (Oxford), "Catching-up Modernity: Reflections in between the two academic communities", UTokyo UTCP, 1pm
**3/27 - British Needlework Workshop, Japan-British Society, 1pm
**3/27 - Serk Bae Suh and Ken Yoshida (University of California), "Treacherous Translations/Transactions in Language and Art", Waseda University Toyama Campus, 5pm
*3/27 - "Early Modern Islamic States and the Surrounding World" symposium, TUFS, 1pm
3/28 - "中近世ヨーロッパにおける教会法、教会法学者と社会" (Potential of the New Notion of World History Symposium), Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, 13:30
*3/29 - Research meeting on Middle East and Islamic Studies, TUFS, 13:30
*3/30 - Film Workshop: Messages from Paradise, TUFS, 2pm
**3/30 - Vanessa Frangville (Brussels), "Going to Hollywood with Non-Han Films: A Potential Soft Power Synergy?", Waseda Building 19, 10:45am
3/31 - Gramophone Concert Jazz Summit 37 ("Oh, Lady Be Good!"), 18:00, Intermediatheque
**3/31 - "Press Freedom in Contemporary Japan" - Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies, Temple University, 7pm
**3/31 - Guillermo Wilde, "Beyond Domination and Resistance. Interactions between missionaries and indigenous peoples in Colonial Latin America", Waseda University, 10.40am
7 Jan 2017 - Historical Studies of English Studies in Japan meeting (http://eigakushi.org/getsurei.html), Takushoku University
**9 Jan 2017 - "Power and Identity" conference, University of Tokyo Graduate Program on Global Society (https://sites.google.com/site/gspconference2017/home)
**10 Jan 2017 - "Divided Memories: Comparing History Textbooks", Dr Gary Mukai (Stanford U), UTokyo (Komaba), 17:00 (http://www.globalkomaba.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/en/event/20170110-00001001.html)
**10 Jan 2017 - James Keith Vincent (Boston University), lecture on "Shiki and Soseki: A Haiku Hauntology", TUFS Institute of Japan Studies (http://www.tufs.ac.jp/english/2016/12/tufs-17011001jsev.html)
**11 Jan 2017 - Talk by Professor Rana Mitter on "China's War with Japan", United Nations University, 6:30pm (http://unu.edu/events/upcoming)
**11 Jan 2017 - Professor Timothy Snyder (Yale University), lecture on "Bloodlands: Between Hitler and Stalin". 19:00, Tokyo University (http://www1.gsec.keio.ac.jp/text/freepage/index/92/)
**11 Jan 2017 - Chris Uhlenbeck, "The Art of Ukiyo-e and the Pleasures and Pitfalls of Collecting Them", International House of Japan, 7pm (https://www.i-house.or.jp/eng/programs/publicprogram20170111/)
**11-13 Jan 2017 - Harvard-UTokyo international conference: "Asian Cities: Hubs of Interaction, Tradition and Transformation", UTokyo Institute for Advanced Studies on Asia (http://utcp.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/events/2017/01/asian_cities_hubs_of_interacti/index_en.php)
**12 Jan 2017 - Professor Timothy Snyder (Yale University), lecture on "Black Earth: The Holocaust As History and Warning". 16:30, Keio University (http://www1.gsec.keio.ac.jp/text/freepage/index/92/)
**13 Jan 2017 - Professor Timothy Snyder (Yale University), lecture on "Brotherlands: The Origin of Nations". 15:00, University of the Sacred Heart (http://www1.gsec.keio.ac.jp/text/freepage/index/92/)
*13 Jan 2017 - Documentary screening, "The Road to Irish Independence", Waseda International Community Center, 6.15pm (https://www.waseda.jp/top/en-news/47659)
until 15 Jan 2017 - "Lucas Cranach the Elder: 500 Years of the Power of Temptation", exhibition at National Museum of Western Art (https://www.nmwa.go.jp/en/exhibitions/2016cranach.html)
*17 Jan 2017 - Symposium on "Gender, Religion, and Social Reform in the Meiji Period", Ochanomizu University, including keynote by Marnie S. Anderson (Smith College) (http://www2.igs.ocha.ac.jp/wp-content/uploads/2016/12/20170117.pdf)
**17 Jan - Luke Gartlan, "A Career of Japan: Baron Raimund von Stillfried and Early Yokohama Photography", Hosei University, 4pm (http://hijas.hosei.ac.jp/Portals/0/2016/20170117.pdf)
**18 Jan 2017 - Luke Gartlan, "A Career of Japan: Baron Raimund von Stillfried and Early Yokohama Photography", Austrian Embassy Tokyo
**19 Jan 2017 - "The Insentient Companion: Some thoughts on dolls, robots, and significant otherness, sacred and profane", lecture by Fabio Gygi at Sophia Institute of Comparative Culture, 18:30 (http://icc.fla.sophia.ac.jp/html/events/2016-2017/170119_Gygi.pdf)
**19 Jan 2017 - "Waseda-Birmingham Research Partnership Symposium on Corpus Insights into Academic and Literary Discourse", Waseda, 15:10 (https://www.waseda.jp/fsci/news/2016/12/28/6034/)
**20 Jan 2017 - Seminar by 隠岐さや香（名古屋大学）Sayaka Oki (Nagoya)
'The Royal Academy of Science in Paris and the Taboo of ‘Economic Issues’ in the Late Eighteenth Century', Political History Tokyo Seminar (PoETS), Seminar Room 3, Level 2, Kojima Hall, Hongo Campus, University of Tokyo. (https://politicaleconomyseminar.wordpress.com/)
20 Jan 2017 - Film director Gianfranco Rosi (winner of Golden Lion at Venice Film Festival) discusses migrants and refugees at Rikkyo University. Includes screening of film "Fire at Sea". 18:30 (http://www.rikkyo.ac.jp/events/pic-event170120_001.pdf)
**20 Jan 2017 - Lecture by Guo Nanyan on "Foreign Languages in the formation of Shiga Naoya's Literature", International House of Japan, 6.30-8pm (https://www.i-house.or.jp/eng/programs/nichibunihj20170120/)
**20 Jan 2017 - John C. Maher, “Celtic Language Revitalization in Europe: the current situation of Manx, Cornish and Irish”, as part of "Metroethnicity" seminar at TUFS, 16:30 - 18:30 (http://www.tufs.ac.jp/event/general/post_873.html)
**20 Jan 2017 - Boris Groys lecture, "Is Power Immanent in Art?", UTokyo Komaba, 2pm (http://groysinjapan.tumblr.com)
20 - 21 Jan 2017, performance of "Romeo and Juliet", Waseda University (早稲田大学大隈記念講堂大講堂) (https://www.waseda.jp/rps/kenkyu/jpn/events/sym_161014.html)
21 Jan 2017 - Meiji Gakuin Chapel Concert Series (JS Bach Complete Organ Works, vol 6), 3pm (http://www.meijigakuin.jp/concert/)
21 Jan 2017 - 3pm - 4.30pm, Gakushuin University - Farewell lecture by Professor Heizo Nakajima.
21 Jan 2017 - "Changing Britain ～英国カルチャーとダイバーシティ" - lecture at the British Council, Kagurazaka (https://www.britishcouncil.jp/events/english-changing-britain)
**21 Jan 2017 - Boris Groys lecture, "Post-Museum?", National Museum of Modern Art, 2pm (http://groysinjapan.tumblr.com)
21 Jan 2017 - Japan Comparative Literature Society (Tokyo Branch) seminar, Nishogakusha University, 2pm (http://www.hikakutokyo.com/)
21 Jan 2017 - Rikkyo University presentation by Dr Yamato Saito (齋藤山人) on J.J. Rousseau and the Enlightenment concept of "mode" (啓蒙思想が論じる“モード”:ジャン=ジャック・ルソーと滑稽ridiculeの逆しま) (http://www.rikkyo.ac.jp/events/pic-event170121_001.pdf)
21 Jan 2017 - Yoshihiko Ikegami, "Japanese is the devil's language": An enquiry into the relation between cultural prejudice, linguistic relativism, and the evolution of language" (日本語は<悪魔の言語>という言説をめぐって ―文化的偏見、言語的相対論、言語の進化との関連での考察), Tokyo University of Foreign Studies (http://www.tufs.ac.jp/english/2017/01/tufs-17012101jsev.html)
*21-22 Jan 2017 - Conference on "Shakespeare's Films - East and West" (シェイクスピアの映画─東洋と西洋) - includes plenary lecture by Professor Russell Jackson (Birmingham U) on "'Offence’s gilded hand': fighting corruption in three postwar Hamlet films" (https://www.waseda.jp/flas/hss/news/2016/12/21/2820/)
22 Jan 2017 - Hosei University, symposium on Medieval European Aesthetics, 1pm (西欧中世の美学 -文字とその外部) (http://www.hosei.ac.jp/documents/gakubu/bungaku/news/2016/20161219_1.pdf)
**23 Jan 2017 - Dr Anna Greenspan (NYU Shanghai), Digital Humanities talk on "Moveable Feasts: Street Food in the 21st Century", Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture (http://icc.fla.sophia.ac.jp/html/events/2016-2017/170123-24_Greenspan.pdf)
**23 Jan 2017 - "Describing Worlds: A Symposium on Geography and Writing", with lectures from Marcus A. Doel (Swansea), James Thurgill (UTokyo) and Richard Carter-White (UTokyo). UTokyo Komaba campus, 1.30, Building 18, 1st floor, Media Lab Room 2.
**23 Jan 2017 - "Big Data and Digital Humanities", symposium organized by the Center for Open Data in the Humanities. Presentations by Asanobu Kitamoto (CODH) and Melissa Cragin and Stephen Downie (U Illinois) (http://codh.rois.ac.jp/seminar/big-data-digital-humanities-20170123/).
**24 Jan 2017 - Dr Anna Greenspan (NYU Shanghai), Digital Humanities talk on "Deep Mapping Shanghai's Culinary Neighborhoods", Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture (http://icc.fla.sophia.ac.jp/html/events/2016-2017/170123-24_Greenspan.pdf)
26 Jan - "Rewriting History of Social Movement through Personal History:Formation of Postwar Okinawan Social Movement and Structural Changes of the Trans-Pacific Region" (個人史から描き直す社会運動史──戦後沖縄における社会運動の生成と環太平洋地域の構造的変動), Dr Kozue Uehara, UTokyo IASA (http://www.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng/news/news.php?id=20170119120049), 5pm
**27 Jan 2017 - Talk by Professor Mohammad-Mahmoud Ould Mohamedou, "The Arab Spring: Six Years On", United Nations University, 6:30pm (http://unu.edu/events/upcoming)
**27 Jan 2017 - Talk by Anna-Grethe Rischel (Denmark National Museum), "The historical significance of researching European paper with and without watermarks and its technological development", Toyo Bunko (https://sites.google.com/site/tbkenkyubulecture/koushukai)
27 Jan 2017 - Gramophone concert, "Jazz Summit - An American in Paris", Intermediatheque, 18:00 (http://www.intermediatheque.jp/en/schedule/view/id/IMT0123)
*27 Jan 2017 - "Safeguarding indigenous tradition in the modernization process", UTokyo IASA, 2.50pm (Japanese / English workshop) (http://www.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng/news/news.php?id=20170117040729)
**28 Jan 2017 - "Influences of Western Music as Affective Media on the Asia-Pacific Region" meeting, Center for Asian and Pacific Studies, Seikei University, 2pm (http://khibino.net/projects/?p=81). Papers on “Western Musical Elements in Japanese Koto Music from the 19th to 21st Centuries: Sonic, Visual, and Behavioral Spheres in a Context of Cultural Change” (Henry Johnson, University of Otago), and "Black Intentions: Maki Ishii, Ryohei Hirose, Makoto Shinohara and the Japanese Avant-Garde’s Encounter with the Recorder" (Barnaby Ralph, Seikei University)
*28 Jan 2017 - "Landscape" symposium - Tokyo University of the Arts (http://ga.geidai.ac.jp/en/2017/01/06/symposium-%EF%BC%8B-exhibition-landscape/)
28 Jan 2017 - Tokyo American Literature Society (日本アメリカ文学会東京支部) meeting
30 Jan 2017 - Andreas Eckert (Humboldt University of Berlin), "The field of Global History in Germany – temporary fashion or lasting transformation of historiography?", UTokyo IASA, 5pm (http://www.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng/news/news.php?id=20170111165128)
30 Jan 2017 - "Grassroots Fascism: Then and Now", TUFS 12:40pm, symposium in Japanese / English. Panelists: Carol Gluck (Columbia), Christopher Gerteis (SOAS), Junji Ogushi (Shinshu), Fumiaki Taka (UTokyo), Iris Haukamp (SOAS)
**31 Jan 2017 - Jordan A.Y. Smith, "Translationscapes: On the Legibility of Transnational Ideologies in World Literary Systems", Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture, 18:30 (http://icc.fla.sophia.ac.jp/html/events/2016-2017/170131_Smith.pdf)
*31 Jan 2017 - Timon Screech, "The Journey to the East in Ise Monogatari: The Political Intentions of Edo Images" (伊勢物語『東下り』―江戸絵画におけるその政治的意匠), TUFS 2.20pm (http://www.tufs.ac.jp/event/general/8_8.html)
until 29 Jan 2017 - "Shakespeare Renaissance" - Waseda University, Tsubouchi Memorial Theatre Museum Special Exhibition (https://www.waseda.jp/top/en-news/44805)
**1 Feb 2017 - "The Crisis of Democracy and Liberal Internationalism", G. John Ikenberry (Princeton), UTokyo Hongo, 10am.
**1 Feb 2017 - "Right history/wrong history? Ideological hierarchies in cinematic representations of the past in wartime Japan", Iris Haukamp (SOAS), TUFS, 4pm (http://www.tufs.ac.jp/english/2017/01/tufs-17020101jsev.html)
2 Feb 2017 - "境界の文学 ―旅の詩学" (Boundaries of Literature / Poetics of Travel) (山口裕之 / 松浦寿夫 / 和田忠彦). Tokyo University of Foreign Studies, 17:30pm (http://www.tufs.ac.jp/event/general/2016_8.html)
**4 Feb 2017 - 18th GJS Lecture "One More Defense of History: Confronting the Phenomenon of Mutual Aversion in East Asia and the Discourse of the Empire", Professor Baik Yongseo (Yonsei U), UTokyo IASA, 1:30pm (http://www.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng/news/news.php…)
**4 Feb 2017 - "Deconstructing and Negotiating Centre and Periphery in European History International Workshop", TUFS 10am, http://www.tufs.ac.jp/english/2017/01/workshop-17020401.html
5 Feb 2017 - Arts Council Tokyo Traveling Research Laboratory - discussion of Ogasawara Islands, 2pm (https://www.artscouncil-tokyo.jp/en/events/17069/)
9 Feb 2017 - Roger Ames (Peking U) "Theorizing "Person" for Confucian Role Ethics : A Good Place to Start", UTokyo 2pm (http://utcp.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/events/2017/02/confucian_role_ethics_a_challe/)
10 Feb - "The Donkey Wars: Satire and Political Imagination in the Caucasus", Prof. Bruce Grant (NYU), 3pm (http://earlymodernstate.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2017/01/post-aa44.html)
11 Feb 2017 - "150th Birthday Commemoration Soseki/Shiki Symposium "Words, Things, the World", TUFS 13:30pm
**11 Feb 2017 - Lisette Vind Ebbesen (Director, the Art Museums of Skagen), lecture on "The Skagen Painters", National Museum of Western Art, 2pm (https://www.nmwa.go.jp/en/eve
10-12 Feb 2017 - Reading of Alex Buzo's play "Norm and Ahmed" at Sengawa Theatre (http://japan.embassy.gov.au/tkyo/events.html)
10 Feb - 26 Feb 2017 - Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2017, theme of "Multiple Future" (マルチプルな未来) (http://www.yebizo.com/)
until 14 Feb 2017 - "Romeo & Juliette", TBS Akasaka Act Theatre (http://romeo-juliette.com/)
13 Feb 2017 - Giovanna Miolli (U of Padova), "To Dress Up a Truism in High-flown Language": McDowell and the Identity Theory of Truth", UTokyo TFAP, 4pm (http://tf-ap.com/program/#124)
**13 Feb 2017 - Tomoya Kimura, "The process and factors for the domestic production of animation in Japan after World War II", University of Tokyo, 4pm (http://utcp.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/events/2017/02/related_event_the_process_and/index_en.php)
13 Feb 2017, Zhang Shiming (Renmin U of China), "Painting and Photography in Foreigners’ Construction of an Image of Qing Dynasty Law", UTokyo IASA (check time) (http://www.ioc.u-tokyo.ac.jp/eng/news/news.php?id=20170202133727)
15 Feb 2017 - Rikkyo U. Symposium on "人文学の将来とは ― ＜ことば＞と＜ひと＞の原点へ ―" (The Future of Humanities - From the Starting Point of People and Words), 6.30pm (http://www.rikkyo.ac.jp/events/2017/02/18679/)
16 Feb 2017 - Noh production of Yeats's "At the Hawk's Well", Bunkamura Orchard Hall (https://www.artscouncil-tokyo.jp/en/events/12439/)
until 19 Feb 2017 - "Lascaux: The Cave Paintings of the Ice Age", National Museum of Nature and Science, Ueno (http://www.timeout.com/…/lascaux-the-cave-paintings-of-the-…)
9 Feb - 19 Feb 2017 - 海外戯曲リーディング - International Drama reading festival, Sengawa Theatre (http://www.sengawa-gekijo.jp/kaigaigikyoku/)
17 Feb - 19 Feb 2017 - "Yes This Night" (Canadian fringe theatre double bill with Haley McGee and 'Space Hippo' Shadow Puppetry - World Peace Theatre, Kawasaki (http://ytg.jp/en/shows-en/upcoming-shows-en/500-yes-this-night-a-midwinter-double-bill)
**17-19 Feb 2017 - International Symposium on "Medieval Papacy: Governance, Communication, Cultural Exchange", Rikkyo University (http://www.medievalstudies.jp/information/news20170104b/)
17-18 Feb 2017 - International Workshop on "State and Sharia in Pre-20th Century Middle East", TUFS (http://earlymodernstate.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2017/01/state-and-shari.html)
**17 Feb 2017 - International Workshop: "Imagining an Alternative 'Post-Secular' State: Historicizing and Comparing National Struggles over Re-secularization", TUFS, 10am
**18 Feb 2017 - Lectures by Professor George Hughes on "Reading Novels: Misunderstandings over an 'English Style'" and Professor Clair Hughes on "Novel Hats", U Tokyo Komaba, 1pm (http://iasil.jp/…/George-and-Clair-Hughes-Schedule_english_…)
**20 Feb 2017 - 8th Annual Liberlit Conference (exploring English literature in Japanese university education) (http://www.liberlit.com/new/)
** 20 Feb 2017 "Mismatches between Signed and Spoken Languages", Professor Asli Goksel, TUFS 3pm (http://www.tufs.ac.jp/event/general/asl_gksel.html)
**20 Feb 2017 - "Between Istanbul and Gujarat: Descriptions of Mecca in the Sixteenth-Century Indian Ocean", Guy Burak (NYU), Toyo Bunko 5pm (https://sites.google.com/s…/tbkenkyubulecture/tokubetu-danwa)
**21 Feb 2017, "Kanun and Taxation in the Ottoman Empire", Toyo Bunko symposium with presentations by Dr Keiko Iwamoto (JSPS) and Professor Linda Darling (Arizona), 4pm (https://sites.google.com/s…/tbkenkyubulecture/tokubetu-danwa)
**22 Feb 2017 - Lecture by Professor George Hughes at Gakushuin, 2:30pm, on "Imagining a Ghost: On Elizabeth Bowen and 'The Back Drawing-Room'" (http://iasil.jp/…/George-and-Clair-Hughes-Schedule_english_…)
**22 Feb 2017 - Roger T Ames (Beijing), "Confucian Role Ethics: A Challenge to the Ideology of Individualism", UTCP 3pm (http://utcp.c.u-tokyo.ac.jp/…/confucian_role_e…/index_en.php)
**23 Feb 2017 - Seminar by Bradford Bow (Yonsei, South Korea), 'Lord Kames on the Political Economy of Enlightened Husbandry'. Respondent: Chikashi Sakashita (Tokyo Women's Christian University), Kojima Conference Room, Level 2, Kojima Hall, Hongo Campus, University of Tokyo. (https://politicaleconomyseminar.wordpress.com/)
**23 Feb 2017 - Lecture by Professor Clair Hughes at UTokyo (Hongo), on "Dressing for Success: Costume in the Nineteenth Century Novel", 5pm (http://iasil.jp/…/George-and-Clair-Hughes-Schedule_english_…)
**23 Feb 2017 - Kate Hodgkin, "Constructions of the self: memory, time and space in seventeenth-century English autobiography", Toyo University, 14:30 (http://www.toyo.ac.jp/site/ihs/314937.html)
24 Feb 2017 - "Nitobe Inazo and His Activities Seen from a Point of View of Public Diplomacy", Kazuma Ueshina (Waseda), Hosei University 18:30
24 Feb - Lecture by novelist Hiroyuki Itsuki at Gakushuin, "文学のチカラとは?" (The Power of Literature), 3pm (http://www.univ.gakushuin.ac.jp/…/3de235a1b8d1116ac63d467ec…)
**25 Feb 2017 - Kate Hodgkin, "Unofficial Histories: Raphael Samuel and the History Workshop movement", Toyo University, 13:30 (http://www.toyo.ac.jp/site/ihs/314937.html)
25 Feb 2017 - Farewell lectures of Professor Kubota and Professor Kawano, Otsuma Women's University English Department (http://www.otsuma.ac.jp/news/2016/20170208101452)
25 Feb 2017 - 冷戦文化としてのザ・ピーナッツ (The Peanuts as Cold War Culture) - Michael Bourdaghs (Chicago), Nihon University, 15:30
25 Feb 2017 - Cloud Cinema - Masanao Abe's Observation Films, 4pm, Intermediatheque
until 26 Feb 2017 - Exhibition on "Marie Antoinette, Queen at Versailles", Mori Arts Center Gallery Roppongi (http://www.ntv.co.jp/marie/outline/)
26 Feb 2017 - Sophia University symposium on Women and Original Sin in Biblical interpretation (教父の聖書解釈から考える原罪と女性), 13:20pm
**27 Feb 2017 - "New Perspectives on Modern Malay(sian) History", TUFS, 4pm
**27 Feb - 1 March - David Damrosch, series of lectures on "Japanese Literature in the World", University of Tokyo
**28 Feb - 28 May 2017 - Exhibition on "Théodore Chassériau : Parfum exotique", National Museum of Western Art (https://www.nmwa.go.jp/en/exhibitions/2017chasseriau.html)
*28 Feb 2017 - UTokyo English Poetry Society (英詩研究会) meeting, Hongo Campus, Department of English Dictionary Room (文学部3号館、英文辞書室(5F)) 13:30. Meeting includes talk in English by Professor George Hughes titled "Eloisa to Abelard" ー Alexander Pope" from 16:00.
**28 Feb 2017 - Kourken Michaelian (U Otago), "The Epistemology of Generative Memory", UTokyo TFAP (http://tf-ap.com/program/#124)
[cancelled] 2 Mar 2017 - Vincent Pomarède (Musée du Louvre), “Chassériau and Nature” (French lecture with Japanese translation), National Museum of Western Art (https://www.nmwa.go.jp/en/events/index.html)
**2 Mar 2017 - Bill Emmott, lecture on "Brexit, Trump and threats to the liberal international order: what Japan and the UK can do", Japan-British Society, 18:30 (4,000 yen for non-members)
**2 March 2017 - "Traveling Ethics Textbooks in East Asia", Professor Nam Nguyen (Vietnam National U), 33rd GJS Seminar, University of Tokyo IASA
until 3 Mar 2017 - Exhibition on Christian icons and prayer aids (キリスト教信仰のかたち―祈りの道具にみる多様性―), Kokugakuin University Museum (http://museum.kokugakuin.ac.jp/event/detail/2016_christ.html)
4 Mar 2017 - Workshop on the academic novel (大学という物語 ― Academic Novelを中心に), 3pm, Soundings English Literary Association (http://soundings.lekumo.biz/blog/)
4 Mar 2017 - British English vs American English Workshop (イギリス英語vs.アメリカ英語 ワークショップ), British Council, 18:30 (https://www.britishcouncil.jp/events/english-british-american-workshop2017)
until 5 Mar 2017 - "World Book Design" exhibition at the Printing Museum, Tokyo (http://www.printing-museum.org/exhibi…/…/161203/img/zoom.pdf)
**6 March 2017 - "Darwin, Dharma, and the Divine: Evolutionary Theory and Religion in Modern Japan", C. Clinton Godart (Hokkaido U), U Tokyo IASA, 4pm
**7 Mar 2017 - New Directions in Empirical Research of Humanity, Keio University (University of Vienna International Symposium), 1:30pm (http://www.tgu.keio.ac.jp/docs/keio-vienna_symp.pdf)
7 Mar 2017, workshop on "Diversity in Japanese Subculture", UTokyo UTCP, 6pm
**8 March 2017 - "Moments of Pleasure: Time, Ethics, and Desire in Contemporary Egypt", UTokyo IASA, 2pm
**8 Mar 2017 - Lecture by Itoh Keiko on "Japanese in Britain, 1863 - 2001: A Photographic Exhibition", International House of Japan, 7pm (https://www.i-house.or.jp/…/progra…/library_reading20170308/)
9 Mar 2017 - 《西洋中世学会版》リサーチ・ショーケース (Research Showcase in Medieval Studies, University of Tokyo (Hongo Campus) (http://www.medievalstudies.jp/general/aboutseminar201703/)
**9 Mar 2017 - "Persuader in Chief: Deconstructing Trumpaganda", Nancy Snow (Kyoto U of Foreign Studies), at Temple University Japan, Azabu Hall 1F, 7:30pm
10 March 2017 - International symposium, "Looking back on the Postwar Era from 2017", UTokyo Komaba campus, 1pm
11 Mar 2017 - Discussion on women's rights in Japan and USA (「女性の権利 アメリカと日本どう違う？～現在・過去・ 未来において～」), Knox English Network (event for school and college students)
until 11 March 2017 - "Wisdom and Works of Tibetan Pastoralists", TUFS (http://www.tufs.ac.jp/english/2017/02/ilcaa-2017feb-mar-event.html)
11 Mar 2017 - Waseda University symposium on protecting cultural assets ("文化財を守るために1"), 1pm (https://www.waseda.jp/flas/hss/news/2017/02/01/2931/)
11 Mar 2017 - Japan Association of English Romanticism (イギリス・ロマン派学会) spring meeting, Japan University, 4pm (https://sites.google.com/site/jaeromanticism/home/events#20170208)
11-12 Mar 2017 - Symposium on Natsume Soseki and Chinese kanbun poetry (漢文脈の漱石), Nishogakusha University
**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
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
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 (Univeristy of Leipzig) (http://www.rikkyo.ac.jp/events/2017/03/18684/)
3/19 - 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
*3/19 - "State, Religion, and Authority in the Post-Mongol Persianate World and Beyond", 10:30am, IASA, UTokyo
*3/19 - "Economic Activities and Behaviours Based on Islam" forum, TUFS, 1pm
3/20 - "Signature de la vie: arts et robotique", Franco-Japanese Forum, University of Tokyo, 2pm
3/20 - University of Tokyo English Society Annual Meeting (東大英文学会総会) - including farewell lecture by Professor Noriko Imanishi (今西典子先生). Flier for the event
3/20 - Symposium on the future of history teaching (歴史教育に関するシンポジウム9, Nihon University, 12.30pm (https://www.chs.nihon-u.ac.jp/information/20170320/)
3/21 - Half-day workshop "Japonya’da Sohbet-i Osmaniye-3" (on 17th - 19th century Ottoman Empire), Chiba University, 3.30pm (http://earlymodernstate.cocolog-nifty.com/blog/2017/01/3-japonyada-soh.html)
**3/21 - Vivian Shaw, "Hate Speech and the Gendered Burden of Care: Anti-Discrimination Politics in Japan", Sophia U Institute of Comparative Culture, 6.30pm
3/21 - Japanese Learners' Debate, TUFS, 12:15pm
**3/21 - "The End of the Global Rule of Law?", conversation with Andrew Hurrell, Montague Burton Professor of International Relations, University of Oxford (United Nations University, 6.30pm)
*3/22 - "Dynamics in Middle Eastern Societies During the Mongol Period", symposium at UTokyo IASA, 13:30
**3/23-03/25 - History of Consumer Culture: Objects, Desire, Sociability conference, Gakushuin University, Tokyo (http://www-cc.gakushuin.ac.jp/~20070019/HCC2017cfp.html)
**3/24 - J. M. Coetzee’s The Schooldays of Jesus (2016), workshop with Professor David Attwell, Komaba Campus UTokyo, Building 18 1st Floor, 3pm.
3/24 - Film screening - "EXPRMNTL 1963 – Japanese Experimental Film in Blossom", 18:00, Intermediatheque
**3/25 - "The Comedy of Seriousness in J.M. Coetzee", lecture by Professor David Attwell, Komaba Campus UTokyo, Building 18 4th Floor, 1pm. Followed by a special panel on Coetzee and Zoe Wicomb.
**3/25 - "From Idols to Indie Bands- Explore the Japanese Music Scene with Music Writer Ian F. Martin", Kinokuniya Tokyo, 3pm
3/25 - Tokyo American Literature Society (日本アメリカ文学会東京支部) meeting, Keio University Mita Campus, 1pm
3/25 - Society of Elizabethan Theatre Studies 27th Research Meeting (第27回エリザベス朝研究会), Keio University, 1pm
3/25 - Japanese Association of Early Americanists 72nd Annual Meeting, Sophia University, 2pm
3/25 - Contested Concepts in Modern Japanese Philosophy, Toyo Bunko, 2pm (Japanese)
3/26 - Seminar on comparative study of etiquette history in East Asia (東アジアにおける比較儀礼史の研究), Ochanomizu University, 11am
until 3/20 - Performance of Dacia Maraini's "Mary Stewart" at the Bunkaza Theatre, Shin-moriya Building
until 3/26 - "Matisse et Rouault" exhibition, Shiodome Museum (http://panasonic.co.jp/…/museum/exh…/17/170114/index_en.html)
until 3/26 - "Murmur and Tumult. Masterpieces of Nabis from the Musee d’Orsay", Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum
**3/27 - Political Economy Tokyo Seminar lectures by Lawrence Klein (Cambridge), on "The Culture of Politeness in Eighteenth-Century Britain", and Maxine Berg (Warwick) on "Global Microhistory" (University of Tokyo, Kojima Hall, 2pm: https://politicaleconomyseminar.wordpress.com/)
**3/27 - Asiatic Society of Japan meeting - Peter O'Connor, “The Japan Times, the Nippon Times and the Cuckoo Press of Greater East Asia, 1940-1945”, Shibuya Kyoiku Gakuen, 6.30pm
3/27 - Takehiko Kariya (Oxford), "Catching-up Modernity: Reflections in between the two academic communities", UTokyo UTCP, 1pm
**3/27 - British Needlework Workshop, Japan-British Society, 1pm
**3/27 - Serk Bae Suh and Ken Yoshida (University of California), "Treacherous Translations/Transactions in Language and Art", Waseda University Toyama Campus, 5pm
*3/27 - "Early Modern Islamic States and the Surrounding World" symposium, TUFS, 1pm
3/28 - "中近世ヨーロッパにおける教会法、教会法学者と社会" (Potential of the New Notion of World History Symposium), Waseda Institute for Advanced Study, 13:30
*3/29 - Research meeting on Middle East and Islamic Studies, TUFS, 13:30
*3/30 - Film Workshop: Messages from Paradise, TUFS, 2pm
**3/30 - Vanessa Frangville (Brussels), "Going to Hollywood with Non-Han Films: A Potential Soft Power Synergy?", Waseda Building 19, 10:45am
3/31 - Gramophone Concert Jazz Summit 37 ("Oh, Lady Be Good!"), 18:00, Intermediatheque
**3/31 - "Press Freedom in Contemporary Japan" - Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies, Temple University, 7pm
**3/31 - Guillermo Wilde, "Beyond Domination and Resistance. Interactions between missionaries and indigenous peoples in Colonial Latin America", Waseda University, 10.40am
