Spring Events 2025
(All events listed are free and open to the public, but pre-registration is required. Seating is usually first-come, first-served. Any information on this page is subject to change.)
Miryam Sas
Bernie H. Williams Professor of Comparative Literature Professor of Film & Media, Japanese Arts University of California Berkeley
Feeling, Gender, Infrastructure
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Thursday, 13 February 2025, 6:00PM EST
Kent Hall, Room 403
Anri Yasuda
Assistant Professor of Japanese in the Department of East Asian Languages, Literatures, and Cultures University of Virginia
Beauty Matters: Modern Japanese Literature and the Question of Aesthetics, 1890-1930
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Thursday, 20 February 2025, 6:00PM EST
Kent Hall, Room 403
The 2024-2025 Soshitsu Sen XV Distinguished Lecture on Japanese Culture
Etoki (Picture-Storytellers) from JapanPerformance and Music by
Yamaoka Bumyō, Masuda Eishin, and Nagino Akihito
with Hanging Scrolls of the Life of Prince Shōtoku
Tuesday, 11 March 2025 (Doors open at 4:30PM EDT)
Exhibition of Prince Shōtoku Paintings 5:00PM EDT
Performance 6:00PM EDT
The Forum, Columbia University (605 W. 125th St.)
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Tawada Yoko
Author
Every Work Has Several Faces: A Conversation with Yoko Tawada about Writing and Translation
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Co-sponsored by the Weatherhead East Asian Institute and Heyman Center for the Humanities
Thursday, 27 March 2025, 7:00PM EDT
The Lantern, Lenfest Center for the Arts, Columbia University (615 West 129th Street)
James Reichert
Associate Professor of East Asian Languages and Cultures Stanford University
Literature for the Masses: Japanese Period Fiction, 1913-1941
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Monday, 31 March 2025, 5:00PM EDT
Kent Hall, Room 403
Douglas Brooks
Boatbuilder and author
Ways of Learning: An Apprentice Boatbuilder in Japan
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Co-sponsored by Department of History
Wednesday, 2 April 2025, 5:00PM EDT
Kent Hall, Room 403
Christopher L. Hill
Professor of Comparative Literature and Modern Japanese Studies University of Michigan
"The History of World Literature Must be Rewritten”: Shin Nihon bungaku and the Translation of Afro-Asian Literature
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Friday, 4 April 2025, 6:00PM EDT
Kent Hall, Room 403
Hanako Kinoshita
Associate Professor, Graduate School of Humanities and Sociology University of Tokyo