Series

Leiden Lecture Series in Japanese Studies

Capitalizing on Leiden’s renown as the founding university of Japanese Studies in the world, the Leiden Lecture Series in Japanese Studies brings top global researchers to Leiden.

With support from the Ailion Foundation (IAAF), every year six eminent Japan specialists will come to Leiden for open lectures. Integrated into the normal classroom experience of Leiden undergraduates, they showcase Japanese Studies scholarship from around the world to the wider Leiden community.

Have a look at the previous lectures of the Leiden Lecture Series in Japanese Studies.

Programme

18 Nov
Lecture Marketing Nostalgia: Packing and Unpacking the Everyday Lives of Children in Japan Sabine Frühstück (UC Santa Barbara)
13 Nov
Lecture The Myriad Avatars of Izumi Shikibu in Medieval Japan Rajyashree Pandey (Goldsmiths, University of London)
17 Oct
Lecture Performing identity and buying love: self-expression and iyashi in the dansō escorting business Marta Fanasca (University of Bologna/Hosei University)
31 Oct
Lecture Double Lecture on Ecocritical Perspectives in Japanese Art
16 Sep
Lecture An Introduction to Digital Humanities: Methods, Tools, & Projects in Pre/Early Modern Japan Studies Paula Curtis (University of California)
25 Apr
Lecture Philosophy/Japan Studies: Befriending Things on a Field of Energies Graham Parkes (University of Vienna)
20 Mar
Lecture Visual Construction of the Dutch: From the Perspective of the “Tōjin” Keiko Suzuki (Ritsumeikan University)
29 Feb
Lecture Augmented Realities: Japanese Literati Painting, Circa 1700–1800 Frank Feltens (Smithsonian Institution)
20 Feb
Lecture Lessons of Democracy: Mothers’ Education and Learning Activities in late-1950s Japan, Aya Yamanashi (Keio University)
12 Dec
Lecture Who Became a Politician: A Portrait of Modern Japan Yuichiro Shimizu (Keio University)
10 Oct
Lecture Memories of Cinema-Going in Postwar Japan: An Ethno-history Jennifer Coates (University of Sheffield)
20 Sep
Lecture Civil Society and International Students in Japan: Methodology and Fieldwork Dr Polina Ivanova (Ritsumeikan University)
18 Sep
Lecture Double Lecture: Illustrated Books and Manuscripts in Early Modern Japan Peter Kornicki (University of Cambridge) and Alessandro Bianchi (Oxford Bodleian Libraries)
16 Mar
Lecture Ingrained Habits: The “Kitchen Cars,” American Wheat Promotion, and the Transformation of Japanese Diet and Identity, 1956-1960 Nathan Hopson (University of Bergen)
13 Mar
Lecture Queer Subjects in Modern Japanese Literature: A Reminiscence Stephen Miller (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
23 Feb
Lecture Can we overcome Orientalism with Multiculturalism? A Methodological Reflection on Asian and Comparative Philosophy Jingjing Li
07 Dec
Lecture Between Diversity and Decolonisation: Museums as Media, and the Representation of Ainu in Museums in Japan Prof. Mariko Murata (Kansai University)
22 Sep
Lecture Literature as Commons: Re-reading Natsume Sōseki's Kokoro Michael Bourdaghs (University of Chicago)
26 Apr
Lecture From “The Sea Bastards” to “Solidarity Beyond Ocean”: Japanese Dockworkers and the Politics of Scale in the Bandung Moment David R. Ambaras (Department of History, North Carolina State University)
17 Mar
Lecture Word as Image: Waka Inscription on the Folding Screen at the Turn of the 17th Century in Japan Prof. Dr. Tomoko Sakomura (Swarthmore College)
16 Mar
Lecture Birth of a Pelagic Empire: Japanese Whaling and Early Territorial Expansions in the Pacific Prof Jakobina Arch (Whitman College)