School of Interdisciplinary Area Studies

Social Sciences Division

Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies

Nissan Seminar: Transnational History and Japan’s “Comparative Advantage”

Friday, 20 October, 2017 -

17:30 to 18:45

Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford

This seminar starts at the later time of 5.30 pm.

Speaker(s):

Professor Sheldon Garon, Nissan Professor in Japanese Studies; Professor of History and East Asian Studies, Princeton University

Nissan Seminar: Reflections on being the first foreign CEO of Sony

Friday, 13 October, 2017 -

17:00 to 18:30

Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford

Speaker(s):

Sir Howard Stringer, Former Chairman, President, and CEO of Sony Corporation

Ecologies of Knowledge and Practice: Japanese Studies and the Environmental Humanities

A day and a half workshop and roundtable for UK Postgraduates and Early Career Researchers in the Humanities, St Antony’s College, University of Oxford, 27th and 28th October 2017

Issue 9 of the Japanese Studies at Oxford Newsletter is now available

Our newsletter, published annually since 2009 provides an overview of activities relating to the study of Japan that have taken place or are taking place across the entire university.

Nissan Seminar: Event to celebrate the launch of 100th volume in the Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies/Routledge Series

Friday, 19 May, 2017 -

15:00 to 18:30

15.00: Tea and coffee in the Foyer of the Nissan Institute

15.30: The View from the Nissan Institute - A Retrospective History of the Series: Arthur Stockwin

16.00: The view from Routledge: Stephanie Rogers

Nissan Seminar: The fierce urgency of ‘clear’ (kuriaa): nuclear waste, material recovery, and resourcefulness in post-tsunami Japan

Friday, 12 May, 2017 -

17:00 to 18:30

Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford

Speaker(s):

Dr Peter Wynn Kirby, School of Geography and the Environment, University of Oxford

Nissan Seminar: Paradigmatic Origins of Contemporary Japanese Humanoid Robot Culture

Friday, 5 May, 2017 -

17:00 to 18:30

Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford

Speaker(s):

Dr. Mateja Kovacic, Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, University of Oxford

Nissan Seminar: Does Japanese Corporate Governance Need (Further) Reform?

Friday, 28 April, 2017 -

17:00 to 18:30

Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford

Speaker(s):

Dr. George Olcott, Department of Business and Commerce, Keio University

Nissan Seminar: Collapsing Rural Japan - A New Approach for Revival

Wednesday, 1 March, 2017 -

17:00 to 19:00

Pavilion Room, 4th Floor, Gateway Building, St. Antony's College, Oxford

Nissan Seminar: BATJ Seminar February 2017 - Teaching “Japan” outside of Japan

The British Association for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language

Saturday, 11 February, 2017 -

14:00 to 17:00

Nissan Institute Lecture Theatre, St Antony’s College

Organiser: The British Association for Teaching Japanese as a Foreign Language (BATJ)

Speaker(s):

Professor Takehiko Kariya, Nissan Institute of Japanese Studies, Oxford

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