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February 20, 2018

CJR UPCOMING EVENTS
Saturday, February 24
 
Time: 1:00 PM - 6:00 PM
By: Japan Career Network ( Facebook )

This event will be held in Japanese.


Tuesday, February 27
 
Time: 12:30 PM - 2:00 PM
Location: Room 120 , C. K. Choi Building  (1855 West Mall)
By: Sherri Kajiwara (Director and Curator at Nikkei National Museum)


Friday, March 2
Time: 4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Location: Room 106, UBC Allard Hall (Peter A. Allard School of Law, 1822 East Mall)
By: Professor Mary Elizabeth Berry (University of California, Berkeley)
 

Tuesday, March 6
 
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:30 PM
Location: Auditorium, Asian Centre (1871 West Mall)
By: Rachael Bedlington (Consul General of Canada in Guangzhou, China), Richard Liu (Board of Director at the Pacific Canada Heritage Centre - Museum of Migration), Jennifer Ward (Freelance Translator), Nathan (Kuang-Chi) Hwang (Senior Business Development Assistant at Sojitz Canada Corporation), Aaron Posehn (Strategic Planning Support at UBC Office of the Provost), Kyubak Lee (New Business Development Manager at Cambridge Global Payments), Alysha Joo (Student Librarian, UBC Woodward Library)

Online registration required here


Friday, March 9
Time: 1:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Lillooet Room, Irving K. Barber Learning Centre (1961 East Mall)
By: Dr. Barbara Molony ("Gender/ed Justice: Feminism in War and Peace"),  Dr. Sabine Frühstück ("The Power of Innocence: Gendering Children in War and Peace"), Dr. Sharalyn Orbaugh ("Nadeshiko in Monpe: Women in Propaganda Kamishibai"), Dr. Hillary Maxson ("From Martial Mothers to Peaceful Family Managers: Food, Gender, and Labor in the Postwar Japanese Household")
To be followed by a public reception.
 

Tuesday, March 13
Time: 6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Location: Auditorium, Asian Centre (1871 West Mall)
By: Dr. Peter Kornicki (Emeritus Professor of Japanese at Cambridge University)

Online registration required here

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In the episode 16 of the  Meiji at 150 PodcastDr. Brecher challenges narratives of Meiji modernization from the "top-down" by exploring tourist sites popular in early Meiji Japan and tracing changes to understandings of individuality as examples of grassroots developments. We also discuss his more recent work on the internment of foreign nationals in wartime Japan. Listen to the episode  here

In the Meiji at 150 Student Podcast, UBC students discuss aspects of Japanese culture they research in class.  Students share their research findings, thoughts, and passion for Japanese anime, manga, food, music, literature, film, sports, and other facets of Japanese society and popular culture.  Check out new episodes on Americana in Japan and Anime in the West at the bottom of the page here


All are free and everyone is welcome
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