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September 17 th, 2019
ANNOUNCEMENT

Centre for Japanese Research: 

"Between local distinction and global reputation: university rankings and changing employment in Japan"
Speaker: Dr. Mayumi Ishikawa (Osaka University)
Sept 17, 2019; 12-1:30 pm
Location: PCOH 1215

The study examines the incompatibility between the excellence norms used in global rankings and the conventional domestic university hierarchy. The prestige of Japanese elite universities has been primarily constructed on exam selectivity of students and producing desirable graduates for the domestic labour market.Although such a conventional system is in need of adjustment under globalisation, replacing it with excellence norms of global rankings is destructive to employment and career systems that have defined the lives of Japan's middle-class, white-collar workers for much of the postwar period.Unlike previous works on global university rankings often conducted from national or institutional perspectives, this study identifies a potential threat of the hegemonic "world-class" model to jobs, remunerations and upward social mobility of individuals from a case of Japan



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The Warrior Atsumori: Uzawa Noh
Presented by Theatre at UBC and the Centre for Japanese Research
7:00 pm,  September 18
Frederic Wood Theatre
$20 for public, free for students
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Living National Treasure Hisa Uzawa and her daughter Hikaru Uzawa join us for a single evening of Japanese noh theatre. The warrior play Atsumori recounts the famous Battle of Ichinotani through the eyes of the beautiful youth Taira no Atsumori. The clash of the Taira clan with the Minamoto, their defeat, and Atsumori's final moments are retold when he appears in the earthly realm to meet his foe, the warrior Kumagai Naozane. The play culminates in a climactic dance which brings reconciliation and salvation.


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That's all for now
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