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Co-sponsored with the Museum of Anthropology at UBC
A Future for Memory:
Conversations with Masao Okabe and Chihiro Minato
『記憶のための未来』展: 岡部昌生・港千尋対談

Description
Join MOA for a virtual conversation with Masao Okabe and Chihiro Minato—featured artists in A Future for Memory: Art and Life After the Great East Japan Earthquake, facilitated by exhibition curator Fuyubi Nakamura.

The conversation (pre-recorded in Japanese, with English subtitles) will be followed by a live Q+A session with Chihiro Minato (in English).

『記憶のための未来』の出展作家、岡部昌生氏と港千尋氏による対談です。展覧会担当キュレーターの中村冬日が進行役をつとめます。
 
対談は事前に録画されたもので、日本語で行います（英語字幕付き）。対談後には、港千尋氏がライブで英語による質疑応答を行います。

Featuring 
Date & Time
Tuesday, May 18, 2021 | 7:00 – 8:15 PM (PDT)
Tuesday, May 18, 2021 | 10:00 – 11:15 PM (EDT)
Wednesday, May 19, 2021 | 11:00 AM – 12:15 PM (Japan Time)
 
Registration

For more information, please visit the CJR Website.
Updated - Japan's Eminently avoidable socio-economic decline with Bill Emmott, the book author and the former Editor in Chief of the Economist. WIth introductory remarks from the former ambassador to Japan, Joseph Caron. May 20th at 12pm Vancouver time
Online Book Talk with the Former Editor in Chief of The Economist

The UBC Centre for Japanese Research is delighted to welcome Bill Emmott, the former Editor in Chief of The Economist magazine (1993-2006) and the author of Japan’s Far More Female Future: Increasing Gender Equality and Reducing Workplace Insecurity Will Make Japan Stronger. Join this book talk and learn more about gender (in)equality in Japan and its impacts on the Japanese socio-economic state.

Featuring 
  • Bill Emmott - Author of Japan's Far More Female Future & Former Editor in Chief of The Economist
  • Joseph Caron - Former Canadian Ambassador to China and Japan & Honorary Professor at the UBC Institute of Asian Research (Introductory Remarks)
  • Yves Tiberghien - UBC Political Science & CJR Co-Director (Moderator)
  • Sun Park - Ph.D. Candidate in Political Science & Liu Scholar (Graduate Discussant)

Date & Time
Thursday, May 20, 2021 | 12:00 – 1:30 PM (PDT)
Thursday, May 20, 2021 | 3:00 – 4:30 PM (EDT)
Thursday, May 20, 2021 | 8:00 – 9:30 PM (BST)
 
Registration
Register here - https://emmott.eventbrite.ca

For more information on the speakers and the featured book, please visit the CJR Website.
Presented by the CJR Student Assistant, Bianca Chui!

This session features two approaches to project management and event hosting in online environments. The sudden transition to online teaching, learning, and collaboration during the pandemic has left many of us facing challenges in balancing needs, handling logistics, and interacting with multiple platforms while building research communities. These challenges are likely to continue whether we shift into hybrid forms of teaching and learning or are able to integrate more face-to-face interactions.

Featuring 
Bianca Chui - an incoming MA student & CJR Student Assistant
Miaoling Xue - a Ph.D. student & manager for the “Exploring Premodern Japan”
(Moderator) Dr. Christina Laffin

Date & Time
Thursday, May 20, 2021 at 5 - 6:30PM in Pacific Time (US and Canada)

Registration 

More Information
Please visit the CJR Website for more details. 
Webinar - Japan's response to COVID-19 from a political and historical perspective, with professor Nakano Koichi from the Sophia University. June 1st, 2021 at 6pm Vancouver time
An In-Depth Analysis on Japan's Handling of the Pandemic

As the threat of COVID-19 continues globally, Japan – the country with many densely populated cities and a large elderly population – gathers the world’s attention. While its initial death numbers were relatively low, the country continuously faces challenges with the serge of case numbers and slow vaccination rollout, while still planning to hold the Tokyo Olympics and Paralympics this summer. Join our webinar with expert analyst Professor Nakano Koichi (Sophia University, Tokyo), in conversation with UBC’s Professor Yves Tiberghien and Yingqiu Kuang, for an in-depth analysis on how Japan has responded to COVID-19 from a political and historical perspective!

Featuring
Nakano Koichi – Sophia University / 上智大学 (Speaker)
Yves Tiberghien – University of British Columbia (Moderator)
Yingqiu Kuang – University of British Columbia (Discussant)

Date & Time
Tuesday, June 1, 2021 | 6:00 – 7:30pm (PDT)
Tuesday, June 1, 2021 | 9:00 – 10:30 pm (EDT)
Wednesday, June 2, 2021 | 10:00 – 11:30 am (JST)
 
Registration
The event will be held via Zoom. Please register in advance to receive the access link – https://japans_response_to_covid_19.eventbrite.ca
 
For more information, please visit the CJR Website.
Announcements
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Dr. Colleen Laird

The Public Humanities Faculty Fellowships are awarded annually to support research excellence among humanities scholars in the Faculties of Arts, Law, and Education at UBC. Dr. Colleen A. Laird (Asian Studies) was awarded the 2021-22 fellowship for her proposed project, "OER (Open Education Resource) Video Series on Japanese Women Directors." Please join us in congratulating Dr. Laird!
For more information on the fellowship and Dr. Laird's project, please visit the UBC Public Humanities Hub website.
In Media

Our Centre Co-Director, Dr. Yves Tiberghien (Political Science), offers expert analysis on Japan's responses to the COVID-19 pandemic in the recently published article, "L’épreuve de la vaccination" by La Presse (May 12, 2021).


As part of the "Responsive Dialogues: Racism in Canada" series hosted by the UBC Museum of Anthropology (MOA), Sherri Kajiwara, director and curator of the Nikkei National Museum and MOA Curator of Asia, Fuyubi Nakamura consider anti-Asian racism in the context of historical injustice done to the Japanese Canadian communities in relation to the Broken Promises exhibition at the Nikkei National Museum. Watch the dialogue on the MOA Youtube Channel.

For more information about the Responsive Dialogue series, visit the MOA Website.