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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

03 Dec
Lecture Tokugawa Ieyasu as Medicine King Timon Screech (Nichibunken Kyoto)
12 Nov
Lecture The Trouble with Takamizawa: Reproduction, Refabrication, and the Modern Market for Ukiyo-e Prints Julie Nelson Davis (University of Pennsylvania)
28 Oct
Lecture The Excremental Imagination: Disgust, Compassion, and Laughter in Medieval Japan Rajyashree Pandey (University of London/University of Edinburgh)
09 Sep
Lecture Shaping the Indo-Pacific: Japan’s Grand Strategy and Competition with China [now hybrid!] Kei Koga (Nanyang Technological University (NTU) Singapore)
29 Apr
Lecture Bijutsu: The Key Issue of Contemporary Japanese Art Kiyoko Mitsuyama-Wdowiak (SOAS, University of London)
20 Mar
Lecture Manga and Militarism Max Warrack (University of Warwick)
03 Dec
Lecture Living the (Proletarian) Life: Sata Ineko’s Autobiographical Writing Stefano Romagnoli (Sapienza University of Rome)
26 Nov
Lecture Onwards to noble death! War representation in the manga of Shigeru Mizuki Rik Spanjers (University of Amsterdam)
18 Nov
Lecture National(ist) Media: Platform, Participation, and the Rise of Digital Populism in Japan Nathaniel Smith (Ritsumeikan University)
11 Nov
Lecture Utagawa Hiroshige: The Landscape Artist as Pathfinder Alfred Haft (British Museum)
24 Sep
Lecture The World of Smallpox Picture Books: The Red Books for Smallpox in the Edo Period Tsuda Mayumi (Keio University)
08 Sep
Lecture An Unusually Caring Chigo (Buddhist Acolyte): The Medieval Japanese Tale of a Homoerotic Love Triangle and Its Hollow Center Sachi Schmidt-Hori (Dartmouth College, USA)
30 Apr
Lecture Tradition and Transformation: Japanese Woodblock Prints from Meiji to 20th Century mokuhanga Monika Hinkel (SOAS/ University of London)
06 Mar
Lecture Ōtsuka Kusuoko (1875-1910) in the Meiji Literary Field: Models of Authorship between keishū sakka and the "New Woman" Pau Pitarch Fernandez (Waseda University)
26 Feb
Lecture Decolonisation for whom?: Museum Practices in Europe, Asia, and Japan Mariko Murata (Kansai University)
24 Feb
Lecture Diasporic Koreans' Decolonization Project in Postwar Japan Sayaka Chatani (National University of Singapore)