A presentation by Shweta Arora, UCLA Yanai Initiative Visiting Graduate Researcher
UCLA
Film Screening: Desert of Namibia and Extremely Short
2024 Quinzaine de Cineastes in Cannes: Director's Fortnight Extended
A lecture by Kōtarō Shibata (UCLA Yanai Initiative Postdoctoral Fellow)
Mitsuru Aida (Associate Professor, the National Institute of Japanese Literature)
Waseda University
Benshi: Ichiro Kataoka, Kumiko Omori, Hideyuki Yamashita
Mikiyasu Yanagi (Associate Professor, University of Tokyo)
Furukawa Hideo, Yamaura Koji, Isaji Sunao
A Noh about Elvis Presley
Clarence I-Zhuen Lee (Associate professor, Yamanashi Gakuin University)
David Yang (Doctoral candidate in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA)
The most extensive tour ever of silent films with benshi accompaniment.
April 5 – 26, 2024
Rintaro Goyama (Keio University / Professor)
A lecture by Franz Prichard (Florida State University)
A lecture by Ariel Stilerman (Stanford University)
A book event with Miryam Sas (UC Berkeley)
A lecture by Alison Miller (Sewanee University of the South)
243 Royce HallUCLA
Experience something invisible, smell, in one place, and share it in words.
A book event with David Atherton(Harvard University)
Takashi Horikawa (Director and Professor, Keio Institute of Oriental Classics (Sido Bunko))
Sunrise: Radiant Stories Book Tour with Erika Kobayashi and Brian Bergstrom
A lecture by Rebekah Clements(ICREA & Autonomous University of Barcelona)
Nagasaki Kiyonori (Senior Fellow, International Institute for Digital Humanities)
Stevie Suan (Associate Professor, Hosei University)
Chen Jie (Professor, University of Tokyo)
Jiajun Liang (Assistant professor, UC Merced)
Girls' Fiction and Precarity of Gender Ideologies in Girls' Sphere
A lecture by Wakako Suzuki
A lecture by Paula R. Curtis
Tanya Barnett (The University of Hawaiʻi, Mānoa)
Sayaka Murata (Author)
Ginny Tapley Takemori (Literary translator)
314 Royce HallUCLA
243 Royce Hall
International Symposium
Javier Cha(University of Hong Kong),
Paula Curtis(UCLA),
Tamara Fuchs(Friedrich-Alexander-University of Erlangen-Nürnberg)
An Exhibition and Talk Event
Shi Xiaowei (Translator)
Yumie Yamane (Yamaguchi University)
Rie Kudan (Novelist) and Akihiro Takiguchi (Daito Bunka University)
Mette Holm (Translator)
A lecture by Nagahara Yasuhito
Hideo Furukawa lets loose with words. Shutoku Mukai replies in song. “Literature” and “Music” collide.
Shu Sakaguchi (Fukuoka Women's University)
An online book talk with Hoyt Long
An exhibit by Masaki Fujihata
May 7 – October 9, 2022
The Japanese American National Museum
Seminar
Asanobu Kitamoto (Professor, National Institute of Informatics)
Tarin Clanuwat (Google Brain)
Yingtao Tian (Google Brain)
An online book talk with Rebecca Suter
Yoko Ogawa & Robert Campbell,
Li Kotomi & Hitomi Yoshio & Richi Sakakibara
Symposium
Lecture
An Invitation to Kabuki
Workshop
2 Days of Noh
Technologies Of East Asian Performance
An International Symposium