Europe Japan Research Centre Podcasts
For over two decades, the Europe-Japan Research Centre (EJRC) has brought distinguished guest speakers to Oxford to present on a broad range of topics in Japanese studies. From literature and film, to anthropology and religious studies, EJRC speakers showcase a range of perspectives on Japanese culture, revealing its complexity while making it accessible. The EJRC seminar series is supported by the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation.Podcasts
And I Dance with Somebody: HIV/AIDS Activism, Queer Politics and Performance in 1990s Japan
Published: Dec. 15, 2020, noonDuration: 1 hour 39 seconds
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Ascetic Ressentiment: Historical Consciousness and Mountain Politics in Northeastern Japan
Published: Nov. 30, 2020, noonDuration: 1 hour 11 minutes 25 seconds
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Still life: Scarecrow sociality, economic abandonment, and public curiosity in rural Japan
Published: Nov. 16, 2020, 11 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 11 minutes 45 seconds
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Producing People Who Have No One: Child Welfare and Well-Being in Japan
Published: Nov. 16, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 10 minutes
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Transnational Kinship in the Margins of Citizenship: The Case of Nikkei Brazilians in Japan
Published: Nov. 16, 2020, 9 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 15 seconds
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Interaction between Ezra Pound and Japanese artists: mainly Yone Noguchi, a poet
Published: Nov. 15, 2020, 10 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 32 seconds
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“Making Something from Nothing”: Building a life in music from the margins of Japan
Published: Nov. 15, 2020, 9 p.m.Duration: 53 minutes 33 seconds
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Inside, Outside, In-between: Elderly ex-offenders and the politics of exclusion
Published: Nov. 15, 2020, 8 p.m.Duration: 56 minutes 41 seconds
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Japanese Mermaid’s in Darwin’s West
Published: Nov. 15, 2020, 7 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 20 seconds
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Kore-eda Hirokazu Mini-Symposium
Published: Nov. 15, 2020, 6 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 8 minutes 44 seconds
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Monks, Monasteries and Mental Institutions On the Intriguing Connections Between Buddhism and the Care for the Insane in Pre-Modern and Modern Japan
Published: Nov. 15, 2020, 5 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 1 second
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Sekaigo - the international languages of Meiji Japan
Published: Nov. 15, 2020, 4 p.m.Duration: 40 minutes 7 seconds
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Writing and Sound in Old Japanese
Published: Nov. 15, 2020, 3 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 3 minutes 3 seconds
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Fantastic Empire Science Writing and Science Fiction in Modern Japan, 1900-1937
Published: Nov. 15, 2020, 2 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 8 seconds
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From the Stage to the Bookshelves Writing Comedians in Twenty-First-Century Japan
Published: Nov. 15, 2020, 1 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 34 seconds
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High Speed Icons of Japan: Planes, Trains and Understanding Japanese Society
Published: Nov. 15, 2020, noonDuration: 44 minutes 51 seconds
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“But now Japan and America are partners”: A further look into the 1964 special issue of Life magazine about Japan
Published: Nov. 15, 2020, 11 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 44 seconds
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What is IDOL in Japan? From a viewpoint of sociology of fan culture
Published: Nov. 15, 2020, 10 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 34 seconds
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Thrive or Merely Survive? The Kimono Retail Industry in the 21st Century
Published: Nov. 15, 2020, 9 a.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 minutes 18 seconds
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Anime is (Not) Cult: Gainax and the Limits of Cult Cinema
Published: Nov. 22, 2017, 5 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 6 minutes 41 seconds
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Aesop’s Fables in Early Modern Japan
Published: Nov. 8, 2017, 5 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 28 seconds
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“Unhappy” and Isolated Youth: Representations and Experiences of Hikikomori in Contemporary Japan
Published: Nov. 1, 2017, 5 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 5 minutes 4 seconds
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Empathy, Social Realism, or just Love Troubles? On Japanese “Little Songs”
Published: Oct. 25, 2017, 5 p.m.Duration: 2 hours 3 minutes 58 seconds
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The Men Who Came In from the Cold: Japanese Captives in Siberia and the Making of Postwar Japan
Published: Oct. 11, 2017, 5:30 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes 53 seconds
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The Mouth of the Cave and the Giant Voice
Published: April 5, 2017, 5:30 p.m.Duration: 46 minutes 41 seconds
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Successful and Sorry: How high income Japanese women construct themselves in marriage agency ads
Published: March 8, 2017, 5:30 p.m.Duration: 38 minutes 9 seconds
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How do the past, present and future interact in post-3.11 Japan: Examining the ‘future past’ in the SF manga Coppelion
Published: March 1, 2017, 5:30 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 20 minutes 29 seconds
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I never said it would last forever: On Contemporary Japanese Cinema
Published: Nov. 22, 2016, 5:30 p.m.Duration: 56 minutes 46 seconds
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Japanese Language Education, Welfare and Motivation
Published: Nov. 2, 2016, 5:30 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 7 minutes 21 seconds
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Dowa Project Policies as unfinished human rights business – from Dotaishin to Ikengushin
Published: Oct. 26, 2016, 5:30 p.m.Duration: 53 minutes 33 seconds
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Translating Bashō
Published: Oct. 19, 2016, 5:30 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 21 minutes 42 seconds
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Special Forum: Dynamics of Japan’s Ageing Prison population
Published: Oct. 12, 2016, 5:30 p.m.Duration: 49 minutes 9 seconds
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Early 20th Century Japanese Buddhist Perceptions of Western Imperialism and Why they Matter
Published: Feb. 3, 2016, 5:30 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 31 minutes 23 seconds
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Reaching Out to the Buddha in Modern Japan Psychotherapy and Buddhism as Two Sides of a Coin
Published: Nov. 26, 2015, 5:30 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 1 minute 40 seconds
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The Insentient Companion: Some Thoughts on Dolls, Robots and Significant Otherness
Published: Nov. 18, 2015, 5:30 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 18 minutes 24 seconds
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The smile of Buddha and the laughter of the Zen master
Published: Oct. 28, 2015, 5:30 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 26 minutes 35 seconds
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The Modernity of Didactic Literature for women in the Tokugawa Period
Published: April 22, 2015, 7 p.m.Duration: 1 hour
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Reflections on the division between the sacred and the secular in contemporary Japan: The case of life-cycle rituals
Published: March 11, 2015, 7 p.m.Duration: 57 minutes 34 seconds
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Women’s Memory of Hollywood Cinema in Post-war Japan
Published: March 4, 2015, 7 p.m.Duration: 1 hour 4 seconds
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The Creativity of Loss: Aging, ritual, and economies of care in contemporary Japan
Published: Feb. 25, 2015, 7 p.m.Duration: 51 minutes 9 seconds
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