2016-2017 IJS Events

Academic Programming
 

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016
IJS Lecture: Shigeru Miyagawa, MIT, “The Syntax of Participants”
 
SEPTEMBER 16, 2016
IJS Lecture: Shigeru Miyagawa, MIT, “‘Visualizing Japan’ the MOOC and the History of Open Education”
 
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
IJS Lecture: Takashi Nishiyama, State University of New York, Brockport, “Kamikazes: Japanese Suicide Attacks in Global Historical Context”
 
SEPTEMBER 29, 2016
IJS Lecture: Anna Zielinska-Elliott, Boston University, “Translate, Ignore, or Cut Altogether? Translating Polyphony and Polygraphy in Haruki Murakami’s Works”
 
OCTOBER 7, 2016
IJS Lecture: Anne Walthall, University of California, Irvine, “Antiquity, Anachronism, and Gender: Thoughts on the Art of Spear Fighting in Mid-19th Century Japan”
 
OCTOBER 21, 2016
Buckeye East Asian Linguistics Forum 2
 
OCTOBER 26, 2016
IJS Lecture: Michio Tsutsui, University of Washington, “Content-based Instruction Language for Engineers”
 
NOVEMBER 7, 2016
IJS/JPIC Japan Library Panel Presentation: “Road to the Pacific War in Recent Historiography”
 
NOVEMBER 9, 2016
IJS Lecture: Patricia Wetzel, Portland State University, “Rhetorical Devices in Japanese Advertising”
 
FEBRUARY 8, 2017
IJS Lecture: Max Ward, Middlebury College, “Towards a Cinematic Theory of the State: Ideology and Subjection in Oshima Nagisa’s ‘Death by Hanging’”
 
FEBRUARY 17, 2017
IJS/Brad Richarsdson Memorial Lecture: Richard Samuels, MIT, “Japan’s Grand Strategy and the US-Japan Alliance”
 
MARCH 22, 2017
IJS Lecture: Noriko Reider, Miami University, “Warrior Demon Conquerors”
 
APRIL 3, 2017
IJS Lecture: Judy Tzu Chun Wu, University of California, Irvine, “Patsy Takemoto Mink and Anti-Nuclear Politics: Atomic Testing in the Pacific during the Cold War”
 
APRIL 13, 2017
IJS-Supported Lecture: Kojin Karatani, philosopher, “Historical Stages of World Capitalism”
 
APRIL 24, 2017
EASC/ICS/IJS/IKS Lecture: Peter Kornicki, University of Cambridge, “Chinese Whispers: Transforming Chinese Texts in Japan, Korea and Vietnam”
 

Outreach
 

NOVEMBER 5, 2016
IJS Outreach: Japanese Language Teacher Workshop & Ohio Association of Teachers of Japanese (OATJ) Annual Meeting, “Core Practices/High-Leverage Teaching Practices Workshop,” Francis Troyan, The Ohio State University
 
NOVEMBER 22, 2016
IJS Outreach: “Daily Life in Japan” and Discovery Box Presentation for Gahanna-Lincoln High School Students
 
DECEMBER 4, 2016
IJS Event: Japanese Language Proficiency Test administered at The Ohio State University
 
MARCH 4, 2017
IJS Event: Japanese Language Speech Contest Finals for Ohio High School and College Students
 
APRIL 2, 2017
IJS Cultural Event: Japanese Student Organization’s Japanese Spring Festival at The Ohio State University
 
APRIL 15, 2017
IJS Outreach: Japanese Language Teacher Workshop & Ohio Association of Teachers of Japanese (OATJ) Spring Meeting, “Core Practices in World Language Education,” Francis Troyan, The Ohio State University
 
ONGOING PROJECT
IJS Japan Discovery Boxes Sent to Schools in Ohio and Nationwide
 
ONGOING PROJECT
IJS Internship Program: Teraoka Seiko Co., Ltd. Internships in Japan for OSU students