University of Southern California & Meiji University: Research Exchange in Japan Historical Studies

University of Southern California & Meiji University

Research Exchange
Japan Historical Studies

Saturday 11/1

11:00 Greetings, Prof. Joan R. Piggott, USC, and Prof. Ken’ichi Sasaki, Meiji University

11:30 Sachiko Kawai, USC PPJS, “’Historical Hot Spring Inn, Craft Beers, and the Murder

in the Hot Spring’ on My YouTube Channel”

12:15 Lunch

1:30 Yoko Shirai, USC PPJS, “Figured Buddha Tiles at Yamadadera”

2:30 Andrew Tschirki, USC School of Religion, “Shōkū and the Nyoin Gosho:

Centering Elite Women in Medieval Pure Land Discourse”

3:30 Aito Shimizu, Meiji University, “When Officials Didn’t Show Up for Court Events”

4:30 Jan Goodwin, USC PPJS, “Resilience and Resistance: Outcasts in Late Medieval Times”

Sunday 11/2

11:00 Prof. Ken’ichi Sasaki, Meiji University, “Report from the Field, Kofun Culture in the Vicinity of Kashima Shrine”

12:00 Lunch

1:30 Taiji Sasaki, Meiji University, “Effects of Citing a Waka in a Noh Song, ‘Is it the same moon as before?’

in the Noh Plays Unrin’in and Oshio”

2:30 Lewis Hou, USC EALC, “Becoming ‘King of Japan’: Diplomacy Between Japan and Other East Asian States 1268-1368”

3:30 Sophie Calderon, USC EASC, “Women’s Scholarship in the Kamakura Period: Word, Text, and Literary Production”

4:30 Emily Warren, Lisa Kochinsky, Yoko Shirai, “Recollections of the Archeology Workshop, Summer 2024”

Many talks will be in Japanese but with slides in English. English talks will be accompanied by slides in Japanese.