USC-Meiji University Exchange, Nov. 1-2, University of Southern California

[jan goodwin]

University of Southern California & Meiji University

Research Exchange, Japanese Historical Studies

 

November 1-2, 2025@USC in Los Angeles

SOS 250 11 AM-5:30 PM

 

Saturday 11/1

 

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

11:30 Sachiko Kawaii, USC PPJS, “’ Historical Hot Spring Inn, Craft Beers, and the Murder in the Hot Spring on My You Tube Channel”

 

12:15 Lunch

 

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

2:30 Andrew Tschirki, USC School of Religion, “Shōku 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 Janet 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.