イベントカテゴリー: Seminar

11 July 2008

Japanese Gardens: Ancient and Modern

Japanese gardens featured strongly at the Chelsea Flower Show again this year. This seminar will look at the underlying themes that continue to make Japanese gardens so appealing, and how one designer in the UK, Maureen Busby, used Japanese aesthetics in creating stunning designs appropriate for our very different settings and architecture.

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2 October 2009

Victorian Architecture in Meiji Japan

This lecture by the eminent architectural historian, Professor Hiroyuki Suzuki, explored the Victorian face of Meiji Japan through the work of Josiah Conder (1852-1920), a British architect invited by the Japanese government to teach at the Imperial College of Engineering in Tokyo in 1877.

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3 May 2011

Challenges for Post-Crisis Japan

The 11 March earthquake and tsunami have produced a human tragedy, to which the Japanese have responded with stoicism. However, this is also an economic crisis, made more complicated by the damage done to the Fukushima nuclear complex and disruption to other east coast facilities, including nuclear and thermal plants.

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6 February 2009

Shun-kin: An International Co-production and Staging of Literature

This seminar will reveal the lengthy collaborative process involved in the creation of Shun-kin and the contemporary significance and challenges faced in staging the Japanese modern classic by Jun-ichiro Tanizaki. The production of Shun-kin was supported with a UK-Japan 2008 grant from the Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation.

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4 November 2010

Japan and the Commonwealth of Nations

This seminar marked the publication of a special issue of ‘The Round Table’, the Commonwealth’s ‘Journal of International’ Affairs. Edited by Dr Kweku Ampiah, it charts Japan’s relations with Australia, India, the United Kingdom, sub-Saharan Africa and South East Asia. Starting with an account of post-war Anglo-Japanese relations, the five ‘Round Table’ articles in this

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