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Kyoto Lectures 2024-05

22 MAI 24

Afro-Brazilian Religions in Japan: The Flux and Re-territorialization of People, Spirits, and Materialities
Wednesday, May 22nd, 18:00
Speaker: Daniela Calvo
The ...

Kyoto Lectures 2024-04

17 AVRIL 24

Greek Japan: Or, How do we Possess a Culture?

Wednesday, April 17th, 18:00 JST

Speaker: Michael Lucken
Western classical culture, and Greek culture in particular, ...

Kyoto Lectures 2024-03-29

29 MARS 24

Edo Popular Literature and Female Readership

Friday, March 29th, 18:00
Speaker: Mario Talamo
The publishing world of the late Edo period was marked by the attempts to ...

Kyoto Lectures 2024-02-21

21 FÉVRIER 24

Izumi Kyōka’s Animistic Prose: When the Semantic Becomes Mantic Wednesday, February 21st, 18:00h Speaker: Cody PoultonPraised by younger writers like ...

KYOTO LECTURES 2024-01

22 JANVIER 24

Japanese Traditional Kites: From Regional Studies to the World of Arts Speaker: Cecile Laly Monday, January 22nd, 18:00 JSTThe vanishing energy of Japanese traditional ...

Kyoto Lectures 2023-12-12

12 DÉCEMBRE 23

Japan and the Journey of Soy: From Food from Somewhere to Washoku Tuesday, December 12th, 18:00hSpeaker: Felice FarinaIn recent years, there has been a growing appreciation ...

Kyoto Lectures 2023-11-22

22 NOVEMBRE 23

“Hokusai”: the Name that Sold BooksWednesday, November 22nd, 18:00 JSTSpeaker: Ellis TiniosThe Hokusai ‘brand’ in book illustration was the ...

South Face of Namdae Gate, Inner Wall, Kaesong Fortress, c. 14e s. © EFEO/NAPCH

Kyoto Lectures 2023-10-31

31 OCTOBRE 23

The Urban Development of the City of Kaesong:From the Koryŏ Period to Twentieth-Century DPR KoreaSpeaker: Élisabeth ChabanolOctober 31st, 18:00h ...

Serizawa Keisuke, Sansui noren 山水のれん, c. 1965, kataezome. Private collection, former Eudald Serra collection

Kyoto Lectures 2023-07-12

12 JUILLET 23

Kataezome: The Artistic Legacy of Serizawa Keisuke in CataloniaSpeaker: Ricard BruWednesday, July 12th, 18:00h This lecture is based on the exhibition being held from June ...

Kyoto Lectures 2023-06-20

20 JUIN 23

“Everyday Uncertainties”Sharing and Learning Terminologies in Eighth-century JapanSpeaker: Antonio ManieriTuesday, June 20th, 18:00hSome bilingual ...

Kyoto Lectures 2023-05-31

31 MAI 23

Japonisme, a French Art FormSpeaker: Sophie BaschWednesday, May 31st, 18:00hThis lecture is based on the recent publication of Le Japonisme, un art français (Les ...

Kyoto Lectures 2023-05-09

09 MAI 23

The Stolen RobeCopyright and its Metaphors in Medieval Japanese PoetryPier Carlo Tommasi SPEAKERTuesday, May 9th, 18:00hAuthorship and creativity are elusive concepts, and ...

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Kyoto Lectures 2023-03

15 MARS 23

Reframing Japonisme: Women’s Engagement with Japanese Art in 19th-Century FranceSpeaker: Elizabeth EmeryWednesday, March 15th, 18:00h The origin stories of ...

Ishibutai-kofun in Nara

Kyoto Lectures 2023-02

13 FÉVRIER 23

Megaliths Everywhere: Prehistoric Japan as a Showcase of Human Societies’ DiversitySpeaker: Laurent NespoulousMonday, February 13th, 18:00h JSTEurope clearly has ...

Kyoto Lectures【Zoom】 2023-01

24 JANVIER 23

The Politics of Flying Saucers in Yukio Mishima's Beautiful StarTuesday, 24th January 2023, 18:00 JSTSpeaker: Stephen DoddGiven Mishima Yukio’s (1925-1970) ...

Kyoto Lectures【Zoom】 2022-12

14 DÉCEMBRE 22

Zoom LINKhttps://us02web.zoom.us/j/85956624382Meeting ID: 859 5662 4382Doxographies of Empire: The Imperial Transformation of Japanese Buddhist ...

Kyoto Lectures 【Zoom】2022-11

16 NOVEMBRE 22

Meeting ID: 816 7201 4973https://us02web.zoom.us/j/81672014973Ogyū Sorai’s Political Theory Reconsidered: What, and Why?Speaker: Olivier AnsartWednesday, ...

Kyoto Lectures 2022-10

19 OCTOBRE 22

An Archaeology of Wealth and PovertyUnexpected Sources of Medieval Japanese Economic ThoughtWednesday, October 19th, 18:00hSpeaker: Ethan SegalThis paper offers ...

Kyoto Lectures 2022-07-15

15 JUILLET 22

How Zen Became JapaneseThe Daito Branch and the Birth of a New Practice in Rinzai BuddhismFriday, July 15th, 18:00hDidier Davin SPEAKERThe kanhua chan (Jp. kannazen ...

Kyoto Lectures 2022-05-16

16 MAI 22

Between Collective Security and “Old Diplomacy”Japanese-French Relations during the Manchurian Crisis, 1931–1933Monday, May 16th, ...

Festival of Suwa shrine

Kyoto Lectures 2022-04-13

13 AVRIL 22

De-Christianizing Nagasaki: Temples and Shrines in the Early Edo PeriodWednesday, April 13th, 18:00hCarla Tronu SPEAKERAfter the Tokugawa shogunate banned Christianity in ...

Kyoto Lectures【ON ZOOM】2022-03-18

18 MARS 22

Urbane Waters: The Worldliness of Gion, ca. 1825Speaker: Stephen RoddyFriday, March 18th, 18:00hThis lecture will be available only via Zoom.Is a truly cosmopolitan ...

YokohamaTraders Sadahide 1861

Kyoto Lectures【ON ZOOM】2022-02-14

14 FÉVRIER 22

Law, Justice, and International Relations at the Dawn of the Meiji Restoration: The María Luz IncidentMonday, February 14th, 18:00 JSTSpeaker: Giorgio Fabio ...

春色三題噺

Kyoto Lectures【ON ZOOM】2022-01-26

26 JANVIER 22

Rakugo as Variety Entertainment ⇆ Rakugo as LiteratureSpeaker: M.W. ShoresWednesday, January 26th, 18:00 JSTThis lecture will be available only via Zoom.Unlike the arts of ...

Kyoto Lectures【ON ZOOM】2021-12-15

15 DÉCEMBRE 21

The Circulation of Playful Energy in Early Modern Japanese Popular CultureSpeaker: Laura MorettiThis lecture will be available only on ZoomDecember 15th, 2021 18:00 JSTPlay ...

Kyoto Lectures 2021-11-29

29 NOVEMBRE 21

Thoughts on the Cult of Tokugawa Ieyasu as the Great AvatarSpeaker: Timon ScreechMonday, November 29th, 18:00hIt is well known that Tokugawa Ieyasu was deified and that his ...

Kyoto Lectures【ON ZOOM】2021-10-28

28 OCTOBRE 21

Weather and Local Knowledge: Forecasting Strategies in Japanese Small-Scale FisheriesSpeaker: Giovanni BulianThursday, October 28th, 18:00h Despite what Robert Marc ...

Kyoto Lectures【ON ZOOM】2021-10-11

11 OCTOBRE 21

Emperor of Shadows: Napoleon and the Japanese Imagination (1800-1900)Speaker: François LachaudMonday, October 11th, 18:00hFrom 1812 to today, Napoleon remains the ...

Kyoto Lectures【ON ZOOM】2021-07-19

19 JUILLET 21

Health and Modern Warfare: Locating Medical History in Japan's Long Nineteenth CenturyMonday, July 19th, 18:00hKen Daimaru SPEAKERThis talk explores the dynamics of the ...

Kyoto Lectures【ON ZOOM】2021-06-18

18 JUIN 21

Scriptures and Their Deployment: Two Examples of Sacred Works (Shōgyō 聖教) from Early Medieval JapanFriday, June 18th, 18:00hBrian Ruppert SPEAKERThis talk explores ...

『尾張名所図会　前編　巻4　愛智郡』（1880年）国立国会図書館デジタルコレクション

Kyoto Lectures【ON ZOOM】2021-05-28

28 MAI 21

Datsueba's Role in Structuring Religious LandscapesRisshakuji in Yamagata and the Pilgrimage Route to Atsuta ShrineFriday, May 28th, 18:00hChihiro Saka SPEAKERIn Japanese ...

Kyoto Lectures【ON ZOOM】2021-04-23

23 AVRIL 21

Studying Women and Networks in the Late Tokugawa PeriodThe Case of the Rai FamilyFriday, April 23rd, 18:00hBettina Gramlich-Oka SPEAKERThe aim of the talk is twofold: to ...

Kyoto Lectures 2021-03-25 【CANCELLED】

25 MARS 21

We are very sorry to inform you that we have to cancel the following event due to unexpected circumstances. The lecture will be rescheduled most likely in May. We will ...

Utagawa Hiroshige II, Yokohama kodai Eiyakkan no zenzu Bentendori go-chome 横浜高台英役館之全図 (View of the British legation at Bluffland in Yokohama), c 1868

Kyoto Lectures【ON ZOOM】2021-03-08

08 MARS 21

‘Tommy Atkins' in Japan: Examining the British Garrison of Yokohama (1864-1875) through First Person AccountsThomas French SPEAKERMonday, March 8th, 18:00hThis talk ...

Kyoto Lectures【ON ZOOM】2021-02

12 FÉVRIER 21

Early Medieval Monks and their Patrons: The Cases of Butsugon and Shinjaku-bōSpeaker: Alessandro PolettoFriday, February 12th, 18:00h When compared to the great ...

Kyoto Lectures【ON ZOOM】2020-12

11 DÉCEMBRE 20

Bringing the Vernacular into Modernism:Architect Antonin Raymond in Interwar Japan Speaker: Yola GloaguenFriday, December 11th, 18:00hAntonin ...

Kyoto Lectures【ON ZOOM】2020-10

20 NOVEMBRE 20

The Annexation of the Ryūkyū Kingdom to Japan from a Global PerspectiveFriday, November 20th, 18:00hMarco Tinello SPEAKERFrom 1872 onward Tokyo's leaders resorted to a ...

Kyoto Lectures【ON ZOOM】2020-10-28

28 OCTOBRE 20

Locating Shugendō through Institution, Ritual, and Narrative: The Case of Mount TogakushiWednesday, October 28th, 18:00hCaleb Carter SpeakerJapan’s mountain ...

Kyoto Lectures 2020-09

28 SEPTEMBRE 20

Articulating Inner Dharma The Development of the “Five Viscera Mandala” in Japanese Esoteric Buddhism Monday, September 28th, 18:00h ...

Kyoto Lectures 【ON ZOOM】2020-07

29 JUILLET 20

KYOTO LECTURES 2020 ON ZOOMAnimal Shape-Shiftersfrom Japanese Folktales to North-American FictionLuciana Cardi SPEAKERWednesday, July 29th, 18:00hIn recent years ...

Kyoto Lectures 【On Zoom】2020-06

26 JUIN 20

KYOTO LECTURES ON ZOOMFriday, June 26th, 18:00hEarly Meiji “Accounts of Prosperity”The Making of an Urban Literary CanonGala Maria Follaco SPEAKERIn 1874 Tokyo ...

Kyoto Lectures 【ON ZOOM】2020-05

27 MAI 20

KYOTO LECTURES 2020 ON ZOOM Wednesday, May 27th, 18:00h Japan's Ocean Borderlands: Nature and SovereigntySpeaker: Paul KreitmanSome of Japan's most far-flung ...

Kyoto Lectures on Zoom 2020-04

22 AVRIL 20

En raison de la situation actuelle concernant le Coronavirus (Covid-19) et par mesure de sécurité, nous vous informons que le centre de l’EFEO Kyoto ...

Kyoto Lectures 2020-02

07 FÉVRIER 20

KYOTO LECTURES 2020Art, Gender, and Community in an Age of RevolutionThe Life of a Samurai Housewife and Artist in Kishu Domain, 1830-1880Simon Partner SpeakerFriday, ...

Kyoto Lectures 2020-01

29 JANVIER 20

Ce séminaire se tiendra en anglais.
Environmental Expertise in Modern Japan and the Ashio Copper Mine CaseMercredi, 29 janvier, 18H00@ EFEO Kyoto29 Bettō-chō, ...

Kyoto Lectures 2019-11

28 NOVEMBRE 19

Early Encounters of Shin Buddhism with Shintō “Interreligious” Contacts and HagiographyPar Markus RüschJeudi, 28 novembre 18H00@EFEO Kyoto (29 ...

Kyoto Lectures 2019-10

31 OCTOBRE 19

KYOTO LECTURES 2019 Jeudi, 31 octobre, 18h00＠EFEO Kyoto The French Campaign Against Imports of Japanese Cultured Pearls in the Interwar Years Speaker: William ...

Kyoto Lectures 2019-07

18 JUILLET 19

KYOTO LECTURES 2019-0718 juillet 2019, 18H00@EFEO KyotoThe “Global Novel” of Murakami Haruki and Elena Ferrante A Comparative PerspectiveFrancesco Eugenio ...

Kyoto Lectures 2019-06

24 JUIN 19

Andreas Kim Taegŏn (1821-1846): The Clandestine Life and Heroic Afterlife of the First Korean Catholic Priest Speaker: Pierre-Emmanuel RouxLundi, 24 juin , ...

Kyoto Lectures 2019-05

27 MAI 19

Observing Japanese mythologiesWhy the Nihon Shoki has two books with myths but the Kojiki only one?Par Robert F. WittkampLundi, 27 Mai 201918h00-19h30 @EFEO KyotoInitially, ...

Kyoto Lectures 2019-04

18 AVRIL 19

Rule of (Cosmological) Law: The Rhetoric of Authority in Japan’s Medieval MirrorsErin L. Brightwell (Université de Michigan)Jeudi 18 avril 2019, 18H00@EFEO ...

Kyoto Lectures 2019-03

07 MARS 19

The Japanese Uses of European RenaissanceRegeneration and Reconstruction in the Modern PeriodFrancesco Campagnola Jeudi, 7 mars, 18:00h @EFEO KyotoFrom the late ...

Kyoto Lectures 2019-02

14 FÉVRIER 19

Counter-Reformation Heroes in the Making: The Beatification of the 26 Martyrs of Nagasaki Speaker: Hitomi Omata RappoThursday, February 14th, 18:00h@EFEO Kyoto ...

Kyoto Lectures 2019-01

15 JANVIER 19

KYOTO LECTURES 2019 15 janvier, 18H00@EFEO Kyoto In a State of Excess: "Reckless Gathering" and the Meiji Cultivation of Ago BaySpeaker: Kjell EricsonAcross the ...

Kyoto Lectures 2018-11

06 NOVEMBRE 18

Monkey BusinessDiffering Approaches to the“Reconstruction” of the Bugaku Piece SomakushaAndrea GiolaiLe mardi 6 novembre, 18:00h Japanese medieval ...

Kyoto Lectures 2018-10-11

11 OCTOBRE 18

Boxes of Fleas and Butterfly Folding FansCollecting Insects in Colonial TaiwanKerstin Pannhorst (en anglais)Jeudi, 11 octobre, 18H00@EFEO KyotoThis talk will look into ...

Kyoto Lectures 2018-07-23

23 JUILLET 18

Lawrence E. Marceau Anomalies in AesopExtraneous Episodes in the Japanese Script Editions of Isopo monogatari23 juillet, lundi, 18:00hIn 1593 the Jesuit Mission Press in ...

Kyoto Lectures 2018-06-04

04 JUIN 18

Title : Dead Goddesses and Living Narratives: Variant Accounts in Early Japanese Mythology par David LurieLundi 4 june, de 18h à 19h30 (entrée libre) ...

Kyoto Lectures 2018-05-29

29 MAI 18

Title : Christian Sorcerers CrucifiedReconsidering the Keihan Kirishitan Incident of 1827-29par Mark TeeuwenMardi 29 mai, de 18h à 19h30 (entrée ...

Kyoto Lectures 2018-04-17

17 AVRIL 18

Title: War without Blood? The Literary Uses of a Taboo Fluid in the Heike monogataripar Vyjayanthi Ratnam SelingerMardi 17 avril, de 18h à 19h30 (entrée ...

Kyoto Lectures 2018-03-14

14 MARS 18

The Jesuits and Slavery in Early Modern Japan The system of “permits”Speaker: Lucio de Sousa École francaise d'Extrême-Orient (EFEO)
Scuola ...

Kyoto Lectures 2018-02-20

20 FÉVRIER 18

École française d’Extrême-Orient EFEO Scuola Italiana di Studi sull'Asia Orientale ISEASco-hosted by Institute for Research in Humanities, ...

Kyoto Lectures 2018-01-24

24 JANVIER 18

École française d’Extrême-Orient EFEO Scuola Italiana di Studi sull'Asia Orientale ISEASco-hosted by Institute for Research in Humanities, ...

Kyoto Lectures 2017-11-24

24 NOVEMBRE 17

Kyoto Lectures 2017Vendredi 24 novembre, De 18h à 19h30 (entrée libre)« Who Cooked for Consul-General Townsend Harris? Chinese and the Introduction of ...

Kyoto Lectures 2017-10-20

20 OCTOBRE 17

KYOTO LECTURES 2017Friday, October 20th, 18:00hPlease note that this lecture will be held at the Kyoto centre of the École Française ...

Kyoto Lectures 2017-09-26

26 SEPTEMBRE 17

On French and Japanese anthropologies: André Leroi-Gourhan in Kyoto (1937-1939)Speaker: Damien KunikTuesday, September 26th, 18:00h Please note that this ...

Kyoto Lectures 2017-07-19

19 JUILLET 17

Kyoto Lectures 2017Explication en anglais:Wednesday, July 19th, 18:00hJesuit Buildings in Early Modern Japanese ArtA Comparative AnalysisSpeaker: Bébio Vieira ...

Kyoto Lectures 2017-06-21

21 JUIN 17

Explocation en anglaisÉcole Francaise d’Extrême-Orient EFEO Scuola Italiana di Studi sull'Asia Orientale ISEAS (European Consortium ...

Kyoto Ketures 2017-05-30

30 MAI 17

KYOTO LECTURES 2017En anglaisTuesday, May 30th, 18:00hco-hosted by Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto UniversityThis lecture will be held at the Institute for ...

Kyoto Lectures 2017-05-16

16 MAI 17

Kyoto Lectures 2017-05-16 Explication en anglaisTitle: Magic and the conversion of the lords of Kyushu (1560-1580): a global comparative perspectiveSpeaker: Alan ...

Kyoto Lectures 2017-04-24

24 AVRIL 17

Kyoto Lectures 2017-04-24Explication en anglaisJapan and the United States: Observations from Immigration StudiesSpeaker: Gary Y. Okihiro This
lecture will be held at the ...

Kyoto Lectures 2017-02-27

27 FÉVRIER 17

École Francaise d’Extrême-Orient EFEO Scuola Italiana di Studi sull'Asia Orientale ISEAS(European Consortium for Asian Field Study, ECAF) KYOTO ...

Kyoto Lectures　2016-12-7

07 DÉCEMBRE 16

École Francaise d’Extrême-Orient EFEO Scuola Italiana di Studi sull'Asia Orientale ISEAS (European Consortium for Asian Field Study, ...

Kyoto Lectures 2016-01-26

26 JANVIER 16

Title: Reflections on the Ascetic Practice at the Flute Cave of Mount ŌmineSpeaker: Carina Roth (University of Geneva)2016 Tuesday, January 26th, 18:00hÉcole ...

Kyoto Lectures 2015-12-18

18 DÉCEMBRE 15

Title : Going on Pilgrimage in 19th Century China: The itinerary network in the Canxue zhijin 參學知津 Décembre 18, 18:00 Marcus Bingenheimer ...

Kyoto Lectures 2014-07

23 JUILLET 14

Mercredi 23 juillet 2014 à 18 heures, Andrea Flores Urushima (Université de Kyoto) donnera une conférence sur le thème "Planning for Everyday ...

Kyoto Lectures 2014-05-21

12 MAI 14

Le mercredi 21 mai (à 18 heures), Diego
Pellecchia (Kônan University) donnera une conférence aux Kyoto Lectures sur le thème : ...

Kyoto Lectures 2013-05-28

28 MAI 13

Mardi 28 mai (à partir de 18 h), Nissim Otmazgin (université hébraïque de Jérusalem) donnera une conférence sur : "Stories for the ...

Kyoto Lectures 2013-03-27

27 MARS 13

Le 27 mars (à partir de 18 h), Wybe Kuitert (Seoul National University) donnera une conférence sur le thème: "Cherries of Kyoto: Some Hidden History" aux ...

Kyoto Lectures 2013-02-27

27 FÉVRIER 13

Mercredi 27 février (18 heures),
Kacem Zoughari (International Research Center
for Japanese Studies, Nichibunken) donnera une conférence sur le ...

Kyoto Lectures 2013-01-23

23 JANVIER 13

Le mercredi 23 janvier (à partir de 18 heures),
Anna Andreeva (Université de Heidelberg) donnera une conférence aux Kyoto Lectures sur le ...

Kyoto Lectures 2012-12-19

19 DÉCEMBRE 12

Kyoto Lectures 2012-11-13

13 NOVEMBRE 12

Le mardi 13 novembre (18 heures), Vincent Giraud, chercheur au département de philosophie des religions de l'université de Kyoto, interviendra sur le ...

Kyoto Lectures 2012-06-27

27 JUIN 12

Bret Davis (Associate Professor of Philosophy,
Loyola University Maryland) donnera une conférence aux Kyoto Lectures sur le thème « Encounter ...

Kyoto Lectures 2012-06-06

06 JUIN 12

Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney (Research Professor, University of Wisconsin,
Madison) donnera une conférence aux Kyoto
Lectures sur le thème « Many ...

Kyoto Lectures 2012-04-26

26 AVRIL 12

Jeudi 26 avril (à partir de 18 heures), Joseph T. Sorensen (University of California, Davies) donnera une conférence aux Kyoto Lectures sur le thème: ...

Kyoto Lectures 2012-03-15

15 MARS 12

Le 15 mars (18h), Marc-Henri Deroche (Université de Kyoto) donne une communication aux Kyoto Lectures sur le thème « Memory, Revelation and Authority: ...

Kyoto Lectures 2012-02-23

23 FÉVRIER 12

Rebecca Suter (Maître de conférences à l'Université de Sydney), donnera une conférence sur le thème : "Diasporic Devils. The ...

Kyoto Lectures 2011-07-14

14 JUILLET 11

Fabio Rambelli, University of California (Santa Barbara), donnera une conférence sur le thème: " 'The Dharma Preaches Equality and Has No Hierarchy': ...

Kyoto Lectures 2011-06-30

30 JUIN 11

Kyoto Lectures 2011-06-16

16 JUIN 11

Kyoto Lectures 2011-02-24

01 FÉVRIER 11

Le 24 février (18
heures), Erick Laurent, Gifu Keizai University 岐阜経済大学, donnera une
conférence aux Kyoto Lectures sur le sujet
: ...

Kyoto Lectures

18 JANVIER 11

Le 27 janvier (18 heures), Mark Metzler,
University of Texas à Austin, donnera une conférence aux Kyoto Lectures sur le sujet : « Ages of ...