Michitoshi Soga Japan Center

Building Bridges and Creating Opportunities

Mission Statement:

The Soga Japan Center at Western Michigan University commits itself to making fundamental advances in our knowledge of Japanese history, culture, business, science and technology. In so doing, it serves as a generative force in international education.

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Spring 2012

Wednesday, February 22
Hiromi Itō visits WMU
Talk about Classical Buddhism
2 to 3:40 p.m.
Brown Hall Room 2028
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Bilingual Poetry Reading
6:30 to 8 p.m.
Brown Hall Room 2028
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Thursday, March 22
The Wind from Vulture Peak:
Japanese Buddhist Poetry and the Heian Aesthetic
Lecture by Dr. Stephen Miller
University of Massachusetts--Amherst
5 p.m.
Brown Hall Room 3025
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Tuesday, April 3
Traditional Japanese Puppet Theater
Lecture by Dr. Andreas Regelsberger
Universität Trier in Germany
4 p.m.
Brown Hall Room 3025
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Monday, April 9
The Convergence of "Ways": The Twilight of
Early Chinese Literary Studies and the Rise
of Waka Studies in the Long Twelfth
Century Japan

Lecture by Dr. Saeko Shibayama
Postdoctoral fellow from Columbia University
4:15 p.m.
Brown Hall Room 3025

Thursday, April 12
Zen and the Art of Mumbo Jumbo in Haiku
Lecture by Dr. Adam Kern
University of Wisconsin-Madison
6 p.m.
Knauss Hall Room 2500
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