As part of our ongoing seminar series, with the help of the Department of Religion, CJS is excited to host a talk by Numata Visiting Professor Dr. Elisabetta Porcu on Thursday, April 11 at 3:30.  Dr. Porcu is Senior Researcher and Lecturer at the Centre for Area Studies at the University of Leipzig and is [...]

CJS has teamed up with the Center for Hawaiian Studies to bring you a documentary film showing of Haruzo: A Life Among the Spirits.  The film, which chronicles the life of a Hokkaido-born Ainu individual named Haruzo, will play in Kama 201 on Friday, April 12th at 6pm.  We hope to see you there.

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Please join us Thursday, March 21 at 3:00pm in the Tokioka Room to hear UH History Professor Mark McNally discuss the significance of the bankoku shinryō no kane 万国津梁の鐘 (“the bell of the bridge to the world”) as an early example of Ryūkyūan/Okinawan exceptionalism.  This event is co-sponsored by the Center for Okinawan Studies.

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