Beyond Japan with Oliver Moxham

Oliver is joined by Dr Rayna Denison, Senior Lecturer in Film, Television and Media Studies. Rayna specialises in local and transnational studies of Asian media industries, especially popular cinema and television. Today she kindly joins us to place the genre of Japanese animated television and film, popularly known as anime, into the broader world of arts.

See Rayna's Research Profile here.

Get in touch here.

If this episode has fired up your interest in Japanese Arts, then check out the Japanese Art History and Cultural Heritage module on our new MA in Interdisciplinary Japanese Studies. See the SISJAC website for more details.

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Oliver is joined by Dr Ra Mason, Sasakawa Lecturer in International Relations and Japanese Foreign Policy at the University of East Anglia who will introduce us to the dynamic and nuanced world of Japan's International Relations. 

See Ra's Research Profile here. 

If this episode has given you an appetite for politics and diplomacy, you can join Ra at the cutting edge of Japanese Foreign Policy on our new MA in Interdisciplinary Japanese Studies. For more information, see the SISJAC website.

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Oliver is joined by Dr. Hannah Osborne, Senior Lecturer in  Japanese Literature at the University of East Anglia, who explores with  us the diverse, powerful and increasingly international field of modern  Japanese literature. Hannah Osborne is Lecturer in Japanese Literature at the School of  Literature, Drama and Creative Writing and the Centre for Japanese  Studies at the University of East Anglia. She completed her doctoral  thesis, Gender, Love and Text in the Early Writings of Kanai Mieko at the University of Leeds in 2015. Before taking up her current post, she  taught courses in modern Japanese literature at SOAS, University of London, the University of Oxford and the University of Cambridge. Her research interests include: intersections between text, illustration and  the avant-garde arts; gender and the body; and women's writing and  translation in modern Japanese literature. She is currently working on  her book manuscript The Intermedial Text: Kanai Mieko and the Japanese  Avant Garde. She is also Editor for Literature at Japan Forum.  

If this episode has awoken your inner bookworm, check out our new MA  where you can discuss your favourite titles with Hannah herself on our Modern Japanese Literature module. Find out more on the SISJAC website. 

See Hannah's research profile here.  

ARTICLES: 

'The Ai-Novel: Ai no seikatsu and Its Challenge to the Japanese Literary  Establishment'   

'The Transgressive Figure of the Dancing-Girl-in-Pain and Kanai Mieko’s  Corporeal Text'

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Welcome to the debut episode of our new podcast series 'Beyond Japan', where we explore the interdisciplinary nature of Japanese Studies through academics from a wide range of fields.

For our first episode, Oliver is joined by the Director of the Centre for Japanese Studies at the University of East Anglia, Professor Simon Kaner, Executive Director of the Sainsbury Institute for the Study of Japanese Arts and Cultures, where he is also Head of the Centre for Archaeology and Heritage talks about the significance of Japanese archaeology for the  global history of humanity, and introduces some of the initiatives he leads setting Japanese archaeology and heritage in a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective, most recently launching the Online Jomon Matsuri.

Has this episode piqued your interest? You can study more like this in our new MA in Interdisciplinary Japanese Studies. Find out more: https://www2.uea.ac.uk/study/postgraduate/taught-degree/detail/ma-in-interdisciplinary-japanese-studies

Profile of Prof. Simon Kaner 

For more information on Simon's research: 

Work at the Sainsbury Institute

The Online Resource for Japanese Archaeology and Cultural Heritage

Global Perspectives on British Archaeology

For works written and edited by Simon

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