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Tokyo Humanities Cafe (25 April 2025)
Thanks to our wonderful speakers Derek Attridge , Xinqi He , Mary A. Knighton and Eric Margolis for their fabulous talks on A. A....
Apr 271 min read


Tokyo Humanities Cafe featured in Japan Times
“The humanities are what it means to be human”. Thanks to Japan Times for a wonderful article on Tokyo Humanities Café! Tokyo Humanities...
Apr 71 min read


Tokyo Humanities Cafe #21 (25 April)
Our next cafe will take place on Friday, April 25th, 2025 (19:30 - 21:15) at Ryozan Park Lounge , near Sugamo Station on the JR...
Mar 311 min read


WORLD LITERATURE AND INTERMEDIALITY (13 and 14 March 2025)
I will give a paper "Packaging Japan: Paratexts for English Translations of Japanese Literature" at the World Literature and...
Mar 81 min read


Footnotes to History (new book chapter)
My new paper ' Footnotes to History: Marginalizing Polynesia in Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Song of Rahéro” and “The Feast of Famine”...
Jan 121 min read


Tokyo Humanities Cafe 20 (31 January, 2025)
Tokyo Humanities Café will celebrate our TWENTIETH EVENT on Friday 31st January 2025 19:30-21:25(ish) at Ryozan Park Lounge (2 minutes...
Jan 61 min read


Tokyo Humanities Cafe (16 December)
Thanks so much to our fantastic speakers at Tokyo Humanites Café last night – Anne-Gaëlle Saliot, Heidi Lee, Gabriel Richard and Anna...
Dec 18, 20241 min read


Intermedia Symposium (December 15)
Thanks to everyone who participated in the Intermedia Symposium on Sunday December 15 at Meiji University , in particular to our...
Dec 18, 20241 min read


Strange Romanticism: Herman Melville’s Typee (1846)
My paper, Strange Romanticism: Herman Melville’s Typee (1846), is now available open access . Thanks to Claire Knowles, Alexis Harley,...
Nov 21, 20241 min read


Tokyo Humanities Cafe 19 (16 December)
Tokyo Humanities Café 19 will take place Monday 16 December 2024 19:30-21:25(ish) at Ryozan Park Lounge (2 minutes from Sugamo Station,...
Nov 15, 20241 min read


Intermedia Symposium (15 December)
The sixth Edinburgh-Meiji Intermedia Symposium takes place Sunday 15 December 2024 at Meiji University Surugadai Campus Academy Common...
Nov 11, 20241 min read


Tokyo Humanities Cafe featured on Asahi Shimbun
Tokyo Humanities Cafe is featured on Asahi Shimbun (November 6, 2024). Online version is available on Asahi Shimbun Digital . The full...
Nov 7, 20242 min read


Tokyo Humanities Cafe 18 (21 Oct)
Tokyo Humanities Café 18 will take place Monday 21 October 2024 19:30-21:25(ish) at Ryozan Park Lounge (2 minutes from Sugamo Station, 5...
Oct 6, 20241 min read


Pacific Intermediality Special Lecture and Symposium (22 October)
Event: Pacific Intermediality Special Lecture and Symposium イベント: パシフィック・インターメディアリティ特別講演会&シンポジウム Event description: This event will...
Sep 19, 20242 min read


NASSR 2024 Romantic Insurrections / Counter-Insurrections
On August 16, I will be giving a paper "Transforming Romantic-period British Orientalism: Bankim Chandra Chatterjee's Construction of...
Aug 14, 20241 min read


Tokyo Humanities Cafe 17 (26 July)
Next Tokyo Humanities Café is on Friday 26 July (19:30 - 21:30). This free event takes place at Ryozan Park Lounge, 2 minutes' walk from...
Jul 9, 20241 min read


Edinburgh Critical Studies in World Literature and Intermediality
I am very pleased to announce this exciting new monograph series “Edinburgh Critical Studies in World Literature and Intermediality”,...
Jul 2, 20241 min read


Liberlit (15 June)
I will be attending the Liberlit Conference on June 15 (Seikei University). I will be speaking about digital platforms for international...
Jun 3, 20241 min read


Global Barthes (18 May)
Thanks to everyone who attended Global Barthes on May 18. As organizer, I am incredibly delighted by the high quality of all of the...
May 20, 20241 min read


Tokyo Humanities Cafe 16 (16 May)
Join us for our free event on Thursday, 16 May (19:30 - 21:30). Our new venue is Ryozan Park Lounge, 2 minutes' walk from Sugamo Station...
May 2, 20241 min read
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