A huge thank you to all of our wonderful speakers—Richard Evanoff, Patrick Galbraith, Chelsea Szendi Schieder, and Megha Wadhwa—and everyone who joined us for Tokyo Humanities Café 24. Thank you also to Ryozan Park Lounge for hosting us. The next Tokyo Humanities Cafe will take place on Friday 6 March 2026 at Impact Hub Meguro Tokyo ( https://hubtokyo.com/en ). Please note change of venue. Professor Ros Ballaster will talking on Jane Austen ( https://www.english.ox.ac.uk/peop

Tokyo Humanities Café 24 will take place on Friday, 9 January 2026, from 19:30 to around 21:15 at Ryozan Park Lounge (just 2 minutes from Sugamo Station, 5 minutes from Komagome Station). Join us for a series of engaging, 15-minute accessible talks from top experts on topics including Indian food in Tokyo, otaku, transculturalism, and graphic novels. Richard Evanoff – “Transculturalism: Connecting Worlds in Philosophy and Art” Patrick Galbraith – “Reimagining the Otaku: Jap

I will be giving a paper titled "Authenticity in Imitation: Henry Derozio’s Colonial Romanticism in “To India—My Native Land” (1828) and “The Harp of India” (1827)" at Living / Building—A joint RSAA & David Nichol Smith Conference on November 26.

Thanks to our wonderful speakers - Ian Haywood, Mayu Koike, Taylor Mignon, and  Mariko Nagai  - for their wonderful presentations at Tokyo Humanities Cafe 23. We will be back in a few months!

Tokyo Humanities Café 23 will take place on Friday, 24 October 2025, from 19:30 to around 21:15 at  RYOZAN PARK  Lounge (just 2 minutes...

As part of Ediburgh University and Meiji University's joint research project, Frankenstein in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction:...

I will be giving a paper "Inverting Race: Enlightenment and Romanticism in George Forster’s Construction of the Human in A Voyage Round...

My new book chapter " Circulation and the Literary Marketplace: Packaging Japan in Paratexts for English Translations of Japanese...

Thanks to our wonderful speakers Yuiko Asaba, Ashok Malhotra, Wing Tek Lum and Yuri Tanaka for their fabulous talks on Tango and Emotion,...

I will be giving a paper "The Value of Public Humanities Event Organizations for Literary Studies: Tokyo Humanities Café” at Liberlit 12...

Tokyo Humanities Café 22 will take place on Friday 11th July 2025 19:30-21:25(ish) at Ryozan Park Lounge and feature a Tango violin duo...

Thanks to our wonderful speakers  Derek Attridge ,  Xinqi He , Mary A. Knighton and  Eric Margolis  for their fabulous talks on A. A....

“The humanities are what it means to be human”. Thanks to Japan Times for a wonderful article on Tokyo Humanities Café! Tokyo Humanities...

​ 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...

I will give a paper "Packaging Japan: Paratexts for English Translations of Japanese Literature" at the World Literature and...

My new paper ' Footnotes to History: Marginalizing Polynesia in Robert Louis Stevenson’s “The Song of Rahéro” and “The Feast of Famine”...

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

Thanks so much to our fantastic speakers at Tokyo Humanites Café last night – Anne-Gaëlle Saliot, Heidi Lee, Gabriel Richard and  Anna...

Thanks to everyone who participated in the Intermedia Symposium on Sunday December 15 at  Meiji University , in particular to our...

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