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

Join us for our free* Halloween event on Thursday, 26 October (19:30 - 21:15). Our new venue is Ryozan Park Lounge, 2 minutes' walk from...

Roundtable "European Cultures/Pacific Histories: Asia-Pacific/Pacific Rim cultural relations, histories, and representations" will be...

My friend, Dr. Willow Verkerk (University of British Columbia) will give a special lecture at Meiji University on 27 June. The lecture is...

I will be giving a paper "The Pacific as Paratext: John Williams’ A Narrative of Missionary Enterprises in the South Sea Islands...

Tokyo Humanities Cafe is back! We're excited to announce the return of our popular cafe series for the first time in three years! Please...

A recording of BARS Digital event (21 April, 2023) is now available on Youtube. My talk on Ito Junji's Frankenstein starts at 49:19.

On Fri, 21 April 2023, 13:00 – 14:30 BST, I will be joining this online event as a speaker. Please check the details below. My paper is...

I will give a talk "Five reasons to watch Japanese TV" at the University of Technology Sydney on 20 March.

Intercultural Transfers and Translations Across Media, the third Workshop of the University of Edinburgh-Meiji University Research...

I will be traveling to Australia next month! On March 23 at 1:00 pm, I will be giving a paper at the Languages and Culture Seminar at La...

Symposium "English Literature and the Pacific" will be held on 21 January 2023 at Meiji University. Places are limited, so if you are...

Border Crossings: Meiji University-Edinburgh University Collaboration Symposium will be held on Sunday, 18 December 2023 at Meiji...

On Fri, 21 April 2023, 13:00 – 14:30 BST (already talking about next year!), I will be joining this online event as a speaker. Please...

Very pleased to announce that we, Meiji-Edinburgh Research Partnership Project team, just received two new funds (one research project...

As the 35th EARN public lecture (National Chengchi University, Tiawan), I will give a talk "Pacific Marginality: Annotation in Anglophone...

International Seminar "Translating British Romanticism in East Asia" (Online event) Fri, 29 April 2022 16:00 – 18:00 JST...

The inaugural workshop of the Edinburgh-Meiji Research Partnership, "Intermedial Encounters Between Image, Music and Text: With and...

Special Event: Special Lecture by Poet Mary Jean Chan. The Hong Kong Poet Mary Jean Chan will be giving a special talk at Meiji...

Delighted to be participating in the BARS International Conference next month. I will be hosting a salon "Romantic Paratexts and...