Feb 28, 20201 minTokyo Humanities 12 (cancelled)Apologies we have had to cancel Tokyo Humanities Cafe on March 13 due to the corona virus. We will reschedule soon. Sincere apologies for...
Feb 19, 20201 minTokyo Humanities Cafe 12Running since 2017, we're now on our 12th event: Tokyo Humanities Cafe, this Friday March 13th, at our usual venue in Shimokitazawa. As a...
Jan 11, 20201 minTokyo Humanities Cafe 11 (Jan 9)Thanks a lot to our presenters (Yuiko, Megan, Judith, and Toru) and to the over 50 people who came along. Please check out the photos of ...
Dec 10, 20191 minTokyo Humanities Cafe 11We're excited to announce our 11th cafe, right at the beginning of a new decade - Thursday, January 9th, 2020, at our usual venue in Shim...
Sep 10, 20191 minHamlet in Original Pronunciation by Ben CrystalMy department of Meiji University is hosting "Hamlet in Original Pronunciation", the lecture and performance by Ben Crystal on Sunday, Se...
Sep 6, 20191 minTokyo Humanities Cafe 10We're excited to announce our 10th cafe (can it really be the 10th already...): Tuesday, September 17th, at our usual venue in Shimokitaz...
Aug 27, 20191 minJapan Writers Conference 2019Amanda Alvarez (RIKEN) and I will be doing a panel "Be There: Events that Bring Words to Life" at Japan Writers Conference on Sunday, Oc...
Jun 7, 20191 minTokyo Humanities Cafe 9We're excited to announce details of our ninth "Tokyo Humanities Cafe"! It will be on Friday June 21st at 7.30pm, at our usual venue (Goo...
Apr 19, 20191 min Tokyo Humanities Cafe 8Thanks a lot to everyone who came to Tokyo Humanities Cafe last night. We had the largest crowd ever last night! Please see here for some...
Apr 5, 20191 min Interview on Tokyo Humanities CafeMy recent interview on Tokyo Humanities Cafe by Dr. Ayumi Koso of the National Institutes for the Humanities. The link provides entire au...
Mar 27, 20191 min Tokyo Humanities Cafe No. 8 (April 18)We're excited to announce details of our spring "Tokyo Humanities Cafe"! It will be on Thursday, April 18 at 7.30pm, at our usual venue (...
Dec 23, 20181 minTokyo Humanities Cafe No. 7We're excited to announce details of our Christmas "Tokyo Humanities Cafe"! It will be on Thursday, December 20th at 7.30pm, at our usual...
Dec 21, 20181 minTokyo Humanities Cafe 7Thanks all for coming to THC7 last night. We are happy that it was a full-house despite the busy pre-holiday/bonenkai week. Q&A sessions w...
Sep 14, 20181 minTokyo Humanities Cafe 6Thanks everyone who came out to THC 6 last night. We had a full house with 50+ people in the audience. Big shout out to the speakers too!...
Aug 30, 20181 minTokyo Humanities Cafe No. 6 (September 13)Mark your calendars for our 6th humanities cafe - a great line-up of speakers, with talks on Kazuo Ishiguro, Aokigahara forest, poetry wr...
Jun 8, 20181 minTokyo Humanities Cafe No. 5Tokyo Humanities Café No. 5 (our first anniversary event!) went really well last night. Thank you all the speakers, Maho Ikeda, Marthyn S...