Consuming Japaneseness in the Tea Room. Between the Ordinary and Extra-OrdinaryPart 3 of the Series of Lectures: Buddhist Perspectives on Food and Drink. Issues from Ethics, Soteriology, and Cultural History
27 June 2016
A Lecture by Prof. Kristin Surak,
Nations are made real not only through concrete symbols, icons, and
Kristin Surak is Associate Professor of Japanese Politics at SOAS, University of London. She specializes in international migration, nationalism, culture, and political sociology. 2015 to 2016, she was a member of the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton. Her book Making Tea, Making Japan: Cultural Nationalism in Practice (Stanford University Press, 2013) received the Outstanding Book Award from the American Sociological Association’s Section on Asia. She has published in numerous academic and intellectual journals and received numerous awards and fellowships for her work. She comments regularly for the BBC, Deutsche Welle, Al Jazeera, and Radio France International. Before joining SOAS, she taught at UCLA and at the University of Duisburg-Essen. Currently, her research compares migration regimes and temporary migrant labor programs in East Asia and across the globe.
Date: Monday, June 27, 2016, 6– 8 p.m.
Venue: Room 221 at the Asien-Afrika-Institut, Edmund-Siemers-Allee 1, WEST WING.
The lecture will be given in English. Admission is free. All interested parties are welcome!
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Coordination: Prof. Dr. Steffen Döll (Numata Center for Buddhist Studies, Universität Hamburg)