Dear colleagues,

It is my pleasure to inform you about the July meeting of the Kansai Modern Japan Group, an interdisciplinary platform for scholars based in or visiting the Kansai area who work on modern and/or contemporary Japan. The lecture will be in English, the comments and discussion either in English or Japanese. All interested are most welcome.

This meeting will be organised at Kyoto University's Institute for Research in Humanities. The lecture will be followed by a more informal meeting at a local izakaya.

Here are the data:

SPEAKER: Anastasia Fedorova (Kyoto University)
TITLE: Longing for Strawberry Milkshake - The
Reception of Soviet Cinema in Postwar Japan
DISCUSSANT: tba
DATE: Wednesday 18 July
TIME: 18:30
PLACE: Institute for Research in Humanities, Kyoto
University

We will use seminar room 1 on the ground floor of the main building of Kyoto University's Institute for Research in Humanities (IRH), also known as Jinbunken.
You can find a map under 'Access & Contact' at http://www.zinbun.kyoto-u.ac.jp/en/
For those who cannot read Japanese, the IRH is on the northeast side of Kyoto University's main campus, immediately to your right when you enter through the north gate (kita-mon). It is a short walk from Hyakumanben, the crossing of Higashioji-dori and Imadegawa-dori. When walking east from Hyakumanben, the north gate is the second gate on your right hand side.

Those willing to present at one of our monthly meetings, please send an abstract of the presentation you propose to and .

I look forward to welcoming many of you next week.

By the way, there will also be a seminar on wartime Korean cinema (1941-45) at the same institute on Saturday 14 (film screenings, 13:00-17:30) and Sunday
15 July (international seminar, 10:30-17:30). All interested are most welcome.

Best regards,

Dick Stegewerns
University of Oslo & Kyoto University