Nadia Kanagawa

Cultural and legal historian of classical Japan.

Events

Upcoming Events

July 25-29, 2022

"Ugarit: Translation Alignment Technologies for Under-resourced Languages" with Chiara Palladino, Tariq Yousef, and Farnoosh Shamsian (half-day workshop and tutorial). Digital Humanities 2022 conference.


Past Presentations, Conferences, and Workshops

March 24-27, 2022

“Negotiating Names: A 757 CE Policy Change for Foreign Subjects in Kōken’s Court.” Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies

December 6, 2021

“The Name Game in Nara Japan: Immigrant Origin and the Court Status System.” Kyushu University IMAP/IDOC 'Historians at Work' lecture series.

November 1, 2021

"Leveraging the Limitations of Immigrant Descent in Nara Japan: The Life and Times of Takakura no Fukushin." USC Shinso Ito Center for Japanese Religions and Culture. Recording available on YouTube.

March 23, 2021

“Who Created Koma District? Challenges in Defining Ancient Japanese Populations with Texts and Artifacts.” Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies

November 29-30, 2018

“The First East Asian World War,” second invited conference in preparation for the publication of 10 Events from East Asian History that Every IR Scholar Should Know, edited by David Kang and Stephan Haggard, University of Southern California

May 14-15, 2018

“The Fall of Koguryŏ, 640-668,” invited conference in preparation for the publication of 10 Events from East Asian History that Every IR Scholar Should Know, edited by David Kang and Stephan Haggard, University of Southern California

March 22-25, 2018

“Transforming the Realm: Foreign Lineages in the Shinsen shōjiroku.” Annual Meeting of the Association for Asian Studies

February 16, 2017

古代日本の改賜姓請願の中にみる「氏姓」について (“What Should Be in a Name: Petitioning the Sovereign to Change Names and Titles in Early Classical Japan”), USC-Meiji Research Exchange, University of Southern California

November 7, 2016

“What are the Ties that Bind? Allegiance and Belonging in Sixth Century Korean-Japanese Interaction,” Soft and Hard Power in East Asian History, University of Southern California

March 17, 2016

“Changing Ways and Altering Manners: Interpretations of Customs in the Ritsuryō Codes and Commentaries,” USC-Meiji Research Exchange, University of Southern California

December 19-20

“The Precarious Place of “Mixed” People in Sixth and Seventh Century Korean-Japanese Interaction,” European Forum on Korean-Japanese History Workshop “Circuits of Knowledge, Goods, and People,” Brussels, Belgium

May 28, 2015

渡来系氏族と改賜姓 (Name and Title Changes for Immigrant Lineage Groups), Senshu University Classical Japanese History Seminar

February 22, 2015

“The Japanese Dream? Immigrants in the Nara and Heian State,” Historical Perspectives on Multiethnic Communities in Japan, University of Southern California

November 18, 2014

"米国における日本古代史についての研究ー現状と課題 (“Recent Trends and Issues in English-language History of Classical Japan”), Tokyo University Historiographical Institute

November 29-December 1, 2012

“Gaps and Bridges in English Studies on Shōen: Reflections on the Recent Conference,” 4th Annual Meeting of the Meiji University-USC Exchange, University of Southern California