Erica Baffelli
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Erica Baffelli
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Professor of Japanese Studies- University of Manchester; Interested in religion; Japan; media; violence; religious minorities; fear; temporalities; belonging; food. PI "Fear and Belonging in Minority Buddhist Communities" http://tinyurl.com/36rnykdy
East Asian Studies Seminar coming up next week @uomsalc.bsky.social Iwashima, Fumi (Graduate School of Economics, Kyoto University) ‘Shared Washing Machines in Rural Japan: Embodied Experience of the Electrification of Home Life’
4-6pm Tuesday 18 March
Samuel Alexander Building A213A
March 14, 2025 at 3:54 PM
East Asian Studies- FeRN seminar next week! Ran Zwigenberg (Pennsylvania State University) "Nuclear Minds: Anxiety and Transformation in A-bomb Psychology" @uomsalc.bsky.social @official-uom.bsky.social

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February 26, 2025 at 3:03 PM
Coming up in a couple of weeks @uomsalc.bsky.social @official-uom.bsky.social ! Looking forward to discussing affective entanglements, bodies and temporalities, atmosphere and, of course, fear!
February 13, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Our next EAS seminar will be on February 14.
Yutaka Yoshida (Cardiff University) and Yoko Demelius (Turku Universities)
"Technologies of the YouTuber Self: Digital Vigilantism, Masculinities, and the Attention Economy in Neoliberal Japan."
tinyurl.com/5cbs98su @uomsalc.bsky.social
January 27, 2025 at 2:36 PM
Coming up in February 2025. Registration link: www.tickettailor.com/events/unive...
December 9, 2024 at 3:28 PM
December 5, 2024 at 9:29 AM
The Fear Research Network (FeRN), led by @chikaw.bsky.social and yours truly, brings together researchers interested in the politics, feelings, and practices that converge around fear from historical and contemporary perspectives. tinyurl.com/ycx25kkb Here are some of our upcoming events at UoM
December 2, 2024 at 8:55 PM
Coming up later this week in Venezia. Supported by an AAR Collaborative Research Grant and by NICHE (THE NEW INSTITUTE Centre for Environmental Humanities). Looking forward to two days of conversations with a great group of researchers. www.unive.it/data/33113/2...
November 25, 2024 at 5:01 PM
Happening new week. Really looking forward to it!
December 12, 2023 at 5:50 PM
A great evening discussing Yu Miri's masterpiece "The end of August " ( 8月の果て) with the author herself and the translator Morgan Giles. This incredible novel is now available in English.
October 18, 2023 at 2:32 AM
University of Manchester School of Social Sciences Annual Arthur Lewis lecture - ‘Language and normalised abnormalities in the world today’ with Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o, chaired by Gary Younge and in conversation with Esther Stanford-Xosei

Book for free here: eventbrite.co.uk/e/719197658557…
September 29, 2023 at 9:45 PM