• Takashima Talks: Japanese Sex Workers, Rights, and the Gendered Economy

    Contemporary Japan is home to one of the world’s largest and most diversified markets for sex.  Widely understood to be socially necessary, the sex industry operates and recruits openly, staffed by a diverse group of women who are attracted by its high pay and the promise of autonomy — but whose work remains stigmatized and […]

  • Small Island BIG Song Performance at MCC Theater

    Small Island Big Song explores the cultural connections between the descendants of the seafarers of the Pacific and Indian Oceans through the Austronesian migration. This concert will feature artists who have made a choice to maintain the cultural voice of their people, to sing in their language, and to play the instruments of their land. […]

  • Queer Taiwanese Literature as World Literature

    TAIWAN TALKS Presents: Queer Taiwanese Literature as World Literature Howard Chiang (UCD) in conversation with Hangping Xu (UCSB) Wed., April 27, 2022, 4-6 p.m. McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

  • Gagaku: Music of the Imperial Ceremonies of Japan One Thousand Years of Elegance and Harmony

    Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Mary Craig Auditorium Wednesday, April 27, 2022 at 6 PM This evening event will feature three musicians from the Naoyuki MANABE GAGAKU Ensemble led by Naoyuki Manabe. Manabe, who holds a degree from the prestigious Tokyo University of the Arts, is a composer, multi-instrumentalist and dancer who has performed internationally. […]