Japan_Studies_Group

=Japan Studies Working Group= = = == = =

The **Japan Studies Working Group** at Brandeis primarily consists of graduate students and faculty concentrating on the academic study of Japan. Our members are:


 * **Claire Alexander**
 * **Amanda Driver** (Graduate student - Cultural Production) popular religion; popular culture; politics of memory; minorities in Japan
 * **Matthew Fraleigh**
 * **Nadia Hemady**
 * **Alessandra Sabelli (**Graduate student - Cultural Production) science, popular culture; entertainment; Japan-Korea relations.
 * **Ellen Schattschneider** (Associate Professor of Anthropology) Popular religion,asceticism and spirit mediumship; landscape and memory; gender and power; war and violence; Japan and the Pacific War.
 * **Angela Stroupe**


 * Events and Schedules:**


 * Japan Studies Colloquium Series (Brandeis)
 * Reischauer Institute events (Harvard) :[| http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~rijs/programs/forum.html]