I’ll be visiting the University of Michigan’s Eisenberg Institute for Historical Studies.

This interdisciplinary roundtable focusing on Japan explores how essentialist or culturalist arguments are mobilized in research and teaching contexts by interlocutors, other academics, and students, and how to respond as scholars and instructors.

I’ll be visiting UNC Charlotte to deliver the Loy H. Witherspoon Lecture.

Drawing on lessons from a popular Penn course called “The Religion of Anime,” the first part of this lecture provides a brief overview of relationships between manga, anime, and older Japanese illustrated media such as Buddhist picture scrolls. The second part offers two hands-on lessons that teachers can reproduce in their own classrooms with minimal preparation.

I have organized an exciting roundtable at the 2023 annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion that will be co-sponsored by the Japanese Religions Unit; The Asian North American Religion, Culture, and Society Unit; the New Religious Movements Unit; and the Esotericism Unit.

I will be speaking as part of a roundtable celebrating the 25th anniversary of the publication of an influential book co-authored by my MA thesis advisor, George J. Tanabe, Jr.

I’ll visit the College of Charleston to talk about work in progress.

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I’ll be giving a talk at a symposium celebrating the 50th anniversary of the Japanese Journal of Religious Studies.

I’ll be visiting UC Berkeley via Zoom to talk about one chapter from my book manuscript in progress.

I’ll visit Cornell University to share material from my forthcoming book, Difficult Subjects.

I’ll appear on a roundtable hosted by the Society for the Study of Japanese Religions at the 2022 annual meeting of the American Academy of Religion

I’ll participate with Professor Silvia Rivadossi in a Zoom forum organized by GESSHIN, a student organization at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice. Zoom link here when I have it.

I’ll visit Amherst College to discuss material from my forthcoming book Difficult Subjects.

I’ll be speaking on a roundtable about furthering mutual understanding between the US and Japan.

I’ll be participating in a book review discussion with Mark R. Mullins (University of Auckland) on his Yasukuni Fundamentalism: Japanese Religions and the Politics of Restoration (University of Hawai`i Press, 2021) and my own Faking Liberties: Religious Freedom in American-Occupied Japan (University of Chicago Press, 2019).

I’ll be delivering a keynote lecture as part of the North American Coordinating Council on Japanese Library Resources 30th Anniversary Celebration. Details here when I have them.

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I’ll be speaking on a roundtable about Peter Coviello’s Make Yourselves Gods

I’ll be virtually visiting the OSU Department of Comparative Studies to talk about the promises and pitfalls of comparative method.

I will virtually visit SOAS to deliver a lecture on 10/6 that covers the main points of Faking Liberties and introduces some of the findings of my new book Difficult Subjects. Registration here.

I’ll be speaking at the University of Michigan about my book in progress.

I’ll be talking with anthropologist Anne Allison about her new work on death in Japan.

I’ll be visiting UNC-Charlotte to talk anime with Kaitlyn Ugoretz of UCSB.

I will be serving as moderator for a plenary panel on race and racism in Asian Studies at the AAS annual meeting.

I’ll be speaking on a presidential panel for the annual meeting of the Association for Asian Studies. The panel is titled “Global Asias: Undisciplining as an Emergent Field.”

My coauthors and I will virtually travel to Princeton to discuss our article “Why Scholars of Religion Must Investigate the Corporate Form.”

I’ll be visiting Saint Joseph’s University in Philadelphia to talk about chapter 7 of Difficult Subjects.