Rutgers Meets Japan: A Celebration of Friendship

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Saturday, September 12, 2026
3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Event Type: Public Events
Kirkpatrick Chapel 81 Somerset Street, College Avenue Campus Rutgers-New Brunswick

Rutgers Meets Japan: A Celebration of Friendship will be held on Saturday, September 12th, 3:00-5:00 PM, at the Kirkpatrick Chapel, Rutgers University, to commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the publication of The Mikado's Empire and the 100th anniversary of the bestowal of the Order of the Rising Sun by the Emperor of Japan upon William Elliot Griffis (Rutgers Class of 1869).  Join us to celebrate the 150 years of intellectual and cultural exchange between Rutgers-New Brunswick and Japan! 

Also held in conjunction is Japan In/Out of View at the Zimmerli Art Museum. See this article on Rutgers Today featuring Haruko Wakabayashi.

The event is co-sponsored by the SAS Asian Languages and Cultures Department, Rutgers Foundation, Rutgers Global, Rutgers University Libraries, Zimmerli Art Museum, Global Asias Initiative, and the Rutgers Japanese Student Association. It is funded through grants and donations from the New Jersey Historical Commission, Japanese Chamber of Commerce & Industry in New York, the Japanese American Association of New York, and Ito-en.

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3:00 PM - 5:00 PM
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AB 6051, 15 Seminary Place

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9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
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CARA A CARA SYMPOSIUM: Creative and Critical Perspectives by Migrants

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Thursday, December 11, 2025
11:00 AM - 4:30 PM
Event Type: Colloquium
Paul Robeson Campus Center Essex Room 232/233 (Multipurpose Room) 350 Martin Luther King Jr BLVD, Newark, NJ 07102

Sponsors: The Institute for the Study of Global Racial Justice, The Sheila Y. Oliver Center for Politics and Race in America (CPRA), RU-N Cultural Programming, Global Asia.

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4:30 PM - 6:30 PM
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"The Language Challenge" Roundtable

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Friday, December 5, 2025
4:00 PM - 5:30 PM
Event Type: Discussion
Humanities Seminar Room 6051, Academic Building (CAC)

Please join us for “The Language Challenge: Modernisms in Multilingual South Asia,” a roundtable discussion on the role of language and modernism featuring Christopher Bush (Northwestern), Jennifer Dubrow (University of Washington), Toral Gajarawala (NYU), Rudrani Gangopadhyay (Rutgers), Gregory Goulding (U Penn), Preetha Mani (Rutgers), and Anjali Nerlekar (Rutgers).