Past Events
2022-23
Brandeis Language Oscars
April 25, 2023
Congratulations to the Japanese video team on their special mention for Best Acting.
Film Screening: "Shoplifters"
April 24, 2023
Film Screening: "A Letter to Momo"
March 30, 2023
A Conversation with John Johanas '08
March 6, 2023
2019-20
Boston Area Japanese Speech Event
Saturday, Nov. 2
- Speech Event (Mandel G3) - 2-3:30/4 p.m.
- Reception (Mandel Atrium) - 3:30/4-5 p.m.
Participating universities included Brandeis, Harvard, MIT, Northeastern, BU, BC, Tufts and Wellesley.
2019 Mega Language Lunch
Tuesday, Nov. 19
Noon-1:30 p.m.
Sherman Function Hall
Conversation Day with Native Speakers of Japanese (JPAN 20B)
We invited about 30 native speakers of Japanese to JAPN 20B and enjoyed conversations with them. Please see the conversations and the interviews after the conversations.
Video links for students interviews:
6th Brandeis International First-Year Video Festival "Language Oscars" Japanese Language Program Video
Title: Beautiful 10 days/ きれいな十日
Creators:
- Minkyu Kim ’19
- Carmen Huang ’20
- Hongyu Li ’21
- Zifan Wang ’20
Instructor: Hisae Fujiwara
2016-17
International Video Competition
April 25, 2017
Congratulations to the students in JAPN 20B: Continuing Japanese, who won second place in the 5th Annual International Video Competition on Tuesday, April 25!
Title: "The Turtle Inside My Dream" (watch the video)
Participants: Jingyuan Huang ’17, Allison Tien ’20, Nancy Tran ’20, Charlie Weld ’20
Instructor: Hisae Fujiwara
Learn more about the International Video Competition and see past winners on the Foreign Language Oversight Committee (FLOC) website.
Kyōgen Workshop 2017
On March 24, 2017, Katsumi Yanagimoto led a kyōgen workshop for students in the Japanese Language Program. Visit our Kyōgen Workshop page to learn more about kyōgen and to watch a video of Yanagimoto and several students performing "Chidori (Plovers)."
2015-16
2016 International Video Competition
April 14, 2016
I Am Global Week Language Lunch
Nov. 17, 2015
Japanese Language Table
Friday afternoons