BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//School of Public Policy and Global Affairs//NONSGML Events//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://sppga.ubc.ca/events/event/ X-WR-CALDESC:School of Public Policy and Global Affairs - Events BEGIN:VEVENT UID:20180930T1926Z-1538335581.6462-EO-24661-2671@10.93.0.117 STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTAMP:20260615T003448Z CREATED:20180928T232541Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181128T212625Z DTSTART;TZID=America/Vancouver:20181019T163000 DTEND;TZID=America/Vancouver:20181019T163000 SUMMARY: Nation-Work: How Tea Became Japanese with Dr. Kristin Surak DESCRIPTION: Join us for an evening of learning about the relationship betw een tea and Japanese culture. Why did an activity as mundane as tea prepara tion become one of the potent symbols of Japan? Drawing on her award-winnin g book Making Tea\, Making Japan: Cultural Nationalism in Practice\, Kristi n Surak will explore the relationship between culture and nation in tea […] X-ALT-DESC;FMTTYPE=text/html:

Join us for an evening of learning about t he relationship between tea and Japanese culture.

Why did an activity as mundane as tea preparation become one of the potent symbols of Japan? D rawing on her award-winning book Making Tea\, Making Japan: Cultural Na tionalism in Practice\, Kristin Surak will explore the relationship be tween culture and nation in tea practices past and present. The discussion will examine the tension-filled transformation of the tea ceremony from an aesthetic pleasure of elite men to a hobby of housewives as it came to embr ace not merely the privileged few\, but the nation as a whole. It will also probe the ways that tea practitioners today make use of the association be tween tea and Japanese culture. Taken as a whole\, the tea ceremony provide s insight into one of the fundamental processes of modernity: the work of m aking nations.

About the Speaker:

Kristin Surak is an Asso ciate Professor in Japanese Politics at SOAS\, University of London and a F ung Global Fellow at Princeton University. Her research on international mi gration\, nationalism\, and political sociology has appeared in leading aca demic and intellectual journals and has been translated into a half-dozen l anguages. She also publishes in popular outlets\, including the London Review of Books\, New Left Review\, and the Washington Po st.  Her monograph\, Making Tea\, Making Japan: Cultural Nationali sm in Practice was named the Book of the Year by the American Sociolog ical Association’s Asia Section. The American Academy of Political and Soci al Science has recognized her scholarship\, which has been funded by the Ge rman Science Foundation\, Japan Foundation\, Fulbright-Hays Foundation\, an d Leverhulme Foundation\, among others. She has been an invited fellow at t he Institute for Advanced Study\, Princeton\; Clare Hall\, Cambridge Univer sity\; and the European University Institute.  She comments regularly for t he BBC\, Deutsche Welle\, Channel News Asia TV\, and Sky TV News. Her curre nt research investigates the origins and spread of investment migration pro grams and the global interdependencies that have advanced them.

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