Tea talks

Join us for an engaging educational series featuring guest speakers from diverse fields. Each session offers unique insights and opportunities to ask questions directly to the professionals. Plus we get to share our favorite tea!

Date: 12/11/2024 Time: 2:00pm-3:00pm Location: Inamori Pavilion

Price: $5 *Registration required. This doesn’t include the admission.

Guest Speaker: Dr. Ramie Tateishi from the National University

Topic: Yokai - Japanese supernatural creatures

Ramie Tateishi is a Professor at National University in San Diego, California, where he teaches classes in film and literature in the Department of Arts and Humanities, including courses on Japanese cinema and the films of Akira Kurosawa. His work on film, television, and popular culture has appeared in journals such as Asian Cinema and The International Journal of Comic Art, and in edited collections such as Fear Without Frontiers and Doctor Who and History: Critical Essays on Imagining the Past.  As a popular culture scholar, he has also appeared on KPBS, San Diego’s local public radio and television station. He has delivered presentations on topics ranging from manga theory to the history of robot anime at conferences of professional academic organizations such as the Popular Culture Association and the Pacific Ancient and Modern Language Association.

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