Presentations

  • “Becoming a Courtier in Heian Japan: Simulating Subjectivity in Epistolary Exchange.” AAS-in-Asia Conference. Daegu, South Korea. Conference Paper, Refereed, Accepted, 01/16/2023.
  • “The Sound of a Nation: History, Listening, and the Politics of Conservation in 100 Soundscapes of Japan.” Association for Japanese Literary Studies Annual Conference. University of Pittsburgh. Conference Paper, Refereed, Accepted, 01/09/2023.
  • "Raucous Rhythms: The Audiopolitics of Medieval Japanese Folk Music." International Society for Ethnology and Folklore (SIEF) 2021 Congress. Helsinki, Finland (online). Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 06/19/2021.
    https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/sief2021/paper/59...
  • “‘The Realm Beyond Our Senses’: Sensation and Renunciation in The Tale of Genji.” AAS-in-Asia. Kobe, Japan. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 09/02/2020.
  • “Scholars and Performers in Heian Japan: Addressing Commoners in Fujiwara no Akihira’s Writings.” Performances of Learning and Power in Premodern Cultures (PAIXUE). University of Edinburgh. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 12/2019.
  • “Animate Objects: Kemari as Symbolic Pursuit in Early Medieval Japan.” AAS Annual Conference. Denver, CO. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 03/2019.
  • “Contexts of Ephemerality: Imayō Between Text and Performance.” AAS Annual Conference. Toronto, Canada. Conference Paper, Refereed, Presented, 03/2017.
  • “‘The Age of the Crowd’: Folk Performance and the Politics of Culture in Early Medieval Japan.” East Asia Center, Indiana University. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 03/25/2016.
  • “Folk Performance and the Acoustic Ecology of Medieval Japan.” Textures of Sound: Orality, Performance, and the Visual Arts in Premodern Japan. Jōsai University. Invited Talk/Keynote, Presented, 01/14/2016.

Grants, Contracts & Research Gifts

Languages

  • Chinese, functional.
  • Japanese, fluent.
  • Old Japanese, fluent.

Geographical Regions of Interest

  • Japan

Publications

  • Ashton Lazarus (2018). Folk Performance as Transgression: The Great Dengaku of 1096. Journal of Japanese Studies. Vol. 44:1, 1–23. Published, 01/2018.
    https://doi.org/10.1353/jjs.2018.0000
  • Ashton Lazarus (2014). Envisioning Difference: Social Typology and Exhaustive Listing in Fujiwara no Akihira’s An Account of the New Monkey Music. Proceedings of the Association of Japanese Literary Studies. Vol. 15, 89–101. Published, 10/2014.
  • Ashton Lazarus (2019). Review of Monsters, Animals, and Other Worlds: A Collection of Short Medieval Japanese Tales, edited by Keller Kimbrough and Haruo Shirane. (pp. 405–407). Vol. 39:3. Japanese Studies. Published, 08/2019.
    https://doi.org/10.1080/10371397.2019.1651616
  • Ashton Lazarus (2018). Review of Itineraries of Power: Texts and Traversals in Heian and Medieval Japan, by Terry Kawashima. (pp. 180–81). Vol. 81:1. Bulletin of the School of Oriental and African Studies. Published, 02/2018.
    https://doi.org/10.1017/S0041977X1800040X