Media Interviews and Invited Talks

Daiwa Anglo-Japanese Foundation Book Launch, Zoom lecture, January 25, 2023.
“The Last Samurai (2003): Series 1 Finale with Thomas and Heather of Japan Archives,” Japanese History Hidden in Our Screens podcast, August 26, 2022.
“Seven Samurai with Vincent Kenny,” Japanese History Hidden in Our Screens podcast, July 29, 2022.
“‘Our Spirit Against Their Steel’–Japanese Popular Culture Goes to War,” Nissan Seminar, University of Oxford, November 26, 2021.
Huskie Spotlight, November 2021.
The Finch Show podcast, November 2, 2020.
"Japanese 'Cult' Artist Tetsuya Ishida depicts Japan's Relentless Conformism and Technology's Control at Wrightwood 659," Chicago Tribune November 12, 2019.
"Jazzing Up Japan," The Music of Time, BBC World Service, February 24, 2018.
"A Tune Heard Often at These Olympics Gets to the Heart of Being Korean," New York Times February 22, 2018.
"A Second Home in Hikone – Dr. Taylor Atkins, 2017 JCMU Symposium," JCMU Official Blog, November 1, 2016.
AHA Member Spotlight, Perspectives on History, September 12, 2014.
“E. Taylor Atkins, Christopher Jones, Pam Smith named 2013 Presidential Teaching Professors,” NIU Today, April 16, 2013.
Keynote address, Rhythm Changes II: Jazz Cultures and European Identities conference, Salford and Manchester, United Kingdom, April 12, 2013.
"How Japan Came to Love Jazz," A Blog Supreme, National Public Radio, April 30, 2014.
Interview about jazz historiography at All About Jazz, January 13, 2014.
Interview about "Jazz Abroad" on The New Jazz Archive, June 17, 2012.
Interview about Primitive Selves on New Books in East Asian Studies podcast, May 15, 2012.
Podcast of my Korea Society lecture on “Arirang”, November 6, 2007.

E. Taylor Atkins

Contact

E. Taylor Atkins, Ph.D.

NIU College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
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815-753-7969

NIU Department of History
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815-753-6699

etatkins@niu.edu