August 26, 2007.  Workshop for Japanese Language Teachers
"How to promote successful learning of Japanese as a FL: Tips from recent studies in vocabulary learning and grammar"
(Invited Speaker: Dr. Yukiko Hatasa, University of Iowa).

March 31, 2007: National Japanese Speech Contest

March 3, 2007: Japanese Odori Dance Performance (Calgary).

February 28, 2007: Japanese Odori Dance Workshop "Japanese Odori Dance: Performance Tradition, Costume, and Makeup" (Broadcast via the Sony videoconference system to the University of Calgary, the University of Lethbridge, and the University of Victoria).

February 27, 2007: Japanese Odori Dance Performance (Edmonton).

February 13 & 15, 2007: Public Lectures

1) ‘Ro-zome: Japanese Textile Traditions Revisited'
(presenter: Dr. Marlene Cox-Bishop, University of Alberta)

2) 'Inappropriate Appropriation: Forced Exoticism, Unwarranted Orientalism in "Memoirs of a Geisha"'
(presenter: Dr. Tim Iles, University of Victoria).