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ICC Workshop announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Research Unit "Japanese Literature in Motion" presents a workshop on
Trajectories of ‘Japanese’ Texts in the Early Twentieth Century
Date: Mar. 8 (Sat), 2014
Time: 13:00-17:30
Venue: Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Social Fragmentation and Sustainability in Palestinian Communities:
Resilience and Uncertainty in Everyday Life
Dr. Joshua RICKARD
Date: Mar. 3 (Mon), 2014
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Emotions: Are They the Key to Culture?
James M. Jasper, Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Date: Jan. 14 (Tue), 2014
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University, Building 2, 5F, Rm 508
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
"It's Time to Give back!": Competitive Charity in Today's Global Yoga
Anne Koch, University of Munich
Date: Jan. 9 (Thu), 2014
Time: 17:30-19:00
Venue: Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Office Closure
ICC office will be closed during the Christmas holiday and the new year holiday. (ICC office will be open half day on December 26 and 27.) We will be back with our usual working hours of 10 am to 5 pm from January 6th, 2014.
We thank you for your kind support during the year and wish you a merry Christmas and a happy new year.
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ICC Lecture announcement
Institute of Comparative Culture Research Unit "Postcolonial Asian Cities" presents
Urbanizing China in War and Peace: Wuxi County, 1911-1945
Toby Lincoln, Centre for Urban History, University of Leicester
Date: Dec. 12 (Thu), 2013
Time: 17:30-19:00
Venue: Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Making Tea, Making Japan: Cultural Nationalism in Practice
Kristin Surak, Senior Lecturer in Japanese Politics at SOAS, University of London
Date: Dec. 13 (Fri), 2013
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Twenty-One Haiku Lessons from The Book of Tea
Michael Dylan Welch, Vice president of the Haiku Society of America
Date: Dec. 2 (Mon), 2013
Time: 17:30-19:00
Venue: Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Fatherhood and Consumption: An Exploratory Study of Soon-to-be Fathers in Japan
Florian Kohlbacher, German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) Tokyo
Date: Dec. 9 (Mon), 2013
Time: 18:00-19:30
Venue: Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Takeshima and Shimane Prefecture
Alexander Bukh, Senior Lecturer, Victoria University, Wellington
Date: Dec. 5 (Thu), 2013
Time: 17:30-19:00
Venue: Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
From Private to Public: Portrait Photography and Changing Social Mores in Late Meiji Japan
Karen M. Fraser, Assistant Professor, Department of Art & Art History, Santa Clara University / ICC Visiting Fellow
Date: Nov. 25 (Mon), 2013
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Hand-fisted Piety: Christian militias in the Minahasa
Laurens Bakker, Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies
Institute of Sociology of Law, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands
Date: Nov. 19 (Tue), 2013
Time: 17:15-18:45
Venue: Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Intercultural Theatre and Acting in a Global Age: an alternative view
Phillip Zarrilli, founding Artistic Director of The Llanarth Group
Professor of Performance Practice in the Drama Department at Exeter University
Date: Nov. 15 (Fri), 2013
Time: 18:00-19:30
Venue: Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Institute of Comparative Culture Research Unit "Postcolonial Asian Cities" presents
Angry Ghosts: 1900's Boxer Crisis as Global History
Jeff WASSERSTROM, Chancellor's Professor of History, U.C. Irvine
Date: Oct. 31 (Thu), 2013
Time: 17:30-19:00
Venue: Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
“Brazil in the Global Crisis Context”
José Marcos DOMINGUES, Professor of Law, Rio de Janeiro State University
Associate Professor. Petrópolis Catholic University (Rio de Janeiro)
Date: Oct. 14 (Mon), 2013
Time: 17:15-18:45
Venue: Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC and CIEE co-hosts a screening of a film
"Girl Rising"
The message is simple: educate girls and you will change the world
Date: Oct. 11 (Fri), 2013
Time: 17:15-
Venue: Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Research Unit 3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity cooperating with New Zealand Asia Institute
Co-organizing an international conference on Japanese Responses to Social Crisis and Disaster 1995 and 2011 on Friday 13 September and Saturday 14 September 2013 at New Zealand Asia Institute, the University of Auckland
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture in cooperation with the Sasakawa Peace Foundation and the NPO “DSIA (Durable Social Innovation Alliance)”presents
Microfinance and BOP in India:
The Importance for Indian Inclusive Development and Internship Opportunities for Japanese Students
Mr. Prem Das Rai,Member of Parliament in the 15th Lok Sabha (elected directly by people) Lower House of Indian Parliament (representing Sikkim State)
Date: September 9 (Mon), 2013
Time: 13:30-15:00
Venue: Sophia University, Building 12, 2F, Rm 202
Language: English
For those who are interested in attending the presentation, please send your name, affiliation and status to seminar@dsia.or.jp
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ICC Office Closure
ICC office will be closed from August 12 through August 23, 2013. We wish you a wonderful summer holiday.
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
“Realists” versus “Idealists”:
Ideological Struggles in Japan's Intellectual Field of the 1960s in the Light of the Debate on Sartre's "A Plea for Intellectuals"
Simone Müller, University of Zurich
Date: July 11 (Thu), 2013
Time: 17:00-19:00
Venue: Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Workshop announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
3.11 Memorialization: 3.11 as Trauma, Ritual and Representation Public Memory, Art and History
Organized by ICC Research Unit on 3.11 as Crisis and Opportunities
Date: June 28 (Fri) and July 1 (Mon)
Time: 13:00-17:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg 10 3F, Rm 301
Language: English (No translation)
No registration necessary
This symposium is partially funded by Toyota Foundation.
Download program(PDF) from here
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ICC Syposium announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Travelling Cuisines: Culinary Politics and Transnational Foodways in and out of Asia
Organized by ICC Research Unit on Globalization, food and social identity in the Asia Pacific
Date: June 22 (Sat), 2013
Time: 9:30-18:00
Venue: Sophia University, Library Bldg, 9F, Rm 911
Language: English (No translation)
No registration necessary
This symposium is funded by Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research.
Download program(PDF) from here
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Beyond ‘the West’ and ‘the East: Occidentalism, Orientalism, and Self-Orientalism in Italy-Japan Relations
Toshio MIYAKE,Marie Curie Researcher at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice / ICC Visiting Fellow
Date: July 5 (Fri), 2013
Time: 17:30-19:00
Venue: Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Imaging Disaster: Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923
Gennifer Weisenfeld,Professor of Modern Japanese Art History and Visual Culture, Duke University
Date: June 26 (Wed), 2013
Time: 18:00-19:30
Venue: Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Organized by ICC 3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity Research Unit
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Human Security Studies: Building a More Humane World
Sorpong PEOU, Professor and Chair, Department of Politics, University of Winnipeg
Date: May 27 (Mon), 2013
Time: 17:00-18:30
Venue: Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
How Tokyo Invented Sushi
Jordan Sand, Associate Professor of Japanese History and Culture, Georgetown University
Date: May 10 (Fri), 2013
Time: 18:00-19:30
Venue: Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Syposium announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Women and Networks in Nineteenth Century Japan
Organized by ICC Network Studies Research Group
Date: June 8 (Sat), 2013
Time: 10:00-17:45
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg 12, 1F, Rm 102
Language: English and Japanese (No translation)
No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Mothers, Daughters and Sex: Negotiating young women’s sexuality in British and Hong Kong families
Stevi Jackson, Professor of Women’s Studies and Director of the Centre for Women’s Studies at the University of York, UK
Date: May 21 (Tue), 2013
Time: 17:30-19:00
Venue: Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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New online publication
Institute of Comparative Culture is happy to announce the ICC Working Paper Series No. 7 is published online.
Silent Dialogue and "Teaism":
A New Perspective on European Missionaries' Experiences of the Way of Tea 茶道 in Late Sixteenth-Century Japan
Dr. Frances N. Hioki
Click here to download.
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
After Exile: Cuban Diaspora, Revolutionary Nostalgia and Global Tourism
Ruth BEHAR, Victor Haim Perera Collegiate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan
Date: April 19 (Fri), 2013
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University, Library, 9F, Rm 912
Language: English / No registration necessary
This lecture is co-hosted by ICC, Graduate School of Global Studies and the Institute of American and Canadian Studies
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ICC workshop announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
The Challenges of Highly Skilled Migration in Asia and the Pacific
Organized by ICC Multicultural Asia Research Group
Date: March 6, 2013
Time: 9:45 – 17:30
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English
No registration necessary
This workshop is supported by The International Metropolis Project
A program of this workshop can be downloaded from here.
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
A Disease Apart: Hansen’s Disease, Eugenics and Public Health, in Modern Japan
Michael Weiner, Professor of East Asian History and International Studies, Soka University of America
Date: March 1 (Fri), 2013
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Winter break information
ICC office will be closed from December 22nd,2012 to January 7th, 2013.
Best wishes from ICC for the year of the snake!
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ICC Online resources information
Following videos from ICC lectures and workshop are now online.
・Mammas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Samurai by Dr. David Howell
・China’s Development Prospect beyond the Middle-Income Level by Dr. Ding Lu
・Networks in Premodern and Early Modern Japan: the fifth workshop of the ICC research group "Network Studies"
Collection of syllabus introduced at "Teaching 3.11" workshop organized by ”3.11 as Crisis and Opportunities" research group is now available from this webpage.
・Teaching 3.11 Syllabi Collection
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ICC co-hosts a screening of a 3.11 related film
"3.11: In the Moment" (2011)
with Kyoko GASHA, Film Director, Journalist, Sophia alumna
Date: Nov.23 (Fri), 2012
Time: 17:00-19:50 (Talk by Gasha followed by the film and a Q and A session)
Venue: Library Bldg 8F, Rm 821
Language: Japanese Film is subtitled in English / No registration necessary
This event is supported by ICC "3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity" Research Unit
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Post-3.11 and the Arts of Catastrophe
Marilyn Ivy, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University
Date: Nov.27 (Tue), 2012
Time: 17:00-18:30
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
This talk is organized by ICC "3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity" Research Unit
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture and Institute of American and Canadian Studies presents
Making De-Racialized and Pathologically Racial Bodies and Minds: U.S. Television and Print News Coverage of Health Issues
Charles L. Briggs, Professor of Folklore and Anthropology, University of California Berkeley
Date: Dec.7 (Fri), 2012
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
On the Beginnings of Media and Communication Studies: Theories of the Press and Its Social Function in Prewar Japan
Fabian Schäfer, The University Research Priority Program (URPP) Asia and Europe of the University of Zurich
Date: Dec.5 (Wed), 2012
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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Sophia Research Organization Festival announcement
Date: Oct. 31 (Wed), 2012
Time: 12:30-19:00 (overall)
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg 2, 17F
ICC Research Unit Network Studies will present about their project
(From 12:40-13:00 at 2-1702). And Prof. Slater will be a panelist in a panel discussion on Tohoku's recovery after 3.11 (15:50-17:50).
And there will be a poster session on Prof. Watanabe's 2009 Research Unit Cultures of Debt (Poster number P11)
A program of this year's Research Organization Festival can be downloaded from here.
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ICC workshop announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Networks in Premodern and Early Modern Japan
Organized by ICC Network Studies Research Group
Date: Oct. 20 (Sat), 2012
Time: 13:30-17:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English
No registration necessary
This is the fifth workshop organized by the Network Studies research unit.
Program of this event can be downloaded from here.
Videos of the prior workshops are available at the following URL
http://www.erp.sophia.ac.jp/Projects/ocw/research/comparativeculture.html
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
China’s Development Prospect beyond the Middle-Income Level
Ding LU, University of the Fraser Valley, Canada
Date: Oct. 8 (Mon), 2012
Time: 17:00-18:30
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Summer holiday Schedule
ICC office will be closed from August 11, 2012 to August 26, 2012.
We thank you all for the support given to us in the past months and hope you will be with us in the coming semester as well.
ATTENTION!:Due to equipment maintenance work, ICC server will be shut down during the weekend of August 25 and 26. During that time you will not be able to access our web page. We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause you.
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Teaching 3.11 compiled syllabus
Compiled syllabus (PDF) from the workshop Teaching 3.11 can be downloaded from here now
Orginized by 3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity Research Group
For event schedule, click HERE
Bios of the participants Page one: Page two
This event has been made possible by the funding from Japan Foundation
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ICC Workshop announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Contemporary Japanese Art After 1990:
The Representation and the Identity of the Japanese Artists in the Global Context
For event flyer, click HERE
Date: July 8 (Sun), 2012
Time: 14:00-17:00
Venue: Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English with some Japanese / No registration necessary
This event has been made possible by the funding from the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation
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ICC Workshop announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Teaching 3.11: Issues, Materials, Pedagogy and Research
Orginized by 3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity Research Group
For event flyer, click HERE
Bios of the participants Page one: Page two
Date: June 29 (Fri), 2012
Time: 10:00-17:30
Venue: Sophia University, Library, 9F, Rm 921
Language: English with some Japanese / No registration necessary
This event has been made possible by the funding from Japan Foundation
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ICC Lectures in May and June
May 29: "What Is the K in K-Pop?" by John Lie
June 1: "Mammas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Samurai" by David Howell
June 5: "Assessing the Place of Religion in Recent Japanese Disaster Responses" by Levi McLaughlin
June 15: "Polyvocality of Cherry Blossoms from Yamato-Damashii to Fukushima: Communicative Opacity in Political Spaces" by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
June 21: "An Other Other? The Qur’ān, Islam, and Religious Identity in Modern Japan" by Hans Martin Krämer
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
An Other Other? The Qur’ān, Islam, and Religious Identity in Modern Japan
Hans Martin Krämer, Ruhr University Bochum
Date: June 21 (Thu), 2012
Time: 17:30-19:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Polyvocality of Cherry Blossoms from Yamato-Damashii to Fukushima: Communicative Opacity in Political Spaces
Orginized by 3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity Research Group
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
Date: June 15 (Fri), 2012
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
This is the fourth event organized by 3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity Research Group. They will organize workshops/events over the course of this year.
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Assessing the Place of Religion in Recent Japanese Disaster Responses
Orginized by 3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity Research Group
Levi McLaughlin
Date: June 5 (Tue), 2012
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg 2, 5F, Rm 510
Language: English / No registration necessary
This is the third event organized by 3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity Research Group. They will organize workshops/events over the course of this year.
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Mammas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Samurai
David L. Howell, Harvard University
Date: June 1 (Fri), 2012
Time: 17:30-19:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
What Is the K in K-Pop?
John Lie, University of California, Berkeley
Date: May 29 (Tue), 2012
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
This Machine Kills Nuclear Power Plants: The Music of Resistance in Post-Fukushima Japan
Orginized by 3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity Research Group
Date: April 27 (Fri), 2012
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English
No registration necessary
This is the Second event organized by 3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity Research Group. They will organize workshops/events over the course of this year.
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
FUKUSHIMA COLOURS--Voices of Sustainability after March 11th, 2011
Short film, reading and discussion
Orginized by 3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity Research Group
Date: April 13 (Fri), 2012
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English
No registration necessary
This is the first event organized by 3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity Research Group. They will organize workshops/events over the course of this year.
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ICC workshop announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Networks in Early Modern Japan (4)
Organized by ICC Network Studies Research Group
Date: April 14 (Sat), 2012
Time: 13:30-17:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English
No registration necessary
This is the fourth workshop organized by the Network Studies research unit.
Program of this event can be downloaded from here.
Videos of the prior workshops are available at the following URL
http://www.erp.sophia.ac.jp/Projects/ocw/research/comparativeculture.html
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