ICC News
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ICC Lecture announcement
A Migrant Chinese Dream?: China’s Inbound Skilled Migration in the Era of Sinocentric Globalization
James Farrer
Date: 23rd May, 2019 (Thu)
Time: 19:00-20:30
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
‘Welcome Refugees’: A Case Study on Community Mobilisation and Advocacy in the UK
Carlos Gigoux
Date: 18th April, 2019 (Thu)
Time: 19:00-20:30
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
How We Came to Think About Terrorism: A Conceptual History
Julian Bourg
Date: 23rd April, 2019 (Tue)
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
Tokyo Jukujo: Middle-aged Sex Workers in Contemporary Japan
Chiaki Nishijima
Date: 22nd April, 2019 (Mon)
Time: 19:00-20:30
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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New ICC Director/ Vice Director from April 2019
Director: Professor Michio Hayashi (Art History, FLA)
Vice Director: Associate Professor Takehiro (Tak) Watanabe (Anthropology, FLA)
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ICC Lecture announcement
Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Middle Powers Amidst Global Power Shifts
Volker Stanzel
Date: 16th April, 2019 (Tue)
Time: 19:00-20:30
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
The Taiwan Expedition and new perspectives on Japanese imperialism and the Meiji Restoration
Robert Eskildsen
Date: 17 January, 2019 (Thu)
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
The “petto buumu” and pet paraphernalia: Reflections on the business of pet animals in Tokugawa Japan
Margarita Winkel
Date: 10 January, 2019 (Thu)
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
‘I take on my reader’s nationality’: French response to Japanese literature in a Global Age
Justyna Weronika Kasza
Date: 5 December, 2018 (Wed)
Time: 13:00-14:30
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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International Symposium
Intersections: Fan Studies in Conversation in Japan
Organizers: Lori Morimoto, Nele Noppe and Patrick W. Galbraith
Date: 16 December, 2018 (Sun)
Time: 10:00-19:30
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 2, Rm 17021
Language: English / No registration necessary
This symposium is hosted by Prof. David H. SLATER for the ICC Research unit "Digital Social Science and Oral Narrative Research"
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ICC Lecture announcement
Japan's changing roles in the construction of East Asia's regional order
Pablo Pareja-Alcaraz
Date: 15 November, 2018 (Thu)
Time: 18：30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Workshop announcement (Sophia Open Research Week)
Wine in Japan: Wineries, Wine Tourism and the Development of an Agricultural Society
(日本におけるワイン―ワイナリー、ワインツーリズムと農村社会の発展)
Wang Chuanfei, Miyuki Takeuchi, Kanbayashi Soichiro
Date: 18 November, 2018 (Sun)
Time: 10：30-12:30
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: Japanese / No translation/ no registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Globalizing/De-provincializing the critique of heterosexuality
Stevi Jackson
Date: 8 November, 2018 (Thu)
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 Open Research Week)
Blood Runs Through It: The Indeterminate World of Loyalty in Medieval Warrior Society
Hitomi Tonomura
Date: 19 November, 2018 (Mon)
Time: 18：00-19：30
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Special Lecture announcement (Sophia Open Research Week)
"The Ongoing History of 'Japan at War: An Oral History'"
Haruko Taya Cook and Theodore Cook
Date: 10 November, 2018 (Sat)
Time: 14:00-17:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Economic experiences of South Manchuria Railway employees in postwar Japan, 1945-1956
Sumiyo Nishizaki
Date: 19 October, 2018 (Fri)
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
Pheasants Over Raptors:Japanese Zoologists Rebuilding International Connections in Occupation-Era Japan
Annika A. Culver
Date: 19 July, 2018 (Thu)
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
Eugenic thought and reproductive politics in modern Japan
Alison J. Darby
Date: 17 July, 2018 (Tue)
Time: 18:00-19:30
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Gender, Labor, and Justice in Japan's Adult Video Industry
Akiko Takeyama
Date: 13 July, 2018 (Fri)
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
Culinary capital, taste and the foodies: food-based social distinction in Finland
Taru Lindblom
Date: 12 July, 2018 (Thu)
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Film screening and discussion announcement
Boys for Sale (売買ボーイズ)
Ian Thomas Ash (Film producer)
Date: 6 July, 2018 (Fri)
Time: 18:45-20:30 (approx)
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 2, 3F, Rm 309
Language: Film in Japanese with English subtitles
Discussion: English
No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
“Mothers Against War”: Gender, Motherhood, and Peace Activism in Postwar Japan
Akiko Takenaka
Date: 29 June, 2018 (Fri)
Time: 19:00-20:30
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Just Good Business:How Social Enterprises Negotiate the Dual Pressures of Market and Mission
Emily Barman
Date: 3 July, 2018 (Tue)
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
Why is Colonialism Over? Field Theory, Global Change, and the Subaltern Effect
Julian Go
Date: 2 July, 2018 (Mon)
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
Radiation Stories: Animals Voices after 3.11
Doug Slaymaker
Date: 8 June, 2018 (Fri)
Time: 19:00-20:30
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Nazi Racism and Japanese-German Intermarriages. How Foreign and Racial Policy clashed during the Nazi Era
Christian W. Spang
Date: 26 June, 2018 (Tue)
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
Dual Legacies: MAVO, Manga, and the Avant-Garde in Interwar Japan
Andrea Horbinski
Date: 15 June, 2018 (Fri)
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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Symposium announcement
Robots and Artificial Intelligence in Contemporary Japanese Society
This one-day symposium will be held at Sophia University in Tokyo. The primary language will be English; no simultaneous translation will be provided
Date: 10 June, 2018 (Sun)
Time: 10:00-17:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
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ICC Lecture announcement
Precarity and Healing in Japanese Animal Cafes
Amanda S. Robinson
Date: 30 May, 2018 (Wed)
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
大塩平八郎を考える―与力・文人・武士―
(Study of Oshio Heihachiro as a yoriki, bunjin, and bushi)
Yabuta Yutaka
Date: 12 June, 2018 (Tue)
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: Japanese / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Making Hygienic Modernity Visible: Knowledge Translation, Everyday Life, and Taiwan in Asia’s “Colonial Modern”
Hui-yu Caroline TS'AI
Date: 7 June, 2018 (Thu)
Time: 17:00-18:15
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
“Are Americans Crazy? What the Trump administration means for U.S. relations with Japan, China, and Korea”
Christopher Jespersen
Date: 16, May, 2018 (Wed)
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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