ICC News
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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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ICC Lecture announcement
Japan’s Modern Castles in War and Peace
Oleg Benesch
Date: 14, March, 2018 (Wed)
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
Non-Profit-Education: Career Guidance at Municipal Senior High Schools
Vincent B. Lesch
Date: 1, March, 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 International Symposium announcement
Digital Humanities and Databases
This symposium is organized by ICC Research Unit "Network Studies" (Lead investigator: Bettina Gramlich-Oka).
Detailed program is available here:
https://www.network-studies.org/api/containers/container/download/DH_Symposium_2018.pdf
Date: 16, March, 2018 (Fri)
Time: 10:00-17:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 2, 4F, Rm 409
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Forgetting through Remembering: World War II Memorials and Tourism
Karl Ian Uy Cheng Chua
Date: 8, February, 2018 (Thu)
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
Tokyo Roji: The Diversity and Versatility of Alleys in a City in Transition
Heide Imai
Date: 24 January, 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 Panel Discussion announcement
One year after the Women’s March
A panel discussion on activism and engaging women in policy and politics
Date: 22 January, 2018 (Mon)
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 Challenge of Globalization to Japan’s Food Producers
Yohei Matsunobu
Date: 18 January, 2018 (Thu)
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: Japanese with English translation / No registration necessary
This talk is organized by ICC research unit Global Japanese Cuisine Project (https://www.global-japanese-cuisine.org/)
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ICC Lecture announcement
The Invitation-Only Zone (招待所という名の収容所):The True Story of North Korea's Abduction Project
Robert S. Boynton
Date: 9 January, 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
Visualising Fieldwork: encounters, convivialities, and semiotics of visual ethnography in Tokyo
Jamie Coates
Date: 6 December, 2017 (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
Fukushima Devil Fish: Katsumata Susumu's Antinuclear Manga
Ryan Holmberg
Date: 11 December, 2017 (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
Study in America, Work in Tokyo: Female Exchange Students Make Progress in 1960s Japan
Alisa Freedman
Date: 8 December, 2017 (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
From Ikumen to Ikuboss: Family-Company Relationship in Post-Bubble Japan
Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni
Date: 29 November, 2017 (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
The Conservative Imaginary: Moral Re-Armament and the Transwar Politics of the Japanese Right
Reto Hofmann
Date: 28 November, 2017 (Tue)
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University Library. 8F, Rm L-821
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
The Japanese Culture of Higher Education in Science
Yoshiro Azuma
Date: 22 November, 2017 (Wed)
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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Sophia Open Research Week: ICC Lecture announcement
Wine Tourism as a Cultural Experience: The Cases of the Japanese and Chinese “Wine World”
Chuanfei Wang
Date: 17 November, 2017 (Fri)
Time: 17:00-19:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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Sophia Open Research Week: ICC Lecture announcement
The Globalization of Japanese Gastronomy: Examining Culinary Mobilities on a Global Scale
James Farrer, David Wank, Christian Hess, Chuanfei Wang, Lenka Vylet'alová, Mônica R. de Carvalho
Date: 16 November, 2017 (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
Imamura Taihei and the Problem of Japanese Film Theory
Aaron Gerow
Date: 8 November, 2017 (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
Kataribe: cultural practice of storytelling in post-disaster Tohoku
Flavia Fulco
Date: 7 November, 2017 (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
Tsuizen: Rites and Relics in Sakai Hôitsu’s 1815 Korin Revival
Richard Wilson
Date: 30 October, 2017 (Mon)
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
Internationalization of Higher Education in Japan: English Medium Instruction and a Call for Transnational Japanese Campuses
Jim McKinley
Date: 27 October, 2017 (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
The Long Defeat: Cultural Trauma, Memory and Identity in Japan
Akiko Hashimoto
Date: 26 October, 2017 (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 Good, the Sad, and the Funny: Morality and Affect in Japanese Picturebooks
Heather Blair
Date: 12 October, 2017 (Thu)
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
From Fukushima to Katrina: Furukawa Hideo and the Regionality of Disaster Literature
Rachel DiNitto
Date: 21 July, 2017 (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
Is your lifestyle out of stock? Consumption patterns convergence in East Asia
Ana María GOY YAMAMOTO
Date: 17 July, 2017 (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
“… and my heart screams”: Children and the War of Emotions
Sabine Frühstück
Date: 20 July, 2017 (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
TSUKIJI WONDERLAND
(2016, Director: Naotaro ENDO /In Japanese with English subtitles)
Date: 14 Jul, 2017 (Fri)
Time: 19:00-21:20 (approx.)
Venue: Sophia University, Building 2, 4F, Rm 414
The director of the film, Mr. Naotaro Endo and Dr. Theodore C. Bestor of Harvard University, an author of the book 'Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World' will be joining the discussion.
Free of charge / No registration necessary
This screening was made possible by the kind permission of Shochiku Co. Ltd.
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ICC/Japan Focus Workshop announcement
Contemporary Crisis in the Asia-Pacific
Date: 1 July, 2017 (Sat)
Time: 12:00-18:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301 and 407
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture CANCELLED
Due to speaker's schedule, this talk had to be cancelled.
Redefining Japaneseness: Japanese Americans in the Ancestral Homeland (book talk)
Jane H. Yamashiro
Date: 30 June, 2017 (Fri)
Time: 17:00-18:30
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
The Mud Man and a Woman of the Butcher Shop: Body and Materiality in Yamashiro Chikako's Video Art
Ayelet Zohar
Date: 13 July, 2017 (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
Kannon by the Numbers:Locating Lost Image Alliances in Japan
Sherry D. Fowler
Date: 22 June, 2017 (Thu)
Time: 17:30-19:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Film screening and discussion announcement
SAYAMA: Till the Invisible Handcuffs are Unlocked
(みえない手錠をはずすまで)
(2013, Director: Kim Sung Woong /In Japanese with English subtitles)
Date: 9 Jul, 2017 (Sun)
Time: 18:00-20:00 (approx.)
Venue: Sophia University, Building 2, 4F, Rm 414
Free of charge / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Chefs, Trends, and Tastes at the World’s Best Restaurants and Beyond
Crystyl Mo
Date: 5 June, 2017 (Mon)
Time: 18:00-19:30
Venue: Room 301, 3F, Bldg.10, Sophia University Yotsuya Campus
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
The Brothers Kurosawa
Paul Anderer
Date: 9 June, 2017 (Fri)
Time: 17:00-18:30
Venue: Room L-821. 8F, Library, Sophia University Yotsuya Campus
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Japan Fieldwork Workshop schedule is being re-considered.
Please check back to see the finalized schdule.
We apologize for the confusion.→The schedule for this talk has been decided (June 20)
Kizuna: The dynamics of social ties in post-disaster Japan
Julia Gerster (Ph.D. Candidate at the Graduate School of East Asian Studies (GEAS), Free University Berlin)
Date: 14 July, 2017 (Fri)
Time: 18:30-20:00 (approx.)
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
15:00‐ 16:30 (approx.) / July 15 (Sat), 2017 / Sophia University Bldg. 10, 3F, Room 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Film screening and discussion announcement
Tito’s Glasses (Titos Brille) directed by Regina Schilling
(2014, 90 min., in German, Italian and Croatian with English subtitles)
Date: 6 Jun, 2017 (Tue)
Time: 18:00-20:00 (approx.)
Venue: Sophia University, Library, 9F, Rm 921
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Famous Objects: Agency and Materiality in the Collection of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616)
Morgan Pitelka
Date: 25 May, 2017 (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
Coffee Web: Remapping the Movements of People, Objects, and Knowledge across Asia-Pacific
Mariko Iijima
Date: 29 May, 2017 (Mon)
Time: 17:00-18:30
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Repetition and Recovery: The Limits of Reason in Post 3.11 Japan
Michael Fisch
Date: 22 May, 2017 (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
What was sacred in Japan’s “sacred war”?: the boundaries of the sacred and profane in wartime kamishibai
Sharalyn Orbaugh
Date: 11 May, 2017 (Thu)
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
Young urban migrants in the Japanese countryside between hope and precarity
Susanne Klien
Date: 18 May, 2017 (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
News, the Media, Entertainment, Information and Fakery
David Schlesinger
Date: 21 April, 2017 (Fri)
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC with The Asian Rural Institute (Presentation followed by open discussion)
Learning from the Past, Visioning a sustainable future
Moderator:Sarajean Rossitto, Nonprofit NGO consultant
Panelists:
・Tomoko Arakawa, ARI Director
・Steven Cutting, Graduate Impact Study Co-Coordinator Asian Rural Institute
・Bev Abma, Board Director, American Friends of the Asian Rural Institute; Emeritus Board Director, Foods Resource Bank
Commentator:Prof. David Slater, Sophia University
Date: 20 April, 2017 (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
Hate Speech and the Gendered Burden of Care: Anti-Discrimination Politics in Japan
Vivian Shaw
Date: 21 March, 2017 (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
Translationscapes: On the Legibility of Transnational Ideologies in World Literary Systems
Jordan A. Y. Smith
Date: 31 January, 2017 (Tue)
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University, Library, 8F, Rm 821
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Worshop announcement
Workshop: Deep Mapping Shanghai’s Culinary Neighborhoods
Anna Greenspan
Date: 24 January, 2017 (Tue)
Time: 16:30-18:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Public Lecture: Moveable Feasts: Street Food in the 21st Century City
Anna Greenspan
Date: 23 January, 2017 (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
THE INSENTIENT COMPANION: Some Thoughts on Dolls, Robots, and Significant Otherness, Sacred and Profane
Fabio Gygi
Date: 19 January, 2017 (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
Reflections on a Period of Transition, Volatility, and Change in the Global System
Yves Tiberghien
Date: 5 December, 2016 (Mon)
Time: 17:00-18:30
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
ICT and the Drive to Reform Japanese Education
Gerald K. LeTendre
Date: 16 December, 2016 (Fri)
Time: 17:00-18:30
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Of Matter, Spirits, and Places: Japanese Discourses on The Bodies of the Shinto Divinities (Kami)
Fabio Rambelli
Date: 15 December, 2016 (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
Immigrant Kinship Groups and the Making of the Tenjukoku Shūchō Mandara
Chari Pradel
Date: 1 December, 2016 (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
“Art of the People:” Manga Defined through History, c. 1920
Miriam Wattles
Date: 8 December, 2016 (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 for Sophia Open Research Week
The Holy Relics of Ananda and the Dragon Girl’s Jewel: As Depicted in the Honpō-ji Lotus Sūtra Mandala
Shizuko Haraguchi
Date: 21 November, 2016 (Mon)
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
This lecture is organized by the ICC Collaborative Research Unit "Materialities of the Sacred"
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ICC Lecture for Sophia Open Research Week
Author as Ultimate Authority: Checking My Translations with Murakami and Sōseki
Jay Rubin
Date: 11 November, 2016 (Fri)
Time: 17:00-18:30
Venue: Sophia University, Library, 9F, Rm 921
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Gender and Needlecraft in Early Modern Japan
Christine Guth
Date: 24 October, 2016 (Mon)
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
This lecture is organized by the ICC Collaborative Research Unit "Materialities of the Sacred"
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ICC Lecture announcement
Buddhism and the Transformation of Old Age in Medieval Japan
Edward Drott
Date: 17 October, 2016 (Mon)
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
Trans-Asia as method
Koichi Iwabuchi
Date: 14 October, 2016 (Fri)
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University, Library, 8F, Rm 821
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Special Discussion announcement
Dokdo/Takeshima Territorial Dispute and Social Activism in Japan and Korea
Alexander Bukh and Nils Clauss
Date: October 3, 2016 (Mon)
Time: 18:30-20:30 (Approx.)
Venue: Sophia University,Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Development of Transitional Economy under Economic Globalization: The case of Vietnam
Nguyen Viet Khoi
Date: 28 July, 2016 (Thu)
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
Xinjiang from the Han point of view
Tom Cliff
Date: 21 July, 2016 (Thu)
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
‘A Moral Firestorm:’The Politics of Translating Manga Today
Patrick W. Galbraith
Date: 19 July, 2016 (Tue)
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University,Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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Sophia Symposium on Japanese Studies” in Japan and the Asia Pacific
Political Cultures and the Politics of “Japanese Studies” in Japan and the Asia Pacific
Organized by ICC (David H. Slater) with Critical Japanese Studies in Asia Network
Date: 4 July, 2016 (Mon)
Time: 10:00-17:00
Venue: Sophia University, Library, 9F, L-911
Language: English / No registration necessary
For more information, CLICK HERE
Flyer of the event can be downloaded from HERE
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Correction on ICC Lecture announcement
There was a mistake in this talk's starting time on our original notice. The talk starts at 17:00, not from 18:30. We apologize for the confusion and inconvenience.
Child welfare 2.0 in China: a thought experiment
Annika Pissin
Date: 27 June, 2016 Mon)
Time: 18:30-20:00 17:00-18:30
Venue: Sophia University,Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
The everyday politics of Chinese migrant media practices in Japan
Jamie Coates
Date: 12 July, 2016 (Tue)
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
Body, Pottery, Installation: Three Genres of Earth Art in Postwar Japan
Bert Winther-Tamaki
Date: 7 July, 2016 (Thu)
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
Staged Seduction: Selling Dreams in a Tokyo Host Club
Akiko Takeyama
Date: 29 June, 2016 (Wed)
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University,Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Materialities of the Sacred workshop announcement
Rites, Rice, and Rokuji Myōō
Organized by Caroline Hirawsawa (Sophia University))
Presenters: Benedetta Lomi (University of Virginia), Brian Ruppert(University of Illinois), Steven Trenson (Hiroshima University)
Date: 9 July, 2016 (Sat)
Time: 14:00-18:00
Venue: Sophia University,Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
The program for this event can be downloaded from HERE (PDF)
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ICC Lecture announcement
Child welfare 2.0 in China: a thought experiment
Annika Pissin
Date: 27 June, 2016 Mon)
Time: 18:30-20:0017:00-18:30
Venue: Sophia University,Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Yamada Waka and Her Place in Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Feminism
Rika Saito
Date: 23 June, 2016 (Thu)
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
Death Literature: Body, Sickness, and Writing in the Meiji Period
Robert Tierney
Date: 21 June, 2016 (Tue)
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
Constructing a Satisfying Life Abroad and the Art of Crossing Boundaries
Adam Komisarof
Date: 15 June, 2016 (Wed)
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University,Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC film screening in cooperation with Cinema Yugo
Punk’s Not Dead (Панкот не е мртов)
・Moderated by Kyoko Hirano (Film historian)
・Introduction by Masumi Kameda (University of Tokyo)
・Discussion by Andrijana Cvetkovik (Ambassador of Republic of Macedonia and film scholar)
Date: 10 June, 2016 (Fri)
Time: 18:00-20:00
Venue: Sophia University, 8F, Library, Rm 821
Film in Macedonian and Albanian／with English subtitles / Talks in English (No translation)
No registration necessary
This event is supported by Embassy of the Republic of Macedonia in Japan; Embassy of the Republic of Serbia in Japan and Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Japan
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ICC Lecture announcement
The Train that Ran Through Monet’s Garden
James H. Rubin
Date: 13 June, 2016 (Mon)
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
Katsura Yuki and the Stakes of Exposure
Namiko Kunimoto
Date: 4 June, 2016 (Sat)
Time: 13:00-15:00
Venue: Sophia University,Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
This lecture is co-sponsored with the Society for the Study of Image & Gender (Imēji & Gendā Kenkyūkai)
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Book Launch Roundtable announcement
Globalization of Asian Cuisines Authors’ Roundtable Discussion on Japanese Cuisines and Culinary Globalization
Participants include James Farrer, David Wank, Stephanie Assmann, Chris Hess, and Chuanfei Wang
Date: 2 June, 2016 (Thu)
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
Learning about the Land of the Rising Sun in the Land of the Star of David: Japanese Studies in Israel
Ben-Ami Shillony
Date: 24 May, 2016 (Tue)
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University, Library Building, 9F, Rm 921
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Workshop announcement
Crises in the Asia-Pacific: A workshop of presentations and discussion with “The Asia-Pacific Journal-Japan Focus"
Participants include Machiko Osawa, Huiyan Fu, Phoebe Holdgruen, David McNeill, Justin McCurry, Jeff Kingston, David H. Slater, Gavan McCormack, Mark Selden
Date: 22 May, 2016 (Sun)
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
Woman and Urban Family Medicine In the Momoyama Era: Evidence from the Honganji jinai in Ōsaka Tenma and Kyōto Rokujō
Andrew Goble
Date: 17 May, 2016 (Tue)
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
Touching things from afar: Global history, bodies and the material turn
Anne Gerritsen
Date: 15 April, 2016 (Fri)
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University,Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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