ICC News
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ICC Lecture announcement
The 2020 US Presidential Election: Implications for Asia
Devin Stewart
Date: Dec. 13th, 2019 (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
Thinking Like a State: Policing and Thought in Interwar Japan
Max Ward
Date: Dec. 10th, 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
Asia Pacific War, Japan and Gardens
Toshio Watanabe
Date: 5 December 2019 (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
A Brief History of Now: A Global History of the Long Twenty First Century
Diego Olstein (AKA Diego Holstein)
Date: November 25th, 2019 (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
Homo Empathicus and how to save democracy
Alexander Görlach
Date: November 18th, 2019 (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 for SORW
The Global Izakaya: The Trans-Urbanization of Japanese Restaurant Cuisine
by the ICC Collaborative Research Unit “the Global Japanese Cuisine Project”
James Farrer, David Wank, Chuanfei Wang, Christian Hess, Mônica R. de Carvalho, Lenka Vyletalova
Date: November 20th, 2019 (Wed)
Time: 18:00-20:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
Sophia University Research in Priority Areas project 2016-2018 “Culinary Globalization from Below” https://www.global-japanese-cuisine.org/
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ICC Lecture announcement
Would you like that seared or raw? Uncooked chicken and the political ecology of dangerous delicacies in Japanese cuisine
Benjamin Schrager
Date: November 11th, 2019 (Mon)
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Workshop for Sophia Open Research Weeks
Migrant Stories of Indian Cooks and Afghani Women in Japan
presented by Sophia Research Project on Priority Areas "Refugees and new migrant support"
Date: 15th November, 2019 (Fri)
Time: 15:30-19:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
Commentator: Kyoko Matsukawa (Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Faculty of Letters at Konan University)
Presenters : Masako Tanaka (Professor, Faculty of Global Studies, Sophia University)
Megha Wadhwa (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Institute of Comparative Culture, Sophia University)
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ICC Lecture announcement
The printed book in early modern Japan: a convergence of technology, commerce and art
Ellis TINIOS
Date: November 7th, 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
Rapid Religious Change: American Southern Millennial’s Changing Views about Same-Sex Marriage
J. Derrick Lemons
Date: October 3rd, 2019 (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
Mediating Urban Space: 1970s Tokyo through Video Hiroba's Lens
Nina Horisaki-Christens
Date: July 18th, 2018 (Thu)
Time: 19:05-20:35
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Japan’s Refugee Policy and Practice: How has Refugees’ Agency Challenged Japan’s Refugee Protection Structure?
Naoko Hashimoto
Date: July 26th, 2019 (Fri)
Time: 19:15-20:45
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Towards a post-apocalyptic environmentalism? Responses to loss and visions of the future in climate activism
Carl Cassegård
Date: July 19th, 2019 (Fri)
Time: 19:15-20:45
Venue: Sophia University, Library, 8F, Rm 821
Language: English / No registration necessary, but non-Sophians are asked to bring the talk flyer with you when entering the library. The flyer can be downloaded from the link above
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ICC Lecture Cancelation announcement
Dr. Tomomi Yamaguchi had to cancel her talk "The "History Wars" in the "Main Battleground" and Beyond" scheduled on July 10th
We apologize on behalf of the speaker to those who were planning to come to the talk.
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SIIR/ICC Lecture (in Japanese) announcement
Achilles' Heel of Pax Americana? US-Japan Status of Forces of Agreements in Comparative Perspective
Yasuhiro Sasayama
Date: July 5th, 2019 (Fri)
Time: 19:00-20:30
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 13, 1F, SIIR Rm 103
Language: Japanese / Registration necessary
Please register at https://jp.surveymonkey.com/r/siir20190705 or use the QR code on the flyer.
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ICC Workshop announcement
Anthropologist and/or Practitioner?: Plural ontologies in the worlds of Mindfulness and Coaching
Date: July 15th, 14:00-17:30
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
This interactive workshop explores how two anthropologists are enacting plural identities and ontologies in their research and practice. How do anthropologists juggle identities and ontologies inside and outside the 'field' - particularly when the field increasingly becomes merged with one's profession/expertise? What can the worlds of mindfulness and coaching teach us about how to expand and explore the world of anthropological scholarship in different ways?
This event is organized by Professor David H. SLATER (FLA)
Program in PDF can be downloaded from here
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ICC Lecture announcement
Cartographies of (“Posthuman”) Love and Labor
Thomas Looser
Date: July 9th, 2019 (Tue)
Time: 19:15-20:45
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere and the Wars for Asia
Jeremy A. Yellen
Date: July 8th, 2019 (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
Flesh & Mud: Earthy Impurities in Newer Art in Japan
Bert Winther-Tamaki
Date: July 4th, 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
Co-Ed Revolution: The Female Student in the Japanese New Left
Chelsea Szendi Schieder
Date: July 5th, 2019 (Fri)
Time: 19:15-20:45
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Godzilla’s Children: Takashi Murakami, Makoto Aida, and Tabaimo - the Unholy Trinity of Horror and Violence in the Heisei Era
Aya Louisa McDonald
Date: July 2nd, 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
The Pericles of Tokushima: the Heisei Castle Boom and the Long Trajectory of Castles in Modern Japan
Ran Zwigenberg
Date: June 26th, 2019 (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
Plotting Illness in 21st-Century Japan: The Cancer Fiction of Ogino Anna and Yamauchi Reinan
Amanda C. Seaman
Date: June 25th, 2019 (Tue)
Time: 18:00-19:30
Venue: Sophia University, Library, 8F, Rm 821
Language: English / No registration necessary, but you may be asked to sign in when entering the library
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ICC Lecture announcement
Transgender issues today: A personal discussion with Jessica Lynn
Jessica Lynn
Date: June 24th, 2019 (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
Understanding Unbelief: Initial Findings
Jonathan A. Lanman
Date: June 27th, 2019 (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
Gaikō vs. yūkō?: Conceptual challenges in writing a history of early modern Japanese diplomatic relations
Birgit Tremml-Werner
Date: 20th June, 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
Refugee Lives inside a Camp: Ethnographic Work with Liberian Refugees in Ghana
Naohiko Omata
Date: 17th June, 2019 (Mon)
Time: 19:10-20:40
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
This talk is organized by Prof. David H. Slater (FLA) for ICC Research Unit "Digital Social Science and Oral Narrative Research"
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ICC Symposium announcement
New Migrant Flows of Refugees into Japan Support and research with asylum seekers in Tokyo (“Refugee Voices Japan”)
Organized by ICC Research Unit "Digital Social Science and Oral Narrative Research"
Date: 8th June, 2019 (Sat)
Time: 13:30-17:30
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Gendering AI and Robots: Robo-Sexism in Japan and the United States
Jennifer Robertson
Date: 6th June, 2019 (Thu)
Time: 17:30-19:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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SIIR-ICC Book Launch announcement
New Critical Spaces in Transitional Justice: Gender, Art & Memory
Christopher Lamont, Arnaud Kurze, Mieczysław Boduszyński, Tadashi Anno
Date: 23rd May, 2019 (Thu)
Time: 18:00-19:30
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 13, 1F, Rm 103
Language: English
Registration necessary: https://jp.surveymonkey.com/r/siir20190523
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ICC Lecture announcement
Friendship and Work Culture of Women Managers in Japan: Tokyo After Ten
Swee-Lin Ho
Date: 30th May, 2019 (Thu)
Time: 19:10-20:40
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Workshop announcement
STUDENT WORKSHOP ON REFUGEES IN THE WORLD AND IN JAPAN
What happened in 2018? What is happening now? What can you do?
Date: 18th May, 2019 (Sat)
Time: 13:00-15:30
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
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
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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