ICC News
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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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ICC Lecture announcement
Teaching Silence: Educational Approaches to Buraku Issues
Christopher Bondy
Date: February 12, 2016 (Fri)
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University,Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lunch Time Lecture announcement
BGM as Sensory Regulation: The Affective Management of Work Environments in Japan
Lorraine Plourde
Date: January 29, 2016 (Fri)
Time: 12:00-13:30
Venue: Sophia University,Building 10, 3F, Rm 322 (ICC Meeting room)
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Film screening and discussion session announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture invites you to a film screening and a discussion session with Eiji Oguma (Professor, Faculty of Policy Management at Keio University)
Documentary film "Tell the Prime Minister" followed by a discussion session
Date: January 15, 2016 (Fri)
Time: 17:30-20:30
Venue: Sophia University, Building 2, 4F, Rm 414
Language: Film in Japanese with English subtitles / No registration necessary / Free of charge
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ICC Lecture announcement
Against NGOs?: Three moments in development history, and what they tell us about management and civil Society
Nidhi Srinivas
Date: January 12, 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
BUILDING BRIDGES OR BARRIERS? : Religion in the East and West
Mark David Luttio
Date: January 18, 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
Searching for the Missing Women in War-Prone Society of Medieval Japan
Hitomi Tonomura
Date: December 17, 2015 (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
Murakami Haruki, World Literature and Kafka on the Shore
Reiko Abe Auestad
Date: December 11, 2015 (Fri)
Time: 17:00-18:30
Venue: Sophia University,Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Film Screening and a Book Launch
ICC invites you to a special book launch event
Documentary film showing: “Down: Indie Rock in the PRC”and a book launch talk by the authors of Shanghai Nightscapes: A Century-Long Journey through Shanghai’s Nightlife Subcultures
James Farrer and Andrew David Field
Date: December 10th, 2015 (Thu)
Time: 17:00-18:00 (Film) 18:30-20:00 (Talk)
Venue: Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary / The book "Shanghai Nightscapes" will be available at Kinokuniya Sophia shop in B1, Building 2
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture and the Ohara Institute for Social Research, Hosei University presents
Reverse Sequencing of Labor and Environmental Movements: Taiwan and South Korea
Hwa-Jen Liu
Date: December 8, 2015 (Tue)
Time: 18:30-20:00
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
Sunflowers and Umbrellas: Workshop 2. in the Youth Activism Workshop Seiries
The Rise of Youth Activism in Taiwan and Hong Kong
Organized by ICC Research Unit "3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity"
Date: December 5, 2015 (Sat)
Time: 13:00-16:00
Venue: Sophia University,Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
Flyer in PDF: Click here
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ICC Special Book Launch
ICC invites you to a special book launch
Disasters and Social Crisis in Contemporary Japan: Political, Religious, and Sociocultural Responses
with editors Mark Mullins and Koichi Nakano
Date: November 30th, 2015 (Mon)
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary / The book "Disasters and Social Crisis in Contemporary Japan" will be available at Kinokuniya Sophia shop in B1, Building 2
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ICC Lecture for Sophia Open Research Week
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
The Untold History of Taiwanese Migration Under the Japanese Flag, 1895-1945
Linyi Tseng
Date: November 27th, 2015 (Fri)
Time: 17:00 - 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
Geophysical Gifts and Dangers in Japan: Toward an Anthropology of the Earth
Emily Sekine
Date: November 24, 2015 (Tue)
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University, Library, 9F, Rm 912
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Workshop announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Anpo Revisited: Workshop 1. in the Youth Activism Workshop Seiries
Organized by ICC Research Unit "3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity"
Date: November 14, 2015 (Sat)
Time: 13:00-16:00
Venue: Sophia University,Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
Flyer in PDF: Click here
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
What has Karoshi got to do with Fukushima disaster?
Rika Morioka
Date: November 11, 2015 (Wed)
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
Contemporary China-North Korea relations: Can China give up on North Korea?
Seong-Hyon LEE, Kyushu University
Date: November 12, 2015 (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 for Sophia Open Research Week
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Light and Darkness: Reflections on the Study of Japanese Literature in Germany
Irmela Hijiya-Kirschnereit
Date: November 17th, 2015 (Tue)
Time: 17:00 - 19:00
Venue: Sophia University,Library, 8F, Rm 821
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
From Colliery to Fukushima:60 Years of Tomiyama Taeko's Art
Laura Hein
Date: October 21st, 2015 (Wed)
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
Ireland votes Yes to Equal Marriage: How a minority won a majority
Tiernan Brady
Date: October 5th, 2015 (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
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Measuring for What: Networked Citizen Science Movements after the Fukushima Nuclear Accident
Yasuhito Abe
Date: July 24th, 2015 (Fri)
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
“Real(ity) Problem:” Otaku and the Politics of Imagination
Patrick W. Galbraith
Date: July 22, 2015 (Wed)
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University,Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Worshop announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Translations and Japanese literary studies
Date: July 18th, 2015 (Sat)
Time: 13:30-17:30
Venue: Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
This event is organized by ICC Research Unit "Japanese Text in Motion"
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ICC Panel Discussion announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
A panel discussion on sustainability: Rethinking Sustainability after 3.11
Date: July 17th, 2015 (Fri)
Time: 19:00-21:00
Venue: Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
This event is organized by ICC Research Unit "3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity"
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Yatô Tamotsu, the Japanese Photographic Male Nude, and Future Gay Nostalgia
Jonathan M Hall
Date: July 10th, 2015 (Fri)
Time: 18:00-19:30
Venue: Sophia University,Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Special Event announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
The Nepal Earthquake:
Drawing attention to remote areas of Dolakha through ethnographic film, “A Life with Slate” and a report from the Director, Dipesh Kharel
Date: July 7th, 2015 (Tue)
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University,Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
No registration necessary
This event is organized by ICC Research Unit "3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity"
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Sophia Symposium program change announcement
We are sorry to have to announce that Dr. Yukiko KOGA’s appearance had to be cancelled due to her personal reasons. Following this cancellation, the program has changed from our former announcement. Please click the link to the revised program.
Empire and Aftermath: New Perspectives on the Legacies of the Japanese Empire
Hosted by ICC Research Unit on "Postcolonial Asian Cities"
Date: June 19th, 2015 (Fri)
Time: 10:45-17:15 (Click the event title for more detailed information).
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
Of Wallflowers, Idols and Role Models:Harisenbon and Female Comedians in Japan
Till Weingärtner
Date: June 29th, 2015 (Mon)
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University,Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Special Event announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Nuclear Nation 2 (フタバから遠く離れて第二部) a film screening and discussion with the director Atsushi Funahashi
Date: June 26th, 2015 (Fri)
Time: 18:00-20:30
Venue: Sophia University,Building 2, 5F, Rm 508
Film in Japanese with English subtitle
No registration necessary
This event is organized by ICC Research Unit "3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity"
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Panel Discussion hosted by ICC and IGC
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture and Global Concern Institute presents
The Politics of Voice and Silence: Panel Discussion on Media Openness and Historical Revisionism in Contemporary Japan
Panelists
・Andrew Gordon (Professor of History, Harvard University)
・David McNeill (Journalist and Lecturer, Sophia University)
・Koichi Nakano (Professor of Political Science, Sophia University)
・Takashi Uemura (Journalist and Lecturer, Hokusei Gakuen University)
・Mina Watanabe (Secretary General, Women’s Active Museum for War and Peace)
・Tomomi Yamaguchi (Associate Professor of Anthropology, Montana State University)
Date: June 28th, 2015 (Sun)
Time: 15:00-17:30
Venue: Sophia University, Building 2, 5F, Rm 508
Language: English / Partial translation available / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Girlscape: Discover Japan Campaign and the Marketing of Mediatic Ambiance
Tomiko Yoda
Date: June 17th, 2015 (Wed)
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
The Socialist Modern at Rest and Play: Spaces of Leisure in North Korea
Robert Winstanley-Chesters
Date: June 24th, 2015 (Wed)
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University,Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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Sophia Symposium announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Empire and Aftermath: New Perspectives on the Legacies of the Japanese Empire
Hosted by ICC Research Unit on "Postcolonial Asian Cities"
Date: June 19th, 2015 (Fri)
Time: 10:45-17:45 (Click the event title for more detailed information).
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
Confraternities and Parishes in Early Modern Nagasaki
Carla Tronu
Date: June 4th, 2015 (Thu)
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
Washoku on the World Stage: UNESCO and the Promotion of Japanese Cuisine
Theodore Bestor
Date: June 2nd, 2015 (Tue)
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University,Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Special Event announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
A Field Report and Response Plan from Disaster Stricken Nepal by Habitat for Humanity Japan
Date: May 15th, 2015 (Fri)
Time: Session (1)17:30-19:00 (in English) Session (2) 19:30-21:00 (in Japanese)
Venue: Sophia University,Building 2, 5F, Rm 508
No registration necessary
This event is organized by ICC Research Unit "3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity"
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
From Exotic Demon to Queer Savior:The Textual Transformations of Amakusa Shirō
Rebecca Suter
Date: May 19th, 2015 (Tue)
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University,Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC with Asian Rural Institution; Panel Discussion announcement
Training for transformation:
how a training program can impact values to bring about broader change in communities
Date: April 28 (Tue), 2015
Time: 19:00-21:00
Venue: Sophia University,10-301, 3F, Building 10
Language: English / No registration necessary
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Change of Venue announcement
Journeys Along the Atomic Highway: History, Politics, Performance and Memoir
Date: April 20 (Mon), 2015
Time: 17:00-19:30
Venue: Sophia University,Building 2, 5F, Rm 508
The venue for the event changed to 10-301, 3F, Building 10
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Regulating Funny: Humor and the Law
Laura E. Little
Date: April 15th, 2015 (Wed)
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
Manga Empire: Comics and Companion Species
Thomas LAMARRE
Date: April 27th, 2015 (Monday)
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University,Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Panel Discussion announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Research Unit "3.11 as Crisis and opportunity"presents
Journeys Along the Atomic Highway: History, Politics, Performance and Memoir
Date: April 20 (Mon), 2015
Time: 17:00-19:30
Venue: Sophia University,Building 2, 5F, Rm 508
The venue for the event changed to 10-301, 3F, Building 10
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Workshop announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Research Unit "Japanese Texts in Motion"presents
Translation and Shared Literary Imagination in the Early Twentieth Century
Date: March 7 (Sat), 2015
Time: 10:00-17:45
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
Going to the Philippines is like coming Home
Japanese Pan-Asianism and the Philippines from the Meiji Era to the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
Sven Matthiessen
Date: January 28 (Wed), 2015
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
Never Again: Hiroshima, Auschwitz and the Politics of Memory
Ran Zwigenberg
Date: January 29 (Thu), 2015
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
Rethinking Circulation of Japanese-Language Books between Japan and its Oversea Territories before the World War II
Yoshitaka Hibi
Date: January 23 (Fri), 2015
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
Reflections on Iran’s Sexual Revolution
Pardis Mahdavi
Date: January 22 (Thu), 2015
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
Branding Japan: Cultural Challenges and Opportunities in 2015
Nancy Snow
Date: January 13 (Tue), 2015
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
Pacifying souls, soothing hearts:Buddhist care for the dead and the living in post-disaster Tohoku
Maja Veselič
Date: December 10 (Wed), 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
Give back peace that will never end: Hibakusha poets as public intellectuals
Cassandra Atherton
Date: December 15 (Mon), 2014
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University,Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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An International Symposium
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Network Studies Research Unit presents
Women and Networks in Nineteenth Century Japan 2
Date: December 20 (Sat), 2014
Time: 10:00-18:00
Venue: Sophia University, Building 12, 1F, Rm 102
Language: English and Japanese / No registration necessary / Free of charge
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Film screening and discussion
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Research Unit "3.11 as Crisis and opportunity" presents
Stories from Tohoku
Featuring Japanese American Filmmakers Dianne Fukami ＆ Debra Nakatomi
Date: November 21 (Fri), 2014
Time: 18:00-20:00
Venue: Sophia University, Building 2, 5F, Rm 508
Language: English with Japanese subtitles / No registration necessary / Free of charge
For more information about the film click here: www.storiesfromtohoku.com
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Research Unit "Network Studies" presents
Reconsidering Pictures of Yoshiwara Beauties
Julie Nelson Davis
Date: October 17 (Fri), 2014
Time: 18:00-19:30
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 from August 11 through August 25, 2014. We wish you a wonderful summer holiday.
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Film screening and discussion
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Research Unit "3.11 as Crisis and opportunity" presents
Nuclear Nation
Featuring Funahashi Atsushi (Director)＆ Aaron Gerow (Yale University)
Date: July 25 (Fri), 2014
Time: 17:00-20:00
Venue: Sophia University, Building 2, 5F, Rm 508
Language: English and Japanese / No registration necessary / Free of charge
For more information about the film click here: http://nuclearnation.jp/en/
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ICC Lecture
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Research Unit "3.11 as Crisis and opportunity" presents
Maps of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
Ryo Morimoto
Date: July 23 (Wed), 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
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Research Unit "3.11 as Crisis and opportunity" presents
Nuclear Projects in India: State, People and Protests
Anthony Dias
Date: July 21 (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 and discussion
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Research Unit "3.11 as Crisis and opportunity" presents
Freeter and Precariat
Featuring Guy Standing
Date: July 19 (Sat), 2014
Time: 17:00-20:00
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 Research Unit "Japanese Literature in Motion" presents
From Fear to Beauty: The Materiality of Writing and the Early History of Japanese-English Translation
Michael Emmerich
Date: July 17 (Thu), 2014
Time: 17:30-19:00
Venue: Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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A screening of a documentary film followed by a discussion session
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture and The Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) Tokyo Study Center at Sophia University presents
HAFU: The Mixed-Race Experience in Japan
http://hafufilm.com/en/
Date: July 11 (Fri), 2014
Time: 17:00-19:00
Venue: Sophia University, Building 2, 5F, Rm 508
Language: English with Japanese subtitles / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Abe Kôbô and the Politics of Fantasy
Darcy Gauthier
Date: July 10 (Thu), 2014
Time: 17:00-18:30
Venue: Sophia University, Library, 9F, Rm 912
Language: English / No registration necessary
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A screening of a documentary film
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Research Unit "3.11 as Crisis and opportunity" presents
Buddhism after the Tsunami-The Souls of Zen 3/11 Japan Special
Tim GRAF
Date: June 20 (Fri), 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
Japanese-American and their Lived Experiences in a Multicultural Society
Dr. Emi Moriuchi
Date: June 16 (Mon), 2014
Time: 17:00-18:30
Venue: Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture Canceled
Institute of Comparative Culture Research Unit "Postcolonial Asian Cities" presents
Shanghai Futurism
Dr. Anna GREENSPAN
Date: June 20 (Fri), 2014
Time: 18:00-19:30
Venue: Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
This talk is canceled due to speaker's schedule change
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
An Oration on Idology
Dr. Hiroshi AOYAGI
Date: June 13 (Fri), 2014
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
Chinese Labour Corps
the forgotten story of the 135,000 Chinese who worked for the French and British armies during World War One
Mark O'NEILL
Date: June 4 (Wed), 2014
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
Desiring Sex and Longing for Love: A Culture's Dilemma
Dr. William Jankowiak
Date: June 2 (Mon), 2014
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
Twanging Bows and Throwing Rice: Warding Off Evil in Medieval Japanese Birth Scenes
Dr. Yui SUZUKI
Date: May 30 (Fri), 2014
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
The Posthumanist Quest for the Universal: Butler, Badiou, Žižek
Dr. Mari RUTI
Date: May 22 (Thu), 2014
Time: 17:00-18:30
Venue: Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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