ICC Collaborative Research Projects (Research Units) 2009-2010
The primary mission of the Institute of Comparative Culture is to promote collaborative research by its members. Every year we solicit proposals for collaborate research units from ICC members who plan research projects involving at least two ICC members. The Institute provides funds for research activities, such as data collection, analysis, publications and workshops organized by research unit members, sometimes together with external collaborators. Projects may be for one year or multiple years. Because of the limited resources of the ICC, projects leaders are expected to apply for external funding to sustain multi-year projects. Although we expect all projects to eventually lead to publication in academic journals or books, we also provide limited support for publication directly through the ICC webpage.
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James Farrer with other professors
Multiculturalism in Asian Societies
A conference on "The Right to Move?: Debating the Ethics of Global Migration"(December 12–13, 2009)
The Right to Move Conference Papers on Policy Innovations, an online journal of the Carnegie Council
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Kono Shion and other professors
Rethinking Discourses on Japanese Popculture: Opening Up International Critical Dialogues with Miyadai Shinji and Azuma Hiroki
July 11, 2009
A workshop on : Rethinking Discourses on Japanese Popculture: Opening Up International Critical Dialogues with Miyadai Shinji and Azuma Hiroki
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Takehiro Watanabe and other professors
Cultures of Debt: Ethics, Laws, Technologies and the Environment of Moneylending from a Global Perspective
March 5, 2010
A workshop on : Cultures of Debt: Ethics, Laws, Technologies and the Environment of Moneylending from a Global Perspective
October 31, 2012
A poster session at Sophia University Research Festival: Program of the event can be downloaded from here
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Angela Yiu and other professors
Three -Dimentional Reading: Modernism and Spatia; Configuration in Interwar Japanese Fiction (1910-1930s)
June 22, 2009
A workshop on : Three-Dimensional Reading: Modernism and Spatial Configuration in Interwar Japanese Fiction (1910s-1930s)
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Professor Farrer and other professors
Global Food Project
April 24, 2009 (Public Lecture)
Legal and illegal eating: Restaurants in 1940s Japan
Katarzyna J. Cwiertka (
Department of Japanese Studies, Leiden University, the Netherlands)
June 4, 2009 (Public Lecture)
Eating Local: Nostalgia, identities, and Japanese American Delicatessens in Hawai'i
Christine R. Yano (Dept. of Anthropology, University of Hawaii)
Editorial, design and type setting effort is being made to finalize the collection of papers presented at the symposium, Globalization, Food and Social Identities in the Asia Pacific Region (Feb. 2009) ready for online publication.
For more information on the Symposium, click here.
Globalization, Food and Social Identities in the Asia Pacific Region is published! (Dec., 2010)