ICC News
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Human Security Studies: Building a More Humane World
Sorpong PEOU, Professor and Chair, Department of Politics, University of Winnipeg
Date: May 27 (Mon), 2013
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
How Tokyo Invented Sushi
Jordan Sand, Associate Professor of Japanese History and Culture, Georgetown University
Date: May 10 (Fri), 2013
Time: 18:00-19:30
Venue: Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Syposium announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Women and Networks in Nineteenth Century Japan
Organized by ICC Network Studies Research Group
Date: June 8 (Sat), 2013
Time: 10:00-17:45
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg 12, 1F, Rm 102
Language: English and Japanese (No translation)
No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Mothers, Daughters and Sex: Negotiating young women’s sexuality in British and Hong Kong families
Stevi Jackson, Professor of Women’s Studies and Director of the Centre for Women’s Studies at the University of York, UK
Date: May 21 (Tue), 2013
Time: 17:30-19:00
Venue: Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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New online publication
Institute of Comparative Culture is happy to announce the ICC Working Paper Series No. 7 is published online.
Silent Dialogue and "Teaism":
A New Perspective on European Missionaries' Experiences of the Way of Tea 茶道 in Late Sixteenth-Century Japan
Dr. Frances N. Hioki
Click here to download.
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
After Exile: Cuban Diaspora, Revolutionary Nostalgia and Global Tourism
Ruth BEHAR, Victor Haim Perera Collegiate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan
Date: April 19 (Fri), 2013
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University, Library, 9F, Rm 912
Language: English / No registration necessary
This lecture is co-hosted by ICC, Graduate School of Global Studies and the Institute of American and Canadian Studies
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ICC workshop announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
The Challenges of Highly Skilled Migration in Asia and the Pacific
Organized by ICC Multicultural Asia Research Group
Date: March 6, 2013
Time: 9:45 – 17:30
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English
No registration necessary
This workshop is supported by The International Metropolis Project
A program of this workshop can be downloaded from here.
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
A Disease Apart: Hansen’s Disease, Eugenics and Public Health, in Modern Japan
Michael Weiner, Professor of East Asian History and International Studies, Soka University of America
Date: March 1 (Fri), 2013
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Winter break information
ICC office will be closed from December 22nd,2012 to January 7th, 2013.
Best wishes from ICC for the year of the snake!
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ICC Online resources information
Following videos from ICC lectures and workshop are now online.
・Mammas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Samurai by Dr. David Howell
・China’s Development Prospect beyond the Middle-Income Level by Dr. Ding Lu
・Networks in Premodern and Early Modern Japan: the fifth workshop of the ICC research group "Network Studies"
Collection of syllabus introduced at "Teaching 3.11" workshop organized by ”3.11 as Crisis and Opportunities" research group is now available from this webpage.
・Teaching 3.11 Syllabi Collection
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ICC co-hosts a screening of a 3.11 related film
"3.11: In the Moment" (2011)
with Kyoko GASHA, Film Director, Journalist, Sophia alumna
Date: Nov.23 (Fri), 2012
Time: 17:00-19:50 (Talk by Gasha followed by the film and a Q and A session)
Venue: Library Bldg 8F, Rm 821
Language: Japanese Film is subtitled in English / No registration necessary
This event is supported by ICC "3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity" Research Unit
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Post-3.11 and the Arts of Catastrophe
Marilyn Ivy, Professor of Anthropology, Columbia University
Date: Nov.27 (Tue), 2012
Time: 17:00-18:30
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
This talk is organized by ICC "3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity" Research Unit
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture and Institute of American and Canadian Studies presents
Making De-Racialized and Pathologically Racial Bodies and Minds: U.S. Television and Print News Coverage of Health Issues
Charles L. Briggs, Professor of Folklore and Anthropology, University of California Berkeley
Date: Dec.7 (Fri), 2012
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 University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
On the Beginnings of Media and Communication Studies: Theories of the Press and Its Social Function in Prewar Japan
Fabian Schäfer, The University Research Priority Program (URPP) Asia and Europe of the University of Zurich
Date: Dec.5 (Wed), 2012
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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Sophia Research Organization Festival announcement
Date: Oct. 31 (Wed), 2012
Time: 12:30-19:00 (overall)
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg 2, 17F
ICC Research Unit Network Studies will present about their project
(From 12:40-13:00 at 2-1702). And Prof. Slater will be a panelist in a panel discussion on Tohoku's recovery after 3.11 (15:50-17:50).
And there will be a poster session on Prof. Watanabe's 2009 Research Unit Cultures of Debt (Poster number P11)
A program of this year's Research Organization Festival can be downloaded from here.
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ICC workshop announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Networks in Premodern and Early Modern Japan
Organized by ICC Network Studies Research Group
Date: Oct. 20 (Sat), 2012
Time: 13:30-17:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English
No registration necessary
This is the fifth workshop organized by the Network Studies research unit.
Program of this event can be downloaded from here.
Videos of the prior workshops are available at the following URL
http://www.erp.sophia.ac.jp/Projects/ocw/research/comparativeculture.html
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
China’s Development Prospect beyond the Middle-Income Level
Ding LU, University of the Fraser Valley, Canada
Date: Oct. 8 (Mon), 2012
Time: 17:00-18:30
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
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ICC Summer holiday Schedule
ICC office will be closed from August 11, 2012 to August 26, 2012.
We thank you all for the support given to us in the past months and hope you will be with us in the coming semester as well.
ATTENTION!:Due to equipment maintenance work, ICC server will be shut down during the weekend of August 25 and 26. During that time you will not be able to access our web page. We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause you.
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Teaching 3.11 compiled syllabus
Compiled syllabus (PDF) from the workshop Teaching 3.11 can be downloaded from here now
Orginized by 3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity Research Group
For event schedule, click HERE
Bios of the participants Page one: Page two
This event has been made possible by the funding from Japan Foundation
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ICC Workshop announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Contemporary Japanese Art After 1990:
The Representation and the Identity of the Japanese Artists in the Global Context
For event flyer, click HERE
Date: July 8 (Sun), 2012
Time: 14:00-17:00
Venue: Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English with some Japanese / No registration necessary
This event has been made possible by the funding from the Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation
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ICC Workshop announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Teaching 3.11: Issues, Materials, Pedagogy and Research
Orginized by 3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity Research Group
For event flyer, click HERE
Bios of the participants Page one: Page two
Date: June 29 (Fri), 2012
Time: 10:00-17:30
Venue: Sophia University, Library, 9F, Rm 921
Language: English with some Japanese / No registration necessary
This event has been made possible by the funding from Japan Foundation
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ICC Lectures in May and June
May 29: "What Is the K in K-Pop?" by John Lie
June 1: "Mammas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Samurai" by David Howell
June 5: "Assessing the Place of Religion in Recent Japanese Disaster Responses" by Levi McLaughlin
June 15: "Polyvocality of Cherry Blossoms from Yamato-Damashii to Fukushima: Communicative Opacity in Political Spaces" by Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
June 21: "An Other Other? The Qur’ān, Islam, and Religious Identity in Modern Japan" by Hans Martin Krämer
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
An Other Other? The Qur’ān, Islam, and Religious Identity in Modern Japan
Hans Martin Krämer, Ruhr University Bochum
Date: June 21 (Thu), 2012
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
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Polyvocality of Cherry Blossoms from Yamato-Damashii to Fukushima: Communicative Opacity in Political Spaces
Orginized by 3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity Research Group
Emiko Ohnuki-Tierney
Date: June 15 (Fri), 2012
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English / No registration necessary
This is the fourth event organized by 3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity Research Group. They will organize workshops/events over the course of this year.
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Assessing the Place of Religion in Recent Japanese Disaster Responses
Orginized by 3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity Research Group
Levi McLaughlin
Date: June 5 (Tue), 2012
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg 2, 5F, Rm 510
Language: English / No registration necessary
This is the third event organized by 3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity Research Group. They will organize workshops/events over the course of this year.
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Mammas, Don't Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Samurai
David L. Howell, Harvard University
Date: June 1 (Fri), 2012
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
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
What Is the K in K-Pop?
John Lie, University of California, Berkeley
Date: May 29 (Tue), 2012
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 University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
This Machine Kills Nuclear Power Plants: The Music of Resistance in Post-Fukushima Japan
Orginized by 3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity Research Group
Date: April 27 (Fri), 2012
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English
No registration necessary
This is the Second event organized by 3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity Research Group. They will organize workshops/events over the course of this year.
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
FUKUSHIMA COLOURS--Voices of Sustainability after March 11th, 2011
Short film, reading and discussion
Orginized by 3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity Research Group
Date: April 13 (Fri), 2012
Time: 18:30-20:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English
No registration necessary
This is the first event organized by 3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity Research Group. They will organize workshops/events over the course of this year.
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ICC workshop announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Networks in Early Modern Japan (4)
Organized by ICC Network Studies Research Group
Date: April 14 (Sat), 2012
Time: 13:30-17:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English
No registration necessary
This is the fourth workshop organized by the Network Studies research unit.
Program of this event can be downloaded from here.
Videos of the prior workshops are available at the following URL
http://www.erp.sophia.ac.jp/Projects/ocw/research/comparativeculture.html
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ICC Workshop on
ICC Research Unit "Multiculturalism in Asian Societies" presents a workshop on
Migrant Communities in Japan in the Aftermath of the Tohoku Earthquake
Go to abstracts
Go to Schedule
Workshop Date: February 18 (Sat), 2012
Time: 10:00-17:30
Venue: Sophia University, Library Building, 9F, Rm L-911
Language: English
No registration necessary
Program: PDF
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ICC Workshop announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture
Co-sponsors a workshop on
3.11 AND AFTER: Oral Narratives of Disaster Survival, Social Movements and Energy Choice
PROGRAM can be downloaded from here (PDF)
Date: February 12, 2012
Time: 1pm-7pm
Venue: Sophia University, Yotsuya Campus, Bldg. 2, room 508
Language: English
No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2011
Co-sponsored by the CIEE Study Center Japan
Japanese Street Fashion from Meiji to Now
Dr. Toby Slade
University of Tokyo
Date: Jan. 10, 2012
Time: 18: 30 - 20:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English
No registration necessary
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ICC Winter Schedule
ICC office will be closed from December 23, 2011 to January 4, 2012.
We thank you all for the support given to us in the past year and hope you will be with us in the coming year as well. We wish all of you a very happy holiday and a peaceful new year.
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ICC Workshop on
Boundary Crossing - Sex & Gender in Context
Paper abstracts are now online: Page 1, Page 2, Page 3
Workshop Date: December 10 (Sat), 2011
Time: 09:20-17:30
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English
No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2011
Evidence, Argument and Story: Problems and Solutions in Social Science Story-telling Strategies
Dingxin Zhao
University of Chicago
Date: December 19 (Mon), 2011
Time: 17:30-19:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Room 301
Language: English
No registration necessary
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ICC co-sponsored symposium announcement
ICC Research Unit "Sacred Materialities" co-sponsores a symposium titled
Caught by the Image: New Perspectives on Audience in Art History
Other sponsors of this event are: The Image -Site-Audience Project, The Japan Society for the Promotion of Science"
Date: November 25, 2011
Time: 15:00-18:45
Venue: Sophia University, Library, 9F, Rm 921
Language: English with interpretation to and from Japanese (日英逐次通訳あり）
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2011
Co-sponsored by the CIEE Study Center Japan
Japanese Popular Culture Around the World
Renato Rivera
Meiji University
Date: Nov. 29, 2011
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
ICC Research Unit "Multiculturalism in Asian Societies" presents a workshop on
Boundary Crossing - Sex & Gender in Context
a follow-up to the workshop entitled "Sexual Boundary Crossings and Sexual Contact Zones in East Asia"
Date: December 10, 2011
Time: 9:20-17:30
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English
No registration necessary
Workshop program in PDF can be downloaded from here.
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2011
History Wars: Reconciliation through Textbooks?
Dr. Eckhardt Fuchs
Georg Eckert Institute for International Textbook and an ICC Visiting Fellow
Date: Nov. 17, 2011
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
Organized by the ICC Research Unit "Globalization, food and social identity in the Asia Pacific"
Political Purpose and National Identity: Representations of the Food Education Campaign in Japan
Stephanie ASSMANN
Akita University
Date: November 25, 2011
Time: 18:15-19:45
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English
No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2011
My Life with Manga and its Influence on Women's Participation in American Comics Culture
Abby Denson
International Manga Award Winner/Creator of graphic novels
Date: November 21 (Mon), 2011
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
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2011
Co-sponsored by the CIEE Study Center Japan
The World of Characters: Reading Japanese Society through Popular Culture
Shunsuke Nozawa
IES Abroad Tokyo
Date: October 25 (Tue), 2011
Time: 17:30-19:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English
No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture titled "Transnational Migration and Asian Regional Integration: Examining the Migration Policies of Hong Kong and Tokyo" (June 20, 2011) is now online!
Click here to move to Stephen Robert Nagy's presentation video on Sophia OCW page.
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2011
Prostitution, Emigration and Nation-Building 1870-1930
Bill Mihalopoulos
Dong-A UNiversity, Busan
Date: October 18 (Tue), 2011
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
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2011
Influences on Imageability
Sreejata Roy
Artist, Ankur Society for Alternatives in Education
Date: October 6 (Thu), 2011
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
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2011
Tradition, Culture and Aesthetics in Contemporary Asian Cinema
Peter C. Pugsley
Lecturer in Media, Discipline of Media
The University of Adelaide
Date: September 29 (Thu), 2011
Time: 17:30-19:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg. 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English
No registration necessary
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Network Studies Third Workshop (June 11, 2011) is now online!
Click here to move to the video on Sophia OCW page.
Networks in Early Modern Japan
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ICC office schedule for summer 2011
During the months of July through September, ICC office will, along with other offices at Sophia, operate on a fairly irregular schedule as a part of an effort to save electricity. Please check the following link for our detailed office calendar.(revised on August 4)
ICC Office Schedule from July to September
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2011
ICC Research Unit on Asian Multiculturalism presents
Transnational Migration and Asian Regional Integration: Examining the Migration Policies of Hong Kong and Tokyo
Stephen Robert Nagy
Assistant Professor, Department of Japanese Studies
The Chinese University of Hong Kong
Date: July 20 (Wed), 2011
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
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2011
ICC Research Unit on Globalization, food and social identity in the Asia Pacific presents
Sushi and More, Anyone?: Bringing Japan's Design, Food, and Contents Approach to the Indian Market
Harry Cheng
Director, Maido Enterprises Private Ltd.
Date: June 30 (Thu), 2011
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
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Institutional Reform and New Firm Performance: More or Better Firms?
Robert N. Eberhart
STAJE Fellow, Stanford Project on Japanese Entrepreneurship
Date: June 24 (Fri), 2011
Time: 17:00-19:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg.10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English
No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
A Reconsideration of Edo Shunga
Professor Timon Screech
Japanese Art History, SOAS, University of London
Date: June 22 (Wed), 2011
Time: 17:30-19:00
Venue: Sophia University, Library Bldg, 9F, Rm 921
Language: English
No registration necessary
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ICC workshop announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Networks in Early Modern Japan
Organized by ICC Network Studies Research Group
Date: June 11 (Sat), 2011
Time: 13:30-17:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English
No registration necessary
This is the third workshop organized by the Network Studies research unit. Videos of the first and second workshop is available at the following URL
http://www.erp.sophia.ac.jp/Projects/ocw/research/comparativeculture.html
Program of this workshop can be downloaded from HERE
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Faculty of Liberal Arts and Institute of Comparative Culture presents
Professor Linda Grove on "Reading China from the Villages"
Dr. Linda Grove
Professor of Chinese History, Sophia University
Date: April 16 (Sat), 2011
Time: 15:00-17:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg 12, 1F, Rm 102
Language: English
No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2010
Perceptions and Realities for Local Communities in the Afghanistan War
Dr. Matthew Arnold
Senior Research Fellow, Chulalongkorn University (Thailand)
Date: February 2 (Wed), 2011
Time: 17:30-19:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg 10, Rm 301
Language: English
No registration necessary
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Now you can see videos of some of our talks at Sophia University Open Course Ware site.
Check it out!
http://www.erp.sophia.ac.jp/Projects/ocw/research/comparativeculture.html
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Announcement of Globalization and Food Culture Publication
Globalization, Food and Social Identities in the Pacific Region
The Institute of Comparative Culture announces the publication of the online paper collection Globalization, food and social identities in the Pacific Region. James Farrer (editor). Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture: Tokyo.
This online collection was based on the Symposium with the same title held on Feb. 21-22, 2009 at Sophia, funded by The Promotion and Mutual Aid Corporation for Private Schools of Japan Academic Research Promotion Fund. The project continues as the Globalization and Food Project of the Institute of Comparative Culture.
We apologize for the delay of publication due to the ongoing redevelopment of our Institute webpage. Although it has required more work and time than we foresaw, we hope that the online publication will make these papers available and useful to a global audience.
James Farrer
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Institute of Comparative Culture office will be closed from December 20, 2010 to January 4, 2011.
We are very grateful for your kind support during the past year, and hope our paths keep crossing in the coming year as well.
We wish you all a very happy and peaceful holiday.
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ICC Workshop announcement
Institute of Comparative Culture presents a workshop on
Networks in Early/Modern Japan
Date: January 15 (Sat), 2011
Time: 13:30-17:15
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg 10, Rm 301
Organizer: Bettina Gramlich-Oka (Sophia University)
Language: English
No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2010
in cooperation with CSR Watch and DSIA
Under-Development:
Making Aid and Entrepreneurship Work in the Developing World
Elmira Bayrasli
Vice President of Partnerships, Policy & Outreach, Endeavor
Date: December 2 (Thu), 2010
Time: 17:30-19:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg 10, Rm 301
Language: English
No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2010
Religion and National Identity Formation
Japanese-American Buddhism in Prewar Hawaii and California
Dr. Duncan Williams
Director, Center for Japanese Studies, U. C. Berkeley
Date: December 7 (Tue), 2010
Time: 17:30-19:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg 10, Rm 301
Language: English
No registration necessary
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ICC Lecture announcement
Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2010
Is There a Transnational Queer Studies?
Dr. Donald E. Hall
Professor, West Virginia University
Date: November 25 (Thu), 2010
Time: 17:30-19:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg 10, Rm 301
Language: English
No registration necessary
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ICC Workshop announcement
Institute of Comparative Culture presents a workshop on
Intellectual Networks in Early Modern Japan
Date: November 20 (Sat), 2010
Time: 13:30-17:00
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg 10, Rm 301
Organizer: Bettina Gramlich-Oka (Sophia University)
Language: English
No registration necessary
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ICC Conference announcement
Institute of Comparative Culture presents a conference on
Cosplay: Media, Identity and Performance in Japan and Beyond
Date: November 13 (Sat), 2010
Time: 14:00-18:00 (doors open at 13:30)
Venue: Sophia University, Bldg 12, Rm 301
Organizer: David H. Slater (Sophia University)
Admission: Free (open to the general public)
Language: English and Japanese
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2010
Mao's Great Famine: A History of China's Most Devastating Catastrophe
Prof. Frank Dikotter,
University of Hong Kong
November 4 (Thur.) 2010, 5:30-7:00 pm
L921, Library Building, Sophia University
Lectures in English, No registration required
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2010
Good Woman, Bad Woman: A Question of Morality
Lecture by Dr. Fouzia Saeed,
Director of Mehergath (NGO) and 2010 Fellow of Asian Leadership Fellow
Program:
5:30 pm, October 28 (Thur), 2010
10-301, 3F Building 10, Sophia University
Lectures in English, No registration required
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2010
DIGITAL TERRORISM & HATE:
CHALLENGES & CONSEQUENCES FOR LEADERS WORLDWIDE
Rabbi Abraham Cooper
17:30~ 18:00~, October 19, 2010
Please note that the starting time of the lecture has changed.
10-301, 3F Building 10, Sophia University
Lectures in English, No registration required
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2010
150 YEARS OF JAPANESE-GERMAN RELATIONS:
THE PRUSSIAN EXPEDITION TO EAST ASIA AND THE 1861 TREATY OF AMITY AND COMMERCE WITH JAPAN
Dr. Bernd Martin, Freiburg University
5:30 pm, October 11, 2010
10-301, 3F Building 10
Lectures in English, No registration required
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ICC Lecture announcement
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents a workshop on
Sexual boundary crossings and sexual contact zones in East Asia
Saturday Oct. 2, 2010
Room 10-301 Sophia University Yotsuya Campus
Lectures in English, No registration required
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ICC office will be closed from August 3rd to August 22nd.
We apologize for the inconvenience this may cause you.
We wish you all a wonderful summer vacation!
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ICC Lecture announcement
Performing, Placemaking and Re-Presenting: Brazilian Restaurants in Tokyo
Vera Zambonelli Department of Urban and Regional Planning
University of Hawai'i Manoa
July 16, 2010
From 5:30pm to 7:00 pm
Room 10-301, 3F Building 10
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ICC Lecture announcement
Distracted Listening: Background Music, Noise, and Ambient Sounds in Recessionary Tokyo
Lorraine Plourde, PhD Lecturer in Anthropology and Media, Society, and the Arts
State University of New York, Purchase
July 15, 2010,
From 5pm to 6:30 pm
Room 10-301, 3F Building 10
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ICC Conference announcement
Alternative Politics: Youth, Media, Performance and Activism in Urban Japan
Featuring:
Yoshitaka Mouri (Tokyo Univeristy of the Arts)
Carl Cassegard (University of Gothenburg)
Sharon Hayashi (York University)
Place: Sophia University, Yotsuya Campus, Bldg. #10, room 301
Date: July 10th, 2010
Time: 10am-5pm
Language: English and Japanese
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ICC Lecture announcement
" The Politics of Islam and Nation-Building in Post-Soviet Central Asia"
John Schoeberlein
Director, Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus
Harvard University
July 1, 2010 From 5pm to 6:30 pm
Room 10-301, 3F Building 10
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ICC Lecture announcement
"Governance and Regional Economic Integration in Asia from a European Perspective"
Robert F. Owen
Professor of Economics, University of Nantes France
June 28 (Mon.) 5 pm - 6:30 pm
10-301, 3F Building 10
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ICC Lecture announcement
"What Can Be Said? Communication and the Intimacy of Ethnographic Fieldwork"
Allison Alexy
Dept. of Anthropology & Sociology, Lafayette College
10-301, 3F Building 10
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ICC Lecture cancellation announcement
We are sorry to announce that Dr. Wendy Griswold's Lecture "Three Methodological Pifalls in Cultural Sociology and How to Avoid them" on May 10 had to be cancelled. No doubt this will make many of you very dissapointed, but please check this event out from your calender. We will try to schedule it later in the semester and will inform you as soon as we manage to set it up.
Thank you very much for your patience.
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ICC Lecture announcement
"Women Ordination in Theravada Buddhism"
Dr. George A. Sioris (Ambassador of Greece, Ret.)
Time: May 11 (Tue), 17:30-19:00
Place: L-921 (9F, Library Bldg.)
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ICC Lecture announcement
This lecture is cancelled due to Dr. Griswold's change of schedule.
"Three Methodological Pitfalls in Cultural Sociology and How to Avoid Them"
Dr. Wendy Griswold (Northwestern University)
Date: May 10, 2010
Time: From 5 p.m. to 6:30 pm (Approx)
Venue: Room 10-301, Building 10, Sophia University
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ICC Lecture announcement
Date and time: April 24 (Sat), 2010 From 15:30 to 17:00
Place: Room L-911, 9F, Sophia University Library Building
Title: Shrine, Church, and State: The Borders between "Teaching" and "Religion"
Speaker: Kate Wildman Nakai (Professor, FLA, Sophia University) NOTICE: A reception will follow the talk. Please RSVP by April 14 to Ms. Shinohara Junko mnoffice@sophia.ac.jp (03-3238-3543) if you are able to attend.
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ICC Workshop on
"Culture of Debt: Morality, Economy, Microfinance"
will be held on Friday, March 5, 2010, from 13:00 to 15:30 at room 301 in Building 10.
In this workshop, we will brnig scholars to explore the cultural and moral dimentions of microfinance across different national contexts. As such, one of the issues the workshop interrogates is how the state of being in debt shapes a culturally specific understanding to self and society in the name of economic well being.(Workshop organizer, Tak Watanabe and Tatsuo Murakami)
For more information, contact Tak Watanabe by email.
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ICC would like to announce the publication by the online journal Policy Innovations of the collection of papers from the Right to Move Conference at Sophia University on December 12-13, 2009, sponsored by Sophia University, the Institute of Comparative Culture, and the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs.
The collectionsinclude papers by distinguished scholars, practitioners and public servants, including Mark Raper, Mathias Risse, Hiroshi Kimizuka, Florian Coulmas, John Haffner, Gracia Liu-Farrer, Midori Okabe, Devin T. Stewart, Michele Wucker, Kosaku Yoshino , and James Farrer.
Page Leading to The Right to Move Conference Papers
http://www.policyinnovations.org/ideas/briefings/data/000159
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ICC Lecture titled
"Not-together but not-separate: "Blurred boundaries" in changing Japanese families"
will be held on February 15, from 18:00 at room 301 on the third floor of building #10 at Sophia University. The speaker is Dr. Jane M. Bachnik, Professor of Anthropology, National Institute of Multimedia Education (ret), a Visiting Fellow at Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture.
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ICC Lecture titled
"A New Form of Community-Based Life-Long Learning: Challenge of Shibuya University"
was held on January 18, from 18:00 at room 301 on the third floor of building #10 at Sophia University. The speaker is Mr. Yasuaki Sakyo, President of a NPO Shibuya University Network
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Sophia International Education Workshop
"Changing Profiles and New Challenges"
will be held on Saturday, January 23 from 13:00 to 17:00. The program of the workshop is now online.
PDF (6MB)
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This workshop is supported by ICC.
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ICC will be closed from December 23 to January 11, 2010.
We will resume work from January 12.
We wish you all a happy and peaceful holiday season and all the best for the coming Year of the Tiger!
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Sophia Symposium
The Right to Move? Symposium program is now online.
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ICC presents two lectures on contemporary Chinese culture and society on November 30 from 5 pm at Room 301 on the thrid floor of building #10, Sophia University.
The Resurgence and Strategy of Chinese Popular Religion in North Rural China
Professor Fan Lizhu (Fudan University)
"Created Equal" or "Born Equal": An Issue in Intercultural Communication
Professor Chen Na (Fudan University)
No registration required / Lecture in English
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ICC, in cooperation with Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, is hosting a Sophia Symposium on the
"Right to Move?: Debating the ethics of global immigration"
on December 12 and 13. For more information, click the link above.
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ICC Lecture titled
"The Rise and Decline of Systems of Scientific Creativity"
will be held on November 26, 2009, from 17:00 at room 301 on the third floor of building #10 at Sophia University. The speaker is Dr. J. Rogers Hollingsworth, Professor at Departments of History and Sociology, University of Wisconsin.
You can check out his achievments at his web page, http://history.wisc.edu/hollingsworth
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ICC Lecture titled
"Japan, South Korea, and China: In Search of a Shared Historical Awareness"
by Dr. Lionel Babicz (Department of Japanese Studies, the University of Sydney)will be held on November 19 (Thur), 2009, from 17:00 at Room 10-301, 3F, Sophia University Building 10.
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ICC Lecture titled
"Dialogues on the Intersection of Art and Scholarship: An Introduction to New Research Methodologies"
by Dr. Ho Sik Ying (Associate Professor, Department of Social Work and Social Administration) will be held on November 12 (Thur), 2009, from 17:00 at Room 10-301, 3F, Sophia University Building 10.
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ICC Lecture titled
"Governance Challenges for Family Businesses in Japan"
by Dr. Timothy Goydke (Professor of Japanese Economy and Society, Bermen University of Applies Sciences) will be held on November 5 (Thur), 2009, from 17:00 at Room 10-301, 3F, Sophia University Building 10.
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New publication
Institute of Comparative Culture is happy to announce that now the ICC Working Paper Series No. 6, Global Insecurities and Nationalism in Advanced Industrialized Societies: Evidence from Japan and the United States, by Dr. Emmanouil Tsatsanis, is published online. Click here to read more.
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Institute of Comparative Culture office will be closed during the period of August 14 (Fri) through September 3 (Thu).
We hope this will not inconvenience you too much and thank you in advance for your kind understanding.
We wish you all a wonderful summer vacation.