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ICC Mission

With a motto of "connecting Sophia to the world," the Institute of Comparative Culture (ICC) promotes interdisciplinary studies in social sciences and humanities from a comparative perspective, building the global networks of Sophia's international researchers, and supporting collaboration with world-class researchers outside Japan. The specializations of ICC members include business, economics, history, literature, art history and area studies, focusing on Asia. All research activities and public events are conducted in English. The central activity of the ICC is funding and organizing research projects initiated by ICC members.

Director: Tina Burrett
Ph.D., Associate Professor
Faculty of Liberal Arts,
Sophia University

Vice Director: Takehiro Watanabe (渡邉 剛弘)

Ph.D., Associate Professor

Faculty of Liberal Arts,

Sophia University

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents 

Screening of “Paper City” 

Memories of the Tokyo firebombing

Q&A with writer/director, Adrian Francis 

Moderator: Dr. David McNeill 

June 21, 18:30-20:30 (approx.) 

Room 201 in bldg. 6, Sophia University

Please register from here:

https://forms.office.com/r/Fj8Uh03uNu 

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2023

Savoring Wisdom

Exploring the philosophical foundations of a slow gastronomy 

 

Maddalena Borsato, Senior Researcher in the R-GIRO project at Ritsumeikan University (Kyoto) within the Faculty of Gastronomy Management

June 14, 2023, From 17:30 to 19:00 

Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University

In-person only / No prior registration required

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2023

The Art of Resistance: Myanmar Artists under Siege

Speakers: Four Myanmar Artists

More information on the flyer or HERE: The Art of Resistance: Myanmar Artists under Siege (icc-sophia.com)

June 15, 2023, 18:00-20:00 (JST)

Zoom only

Registration essential: Please register from HERE

https://forms.office.com/r/ByyjBGkBke

(Registration closes on June 14, noon, JST)

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2023

“Cinema of Discontent: Representations of Japan’s High-Speed Growth”

Horiguchi Sutemi’s Plan for a Total Man’yō Park in Yugawara 

Tomoyuki Sasaki, Associate Professor of Japanese Studies at the College of William & Mary in Virginia

 

Friday, June 9, 5:30 PM (JST)
In person and on zoom
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Please register: https://forms.office.com/r/7sy8EdHqrV

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2023

A Fragmented Man’yōshū:

Horiguchi Sutemi’s Plan for a Total Man’yō Park in Yugawara 

Naomi Kuromiya, Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Art History and Archaeology at Columbia University and Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Comparative Culture at Sophia University

 

June 8, 2023, 18:00-19:30 

Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University 

In person only 

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents

Contesting and Commemorating Trauma in East Asia

A book talk for Routledge Handbook of Trauma in East Asia, edited by Tina Burrett and Jeff Kingston

Jeff Kingston, Chair/moderator, Professor of History and Asian Studies, Temple University, Japan

Tina Burrett, Associate Professor of Political Science, Sophia University

Sven Saaler, Professor of Modern Japanese History, Sophia University

Christian Hess, Associate Professor of Modern Chinese History, Sophia University

Collin Rusneac, PhD candidate, Heidelberg University,

 

May 26, 2023, 18:00-19:30
Room 404, Building 6, Sophia University

Please register from HERE

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2023

Two Lectures on Japanese Buddhist Art

Distinguishing the Phoenix: Conceptual Landscapes of Buddhist India in Medieval Japan (15:00-)

Rachel Saunders, Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Curator of Asian Art at the Harvard Art Museums

Echoes of the Past: Korean Buddhist Bells that Rang at Shrines in Japan and Ryukyu (16:20-)

Sherry Fowler, Professor of Japanese Art History at the University of Kansas

 

15:00-18:00 (approx.), 27 May (Sat) 2023

Room 301 (3F), Building 10, Yotsuya Campus, Sophia University

In person only

Please register from HERE

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Sophia University Insitute of Comparative Culture presents

EU Energy Politics in the Shadow of the Ukraine War

Jens Geier, SPD member of the EU Parliament

May 22, 2023, 18:00-19:30
Room 407, Building 6, Sophia University Yotsuya Campus

In Person Only

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Sophia University Institute of International Relations and the Institute of Comparative Culture presents:

Whither Security on Okinawa: Recapitulating international relations through a layered approach

Ra Mason, Sasakawa Associate Professor of International Relations and Japanese Foreign Policy at the University of East Anglia (UEA)

Friday 2 June 2023, 5:20pm (JST)
Event Format: Hybrid 
In-person: Building 2 Room 407

On Zoom: https://sophia-ac-jp. zoom.us/j/99818041419

Meeting ID: 998 1804 1419 Passcode: 110742

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2022

Locally National: Koseki Rokuhei and the Advent of Contemporary Lacquer Art in Iwate

Joel Thielen, Ph.D. candidate in the History of Art Department at the University of California, Berkeley and a Visiting Researcher at the Institute of Comparative Culture at Sophia University

May 18, 2023, 18:00~19:30

Room 301, 3F, Building 10Yotsuya Campus, Sophia University

In person only

No registration required, Free of charge.

Language: English (No translation)

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2022

Hashtag activism found in translation: Unpacking the reformulation of #MeToo in Japan (*)

Saki Mizoroki, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Isarel, University of Tokyo

April 28th (Friday), 5:30 PM (JST) – 7:00 PM (JST)

Zoom only
Join Zoom Meeting
https://sophia-ac-jp.zoom.us/j/99468537215

Meeting ID: 994 6853 7215
Passcode: 982771

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Workshop

"Migration to Japan: Focus on Kurdish Communities" Workshop

Hosts: Dr. Evelyn Reuter (Visiting Scholar, Sophia University)

Dr. David H. Slater (Professor of Cultural Anthropology, Sophia University)

Inquiries and Contact: Dr. Evelyn Reuter (evelynareuter@gmail.com)

April 8 (15:00-18:00) and April 9 (10:00-12:30), 2023

Room 301, 3F Building 10, Sophia University Yotsuya Campus

No registration necessary, 
In-person only

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2022

The rise of China and what it means for democracies in East Asia

Alexander Goerlach, PhD

March 29 2023, 18:00—20:00

Room 301, 3F Building 10, Sophia University Yotsuya Campus

No registration necessary, 
In-person only

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2022

Memories of Cinema-Going in Postwar Japan: An Ethno-history

Jennifer Coates, Professor of Japanese Studies at the School of East Asian Studies, University of Sheffield

Jan 25, 2023 05:30 PM – 07:00 PM (Osaka, Sapporo, Tokyo) Hybrid (In-person and on Zoom) 

Please register from HERE

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2022

NOYAKI 野焼き: Fire, Art, and Ecology During the Economic Bubble

Bert Winther-Tamaki, Professor of Art History at the University of Cali-fornia, Irvine

Feb 2, 2023, 18:00~19:30

In person only

Please register from HERE

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2022

Robo-Buddhism: Technology, Design, and Spirituality in Japan Today

Jennifer Robertson, Professor Emerita, Anthropology and History of Art University of Michigan, Visiting Professor, Tokyo University (January and February 2023)

January 19th, 2023, 18:00~19:30

In person only

Please register from HERE

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A workshop presented by GPGS and ICC

Climate Change and the Politics of Land

Saturnino "Jun" M. Borras, Jr., Fellow at the Transnational Institute

6:00 PM (GMT+9), 11 JAN 2023

Online event: register at kasasustainability.org/environmental-change-workshop

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series with GPGS

Sexuality and the Rise of China: The Post-90s Young Gay Generation in Hong Kong, Taiwan and Mainland China 

Travis Kong, Associate Professor and Programme Director of Media, Culture and Creative Cities in the Department of Sociology at the University of Hong Kong

Date and Time: 2023/01/11 From 18:30-20:00 (JST) 
Format: Hybrid (In-person and on Zoom) 

Please register from HERE

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2022

Japan on American TV: An Alternate History of US Fascinations and Fears of Japan 

Alisa Freedman, Professor of Japanese literature, cultural studies, and gender at the University of Oregon

Dec 16th, 5:30 PM ~7:00 PM (JST)

Hybrid format

Please register from HERE

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2022

Feminism, Bourgeois Liberalism and Shimada Yoshiko’s Becoming a Statue of a Japanese ‘Comfort Woman’

Namiko Kunimoto, Director of the Center for Ethnic Studies at Ohio State University and Associate Professor in the Department of History of Art.

2/15 (Th), 18:00-19:30
Room 301, 3F, Sophia University Yotsuya Campus, Building 10

In person session only
Please register from HERE

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative and SRSG presents

Screening of "My Small Land"

日付・Date: June 23, 2023

会場・Venue Room 309, Building 2

開場・Room open at 17:30

上映開始・Screening starts from 18:00 (Film length approx. 2 hours)

解説と質疑応答(日本語のみ)・Commentary and Q and A in Japanese only (no translation available) from 20:00 to 21:00

映画は日本語のみ(他の言語の字幕はありません)Film is in Japanese without subtitles

詳細はチラシをご覧ください。

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