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PUBLIC EVENTS 2013 ~ 2014

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2013 

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Public Safety, Security and Surveillance in the Global City: Views from Tokyo

David Murakami-Wood, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Queen's University and holds a Canada Research Chair (Tier 2) in Surveillance Studies

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18:30-20:00, Mar.17 (Mon), 2014

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English

No registration necessary

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ICC workshop organized by Research Unit "Japanese Literature in Motion."

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Trajectories of ‘Japanese’ Texts in the Early Twentieth Century

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13:00-17:30, Mar.8 (Sat), 2014

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2013

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Social Fragmentation and Sustainability in Palestinian Communities: Resilience and Uncertainty in Everyday Life

Joshua Rickard, Ph.D. in social anthropology from the University of Kent at Canterbury

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18:30-20:00, Mar.3 (Mon), 2014

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2013

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Emotions: Are They the Key to Culture?

James M. Jasper, Graduate Center of the City University of New York

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17:30-19:00, Jan. 14 (Tue), 2014

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English

No registration necessary

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2013

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"It's Time to Give back!": Competitive Charity in Today's Global Yoga

Anne Koch, Cultural Study of Religion, University of Munich

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17:30-19:00, Jan. 9 (Thu), 2014

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English

No registration necessary

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2013

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Making Tea, Making Japan: Cultural Nationalism in Practice

Anne Koch, Cultural Study of Religion, University of Munich

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18:30-20:00, Dec. 13 (Fri), 2013

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2013

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Fatherhood and Consumption: An Exploratory Study of Soon-to-be Fathers in Japan

Florian Kohlbacher, German Institute for Japanese Studies (DIJ) Tokyo

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18:00-19:30, Dec. 9 (Mon), 2013

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2013

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Takeshima and Shimane Prefecture

Alexander Bukh, Senior Lecturer, Victoria University, Wellington

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17:30-19:00, Dec. 5 (Thu), 2013

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2013

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Twenty-One Haiku Lessons from The Book of Tea

Michael Dylan Welch, Vice president of the Haiku Society of America

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17:30-19:00, Dec. 2 (Mon), 2013

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2013

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From Private to Public: Portrait Photography and Changing Social Mores in Late Meiji Japan

Karen M. Fraser, Assistant Professor, Department of Art & Art History, Santa Clara University, ICC Visiting Fellow

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18:30-20:00, Nov.25 (Mon), 2013

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2013

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Hard-fisted Piety: Christian militias in the Minahasa

Laurens Bakker, Institute of Cultural Anthropology and Development Studies
Institute of Sociology of Law, Radboud University Nijmegen, The Netherlands

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17:15-18:45, Nov.19 (Tue), 2013

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English

No registration necessary

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2013

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Intercultural Theatre and Acting in a Global Age: an alternative view

Phillip Zarrilli, Founding Artistic Director of The Llanarth Group
Professor of Performance Practice in the Drama Department at Exeter University

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18:00-19:30, Nov.15 (Fri), 2013

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English

No registration necessary

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ICC Lecture organized by ICC Research Unit Postcolonial Asian Cities

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Angry Ghosts:

1900's Boxer Crisis as Global History

Jeff Wasserstrom, Chancellor's Professor of History, U.C. Irvine

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17:30-19:00, Oct.31 (Thu), 2013

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2013

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"Brazil in the Global Crisis Context"

José Marcos Domingues, Professor of Law, Rio de Janeiro State University

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17:15-18:45, Oct.14 (Mon), 2013

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English

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Screening of a film in affiliation with CIEE

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"Girl Rising"

The message is simple: educate girls and you will change the world

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17:15-, Oct. 11 (Fri), 2013

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English

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ICC Lecture in cooperation with the Sasakawa Peace Foundation and the NPO “DSIA (Durable Social Innovation Alliance)”

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Microfinance and BOP in India:The Importance for Indian Inclusive Development and Internship Opportunities for Japanese Students

Mr. Prem Das Rai,
Member of Parliament in the 15th L
ok Sabha (elected directly by people)
Lower House of Indian Parliament (representing Sikkim State)

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13:30-15:00, September 9 (Mon), 2013

Sophia University, Building 12, 2F, Rm 202
Language: English

For those who are interested in attending the presentation, please send your name, affiliation and status to seminar@dsia.or.jp

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2013

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“Realists” versus “Idealists”:

Ideological Struggles in Japan's Intellectual Field of the 1960s in the Light of the Debate on Sartre's "A Plea for Intellectuals"

Simone Müller, University of Zurich

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17:00-19:00, July 11 (Thu), 2013

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2013

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Beyond ‘the West’ and ‘the East: Occidentalism, Orientalism, and Self-Orientalism in Italy-Japan Relations

Toshio MIYAKE, Marie Curie Researcher at Ca’ Foscari University of Venice, ICC Visiting Fellow

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17:30-19:00, July 5 (Fri), 2013

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English

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A Symposium organized by ICC 3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity Research Unit

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Commemoration of 3.11 (Part Two)

Art of 3.11 Commemoration

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July 1 (Mon), 2013

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301

Program: PDF
Language: English

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A Symposium organized by ICC 3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity Research Unit

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Commemoration of 3.11 (Part One)

Ethnographies of Commemoration

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June 28 (Fri), 2013

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301

Program: PDF
Language: English

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ICC Lecture organized by ICC 3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity Research Unit

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Imaging Disaster:

Tokyo and the Visual Culture of Japan's Great Earthquake of 1923

Gennifer Weisenfeld, Professor of Modern Japanese Art History and Visual Culture, Duke University

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18:00-19:30, June 26 (Wed), 2013

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English

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A Symposium organized by ICC Global Food Research Unit

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Travelling Cuisines: Culinary Politics and Transnational Foodways in and out of Asia

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9:00-18:00, June 22 (Sat), 2013

Sophia University, Library Building 9F, Rm 911
Program: Click here (PDF)

Language: English

No registration necessary

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A Symposium organized by ICC Network Studies Research Unit

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Women and Networks in Nineteenth Century Japan

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10:00-17:45, June 8 (Fri), 2013

Sophia University, Building 12, 1F, Rm 102

Program (Bilingual) PDF
Language: English

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2013

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Human Security Studies: Building a More Humane World

Sorpong Peou, PProfessor and Chair, Department of Politics, University of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada

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17:30-19:00, May 27 (Mon), 2013

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2013

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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

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17:30-19:00, May 21 (Tue), 2013

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English

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ICC Lecture organized by ICC Global Food Research Unit

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How Tokyo Invented Sushi

Jordan Sand, Associate Professor of Japanese History and Culture, Georgetown University

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18:00-19:30, May 10 (Fri), 2013

Sophia University, Building 10, 3F, Rm 301
Language: English

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ICC Lecture organized by ICC Global Food Research Unit

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After Exile:

Cuban Diaspora, Revolutionary Nostalgia and Global Tourism

Ruth Behar, Victor Haim Perera Collegiate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Michigan

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18:30-20:00, April 19 (Fri), 2013

Sophia University, Library, 9F, Rm 912
Language: English

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