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PUBLIC EVENTS 2023 ~ 2024

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2023

Gas Mask Nation:

Wartime Civil Air Defense, Aviation, and Japan’s Aerial Imaginary 

Gennifer Weisenfeld, Walter H. Annenberg Distinguished Professor of Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Duke University

October 31, 202318:00 - 19:30

Room 301, 3F Building 10, Sophia University 

n person only 

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2023

Ecocriticism and Performance Today:

Reflections on Slow Dramaturgy 

Peter Eckersall, City University of New York

October 10, 202317:00 - 20:30

Room 301, 3F Building 10, Sophia University 

Hybrid Format / Please register. https://forms.office.com/r/x6Y9RcM9cm 

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2023

The Importance of Rescuing Responsible Hydropower Initiatives in Southeast Asia for Long-term Reduction of Carbon Emission

William Ascher, Donald C. McKenna Professor of Government and Economics at Claremont McKenna College

October 6, 20235:30pm - 7:00pm

Room 301, 3F Building 10, Sophia University 

In person only 

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2023

Involuntary Consent: 

The Illusion of Choice in Japan’s Adult Video Industry?

Akiko Takeyama, Professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies and Director of the Center for East Asian Studies at the University of Kansas

July 24(Mon) from 19:00 to 20:30

In Person Only / No registration required

Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2023

Becoming Mr. Everyman:

Middlebrow Media and White-Collar Masculinity in Japan’s Era of High Economic Growth 

Hannah Airriess, Assistant Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at Indiana University, Bloomington

July 26, 2023 / 19:30- 21:00 (JST) 

Hybrid (In-Person and on Zoom) 

Venue: Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University 

Please register from here: https://forms.office.com/r/fnwhx8Rc1b 

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A panel discussion presented by SGSRA, GPGS and ICC

Gender and Sexuality in Migration Research 

July 13 / 18:00-19:30,  

Room 301, Bldg.10, Sophia University 

In person only

 

Click HERE for more information

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A workshop presented by KASA Sustainability, GPGS and ICC

New entry farmers from a non-farming background: challenges and opportunities faced by Japan’s new generation of farmers

Niccolo Lollini, a faculty member at the Graduate School of Governance Studies at Meiji University

Bldg. 10-428 | Fri, 14 July 2023 | 05:00 PM | in-person

Register via link: https:/kasasustainability.org/environmental-change-workshop

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2023

Fashioning Lesbianism

Sei (1911-1916) and the global New Woman

Eleanor Medhurst, A historian of lesbian fashion and author of the website Dressing Dykes) 

July 21, 2023

07:30 PM Osaka, Sapporo, Tokyo

Format: Online only

Registration necessary: https://forms.office.com/r/eJCLTNSGEn

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2023

To Arrange a Sculpture:

Teshigahara Sōfu and Japan’s Postwar Internationalization

 

Alice Ashiwa, Ph.D. candidate in the History Department at UCLA and a visiting researcher at the Institute of Comparative Culture at Sophia University

July 14, 2023 18:00-19:30

In person only / No registration necessary

Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2023

“This Absolutely is not a Hui Rebellion!”

The Ethnopolitics of Great Nationality Chauvinism in Early-Maoist China

 

Benno Weiner, Associate Professor in the Department of History at Carnegie Mellon University

July 6, 2023, 17:30-19:00
Room 301, 3F, Building 10
In person only/No registration required

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2023

Global Food Project Book Launch

The Global Japanese Restaurant:

Mobilities, Imaginaries and Politics  (University of Hawai’i Press 2023) 

 

James Farrer, Sophia University, Japan 
David L. Wank, Sophia University (emeritus) and Tōyō Bunko, Japan 
Christian A. Hess, Sophia University, Japan

Mônica R. de Carvalho, SKEMA Business School, Brazil 
Lenka Vyletalova, Palacky University, Olomouc, Czech Republic 
Chuanfei Wang, Hosei University, Japan 

July 11, 2023, 18:30-20:00 (Japan time)

In person: Room 10-301, Sophia Yotsuya Campus

On Zoom: register HERE

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents

Writing Away from Home

POETRY READING, TALK AND BUTOH 

July 3rd, 19.00 till 21.00

Building 6, Room 404, Sophia University

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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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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”

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, 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 2023

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 10, Yotsuya 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 2023

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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