PUBLIC EVENTS 2014 ~ 2015
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Research Unit “Japanese Texts in Motion” presents a workshop on
Translation and Shared Literary Imagination in the Early Twentieth Century
Pannelists:
Noriko Murai, Sophia University
Kim Hyo Sun, Korea University
Angela Yiu, Sophia University
Sachi Nakachi, Tsuru University
Jeffrey Johnson, Daito Bunka University
Shion Kono, Sophia University
Akiyo Suzuki, Kanazawa University
Discussant:
Atsuhiko Wada, Waseda University
10:00-17:45, March 7, 2015
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2014
Hiroshima, Auschwits and the Politics of Memory
Ran Zwigenberg, Associate Professor, Pennsylvania State University
18:00-19:30, January 29, 2015
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2014
Going to the Philippines is like Coming Home:
Japanese Pan-Asianism and the Philippines from the Meiji Era to the Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere
Sven Matthiessen, PhD, Visiting Scholar, Institute of Comparative Culture, Sophia University
18:30-20:00, January 28, 2015
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2014
Yoshitaka Hibi, Associate Professor, Graduate School of Letters, Nagoya University
17:30-19:00, January 23, 2015
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
This event is organized by Institute of Comparative Culture research unit "Japanese Literature in Motion"
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2014
Reflections on Iran’s Sexual Revolution
Pardis Mahdavi, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Anthropology, Pomona College, Visiting Scholar, Waseda University
18:00-19:30, January 22, 2015
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2014
Cultural Challenges and Opportunities in 2015
Nancy Snow, SSRC Abe Fellow and Visiting Professor, Institute for Media and Communications Research, Keio University
18:30-20:00, January 13, 2015
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
An International Symposium
Women and Networks in Nineteenth Century Japan 2
１９世紀日本の女性とネットワーク(二)
18:30-20:00, December 20, 2014
Room 102, Building 12, Sophia University
This event is organized by Institute of Comparative Culture Research Unit on “Network Studies”
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2014
Give Back Peace that Will Never End:
Hibakusha Poets as Public Intellectuals
Cassandra Atherton, Alfred Deakin Research Institute, Melbourne
18:30-20:00, December 15, 2014
Room 310, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2014
Pacifying Souls, Soothing Hearts:
Buddhist Care for the Dead and the Living in Post-disaster Tohoku
Maja Veselič, University of Ljubljana
18:30-20:00, December 10, 2014
Room 310, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2014
A screening of a documentary film ＋ discussion
18:00-20:00, November 21, 2014
Room 508, Building 2, Sophia University
This event is organized by Institute of Comparative Culture Research Unit on “3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity”
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2014
Reconsidering Pictures of Yoshiwara Beauties
Julie Nelson Davis, University of Pennsylvania
18:00-19:30, October 17, 2014
Room 310, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
This event is organized by Institute of Comparative Culture Research Unit on “Network Studies”
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Collaborative Research Unit on “3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity” presents
Film Showing and Discussion with:
Funahashi Atsushi, Director
Aaron Gerow, Yale University
17:00-20:00, July 25, 2014
Room 508, Building 2, Sophia University
This event is organized by Institute of Comparative Culture Research Unit on “3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity”
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2014
Maps of the Fukushima Nuclear Disaster
Ryo Morimoto, PhD Student, Brandeis University, Research Fellow at the Institute of Comparative Culture, Sophia University
18:30-20:00, July 23, 2014
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
This event is organized by Institute of Comparative Culture Research Unit on “3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity”
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2014
State, People and Protests
Anthony Dias, SJ, Jesuit priest of the Province of Mumbai and heads the Xavier Institute of Social Research (XISR)
18:30-20:00, July 21, 2014
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
This event is organized by Institute of Comparative Culture Research Unit on “3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity”
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Collaborative Research Unit on “3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity” presents
With featured Guest:
Guy Standing, Professor of Development Economics, SOAS
17:00-20:00, July 19, 2014
Room 508, Building 2, Sophia University
This event is organized by Institute of Comparative Culture Research Unit on “3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity”
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2014
The Materiality of Writing and the Early History of Japanese-English Translation
Michael Emmerich, Associate Professor in the Department of Asian Languages and Cultures at UCLA
17:30-19:00, July 17, 2014
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
This event is organized by Institute of Comparative Culture research unit "Japanese Literature in Motion"
A screening of a documentary film
The Mixed-Race Experience in Japan
17:00-19:00, July 11, 2014
Room 508, Building 2, Sophia University
This event is organized by Institute of Comparative Culture and The Council on International Educational Exchange (CIEE) Tokyo Study Center
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2014
Abe Kôbô and the Politics of Fantasy
Darcy Gauthier, PhD Candidate at the University of Toronto, Centre for Comparative Literature
17:00-18:30, July 10, 2014
Room L-912, Sophia University Library 9F
A screening of a documentary film
The Souls of Zen 3/11 Japan Special
18:30-20:00, June 20, 2014
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
This event is organized by Institute of Comparative Culture Research Unit on “3.11 as Crisis and Opportunity”
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2014
Japanese-American and their Lived Experiences in a Multicultural Society
Emi Moriuchi, Hawai'i Pacific University
17:00-18:30, June 16, 2014
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2014
Hiroshi Aoyagi, Professor in the School of Asia 21 of Kokushikan University
17:00-18:30, June 13, 2014
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2014
The Forgotten Story of the 135,000 Chinese Who Worked for the French and British Armies during World War One
Mark O'Niell, Author of "Chinese Labour Corps"
17:30-19:00, June 4, 2014
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2014
Desiring Sex and Longing for Love:
William Jankowiak, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas
17:30-19:00, June 2, 2014
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2014
Twanging Bows and Throwing Rice:
Warding Off Evil in Medieval Japanese Birth Scenes
Yui Suzuki, Associate Professor of Japanese Art at the University of Maryland
17:30-19:00, May 30, 2014
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2014
The Posthumanist Quest for the Universal:
Butler, Badiou, Žižek
Mari Ruti, Professor of Critical Theory, University of Toronto
17:00-18:30, May 22, 2014
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University