PUBLIC EVENTS 2016 ~ 2017
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2016
Hate Speech and the Gendered Burden of Care:
Anti-Discrimination Politics in Japan
Vivian Shaw, PhD Candidate in the Department of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin, Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Comparative Culture (ICC) at Sophia University, and a Japan Society for the Promotion of Science (JSPS) fellow
18:30-20:00 March 21, 2017
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2016
On the Legibility of Transnational Ideologies in World Literary Systems
Jordan A. Y. Smith, Ph.D., Comparative Literature, UCLA, Associate Professor of International Humanities at Josai International University
18:30-20:00 January 31, 2017
Room 821, 8F, Library, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Global Food Project presents two events with
Anna Greenspan, Assistant Professor of Global Contemporary Media at NYU Shanghai.
Moveable Feasts: Street Food in the 21st Century City (Public Lecture)
18:30-20:00 January 23, 2017
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Deep Mapping Shanghai’s Culinary Neighborhoods (Workshop)
16:30-18:00 January 24, 2017
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2016
Some Thoughts on Dolls, Robots, and Significant Otherness, Sacred and Profane
Fabio Gygi, Lecturer in Anthropology with Reference to Japan, SOAS
18:30-20:00 January 19, 2017
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2016
ICT and the Drive to Reform Japanese Education
Gerald K. LeTendre, Harry L. Batschelet II Professor of Educational Administration at the Pennsylvania State University and editor of The American Journal of Education
17:00-18:30, December 16, 2016
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2016
Of Matter, Spirits, and Places
Japanese Discourses on The Bodies of the Shinto Divinities (Kami)
Fabio Rambelli, University of California, Santa Barbara
18:30-20:00, December 15, 2016
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2016
Manga Defined through History, c. 1920
Miriam Wattles, UCSB Associate Professor in Art History, ICC Visiting Scholar
18:30-20:00, December 8, 2016
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2016
Reflections on a Period of Transition, Volatility, and Change in the Global System
Yves Tiberghien, Director, Institute of Asian Research, Associate Professor, Department of Political Science, The University of British Columbia
17:00-18:30, December 5, 2016
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2016
Immigrant Kinship Groups and the Making of the Tenjukoku Shūchō Mandara
Chari Pradel, Professor of Art History, California State Polytechnic University, Pomona
18:30-20:00, December 1, 2016
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture for SORW
The Holy Relics of Ananda and the Dragon Girl’s Jewel:
As Depicted in the Honpo-ji Lotus Sutra Mandala
Shizuko Haraguchi, Toyama Prefectural University
18:30-20:00, November 21, 2016
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture for SORW
Checking My Translations with Murakami and Sōseki
Jay Rubin, Professor of Japanese Literature at the University of Washington from 1975 to 1993 and at Harvard University from 1993 to 2006
17:00-18:30, November 11, 2016
Room 921, 9F, Library Building, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2016
Gender and Needlecraft in Early Modern Japan
Christine Guth, taught Asian design history at the Royal College of Art, London from 2007 to 2016
18:30-20:00, October 24, 2016
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2016
Buddhism and the Transformation of Old Age in Medieval Japan
Edward Drott, Associate Professor of Japanese Religions at Sophia University
18:00-19:30, October 17, 2016
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2016
Koichi Iwabuchi, Monash Asia Institute, Monash University
18:30~20:30 , October 14, 2016
L-821, 8F, Library, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents:
Territorial Dispute and Social Activism in Japan and Korea
Speakers:
Alexander Bukh, Senior Lecturer in International Relations at Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.
Nils Clauss, Cinematographer and Photographer
18:30~20:30 (approx.) , October 3, 2016
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2016
Development of Transitional Economy under Economic Globalization
The case of Vietnam
Nguyen Viet Khoi, Associate Dean, Faculty of International Business and Economics, UEB, Vietnam National University, Hanoi
18:30-20:00, July 28, 2016
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2016
Xinjiang from the Han point of view
Tom Cliff, ARC-funded post-doctoral fellow based at ANU’s School of Culture, History, and Language
18:30-20:00, July 21, 2016
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2016
The Politics of Translating Manga Today
Patrick W. Galbraith, received a Ph.D. in Information Studies from the University of Tokyo, and is currently pursuing a second Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology at Duke University
18:30-20:00, July 19th, 2016
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2016
The everyday politics of Chinese migrant media practices in Japan
Jamie Coates, JSPS Postdoctoral Fellow in the Graduate School of Asia-Pacific Studies at Waseda University, and co-convenor for the European Association of Social Anthropology (EASA) Anthropology and Mobility Network (ANTHROMOB)
18:30-20:00, July 12, 2016
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents a workshop on:
Organized by Caroline Hirasawa, Sophia University
Presenters:
Benedetta Lomi, University of Virginia
Brian Ruppert, University of Illinois
Steven Trenson, Hiroshima University
This workshop is organized by the ICC Collaborative Research Unit 'Materialities of the Sacred"
14:00-18:00, July 9, 2016
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia Symposium
Political Cultures and the Politics of “Japanese Studies” in Japan and the Asia Pacific
Flyer of the symposium can be downloaded from HERE
14:00-18:00, July 4, 2016
Library, 9F, L-911, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2016
Three Genres of Earth Art in Postwar Japan
Bert Winther-Tamaki, Professor of Art History at the University of California, Irvine, ICC Visiting Scholar
18:30-20:00, July 7, 2016
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2016
Selling Dreams in a Tokyo Host Club
Akiko Takeyama, Associate Professor of Anthropology and Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Kansas
18:30-20:00, June 29, 2016
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2016
a thought experiment
Annika Pissin, Researcher at the Center for East and South-East Asian Studies at Lund University, Sweden
17:00-18:30, June 27, 2016
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2016
Yamada Waka and Her Place in Early Twentieth-Century Japanese Feminism
Rika Saito, Associate Professor of Japanese in the Department of World Languages and Literatures at Western Michigan University
18:30-20:00, June 23, 2016
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2016
Body, Sickness, and Writing in the Meiji Period
Robert Tierney, Associate Professor of Japanese and Comparative Literature in the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, ICC Visiting Fellow
18:30-20:00, June 21, 2016
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2016
Constructing a Satisfying Life Abroad and the Art of Crossing Boundaries
Adam Komisarof, Professor of Intercultural Communication and Acculturation in Keio University's Faculty of Letters
18:30-20:00, June 15, 2016
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2016
The Train that Ran Through Monet’s Garden
James H. Rubin, Stony Brook University, State University of New York
18:30-20:00, June 13, 2016
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2016 presents a film screening in cooperation with Cinema Yugo
Supported by Embassy of the Republic of Macedonia in Japan; Embassy of the Republic of Serbia in Japan and Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Japan
Punk’s Not Dead (Панкот не е мртов)
Moderated by Kyoko Hirano, Film historian
Introduction by Masumi Kameda, University of Tokyo
Discussion by Andrijana Cvetkovik, Ambassador of Republic of Macedonia and film scholar
18:00-20:00, June 10, 2016
8F, Library, Rm 821, Sophia University
Film in Macedonian and Albanian／with English subtitles / Talks in English (No translation)
This event is supported by Embassy of the Republic of Macedonia in Japan; Embassy of the Republic of Serbia in Japan and Embassy of the Republic of Slovenia in Japan
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2016 with the Society for the Study of Image & Gender (Imēji & Gendā Kenkyūkai)
Katsura Yuki and the Stakes of Exposure
Namiko Kunimoto, Assistant Professor in the Department of History of Art at The Ohio State University, currently a Japan Foundation Fellow in Tokyo
13:00-15:00, June 4, 2016
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents:
Roundtable Participants:
James Farrer, Professor of Sociology and Global Studies at Sophia University
David Wank, Professor of Sociology and Director of the Graduate Program in Global Studies at Sophia University
Stephanie Assmann, Specially Appointed Professor in the Modern Japanese Studies Program at Hokkaido University
Chair:
Chuanfei Wang, Postdoctoral Fellow at the Institute of Comparative Culture
Discussant:
Chris Hess, Associate Professor of History at Sophia University
13:00-15:00, June 2, 2016
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2016
Learning about the Land of the Rising Sun in the Land of the Star of David:
Japanese Studies in Israel
Ben-Ami Shillony, Professor Emeritus, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Moderator: Kono Shion, Associate Professor, Faculty of Liberal Arts, Sophia University
18:30-20:00, May 24, 2016
Library, Room: L-921, Sophia University
ICC Workshop
A workshop of presentations and discussion with “The Asia-Pacific Journal – Japan Focus”
Participants include Machiko Osawa, Huiyan Fu, Phoebe Holdgruen, David McNeill, Justin McCurry, Jeff Kingston, David H. Slater, Gavan McCormack, Mark Selden
14:00-18:00, May 22, 2016
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2016
Woman and Urban Family Medicine In the Momoyama Era:
Evidence from the Honganji jinai in Ōsaka Tenma and Kyōto Rokujō
Andrew Goble, Professor, Departments of History and of Religious Studies, University of Oregon
18:30-20:00, May 17, 2016
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2016
Global history, bodies and the material turn
Anne Gerritsen, Professor of History at the University of Warwick, and holds the Kikkoman Chair of Asia-Europe Exchange at the University of Leiden
18:30-20:00, April 15, 2016
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University