PUBLIC EVENTS 2017 ~ 2018
International Symposium
DIGITAL HUMANITIES AND DATABASES
David H. Slater, Hashimoto Yūta, Okada Kazuhiro, Iikura Yōichi,
Yamada Taizō, Leo Born, Asano Yūsuke, Sakuma Tsutomu
10:00–17:00, March 16, 2018
Room 409, 4F, Building 2, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2017
Japan’s Modern Castles in War and Peace
Oleg Benesch, Senior Lecturer in East Asian History at the University of York
18:00-19:30, March 14, 2018
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2017
Career Guidance at Municipal Senior High Schools
Vincent B. Lesch, Ph.D. candidate at the department of Japanese Studies at the Asia-Africa-Institute/University of Hamburg
18:30-20:00, March 1, 2018
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2017
Forgetting through Remembering:
World War II Memorials and Tourism
Karl Ian Uy Cheng Chua, the Director of the Japanese Studies Program of Ateneo de Manila University in the Philippines
18:00-19:30, February 8, 2018
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2017
The Diversity and Versatility of Alleys in a City in Transition
Heide Imai, Visiting Associate Professor in the Department of Global Interdisciplinary Studies (GIS) at Hosei University and Research Associate at Keio
18:30-20:00, January 24, 2018
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Panel discussion
One year after the Women’s March
A panel discussion on activism and engaging women in policy and politics
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Sarajean Rossitto, Sophia University, Nonprofit NGO Consultant
Sumire Hamada, Asia Japan Women's Resource Center (AJWRC)
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Prof. David Slater, Coordinator, Sophia University
19:00-20:30, January 22, 2018
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2017
The Challenge of Globalization to Japan’s Food Producers
Analyzing food safety and security system building, and meeting international standard
Yohei Matsunobu, Visiting Professor at the Metropolitan University of Tokyo, Graduate School of Human Health Department
18:30-20:00, January 18, 2018
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2017
The True Story of North Korea’s Abduction Project
Robert S. Boynton, author of "The Invitation Only Zone (2016)"
18:30-20:00, January 9, 2018
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2017
Katsumata Susumu's Antinuclear Manga
Ryan Holmberg, Visiting Associate Professor, University of Tokyo
18:30-20:00, December 11, 2017
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2017
Study in America, Work in Tokyo:
Female Exchange Students Make Progress in 1960s Japan
Alisa Freedman, Associate Professor at the University of Oregon and the Editor-in-Chief of the U.S.–Japan Women’s Journal
18:30-20:00, December 8, 2017
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2017
Encounters, Convivialities, and Semiotics of Visual Ethnography in Tokyo
Jamie Coates, Visiting Collaborative Fellow at Sophia University
18:30-20:00, December 6, 2017
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2017
Moral Re-Armament and the Transwar Politics of the Japanese Right
Reto Hofmann, Lecturer in History at the University of Melbourne
18:30-20:00, November 28, 2017
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2017
Family-Company Relationship in Post-Bubble Japan
Ofra Goldstein-Gidoni, Professor, Departments of Sociology and Anthropology and East Asian Studies, Tel Aviv University
18:30-20:00, November 29, 2017
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2017
The Japanese Culture of Higher Education in Science
Yoshiro Azuma, Professor of Physics, Faculty of Science and Engineering, Sophia University
18:30-20:00, November 22, 2017
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture SORW 2017
Wine Tourism as a Cultural Experience:
The Cases of the Japanese and Chinese “Wine World”
Chuanfei Wang, Post-doctoral Research Fellow, Institute of Comparative Culture, Sophia University
17:00-19:00, November 17, 2017
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture SORW 2017
The Globalization of Japanese Gastronomy:
Examining Culinary Mobilities on a Global Scale
James Farrer (Lead investigator), David Wank, Christian Hess,
Chuanfei Wang, Lenka Vylet’alová, Mônica R. de Carvalho
18:30-20:00, November 16, 2017
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2017
Imamura Taihei and the Problem of Japanese Film Theory
Aaron Gerow, Professor of East Asian Cinema and Culture at Yale University
18:30-20:00, November 8, 2017
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2017
Cultural practice of storytelling in post-disaster Tohoku
Flavia Fulco, JSPS Post-doctoral Fellow, Visiting Researcher at the Sophia University
18:30-20:00, November 7, 2017
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2017
Rites and Relics in Sakai Hôitsu’s 1815 Korin Revival
Richard L. Wilson, Professor of Asian Art and Archaeology, International Christian University
17:30-19:00, October 30, 2017
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2017
Internationalization of Higher Education in Japan:
English Medium Instruction and a Call for Transnational Japanese Campuses
Jim McKinley, the Director of Studies for the PhD in Education at the University of Bath, UK
18:30-20:00, October 27, 2017
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2017
Cultural Trauma, Memory and Identity in Japan
Akiko Hashimoto, Visiting Professor of Sociology and Asian Studies at Portland State University
18:30-20:00, October 26, 2017
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2017
The Good, the Sad, and the Funny:
Morality and Affect in Japanese Picturebooks
Heather Blair, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University
17:30-19:00, October 12, 2017
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2017
Furukawa Hideo and the Regionality of Disaster Literature
Rachel DiNitto, Associate Professor of Japanese Literature, University of Oregon
18:30-20:00, July 21, 2017
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2017
Children and the War of Emotions
Sabine Frühstück, Professor of Modern Japanese Cultural Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara
18:30-20:00, July 20, 2017
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2017
Is your lifestyle out of stock?
Consumption patterns convergence in East Asia
Ana María GOY YAMAMOTO, Associate Professor of Japanese Studies and Member of the Centre for East Asian Studies at the Autonomous University of Madrid
18:30-20:00, July 17, 2017
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
A screening and a discussion session:
Documentary film on the Tsukiji Fish Market, the center of the culinary world of seafood
Guest speakers: Naotaro Endo (Director of the Film)
and Theodore C. Bestor (Director, Reischauer Institute of Japanese Studies, Harvard University ; author of Tsukiji: The Fish Market at the Center of the World)
19:00–21:20,July 14, 2017
Room 414, 4F, Building 2, Sophia University
"Japan Fieldwork Workshop"
The dynamics of social ties in post-disaster Japan
Impacts of the 2011 earthquake, tsunami and radiation
Julia Gerster, Ph.D. Candidate at the Graduate School of East Asian Studies (GEAS),Free University Berlin
15:00-, July 15, 2017
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2017
The Mud Man and a Woman of the Butcher Shop:
Body and Materiality in Yamashiro Chikako's Video Art
Ayelet Zohar, Tel Aviv University
18:30-20:00, July 13, 2017
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture in cooperation with the "The Social Justice Learning Collective" presents Film Showing and Discussion with Director
Till the Invisible Handcuffs are Unlocked (みえない手錠をはずすまで)
Director: Kim Sung Woong
Special Guest Appearance: Ishikawa Kazuo and Ishikawa Sachiko
8:00 (film start, with discussion to follow), July 9, 2017
Room 414, 4F, Building 2, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture in cooperation with Japan Focus: The Asia-Pacific Journal presents a Tokyo workshop on
Contemporary Crises in the Asia-Pacific
12:00-18:00, July 1, 2017
Room 301 and 407, 3F&4F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2017
Locating Lost Image Alliances in Japan
Sherry D. Fowler, Professor of Art History at the University of Kansas
17:30-19:00, June 22, 2017
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2017
Paul Anderer, Director of Undergraduate Studies in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures, The University of Columbia
17:00-18:30, June 9, 2017
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture film screening presented in cooperation with Cinema Yugo
(2014, 90 min., in German, Italian and Croatian with English subtitles)
Directed by Regina Schilling
Moderator Nobuhiro Shiba, Josai International University
Introduced and discussion by Masumi Kameda, University of Tokyo
18:00-20:00(approx.), June 6, 2017
Room L-921, 9F, Central Library, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2017
Chefs, Trends, and Tastes at the World’s Best Restaurants and Beyond
Crystyl Mo, Founding editor of Time Out Shanghai
18:00-19:30, June 5, 2017
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2017
Remapping the Movements of People, Objects, and Knowledge across Asia-Pacific
Mariko Iijima, Associate Professor at the Faculty of Foreign Studies, and the director of the Institute of American and Canadian Studies at Sophia University
17:00-18:30, May 29, 2017
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2017
Agency and Materiality in the Collection of Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543-1616)
Morgan Pitelka, Professor of Asian Studies and History and Director of the Carolina Asia Center at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
18:30-20:00, May 25, 2017
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2017
The Limits of Reason in Post 3.11 Japan
Michael Fisch, Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology, the University of Chicago
18:30-20:00, May 22, 2017
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2017
Young urban migrants in the Japanese countryside between hope and precarity:
Post-growth forms of living and working, creative depopulation and living for the moment
Susanne Klien, Associate Professor, Modern Japanese Studies Program, Hokkaido University
19:00-20:30, May 18, 2017
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2017
“What was sacred in Japan’s “sacred war”? :
the boundaries of the sacred and profane in wartime kamishibai”
Sharalyn Orbaugh, Professor of Asian Studies, the University of British Columbia
17:30-19:00, May 11, 2017
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2017
News, the Media, Entertainment, Information and Fakery
David Schlesinger, Founder & Managing Director, Tripod Advisors, former Editor-in-Chief, Reuters
18:30-20:00, April 21 2017
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University’s Institute of Comparative Culture (ICC) and the Asian Rural Institute (ARI)
Learning from the Past, Visioning a Sustainable Future
Panelists
Tomoko Arakawa, Asian Rural Institute
Steven Cutting, Asian Rural Institute
Bev Abma, Board Director, American Friends of the Asian Rural Institute
Moderator
Sarajean Rossitto, Sophia University
Commentator
David Slater, Sophia University
19:00-20:30, April 20 2017
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University