PUBLIC EVENTS 2019 ~ 2020
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2019
Akihabara and the Visual Culture of “Otaku:”
Media Booms and Moe in the Heisei Period
Patrick W. Galbraith Lecturer, School of Law, Senshū University
17:30-19:00, January. 15, 2020
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2019
The 2020 US Presidential Election:
Implications for Asia
Devin Stewart Visiting Fellow, Sophia University and Senior Fellow, Eurasia Group Foundation
18:30-20:00, December 13, 2019
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2019
Good Faith and the Proprietor’s Lot:
Jesuits and the Uncertainties of Slavery in Early Modern Japan (16-17 c.)
Rômulo da Silva Ehalt
18:00-19:30, December 12, 2019
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2019
Policing and Thought in Interwar Japan
Max Ward Associate Professor of Japanese History, Middlebury College
18:30-20:00, Dec. 10, 2019
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2019
Asia Pacific War, Japan and Gardens
Toshio Watanabe
18:00-19:30, December 5, 2019,
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2019
Czechoslovak-Japanese Interwar Relations
Daniel Lochman ICC Visiting Scholar, PhD Candidate at Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic
18:30-20:00, Dec.ember 2, 2019
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2019
A Global History of the Long Twenty First Century
Dr. Diego Olstein Professor, Department of History, University of Pittsburgh
19:00-20:30, November 25, 2019
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Special Lecture for SORW
The Trans-Urbanization of Japanese Restaurant Cuisine
by the ICC Collaborative Research Unit “the Global Japanese Cuisine Project”
James Farrer, David Wank, Chuanfei Wang, Christian Hess,
Mônica R. de Carvalho, Lenka Vyletalova
18:00-20:00 November20, 2019
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2019
Homo Empathicus and How to Save Democracy
Alexander Görlach Senior Fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs
18:00-19:30, November 18, 2019
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents a workshop on
Migrant Stories of Indian Cooks and Afghani Women in Japan
Kyoko Matsukawa Professor, Department of Sociology, Konan University
Masako Tanaka Professor, Faculty of Global Studies, Sophia University
Megha Wadhwa PhD, ICC Post Doc. Researcher, Sophia University
15:30-19:00, November 15, 2019
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2019
Would You Like That Seard or Raw?
Uncooked Chiken and the Political Ecology of Dangerous Delicacies in Japanese Cuisine
Benjamin Schrager JSPS Postdoctoral Researcher at Kyoto University
18:30-20:00, November 11, 2019
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2019
The printed book in early modern Japan:
A convergence of technology, commerce and art
Ellis TINIOS Senior Lecturer, Leeds University (retired),Research Associate of the Art Research Center, Ritsumeikan University
18:30-20:00, November 7, 2019
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2019
American Southern Millennial’s Changing Views about Same-Sex Marriage
J. Derrick Lemons University of Georgia in Athens
18:00-19:30, October 3, 2019
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2019
Japan’s Refugee Policy and Practice:
How has Refugees’ Agency Challenged Japan’s Refugee Protection Structure?
Naoko Hashimoto Associate Professor, Graduate School of Social Sciences, Hitotsubashi University
19:15-20:45, July 2, 2019
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2019
Towards a post-apocalyptic environmentalism?
Responses to loss and visions of the future in climate activism
Carl Cassegård Professor of Sociology, University of Gothenburg
19:15-20:45, July 19, 2019
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2019
1970s Tokyo through Video Hiroba's Lens
Nina Horisaki-Christens ICC Visiting Researcher, PhD Candidate, Department of Art History and Archaeology, Columbia University
19:05-20:35, July 18, 2019
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents a workshop
Anthropologist and/or Practitioner?:
Plural ontologies in the worlds of Mindfulness and Coaching
Yuki Imoto, Keio University, Japan.
Hiroki Ichinose, Tokyo University of Foreign Studies
Sachiko Horiguchi, Temple University
Yi Zhu, Tsukuba University
14:00-17:30, July 15, 2019
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2019
Cartographies of (“Posthuman”) Love and Labor
Thomas Looser Associate Professor of East Asian Studies, NYU
19:15-20:45, July 9, 2019
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2019
The Greater East Asia Co-Prosperity Sphere and the Wars for Asia
Jeremy A. Yellen Chinese University of Hong Kong
18:00-19:30, July 8, 2019
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2019
The Female Student in the Japanese New Left
Chelsea Szendi Schieder
19:15-20:45, July 5, 2019
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
出版記念講演会（国際関係研究所・比較文化研究所共催）
グローバルな視点から見た米軍地位協定の比較研究
佐々山泰弘 国際関係研究所客員研究員
Date: 19:00~20:30, July 5th, 2019
Room 103, Building 13, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2019
Earthy Impurities in Newer Art in Japan
Bert Winther-Tamaki Professor, University of California, Irvine
18:30-20:00, July 4, 2019
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2019
Takashi Murakami, Makoto Aida, and Tabaimo - the Unholy Trinity of Horror and Violence in the Heisei Era
Aya Louisa McDonald Professor of Art History, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
18:30-20:00, July 2, 2019
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2019
Initial Findings
Jonathan A. Lanman Senior Lecturer, Queen’s University Belfast
18:00-19:30, June 27, 2019
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2019
the Heisei Castle Boom and the Long Trajectory of Castles in Modern Japan
Ran Zwigenberg Assistant Professor, Pennsylvania State University
18:00-19:30, June 26, 2019
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2019
Plotting Illness in 21st-Century Japan:
The Cancer Fiction of Ogino Anna and Yamauchi Reinan
Amanda C. Seaman Professor, Japanese Language and Literature, University of Massachusetts Amherst
18:00-19:30, June 25, 2019
Room L-821, 8F, Library, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2019
A personal discussion with Jessica Lynn
18:30-20:00, June 24, 2019
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2019
Cōnceptūal challenges in writing a history of early mōdern Japanese diplomatic relations
Birgit Tremml-Werner Postdoctoral Research Associate, University of Zurich
18:30-20:00, June 20, 2019
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2019
Ethnographic Work with Liberian Refugees in Ghana
Naohiko Omata Senior Research Officer, Refugee Studies Centre, Department of International Development, University of Oxford
19:10-20:40, June 17, 2019
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Research Unit "Digital Social Sence and Oral Narrative Research" presents a workshop on
New Migrant Flows of Refugees into Japan
Support and research with asylum seekers in Tokyo (“Refugee Voices Japan”)
13:30-17:30 June 8, 2019
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2019
Robo-Sexism in Japan and the United States
Jennifer Robertson Professor of Anthropology and the History of Art, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
17:30-19:00, June 6, 2019
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2019
Friendship and Work Culture of Women Managers in Japan:
Tokyo After Ten
Swee-Lin Ho, National University of Singapore (NUS)
Date: 19:10-20:40, May 30th, 2019
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
SIIR Seminar, Co-hosted by the Institute of Comparative Culture, Sophia University.
New Critical Spaces in Transitional Justice:
Gender, Art & Memory
Christopher Lamont Tokyo International University
Arnaud Kurze Montclair State University [New Jersey]/ New York University
Mieczysław Boduszyński Pomona College [California]
18:00-19:30, May 23, 2019
Room 103, 1F, Building 13, Sophia University
Sophia University ICC Lecture Series 2019: Book Launch
China’s Inbound Skilled Migration in the Era of Sinocentric Globalization
James Farrer
19:00-20:30, May 23, 2019
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents:
STUDENT WORKSHOP ON REFUGEES IN THE WORLD AND IN JAPAN
What happened in 2018? What is happening now? What can you do?
13:00-15:30, May 18, 2019
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2019
How We Came to Think About Terrorism:
A Conceptual History
Julian Bourg Associate Professor of History, Boston College
18:30-20:00, April 23, 2019
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2019
Middle-aged Sex Workers in Contemporary Japan
Chiaki Nishijima PhD. (Harvard) Social Anthropologist of Contemporary Japan
19:00-20:30, April 22, 2019
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2019
A Case Study on Community Mobilisation and Refugee Advocacy in the East of England.
Carlos Gigoux, Department of Sociology, University of Essex
19:00-20:30, April 18, 2019
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2019
Between a Rock and a Hard Place:
Middle Powers Amidst Global Power Shifts
Volker Stanzel, Former German Ambassador to Japan and China
19:00~20:30, April 16 2019
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University