October 3-4, 2026 Room 1702, Building 2, Sophia University Organizers: Megha Wadhwa, David H. Slater (Sophia University) and Michiel Baas (Leiden University) Digital technologies have long shaped how migrants sustain family ties, navigate borders, and build belonging. Artificial intelligence now pushes this further—promising to smooth language barriers and settlement, yet raising the question of whether such tools genuinely help or foster dependence that erodes the drive to

Ivo Plšek July 23 (Thu), 2026 / 18:00-19:30 Room 301, 3F, building 10, Sophia University In person only / No registration required Building (1号棟右側) on the site of the Harbin bioweapon facility of Unit 731/ Wikimedia Commons How has Unit 731 been portrayed on Japanese screens since 1945? Drawing on a corpus of 300 war-related screen works, this talk identifies 17 feature films, television dramas, and documentaries that have engaged directly or indirectly with the history of

June Hee Kwon July 24, 2026 (Friday)/ 17:30-19:00 Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University In person only No prior registration required Borderland Dreams: The Transnational Lives of Korean Chinese Workers (Duke University Press, 2023), examines how Korean Chinese workers' collective aspiration for the "Korean Dream" emerged at the intersection of post-socialist China and post-Cold War South Korea. This book argues that this aspiration was not merely an individual des