a film by Megha Wadhwa June 30, 2026 / 18:00-19:30 Room L-821 (8F, Library) / No registration necessary Discussant: David Slater (Professor emeritus, Sophia University) Home, Elsewhere follows Karan, a Gen Z migrant from India navigating his life in Berlin. What begins as a chance encounter with the filmmaker—an anthropologist who left India 20 years ago—evolves into a four-year long-term observation of Karan’s migrant life in transition. From the structured world of a stud

Javier Pérez-Jara In this talk, I examine how digital journalism and social media in the Spanish-speaking world have often circulated the perception that Japan faces an imminent economic collapse. I identify several factors shaping this apocalyptic narrative: orientalist tropes and misunderstand ing of cultural codes, political propaganda, cognitive biases, and the algorithmic dynamics of digital platforms. Against accounts that portray Japan as a dying society trapped by p

Repetition and stagnation in dreams of artificial intelligence Sun-ha Hong Date: July 2, 2026 (Thursday) Time: 17:30-19:00 Venue: 2-508, 5F, Building 2, Sophia University Format: In-person only / No prior registration necessary The technological future bears down on us today with a suffocating universality, described already by Bertolt Brecht in 1939: “I stood on a hill and I saw the Old approaching, but it came as the New.” Futures sketched boldly on powerpoint slides