Memory, Resistance, and Universal Women’s Rights in Stintino, Sardinia Dr. Agnese Dionisio January 8, 2026, 18:00-19:30 Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University In person only/No registration required   This talk is based on research I have conducted for a paper on the first “Statue of Peace” (평화의 소녀상) installed in Italy, in the small coastal town of Stintino, Sardinia, on June 22, 2024. Drawing on fieldwork and interviews conducted in May–June 2025, the talk explo

Aesthetic Figurations of Neo-Japonisme in the French Cinematic Avant-Garde - Far Away, So Close Anne-Gaëlle Saliot December 18, 2025 17:30-19:00 Room301, 3F, building 10, Sophia University In person only / No registration required This talk reconsiders postwar French cinematic modernism through the lens of neo-Japonisme , not as thematic citation but as a structural and epistemic operation. While the influence of the French New Wave on Japanese directors like Ōshima, Imam

Ian Johnson Copyright: Sim Chi Yin Dec 16, 2025, 17:30-19:00 10-301, 3F, building 10, Sophia University In person and on ZOOM Please register from here: https://forms.office.com/r/HDsqJ8AEYJ This coming May marks the Cultural Revolution's 60th anniversary, which will result in a barrage of media reports of what is often portrayed as modern China's greatest tragedy--an event on par with Pol Pot's atrocities and even the Holocaust. The Cultural Revolution was hugely important: