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PUBLIC EVENTS 2025 ~ 2026

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2025​​

Foreign Policy Between Diplomacy and Reconciliation:

The German-Greek Paradigm 2014–2024

Dr. Charalampos (Babis) Karpouchtsis, Director of the Civic Education division at the Democratic Resilience Center (DRC) of HSU

July 14, 2025, 17:30-19:00

Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University

In person only

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2025​​

The Invention of the Kamikaze:

Dissent and Resistance in the Japanese Military 

Nick Kapur, Associate Professor of History at Rutgers University’s Camden Campus

July 9, 2025, 17:30-19:00

Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University

In person only

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Sophia University ICC Collaborative Research Unit "Refugees and Migrants in Tokyo" unit and Chiba University Research on Migration and Refugee Studies presents a special seminar on​​

 

Refugee resettlement in England and Japan:

Outcomes and experiences​

Date: July 2, 2025

Time: 5:30 pm -7:30 pm (JST)

Format: Hybrid

In-person: Room 301, Building 10, Sophia University

Online: ZOOM: Please register from here: https://forms.office.com/r/ap2qXTLzA8

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2025​​

Precarious Worlds in China’s Creative Industries:

‘Underground’ drag, clubbing and indie in Shanghai 

Mick Vierbergen, PhD candidate at the Department of Humanities and Creative Writing of the Hong Kong Baptist University

July 1, 2025, 18:00-19:30

Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University

In person only

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The Department of English Studies and the Institute of Comparative Culture Sophia University present

Michinoku Power

July 10, 2025, 18:00-20:30

Sophia University Yotsuya Campus, Bldg. 2, Room 401

Free admission.

Registration is NOT required. 

日本語はこちらから

For more details click here.

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents a screening of a documentary film​

In-between:

In Search of Native Language Spaces

(はざま-母語のための場所を探して)

July 16, 2025, 18:00-20:00

Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University

Please register from HERE: https://forms.office.com/r/zYXAyeFkdc

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上智大学比較文化研究所/フォーダム大学/ 安倍フェローシップ・米国社会科学研究評議会(SSRC)プロジェクト “Consent” in Sexual Violence: Cross-Cultural Perspectives in Japan and the US 主催 共同研究発表シンポジウム

日本における性的同意

国内大規模調査の分析結果

July 6, 2025, 13:00-16:30

オンライン(要事前登録)

事前登録はこちらから: https://fhttps://forms.office.comorms.office.com/r/

本イベントは 2 日間にわたって開催されます。7 月 5 日(初日)は対面で行われ、発表は英語で実施されます(事前登録不要)。7 月 6 日(2 日目)はオンラインで行われ、発表は日本語で実施されます(事前登録が必要です)。

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture, Fordham University, Abe/SSRC project “Consent in Sexual Violence: Cross-Cultural Perspectives in Japan and the US presents a symposium:

Sexual Consent in Japan:

Analyses from the Nationwide Survey on Sexual Violence

July 5, 2025, 13:00-16:30

Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University

In person / No registration required

​This is a two-day event. The first day, July 5th, will be in-person, with presentations conduct-ed in English (no registration required). The second day, July 6th, will be held online (regis-tration required), with presentations conducted in Japanese. 

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2025​

The Politics of Generational Divides in Ageing Societies:

​A Comparison of Japan and Germany

Steffen Heinrich, Political Scientist

June 26, 2025 / 17:30-19:00

Room 301, Building 10, Sophia University

In person / No registration required

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Sophia Institute of International Relations and the Institute of Comparative Culture, Sophia University present: ​

World Exhibitions in Japan:

Stepping Stones in Japan-Bulgaria Relations

Evgeniy Kandilarov, Associate Professor of East Asian Studies at the Japanese Studies Department of Sofia University (Bulgaria)

May 23, 2025 / 17:30~19:00  

SIIR Conference Room (1F, Building 13, Sophia University)  

Hy-flex Format (No Pre-Registration Required) 

Access to the venue:https://dept.sophia.ac.jp/is/ir/access/ 

Zoom information for online participants:  

Meeting ID: 918 7904 0046  

Pass Code: 656726  

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2025​

The Making of Contemporary Japan in the Hispanic Imaginaries

Javier Pérez-Jara, Assistant Professor of Philosophy and East Asian Studies at the University of Seville and Faculty Fellow at Yale’s Center for Cultural Sociology

June 18, 2025 / 18:30-20:00

Room 301, Building 10, Sophia University

In Person

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2025​

Polities, Mobilities, and Materiality through the Border Infrastructure of the Thailand – Myanmar Borders, Pre- and Post- Myanmar Coup 2021

Busarin Lertchavalitsakul, Lecturer in the Development Studies Program, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Faculty of Social Sciences at Naresuan University, Thailand

June 6, 2025 / 15:30-19:00

Room L-821, 8F, Sophia Library

In Person only
No registration required

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2025​

Low-wage Labour Migration Regimes in Asia:

Lessons from across the governance spectrum

Arwen Joyce, Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in Law at the University of Leicester, UK

June 17, 2025 / 15:30-19:00

Room 301, Building 10, Sophia University

In Person only
No registration required

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2025​

The “Crisis” of Sociality:

Caring for the Dead Otherwise

Anne Allison, Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Duke University

May 23 2025 / 18:00-19:30

Room 301, Building 10, Sophia University

In Person only
No registration required

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2025​

Ambivalent Images:

‘Multi-’ Singapore, Racial-Singaporeans, and Trouble at the Hyphen

Joshua Babcock, Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Brown University and a Faculty Affiliate in the Programs in Linguistics, STS, and the Southeast Asian Studies Initiative

June 6 2025 / 17:30-19:00

Format: Hybrid  Online only

Venue: Room 301, 3F, Building 10,

Sophia University

ZOOM: https://sophia-ac-jp.zoom.us/j/99851934434

Meeting ID: 998 5193 4434

Passcode: singapore

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2025​

The Rise of Japanese Cuisine in Iceland:

From Asian to New Nordic Influences?

Kristín Ingvarsdóttir, Assistant Professor of Contemporary Japanese Studies, University of Iceland

June 5 2025 / 17:30-19:30

Room 301, Building 10, Sophia University

In Person only
No registration required

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2025​

The Legacy of the Japanese Peace Preservation Law at its Centennial

Organizers:

     Mahon MURPHY, Kyoto University

     Max WARD, Middlebury College

Participants:

     Ariel ACOSTA, Waseda University

     MORI Yasuo, Doshisha University

     John PERSON, State University of New York, Albany

     Sven SAALER, Sophia University

May 29 2025 / 17:30-19:00

Room 301, Building 10, Sophia University

In Person
No registration required

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上智大学ヨーロッパ研究所主催(共催:上智大学比較文化研究所)講演会​​

Imitate, Reuse, Recycle:

for a New Approach to the Italian Filoni

Prof. Stefano Baschiera, Professor in Film and Screen Industries at  Queen’s University Belfast

June 2 2025 / 18:00-19:30

Venue: L-821(上智大学中央図書館/Central Library, Sophia University)

Registration:不要

Admission free.

No registration required.

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A Screening and a discussion session hosted by Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture

Home in the Making

A film by Megha Wadhwa based on a research project led by five women exploring skilled migration in Asia.

May 17, 2025 / 16:00-17:30

Room 309, 3F, Building 2, Sophia University

In person only

Please register from here: https://forms.office.com/r/zB6azZLs4G

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2025​

Hiroshima: The Last Witnesses

A Writer’s Journey

M. G. Sheftall, Professor of Modern Japanese Cultural History and Communication at Shizuoka University

May 12, 2025 / 17:30-19:00

Format: Hybrid

Venue: Room 301 (Subject to change)

Zoom: https://sophia-ac-jp.zoom.us/j/98529658944

Meeting-ID: 985 2965 8944

Passcode: bucky

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2025​

Ecological Imaginaries in Civil Data in Post-Nuclear Japan

Ina Kim, Environmental and Medical Anthropologist

May 9, 2025 / 17:30-19:00

Room 301, Building 10, Sophia University

In Person only
No registration necessary

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2025​

Reading Family Albums:

Indian Immigrants in Tokyo, 1976-2010

Bakirathi Mani, Presidential Penn Compact Professor of English, University of Pennsylvania

May 14, 2025 / 18:30-20:00

Room 301, Building 10, Sophia University

In Person only
No registration necessary

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2025​

Remittance as Belonging:

Global Migration, Transnationalism, and the Quest for Home

Hasan Mahmud, Assistant Professor in Residence at Northwestern University in Qatar

April 30, 2025 / 17:30-19:00

Room 301, Building 10, Sophia University
No registration necessary

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2025​

Understanding and Explaining Bad Leadership:

The Strange Case of Prime Minister Liz Truss

Dr Mark Bennister, Academic Researcher

April 29, 2025 / 17:30-19:00

Room 301, Building 10, Sophia University
In person only 
No registration necessary

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2025​

From Taiwan Subjects to Overseas Taiwanese to Taiwan Provincials:

Being Taiwanese in Early Post-war Japan

Evan Dawley, Associate Professor of History at Goucher College

April 28, 2025 / 17:30-19:00 (JST) Hybrid (In person and on Zoom) Venue: Room 301, 3F, building 10, Sophia University
Join Zoom Meeting: 
https://sophia-ac-jp.zoom.us/j/97766723579

Meeting ID: 977 6672 3579 Passcode: 927760

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2025​

Myanmar Post-Coup:

The Role of Students, Academics, and Universities in the Struggle Against Authoritarianism

Licia Proserpio, Research Fellow at the Department of History and Culture – University of Bologna (Italy) and Adjunct Professor at the School of Liberal Studies at UPES (India)

April 23, 2025, 19:00~20:30

Room 301, Building 10, Sophia University

In person only

No registration required

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture and the European Institute present a talk and a film Screening with Dr. Elisabeth Brun

NYKSUND RELOADED and BIG TECH BLUES

A talk “Utopian Signals :

Reactivating a 1980´s Ecotopia through Archive & Media Art”

Followed by a film screening of Big Tech Blues (2025)

Elizabeth BrunFilmmaker, Visual Artist, and Researcher working at the intersection of Media theory, artistic research, and public space

April 21, 2025, 18:00~20:00

Room 301, Building 10, Sophia University

In person only

No registration required

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2025​

Mou Zongsan and AI ethics

Anna GreenspanAssociate Professor of Global Contemporary Media, NYU Shanghai

April 24, 2025, 19:00~20:30

Room 301, Building 10, Sophia University

In person only

No registration required

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2025​

Religious Change  in Post-Mao China

Yanfei SunAssociate Professor of Sociology at Zhejiang University

April 17, 2025, 18:30~20:00

Room 301, Building 10, Sophia University

In person only

No registration required

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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2025​

Art of Questioning in Analytic Qualitative Sociology

Dingxin ZhaoDirector of the Center for Advanced Studies in Human-ities at Zhejiang University and Max Palevsky Professor Emeritus of Sociology at the University of Chicago

April 16, 2025, 18:00~19:30

Room 301, Building 10, Sophia University

In person only

No registration required

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