PUBLIC EVENTS 2024 ~ 2025
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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Collaborative Research Unit
Refugees and Migrants in Tokyo: An Oral Narrative Approach presents
Refugee Stories Through Comics, Games, Videos, and Websites:
Making Asylum Research Resonate with Broader Audiences
Gregg Bucken-Knapp, Professor of Public Administration at the University of Gothenburg (Sweden)
Rosa Barbaran, Independent Filmmaker and Producer based in Tokyo
David Slater, Professor of Cultural Anthropology at Sophia University
Dec 22, 2024, Sunday, 16:00-18:00
Room 301, Building 10, Sophia University
In person only
No registration required
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2024
Perinatal Health Inequalities by Immigration Status in Canada
Seungmi Yang, Associate Professor in the Department of Epidemiology, Bio-statistics and Occupational Health at McGill University
Dec 20, 2024, 17:30-19:00
Room 301, Building 10, Sophia University
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Film Screening & Discussion
A film by Megha Wadhwa based on a research project led by five women exploring skilled migration in Asia
Date: 16th December 2024
Time: 11:00 to 13:00
Venue: Hittorfstr. 18, Altbau (Berlin) Lecture hall (Hörsaal) 010/011
Workshop Series “Insider Perspectives: Scholars Investigating their Own Cultural Milieu in Japan” organized by Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Collaborative Research Unit Refugees and Migrants in Tokyo: An Oral Narrative Approach
Transnational Repression and Resilience in the Myanmar Diaspora
Special Discussant: Tin Tin Htun, Professor, Sophia University
December 14, 2024, 17:00 - 19:00
Format: ONLINE Only
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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2024
Sustainability of Traditional Folk Textile Dyeing in Japan and Continuity of the Tradition
Maria J. Santamaria Hergueta, PhD in Medical Sciences in Japan and a DrPH in Organizational Management in the UK
December 17, 2024, 18:00 - 19:30
Room 301, Building 10, Sophia University
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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2024
Cognitive Insights into Magical Realism and Healing
Cristina Garcia Miguel, PhD candidate in Comparative Literature at University College London
November 27, 2024, 13:30 - 15:00
Room 301, Building 10, Sophia University
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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2024
Anime’s Transnational Animation Performances
Stevie Suan, Associate Professor at Hosei University’s Faculty of Global and Interdisciplinary Studies
December 6, 2024, 18:00 - 19:30
Room 301, Building 10, Sophia University
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Sophia University ICC presents a special preview screening of
The film is in Japanese with English subtitles. (Film duration: 85 minutes)
December 14, 2024, Saturday, Screening from 18.00
Library, Room 911 (Doors open at 17.30)
Followed by a Q and A with the Puppets and a Live Tanuki.
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2024
Multicultural Education Nexus:
Immigration, Ethnic Enclaves, and Stratification
Joon K. Kim, Professor of Social Studies Education at Seoul National University
November 29, 2024, 17:30 - 19:00
Room 301, Building 10, Sophia University
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Sophia University, Institute of Comparative Culture (ICC) In Association with Renewable Energy Institute (REI), Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung (FES) and Heinrich-Böll-Stiftung (HBS) presents
The Japan Launch
The World Nuclear Industry Status Report 2024
November 15, 2024, 11:00 - 13:00
Language: English / Japanese (Simultaneous translation)
Venue: Sophia University Yotsuya Campus, Building 2, 17th Floor, Room 1702
Registration: (Max seat capacity: 100) https://forms.office.com/r/BaA8GFtTG1
ICC Sophia University and the Free University of Berlin presents an Online Lecture Series, Migration, Memory, and the Art of Storytelling on Film
In discussion with Özgür Çiçek
Özgür Çiçek, Film Scholar, Researcher, and Lecturer in the Media and Culture Department at the University of Amsterdam
November 12, 2024, 18:00 - 20:00
On Zoom
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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Collaborative Research Unit “Network Studies” International Symposium
Showcasing the Japan Biographical Database (JBDB)
November 9 2024, 10:00-17:30
In Person: 2-414, 4F, Building 2, Sophia University
Zoom: https://sophia-ac-jp.zoom.us/j/91601237353
Meeting ID: 916 0123 7353
Passcode: 070578
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2024
What Do the Riots in UK Portend?
Dr. Venkat Iyer, BSc (Hons), LLB, LLM, PhD, FHEA, Barrister
October 29, 2024, 17:30 -19:00
Room 301, Building 10, Sophia University
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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2024
The German-Japanese Military Alliance in World War II
Bernd Martin, Professor Emeritus of Freiburg University
October 31, 2024, 18:00 -19:30
Room 301, Building 10, Sophia University
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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2024
“Feminists, Lesbians, Boys Love Artists and Fans”:
Rethinking “Women” in 1970s–1980s Japan
James Welker, Professor in the Department of Cross-Cultural Studies at Kanagawa University
October 25, 2024, 18:00 -19:30
Room 301, Building 10, Sophia University
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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents a documentary film showing of
“A Century of Jazz in Shanghai”
Andrew Field, Associate Professor of Chinese History at Duke Kunshan University in China
October 2, 2024, 17:15 - 20:00
Room 301, Building 10, Sophia University
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ICC Sophia University and the Free University of Berlin presents an Online Lecture Series, Migration, Memory, and the Art of Storytelling on Film
Unheard Stories of Migrant Women
Screening & discussion with Megha Wadhwa
Megha Wadhwa, Anthropologist, Filmmaker, and Writer based at the Free University of Berlin’s Japanese Studies Department
October 22, 2024, 18:00 - 20:00
On Zoom
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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture based Abe/SSRC project “Consent” in Sexual Violence: Cross-Cultural Perspectives in Japan and the US presents
Film Screening of “Company Retreat” (w/English subtitles)
with discussion with the director, the actress, and Dr. Machiko Osawa (Nihon Women’s university
Date: 18th October 2024, 17:00-21:00
Room Auditorium, Building 10, Sophia University (Venue has changed)
No registration required/Free of charge
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2024
Li Huai, Faculty of the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego
October 4, 2024, 18:00 - 19:30
Room 301, Building 10, Sophia University
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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2024
Women in Chinese Silent Cinema
Paul G. Pickowicz, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History and Chinese Studies at the University of California, San Diego
October 3, 2024, 18:00 - 19:30
Room 301, Building 10, Sophia University
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ICC Sophia University and the Free University of Berlin presents an Online Lecture Series, Migration, Memory, and the Art of Storytelling on Film
Screening & discussion with Zakaria Mohamed Ali
Zakaria Mohamed Ali, Somali Journalist, Video-Maker, and Freelance Documentary Filmmaker
September 17, 2024, 18:00 - 20:00
On Zoom
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ICC Sophia University and the Free University of Berlin presents an Online Lecture Series, Migration, Memory, and the Art of Storytelling on Film
Screening & discussion with Laura Liverani
Laura Liverani, Documentary Photographer and Filmmaker
August 13, 2024, 18:00 - 20:00
On Zoom
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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2024
‘Farmer-filmmakers, fieldwork, and growth’
Becca Voelcker, Goldsmiths, University of London
July 29, 2024, 18:30 - 20:00
Room L-821, 8F, Library, Sophia University
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Workshop Series “Insider Perspectives: Scholars Investigating their Own Cultural Milieu in Japan” organized by Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Collaborative Research Unit Refugees and Migrants in Tokyo: An Oral Narrative Approach
A Symposium about Syrians in Japan
Dania Alakkad, Hiroshima University
Yahya Aoyagi (Almasri), University of Hyogo
Suzan Husseini, Waseda University
Mohammed Al-Masri, Waseda University
Date: July 21st, 2024, 14:00-16:30
Place: Sophia University, Yotsuya Campus, Bldg. 10, room 301
In person only
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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2024
The Intersections of the Sensory, Multimodal and Ba:
Steven C. Fedorowicz, Asian Studies Program, Kansai Gaidai University
July 17, 2024, 18:00 - 19:30
Room 402, 4F, Building 2, Sophia University
No registration necessary / In Person Only
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ICC co-hosts an exhibition
In celebration of World Refugee Day "Beyond Borders: Voices of Dreams & Hopes in Japan"
A photo exhibition co-hosted by Sophia Refugee Support Group and the institute of Comparative Culture, supported by the Catholic Jesuit Center
At Building 2 Entrance, Sophia University
July 1st – July 30th
ICC co-hosts a workshop
Mapping ecological distribution conflicts, framing environmental justice movements
KASA Sustainability Environmental Change Workshop Series (Two-day workshop)
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Reading Workshop: July 18 (Thu) @ RM. 10-428, 12:00 PM
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Speaker Workshop: July 19 (Fri) @RM. 10-428, 5:00 PM has changed to an online format. Detailed announcement can be read here.
https://www.icc-sophia.com/post/mapping-ecological-distribution-conflicts-framing-environmental-justice-movements -
Time: Jul 19, 2024 05:00 PM Osaka, Sapporo, Tokyo
Join Zoom Meeting
https://sophia-ac-jp.zoom.us/j/91345447534
Meeting ID: 913 4544 7534
Passcode: KASA2024
Naw Thiri May Aye, Assistant Professor at the Sustainable Society Design Center within the Graduate School of Frontier Sciences at the University of Tokyo
Please register here
ICC co-hosts a lecture
Doing Gender and Doing the Work
Tricia Okada, Associate Professor at the Center for English as a Lingua Franca, Tamagawa University in Tokyo
July 18, 2024, 18:30 - 20:00
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
No registration necessary / In Person Only
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2024
TRANSGRESSION, PERFORMANCE AND RITUAL
Igor Prusa, Ph.D. et Ph.D. (Ambis University Prague)
July 4, 2024, 17:30 - 19:00
Room 6-407, 4F, Building 6,, Sophia University
No registration necessary / In Person Only
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2024
Fuses and Structure Leading to “Gaza”:
An introduction to the Question of Palestine
Hani Abdelhadi, Senior Assistant Professor at Meiji University. Ph.D. in Media and Governance (Keio University, 2021)
June 28, 2024, 17:00 - 18:30
Room L-821, 8F, Library, Sophia University
In Person Only
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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2024
Documenting Migrant Foodways in the Kanto Region
Hiro Kay, NHK Director and Food Media Producer
June 24, 2024, 18:00 - 19:30
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
No registration necessary / In Person Only
ICC Sophia University and the Free University of Berlin presents an Online Lecture Series, Migration, Memory, and the Art of Storytelling on Film
Screening & discussion with Martha-Cecilia Dietrich
Martha-Cecilia Dietrich, ocial Anthropologist and Filmmaker
July 16 2024, 18:00 - 20:00
On Zoom
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POSTPONED
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture and Institute of Global Concern presents
Film showing and Discussion: Tokyo Kurds
Date: June 7, 2024
Doors Open: 17:00
Event Starts: 17:30
Closing; 20:00
Location: Sophia University, Yotsuya Campus, Bldg. 2, room 401
Register here: https://forms.office.com/r/G1t77UKGV5
This event is supported by Amnesty International Japan.
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2024
Reading Modernization as an Age of Social Isolation
Dr. Denis Newiak, Research Associate at the Chair of Applied Media Sciences at the Brandenburg University of Technology Cottbus-Senftenberg, Germany
July 17, 2024, 17:00 - 18:30
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
No registration necessary / In Person Only
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2024
Nakahira Takuma's "Amami" and the Disorientation of Yamato Space
Daniel Abbe, Lecturer at Shiga University
June 6, 2024, 18:00 - 19:30
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2024
Do We Live in a Neo-Colonial World?
Alexander Görlach, Adjunct Professor to New York City Gallatin School of Individualized Study
June 11, 2024, 18:00 - 19:30
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
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Workshop Series “Insider Perspectives: Scholars Investigating their Own Cultural Milieu in Japan” organized by Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Collaborative Research Unit Refugees and Migrants in Tokyo: An Oral Narrative Approach
Vietnamese Perspectives on Vietnamese Migrants in Japan
Mai Chi Nguyen, Sophia University
Phuong Anh Le, Waseda University
Bao Quyen Tran, Sophia University
Hong Vy Huynh Vu, Waseda University
June 23, 2024, 14:00 - 16:00
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2024
What’s So Great About Global Art?
Ownership, Nationalism, and Hybridity
Alan Chong,, Independent Scholar of Art
June 14, 2024, 18:00 - 19:30
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2024
The Whaling Issue Will Never End, even if Whaling Collapses
Akamine Jun, Hitotsubashi University
June 10, 2024, 18:00 - 19:30
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
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Special Guest Lecture co-hosted by ICC and the Department of English Studies
CROSSING CULTURES, MAKING MOVIES
Eric McEver, Screenwriter & Director
May 29, 2024, 19:30 (Doors open from 19.00)
Library, Room 921, Sophia University
No registration necessary. Open to the public.
ICC Sophia University and the Free University of Berlin presents an Online Lecture Series, Migration, Memory, and the Art of Storytelling on Film
‘Living like a Common Man’ Screening & discussion with Sanderien Verstappen and Darshan Patel
Sanderien Verstappen, Social and Visual Anthropologist (University of Vienna)
June 12, 2024, 18:00 - 20:00
On Zoom
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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2024
Abstract Landscapes: Avant-garde Artists and the Negotiation of Self-Expression in Wartime Japan
Jeongwon Yoon, ICC Visiting Researcher, Doctoral Fellow of the Japan Foundation, Ph.D. Candidate in the Kress Foundation Department of Art History at the University of Kansas
May 23, 2024, 18:00 - 19:30
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2024
Yukinori Okamura, Curator, Managing Director, Maruki Gallery for the Hiroshima Panels
May 31, 2024, 18:00 - 19:30
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture presents a panel discussion
Memoirs from a Trailblazing Generation
Janine Beichman, Professor Emerita, Daitō Bunka University
Alisa Freedman, Professor, University of Oregon
Masako Iino, Professor Emerita and former President, Tsuda University
Kate Nakai, Professor Emerita, Sophia University
Anne Walthall, Professor Emerita, University of California, Irvine
May 23, 2024, 17:30 - 20:00Venue: Room 821, 8F, Sophia Library
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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2024
“A Sociology of Confucianism as a World Religion”
Anna Sun, Associate Professor of Religious Studies, Duke University
May 15, 2024, 18:00 - 19:30
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
No registration required / In person only
ICC Sophia University and the Free university of Berlin presents an Online Lecture Series
Migration, Memory, and the Art of Storytelling on Film
Hosted by Megha Wadhwa & David H. Slater
Sanderien Verstappen, Social and Visual Anthropologist (University of Vienna)
12 June 2024, 18:00 to 20:00 (JST)/ 11:00 to 13:00 (CEST)
Martha-Cecilia Dietrich, Anthropologist, Filmmaker, Curator (University of Amsterdam)
16 July 2024, 18:00 to 20:00 (JST)/ 11:00 to 13:00 (CEST)
Laura Liverani, Documentary Photographer and Filmmaker
13 August 2024, 18:00 to 20:00 (JST)/ 11:00 to 13:00 (CEST)
Zakaria Mohamed Ali, Journalist, Documentary Filmmaker (Vice-president at Archive of Migrant Memories)
17 September 2024, 18:00 to 20:00 (JST)/ 11:00 to 13:00 (CEST)
Megha Wadhwa, Anthropologist, Filmmaker and Writer (Free University of Berlin)
22 October 2024, 18:00 to 20:00 (JST)/ 11:00 to 13:00 (CEST)
Özgür Çiçek, Media and Culture Studies (University of Amsterdam)
12 November 2024, 19:00 to 21:00 (JST)/ 11:00 to 13:00 (CET)
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2024
Creating a World-Beating Peruvian Restaurant in Tokyo
Santiago Fernández, The head of the kitchen Maz, a Michelin two-star restaurant
May 16, 2024, 12:30-14:00
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
No registration required / In person only
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2024
Hong Kong Identity Past, Present, and Future
Gordon Mathews, The Chinese University of Hong Kong
May 8, 2024, 18:30-20:00
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2024
Narratives of Indian and Chinese Migrants in Singapore's Multicultural Mosaic
Megha Wadhwa, Free University of Berlin’
Ruth Achenbach, Goethe University, Frankfurt
April 24, 2024, 18:00-19:30
Hybrid
Venue: Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2024
“Ways of Eating: Explorations in Food History and Culture:”
A Book Talk and an Invitation to Food Studies via Japan
Merry White, Boston University
April 25, 18:30-20:00
Room 301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
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Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2024
Hip Hop film showing and discussion with Dr. Natalia Koutsougera
Dr. Natalia Koutsougera, Department of Social Anthropology Panteion University, ICC Visiting Fellow
April 26 (Fri) From 17:30 - 19:00
10-301, 3F, Building 10, Sophia University
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