PUBLIC EVENTS 2025 ~ 2026
Sophia Institute of International Relations and the Institute of Comparative Culture, Sophia University present:
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
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 / 16:30-20:00
Room 301, Building 10, Sophia University
In Person
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2025
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
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
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2025
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
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2025
‘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
Venue: Room 301, 3F, Building 10,
Sophia University
ZOOM: https://sophia-ac-jp.zoom.us/j/99851934434
Meeting ID: 998 5193 4434
Passcode: singapore
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
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
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
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.
A Screening and a discussion session hosted by Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture
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
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
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
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2025
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
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2025
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
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
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2025
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
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
Reactivating a 1980´s Ecotopia through Archive & Media Art”
Followed by a film screening of Big Tech Blues (2025)
Elizabeth Brun, Filmmaker, 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
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2025
Anna Greenspan, Associate 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
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2025
Religious Change in Post-Mao China
Yanfei Sun, Associate 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
Sophia University Institute of Comparative Culture Lecture Series 2025
Art of Questioning in Analytic Qualitative Sociology
Dingxin Zhao, Director 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